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Add a Photo Using WordPress Blog Platform

Photos add life to your WordPress blog posts. They help your reader relate to the content and they add make your blog posts all the more interesting. Adding a photo or image is also easy to do! Here’s how:

Step 1 Get into your dashboard and click ‘write a post.’

Step 2 Give your post a title.

Step 3 Start writing. You can write your post before or after you enter your image. Typically the image is positioned at the beginning of the post.

Step 4 While in the ‘write a post’ page, scroll down the page and you will see a section where you can upload photos, videos, etc…

Step 5 Click on “Browse” to find the photo you want to upload. It’s often easier if you keep your photos in one file so you don’t have to waste time searching your computer for the photo you want. If you’ve uploaded a file from a stock photo website, make sure to label the photo because they’re easy to get mixed up and disorganized.

Step 6. Give your photo a title and a description. This helps keep you organized when your uploaded pictures become plentiful.

Step 7 Choose the size photo you want and where you want it linked. Choose “File” if you want the photo uploaded into the post you’re writing. “Page” if you’re creating a page and “none” if you just want the file uploaded for future use.

Step 8 Now you’re ready to insert the photo into your post. Click “send to editor.”

Step 9 The image should now be seen in your post. If you want to edit the image, you can click on it and then click on the toolbar icon that is labeled “Insert/edit image.” There you have alignment choices, dimensions, and borders.

Step 10 Save and publish.

Inserting an image into your WordPress Blog post is a simple and straightforward process. Enjoy and keep blogging!

Add a Photo Using Blogger Blog Platform

Photos add an extra zing of interest and appeal to a blog post. They help your reader identify with you and your blog. Fortunately adding a photo to your blogger post is a fairly straightforward process.

Step 1 Click on New Post

Step 2 Write your post as you would. If you want your image to be inserted in the beginning of your post then you’ll follow these steps next. If you want your image to be contained within your post then you can write until you’re ready to insert an image. Additionally, you can write the entire post and then go back and place your cursor where you want the image to be and follow the remaining steps.

Step 3 On the toolbar you’ll see an image. Run your cursor over that image and it will say “add image” Click on that.

Step 4 A screen will pop up that allows you to upload an image from your computer or to upload an image from the web. Maximum size is 8MB. You can upload a jpg, gif, bmp, or png image. If you’re uploading an image from your computer you will be prompted to browse your files to locate the image and upload it. If you’re uploading an image from the web, you’ll need to enter the URL of the image.

Step 5 Once your image is uploaded you can decide how you want it presented. Do you want it left justified, right justified or centered on your blog post?

Step 6 Choose the size of image you want. Larger images are easier to see however, they can take up a lot of space.

Step 7 Accept the terms of service and then click upload.

Step 8 Preview the post to make sure it looks like how you want it to appear. If it does, then you can save your post and publish it.

You’re done! Uploading a photo into Blogger is REALLY easy!

RSS, Really Simple Syndication, is an excellent way to add content to your website. More relevant content on your website means a higher search engine ranking and a benefit to your visitors. Here’s how to add RSS to your website.

Step 1 Find a reader to subscribe to. There are many available online. A quick Google Search will provide you with many to choose from. Look for ones that offer PHP scripts rather than JavaScript. JavaScript isn’t read by search engine spiders and the content will not help your search engine ranking.

Step 2 Register. Generally all you need to provide is an email address and your website URL. A confirmation will be sent to your email along with a password and logon.

Step 3 Confirm via email and logon with your assigned password and logon ID.

Step 4 Customize your content. Choose the topics you want to cover. For example Google News, Yahoo Finance, or Reuters Health. You can choose several. Make certain to choose topics that are relevant to your website subject. You wouldn’t want to choose finance if your site offers health information.

Step 5 Choose keywords. You can customize your feeds by choosing specific keywords. For example, if you have a website dedicated to fitness you can add the keyword “fitness” to your code.

Step 6 Choose appearance. You can customize the shape and size of your content block. Whether there are pictures included, the author, the title of the article and so on. This is usually a check the box type menu.

Step 7 Choose formatting. Here you can choose the font you want, size of font, and the general formatting of your feed.

Step 8 Generate the code and follow the directions to get it onto your website. Generally the code is given to you in PHP or JavaScript. PHP is recommended because JavaScript is not read by search engine spiders. If you’re using RSS to add content to your site, you’ll want to use the PHP script offered. PHP isn’t automatically added to HTML so if you have an HTML based site, you’ll need to add a bit of code to it to have it recognize the PHP. No worries, the RSS feed you use will offer you instructions on how to do that.

