Category Archives: Blogging Tips

Image Sizes and Optimizing for the Web

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 28, 2011

Are you confused when it comes to photo/image dpi, kbs, ppi and pixel size?  Do the words Image Optimization mean nothing to you?  You are not alone. Have you uploaded photos to the web to display to family and friends on such sites as Facebook and Flickr to find that it takes forever to upload or the page freezes before the upload finishes? Have you sent emails with image attachments that take  a long time to send.  If so, it is important to know the basics about image sizes for the web.  If you are displaying images on your own [...] Continue Reading…

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Best Tools and Tips to Speed Up Blogging

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 24, 2011

Following up from my last post about tasks to complete before and after publishing a blog post, Post Writing a Blog Post Post, as promised I am going to talk about my favorite tools that you can use to automate or speed up this process: Spelling and Grammar To automatically check your spelling and grammar “After the Deadline” is available as a stand alone plugin for WordPress or as an add-on to the Tiny MCE plugin, as an add on for Firefox and Chrome and as an OpenOffice.org extension. Keywords and SEO A WordPress SEO plugin is a must have [...] Continue Reading…

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Tools for posting to Twitter and Facebook

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 18, 2011

I am all for making life easier by making  tedious tasks  as least time consuming as possible. I find tedium hard to cope with. I have always thought ironing outmoded and, despite liking cotton and natural fibres, now buy clothes that do not need the iron. Hopefully my carbon footprint remains steady; cost of manufacture of synthetic fibres versus electricity for the iron. I class posting numerous links to Twitter and Facebook a tedious task: copy title, copy link or open another site and minimize the link, paste link, comment, post, repeat. Here is how I make this easier: Make [...] Continue Reading…

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Which Social Networks Bring the Most Readers?

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 8, 2009

Google Analytics and AweStats are the programs I use when I want to look in detail at my website statistics. Woopra gives me a regular quickly accessed overview of blog stats as the program comes on my PC start up. The start of the new year seemed a good time to do some analysis on my stats and my blogging methods. I came out with some very useful information including some surprises. Hopefully this analysis will be of some use to you too, as an indication of areas that are worth concentrating efforts on. I am a member of a [...] Continue Reading…

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Social Networking Can Be Bad For Your Blog

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: May 17, 2008

Overloading yourself with online social network commitments can run counter to the interests of your blog. Joining too many networks, trying to please too many people and spending too much time promoting your own blog all take time away from writing. You are in danger of not paying sufficient attention to your most important social network; the one that is centered around your own blog. What are some of the results of spending too much time on social media activities and not enough time on your blog? You may not post so often. Readers who visit expecting a new entry [...] Continue Reading…

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RSS Awareness Day

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: May 2, 2008

After publicizing RSS Awareness Day, May 1st, I am a day late in taking part, although in some parts of the world it may still be yesterday. Not wanting to miss out on a chance of joining in with bloggers blogging in unity I had to get my own two cents worth in. If your site provides a feed then you will be familiar with RSS. I know there are still many people who do not understand the concept nor use a feedreader. There are those who believe blogs are merely used as personal online diaries, which they would not [...] Continue Reading…

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Problogger Speed Posting Weekend

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 25, 2008

Image via Wikipedia News Darren Rowse is holding a Speed Posting weekend on Problogger – It is a long weekend here in Australia because of Friday’s Anzac Day public holiday so I am not certain if the “weekend” is starting Friday or Saturday – it could even be Friday in Australia but Saturday in USA Darren has gathered 20 questions from his Twitter followers and will be providing a short answer to these and then throwing them open to readers to add their own responses. Sounds like there may be some real communication going on in the comments. As an [...] Continue Reading…

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Speed Up Your Firefox Browsing

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 7, 2008

Reading blogs and other websites, participating in Social Networking Sites, doing research, dropping Entrecards can create an overloaded and disorganized Firefox browser. Here are some ways you can avoid frustration, speed up your browsing and be more organized. Keep one lean clean, mean speedy profile free of addin toolbars, sidebars and multiple extensions for quick browsing.. Use a different profile for visiting other sites and social networking. (I would not recommend using this many toolbars at any one time!) To start Firefox in profile view, where you can choose which profile to load and add new ones: Go to Start [...] Continue Reading…

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Take Advantage of Your Host

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: March 5, 2008

I have talked previously of the advantages of hosting your own blog but only from the perspective of the blog itself. Owning your own domain and hosting package has other plusses, giving you freedom to create additional content for blogging and personal purposes. All you need is enough free space on your host server to be able to install other software and the choices are endless. You may be thinking that this all sounds too hard and that you do not have the know how to install and manage anything more than blog software but, for a large proportion of [...] Continue Reading…

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