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by Heather Goff on March 17, 2010
Adding an image with a link to your blog’s side bar is a great visual tool for promoting something within the blog, or for offering visual call outs to other websites. It is not quite as easy as a drag and drop tag cloud, however, it is not hard to do either, once you know [...]
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by Heather Goff on April 22, 2009
Adding e-commerce to your blog is easy with paypal. If you have a paypal standard business account, you can easily generate sophisticated “add to cart” or “buy now” or even “donate” and “subscribe” buttons to your blog posts. This is an inexpensive way to add shopping cart options to your blog. This video shows how [...]
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by Heather Goff on March 1, 2009
in Adding slideshows to blogs, Blogging, Flickr, Social Media, Tutorials
Flickr has a pro membership. For 24.95/year or $47.99 for two years, you get unlimited uploads and storage, unlimited sets and collections, access to your original files, stats on your account, add-free browsing and sharing and video upload tools. Flickr’s pro membership lets you upload video clips up to 90 seconds in length and 150mb.
Flickr [...]
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I signed up for twitter in February of 2008, but have only recently been really studying the twitter stream. What I first observed appeared to me very unprofessional – people chatting back and forth (similar to my kids IM-ing their friends). However, I am now realizing that there are different reasons to use twitter, and [...]
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by Heather Goff on January 23, 2009
This thesis theme is customized by Heather Goff. If you would like Heather to customize a thesis wordpress blog for you, please contact her.
Creating an avatar image with gravatar
by Heather Goff on February 3, 2009
in Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, Tutorials
Ever wonder why images or photographs sometimes appear next to people’s comments on blogs? Those images are called avatars, and it is really easy to create an avatar image for yourself. You, too, can have a photograph or icon that will follow your comments around the internet.
Why would you want to do that? For branding, [...]
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