There are many occasions throughout the year to go on holidays and when it comes to blogging the problem is that this usually involves abandoning blog for a week or two. Are you willing to abandon your blog for two weeks? If you are not then there seems to be a solution for the problem, at least for those who use WordPress. WordPress allows you to pre-set the time and date for your post to be published anytime in the future. This means that even thought you might be away from your computer, all of the posts that you scheduled can still be posted. Since many bloggers who blog regularly could have a nervous breakdown knowing that there won�t be any post on their blog for two week, this solution seems to be very practical. Of course, you could also just mention in your last post that you are going for holidays, but the possibility to preset the time of your posts seems very attractive. This feature is very useful, and some blogs will benefit from it a lot more than others. For example, you cannot schedule to post news articles, because you don�t know what the news will be in a week. On the other hand, if you have a blog about something which doesn�t change as fast, you will probably love the possibility to schedule posts to be published when you are going to be on vacation.
The Internet can be a great source of information. In my opinion, one of the best things about the Internet is that it offers weather forecasts. In fact, because of accurate forecasts you can completely get rid of your traditional thermometer to measure the temperature. You will simply no longer need it. What you can use instead is a program that displays the current temperature in your city. The data will come from a distance of a few miles so it should be quite accurate. Additionally, there are many sites on the Internet which predict the weather for the next few days, and you can check them from time to time too. With such software you can additionally check the force of wind on the particular day, and get other useful information. It might be a good idea to check the forecast each time you plan a trip with your family or friends. I think that weather forecasts can be very useful, and what I like the most about it is that you can have access to them just with a click of a button.
Anyway, it is hard for me to imagine life without any access to the Internet, and I realize that even 10 years ago, the Internet was not as popular as it is today. Some people did not even know that such thing as the Internet existed.
Performing website validation ensures that your website is working without any problems or errors. Having a website that has various errors is risky. That is because browsers will try to repair the error, but since there are different browsers, each of them will do it in a different way. This in turn can result in some serious problems with your site. It is a shame that there is no standard when it comes to browsers. Until there will be more cooperation between the companies that create the most popular browsers, such errors will be especially dangerous. Nonetheless, there are tools which can help you spot such mistakes:
1. A good tool for validating your HTML or XHTML is http://validator.w3.org/
2. For validating your CSS use http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
3. To make sure your readers do not have problems receiving feeds use http://feedvalidator.org/
One advice that I would like to give you here is to stick to the most popular browsers like Internet Explorer. I know that other browsers might seem to be more suitable to you, but I think that it is still too early to try to be original and have a browser that nobody else has. Most of the people in the world use Internet Explorer anyway, so try to stick with it as well for as long as it is possible.
As you probably know, being a blogger requires a lot of work. This not only applies to professional bloggers. A blogger has a multitude of things to work on: ideas for posts, marketing, website design, link exchanges etc. This time I would like to give you some advice on making your CSS more organized. For those who are wondering what CSS is, let me tell you that CSS is responsible for a lot of customizability when it comes to your website. You can change the font, colors, default paragraphs, and so on. In any case, to make your CSS more organized, visit www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/, input the location of your style sheet (CSS), and run a report that gives a feedback on your code. It will give warnings for any potential elements that might cause problems. In most cases when you use a popular template, then you should not have any error. However, sometimes even if you use a popular template you might want to do some changes, and if that is the case then something can always go wrong. By using such CSS tools you can make sure that your style sheet file does not contain any errors. Additionally, such tools can be very useful for web designers who create templates on a daily basis.
It is important to have links pointing to your site from other people�s blogs. Such links will not only contribute to higher Page Rank, but can also bring a lot of targeted traffic. There are at least a few ways you can try to obtain such links. Your site will benefit from them, so here is what you can do:
-Submit your blog to as many directories as possible.
-Submit your articles to free article directories.
The process of submitting your blog and articles can and will be time consuming. However, there is a solution to this problem. You can purchase the appropriate software that will do it for you automatically. This will cost you some money, but if you are dedicated to blogging it will not be a problem. Additionally, if your blog generates some money, your investment will surely not be wasted. It will still take you some time to register in order to submit your articles, but you will only have to do it once. The same applies to web directory submission. Many programs already have directories listed in their database for your convenience. I know there are many webmasters taking advantage out of such software, and they claim that it is worth it.