RSS is a technology that is fairly easy to use and it can add significant content and value to your website. All it takes is a few simple steps and you’re done. Quality content with the click of a button.

I released this new free wordpress theme over at Easy Wahm Websites. I hope it makes someone’s blog happy!

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Yes, print screen is easy as pie, but if you use SnagIt to capture screen you don’t have to also open up editing software and paste, and crop, and all those things. It’s a huge time saver if you do a lot of screen captures like I do. I use it just about every day.

This software doesn’t just do a screen capture, it also lets you easily add circles, boxes, text, arrows, and other things to highlight why exactly it is that you captured that screen in the first place. Just need to capture a small part of the screen? Not a problem, do a capture region. Want to capture the whole page? That’s not a problem either, you can capture with scroll to get all the information on a page. Great for tutorials and showing off website designs.

Download the 30 day trial of SnagIt for free and give it a test run. There are loads of little gems about this program but I’m not going to chew your ear off all day about it. Just try it. You’ll be glad you did.

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The purchase price is $39.99, but if you enter Promotional Code SNUG at the time of checkout it will take $10 off and give you a purchase price of only $29.99 for this very useful gadget. Enjoy.

Or if you're saving your pennies for a Patek Philippe watch to splurge on your hubby’s birthday or your anniversary you can download the free trial for right now and give it a test drive. It’s worth it, I promise.

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This is a 4-week intensive coaching session to help people effectively use their blog as a business marketing tool.

Lessons are delivered via email and as a back-up to unreliable email, in a private online membership area. Each week, the students receive a printable training guide that is accompanied by an audio recording, should students prefer to do their learning by listening.

We all know how powerful blogs can be, but sometimes keeping up with your own blog can be a bit of a challenge.

Alice Seba just posted a highly-useful freebie to her blog. It’s a pre-recorded webinar that discusses the concept of joint blogging which allows you to work with other bloggers for maximum promotion at minimal effort.

Together with Lynette Chandler, Kelly McCausey & Carrie Lauth these savvy women discuss the benefits of joint blogging and how to get started yourself. This 47+ minute audio comes with complete audio transcripts and you can download both at no-charge and without any obligation just by clicking here.

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This is just one of the free blog themes over at my other website Easy Wahm Websites. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that here before… silly me, I talk about blogging here all the time and forgot to tell you about my free themes! Duh!

There are going to be 11 more of the fairy themes to make a full set. I also asked for requests on what kind of themes people would like to see available for their blogs. What kind of free theme would be great for your blog?

I’ve received quite a few requests for some free cat themes with pictures of cute kitties doing cute kitty things. I’m working on something right now, and there is definitely no shortage of cute cat pictures on the internet and stock photo sites! Kitties are everywhere! Climbing up the cat furniture and napping in unusual places, and even chasing imaginary things across the floor. So kitties it will be …. hopefully soon. My vision in my head and what’s coming out on the screen are not quite in agreement.

So, what kind of free blog theme do you want to see?

Go ahead … leave a comment. You know you want to.

What is Comment Luv? It’s a cool WordPress Plugin that automatically adds a link to your last post under your comment in my comments section. Uber linky love happening. It’s like Do Follow on steroids.

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So you’re putting some stuff in your sidebar, what goes above the fold and what goes below the fold? That 728ish pixels above the fold is valuable website real estate! Usually you’ll want some of your main points there, maybe a feed subscription button and some pages or category links to click on. Important things! Button and gizmos and blogrolls tend to fall below the fold it seems. So what’s above your fold?

No, Gadget Girl is not for sale you silly goose. And I don’t have any land for sale either, heck I don’t own any land to be able to sell, we rent our little townhouse for $1200 a month. *cringes at though of rent being due* I do however have some websites for sale over at Easy WAHM Websites if you’re interested in those. There are two for sale now, with another to be listed for sale in the next few days. Check it out

So we changed to this slick shiny pink theme awhile back. But, it just didn’t feel homey enough for my geekiness. I had to tweak it a bit. I changed the sidebar a bit by taking the thought bubble off the bottom of the boxes and changing the bullet points from light gray to this fun aqua color. Then I changed the link colors. And of course the header. I started with the header image that came with the theme, took out the standard fill in the blank text and made it all one big clickable image instead with custom text (see how it matches music monday font?) and then I added that cool looking blue haired guy over there on the right. He was just for fun and his hair matched that cool aqua color over there too. That’s it …. and now I feel much more cozy in my geeky home.

Screenie attached to post for future reference when I change themes again -lol- Well, what do you think?

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