You Can Do It: Make Your Own Wordpress Theme

If you don't have the time/patience to spend looking for that perfect WordPress theme or if you don't know how to customize your theme

Then try this online theme editor,




With just a few choices to make, you will be able to make your own customized Wordpress theme, The WordPress Generator Supports both two and three columns templates.

With just a few choices to make, you will be able to make your own customized Wordpress theme, The WordPress Generator Supports both two and three columns templates.

Once your finished creating your theme use Canvas to insert content from your favorite online services, sites like Flickr, Digg, and del.icio.us automatically

Canvas also lets you rearrange, reconfigure, and colorize your entire blog without ever touching a line of code.

Canvas uses a powerful form-driven GUI so you never have manually edit codes to change how your blog behaves.

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How To Add Language Translation To Your Blog

Since more than 65% of web users speak a language other than English, it is essential that you provide language translation features in your blog so that you don't miss the non-English speaking traffic.


So when an Arabic visitor passes your English blog, he or she can just click the Arab flag to translate the website into his native language - That way you don't loose a visitor plus he could even subscribe if the content is good even if written in another language.



Here's a quick tutorial to add language translation to your blog. You can be any blogging platform including Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress that provides access to templates. The visitor will see nine country flags corresponding to German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian languages.


labnol.blogspot.com has come up with the code you need to put the translator on to your blog
It's quick and painless go to labnol.blogspot.com for the translator widget.

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Fun And Basic Blogger Tips And Trick

Some Basic Tips And Tricks For Blogger.



Blogging is a pretty popular activity online these days. It's a great way to connect with your audience on the Web and create a sense of community.

If you think blogging is just about typing text, think again. There are many fun things you can do once you're up and running with your very own blog.

1) Photo Blogging: Post photos to your weblog with this free software called "Hello." Get it at hello.com It makes it easy to upload photos to your blog.

2) Audio Blogging: Post to your blog by phone. Once registered, you'll receive a special number. Call it, leave a message and it's immediately posted to your website as an MP3 audio file. To sign up, go to AudioBlogger.com


3) Email Posting: Post to your blog by sending an email from any email application. To set it up, you'll need to log into your blogger account and go to "settings" then "email." You must specify if you want your posts to publish automatically or saved as drafts for later publishing.


The subject of your email will be the title of your blog post, with the email body making up the rest of it.


4) Team Blogs: This allows groups of people to contribute to one blog. One person must create the blog, then invite others to join in.




6) Blogger Toolbars: Google has one built into its toolbar that makes it a snap to post to your site while
visiting any web page you might want to comment on. Firefox also has a toolbar of its own with blogging components. See it at FireFoxToolbar.com Google's at toolbar.google.com




7) Feeds: Blogger users can syndicate their content via an Atom Feed. Former Blogger Pro subscribers can choose between Atom and RSS formats. You can
find this feature in your Blogging account under "settings," then "site feed." If you'd rather syndicate in RSS, your only choice is to use an outside service like FeedBurner.com




8) Comments: If you'd like your readers to participate on your Blog, you'll want to turn on "comments." Found under "settings," you can choose from preferences like allowing anyone to post a comment, allowing only regular users to post comments, or allowing only members of the blog to post (if it's a team blog).




9) TagBoards: Different from comments, TagBoards also allow your blog readers to post comments. These act more like a discussion board or chat room for your blog. However, they're not aimed at individual posts but attached to your entire site. You'll find free providers of this service at:

Tag-Board.com Or ChatterBox.com




This is a great way to add a feeling of community.




10) PhotoBlogs: If you'd like to share a lot of photos with your readers on a regular basis you may want to add a "photo album." You'll find many sites that offer this free service such as:

Shutterfly.com
Ofoto.com
DotPhoto.com


11) Polls: Do you know what your readers think? Running polls on your site is a great way to get inside your readers minds and get them involved with your blog. A few free poll service providers are:

Blogger now has a built in poll option to find it, go to template in your blogger and Add A page Element

12) Advertising: If you'd like to run ads on your blog and get paid per click, you'll want to look at Google Adsense. Since Google owns Blogger too, they make it simple to add their advertising to your site. See, tinyurl.com


13) Camera Phones: If you have a SprintPCS cell phone with a built in camera you can send your pictures directly to Blogger.

You'll need to set up an "email address" to post to. For instructions, see Blogger's Help section on "posting via email." On your phone it works like this: you snap a picture, select "share," pick your specific blogging email address, then ok. Your picture is uploaded.


14) Keyboard Shortcuts: Blogger has many different keyboard shortcuts you can use while making a post.

cntrl + B= Bold
cntrl + I= Italics
cntrl + shift + A= Link
cntrl + d= Save as draft
cntrl + s= Publish Post
cntrl + shift + P = Preview




15) FTP: You can host your blog on Blogger's server, or host it on your own via FTP access. You'll find this option under "settings" then "publishing."




16) Email Posts to a Friend: If you'd like to allow your visitors to email your interesting posts to their friends you can enable this feature under "settings," basic tab, then where it says "show email post links?" say yes.




If you'd like to watch some free tutorials on "Learning Blogger," see these by Molly Holzschlng at movielibrary.lynda.com




So what are you waiting for? Now that you know all of the really cool things you can do with Blogger,





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The Really Big List Of Free Blog Hosts

Want to try something new? Blogger and WordPress are the largest and most popular online blogging tools on the internet but there not the only ones out there that provide quality blogging tools.

Here is a list of other blog platforms to choose from.

Danga Software Powered

BlogCheese.com - A video blogging website.

BusyThumbs.com - A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images.

Freevlog - Designed for video blogging and completely free

Trippert.com - Create and share blogs of your travels.

Ufem.com - Blogging site specifically geared towards women. Offers multiple themes and plugins

Word Count Journal.com - A new blogging format that is also part challenge. Write one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, at the end of the year you’ll have written 66,795 words.

LiveJournal.com - One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Various Platforms

JorunalFen.net - Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.

InsaneJournal.com - Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.

GreatestJournal.com - Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.

WordPress.com - Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

Edublogs.com - WordPress powered blogging for educators.

Blogetery.com - Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.

BlogRox.com - Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.

Blogsome.com - Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Blog.com - Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Blog Ladder.com - All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.

Blogger.com - A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.

Blogr.com - Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.

BlogSpirit.com - European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.

Blogster.com - Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.

BlogYx.com - Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.

Bloki.com - Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.

Bravenet.com - Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.

ClearBlogs.com - Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and
more.

Etribes.com - Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.

Multiply.com - Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.

Netcipia.com - Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.

Open Diary.com - Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced
features.

ShoutPost.com - A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.

SoulCast.com - Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.

Squarespace.com - Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.

Terapad.com - Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

Tooum.com - Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.

Tumblr.com - A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.

Weebly.com - Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.

Windows Live Spaces - Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Vox.com - Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.

Xanga.com - Part social network, part blogging, all free.

Yahoo 360 - Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.

Zoomshare.com - Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.

Thanks to mashable.com For supplying this great list.

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