After launching your website, you might not know what to do about it. If you created your website yourself, you probably are very proud. The truth is that even if your website has killer web graphics and great content, you will still need to look for ways to make it popular. One of the ways you can make it more popular is through Link Building. Relevant back links are something that make your website rank highly in major search engines. Your website will not become popular without them. Back links need to be relevant, which means that your website should receive links that have content dedicated to the same or similar topics as the topic of your website
Designing a blog template requires a lot of knowledge and skill. Even if we use finished templates, there is still a lot of work to do associated with designing our site. That is because we should try to make some changes so that our website will not look exactly like hundreds of other blogs. Sites that look more original are generally more valued over the Internet. There are many website elements that we may want to incorporate into our site to make it look more original, but the one that I want to discuss today are drop-down menus. These dropdown menus are html elements that upon clicking reveal a set of internal or external links. It sounds really fun, but in my opinion, we should generally avoid having such elements. That is because many visitors may not choose to click on the drop-down menu, and they will not visit the links we included there. We should encourage visitors to visit our links, not make it harder for them. It is true that people prefer more simple solutions, and giving them an option to choose from a drop-down menu, might only cause some unnecessary trouble. If you want to add any links on your website, try to keep it as simple as possible, and avoid complicated elements like drop-down menus.
There are many ways to make money online. Some of them yield the potential to earn a lot of money, while some of them are not that great. Working as a freelancer is one of the possibilities you have, but usually you need to have some expertise and you need to know a few things such as where to get business cards online to promote your services. There are many jobs being offered for freelancers including web development, flash design, data entry, css programming, logos design, creating 3d models etc. If you want to work as a freelancer, then you should have quite vast knowledge about some things I mentioned. On the bright side, the pay is usually good, so there is potential to earn a lot of money. There are some excellent resources on the Web like, for example, freelanceswitch, which offers job boards, news, and advice you might need in order to become a successful freelancer. What you should take into account that being a freelancer is not that easy due to competition. There are many people that try to make money online, and some of them are from countries where there is lower cost of living. Because of that they might be able to undercut you and still be satisfied with the profit. That is why you should make sure that you are an expert in your field.
There are various community exchanges that are getting organized all the time. Did you ever consider organizing a community exchange? Let us say that you want to organize a MyBlogLog community exchange. If you are interested in gaining a lot of traffic and increasing the number of readers you have, this can be a very good opportunity for you.
You should start by listing a dozen or so websites along with the link to their MyBlogLog community page, and notifying them about it. You should also inform them about the rules of participating in the exchange. Let them know that they should join all of the MyBlogLog communities on the list. They should also copy the list and create a new post on their blog. They should include the list in their post, and write a brief paragraph that explains the rules of the community exchange. They can add two or three more MyBlogLog communities to the list, and then publish the post on their blog. They should also indicate that if anyone wants to be added to this list, they should leave a comment requesting it.
Not only such exchange bring new readers to your website, but also increase your backlinks and can be a lot of fun.
Online marketing has many strategies, one of which is keyword research. Blogs can often rank well in search engines due to their frequently updated content. This can bring a lot of visitors to your site. Another way to bring many visitors is to do some keyword research. This type of research will show you what people are searching for, and will maximize the potential the search engines have to bring traffic to your site. If you research what keywords are popular, then you will know what topics to focus on, and maybe you will even change the marketing strategy your blog has. Great tools with the help of which you will be able to research keywords are keyworddiscovery.com and wordtracker.com. Both of them are relatively easy to use so check out both of them in order to decide yourself which one you will want to stick to. I have to warn you that keyword research might take some time, but in the end it is worth it. After all, search engines are an excellent source of traffic for webmasters who optimize their site for them. I does not mean you have to makes drastic changes; however, being aware of the most popular keywords will surely give you an advantage over the competition. Investing some time into keyword research is certainly a good idea for any webmaster who wants to be successful. Using a powerful keyword research toll should save you a lot of time.