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How To: Add Ratings To Your Blog

October 18th, 2007

Have you ever noticed that many blogs now collect instant feedback from their users through a AJAX based rating system? This has become a popular trend around the blogosphere, allowing readers to give quick feedback on your posts instead of requiring them to take the time to submit a comment. As of today, adding a [...]

How To: Create Your Own Feed Flare

October 10th, 2007

How To

One of the great features of having your feed with Feedburner is the ability to easily integrate your website’s feed with one of their most popular features, FeedFlare. This can be found by going to the Optimize tab and clicking on FeedFlare.
However, unlike in the movie Office Space where you are required to have [...]

How To: Adding a Custom Google Search Engine to Your Blog

September 28th, 2007

How To

Back when this blog was located on Typepad, I had no trouble setting up my custom Google Search engine. This was ideal because it allowed me to possibly earn money when people searched my site, but more importantly, it displayed better search results than the standard search box, and it did it all from [...]

Miscellaneous Other Website Maintenance

September 28th, 2007

Web Design

This is the fifth of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
In addition to the website maintenance tips covered in the first four posts of this series, there are a few other things that can be done to help keep your site running smoothly. Here [...]

How To: Testing Your Blog in Multiple Web Browsers

September 27th, 2007

Web Design

This is the fourth of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Once you’ve gone through and adjusted your code, it’s a good idea to follow up your changes with a quick browser check. Instead of manually downloading and installing a bunch of different web browsers, [...]

How To: Clean and Optimize Your Blog’s Stylesheet (CSS)

September 26th, 2007

Web Design

This is the third of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Now that you’ve got your website code validated, another good practice to be in is to keep your stylesheet (CSS) as clean and optimal as possible. I try to do this at least once a [...]