Blog Gadgets :E-Mail Gadget For Your Blog

E-Mail Gadget For Your Blog

It took me a while to figure out how to add a gadget/button to my blogspot blog allowing someone to contact me by email. A few bloggers have asked me how to do this, so I thought I’d make a simple tutorial. I don’t know if this will work on blogs other than blogspot.

1. Choose the JPG image you want to use for your gadget, your mugshot is always nice, or below are a few I designed for the taking. If you want to use one of these, click on the image of choice and drag or copy to your desktop.

2. Go to CUSTOMIZE on your blog

3. Choose ADD A GADGET

4.Choose PICTURE

5. Type in something like “Contact Me” or “E-Mail Me” or simply leave it blank.

6. In the LINK area, type in your email address with “mailto:” at the beginning, and nothing else. No http://, etc. For example, I typed: mailto:cathe@justsomethingimade.com

7. For the image, BROWSE to the image you want to use

8. Click SHRINK TO FIT, if necessary, and SAVE

9. Back on your CUSTOMIZE page, drag your new e-mail gadget to wherever you want it in your sidebar.

10. Leave a comment and let me know how it works for you!

Source - justsomethingimade

How To Start A Blog- A Step By Step Guide

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So you want to start a blog, and maybe you want to make money from it. Is this just a hobby or is it going to be a serious venture for you. If you want to make money, how much do you want to make, weekly, daily and monthly. How many visitors do you want to see every month and what are you going to be blogging about.
All questions that need to be answered before you actually start your blog! Once you’ve done that the rest is easy, but let me warn you, it is time-consuming and it can be addictive!
Making money online is easy once you know what you’re doing and how to approach it!

So just to clarify before we get started, the purpose of a blog is for it to get seen and read by people. TRAFFIC IS KING! The money is a bi-product of the blog, people will click on your ads, purchase some of your affiliate products and so on, but none of this will happen unless you are getting the traffic to your blog. So, know what you’re blogging about and make sure you are passionate about it, as it will reflect in your writing.
This step by step guide on starting a blog will walk you through the steps on starting a WordPress blog.
So, here is a…

Step By Step Guide – How To Start A Blog

The process map below shows the you the steps for taking your blog from initial idea right the way through to turning it into a full-blown business.
This tutorial will take you through the following steps to help you to set up a WordPress blog:

• Choosing the right blog topic for you
• Choosing a name and domain for you blog
• Purchasing a domain name
• Purchasing your hosting and setting up WordPress
• Designing your blog
• Plus lots of useful articles to help you get started successfully and build on your idea

What is a blog?

A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log)^[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic.