Showing posts with label Make blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Make blogs. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

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.