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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Post-Writing a Blog Post Post

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 21, 2011

Most of the blogs I look after have target markets and there are specific and individual ways that I promote their new content. After being away from regular blogging here, I have had to remind myself of  various essential tasks and promotional methods; that used to come just naturally after I had written a blog post. I wrote them down as a reminder to myself and to share with you: Before publishing the blog post Check spelling and grammar. Look at the post and paragraph length and alter if necessary. Can I make better use of lists to emphasise points [...] Continue Reading…

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Making Money Online Research

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 3, 2011

I have recently been researching the online money making business.  I have always been sceptical of so called get rich schemes and hate those never ending one page, badly designed, garish, splash pages for MLM, PPC and worthless digital products. I wanted to look past these to see if there was anything worthwhile. After days of research, to my surprise, I found a couple of programs that took my fancy. I took the plunge and money is slowly but surely starting to come in but more about that another day. I am going to share some of my findings but [...] 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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Facebook has taken over

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 16, 2011

As I have not had time to post about what is happening in the world of blogging and social networking or report on my own web building research and activities, I have not blogged at all. Facebook and Twitter have become my way of communicating in my online world. As I miss the social networking that blogging brings I have decided to keep on blogging but on matters that do not take me hours and hours to research.  It was always my aim to be original and to offer something to my readers that they could not find elsewhere. As [...] Continue Reading…

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The Blog rises from its Sick Bed

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: March 10, 2010

The impetus to blog gradually disapppeared and I posted less frequently. I stopped keeping up with current happenings in the blogging world, which would normally have fuelled me with ideas for topics to write about.  The longer I left it the harder it became to start up again.  The blog came to a halt. It seems now that it is tentatively raising up from its sick bed to say a weak hello. Why now? I just had an email from CMF Ads who informed me that apart from not blogging since last June I had masses of spam comments.  On [...] Continue Reading…

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Firefox Collections and Social Networking

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 13, 2009

Collections are a newly introduced Firefox site feature that allow you to save lists of your favorite add-ons (extensions, toolbars, Greasemonkey scripts) to your Firefox profile. A subscribe option allows you to add the collections of others to your favorites and track when these are updated. These user created collections are ranked by the amount of subscribers they have attracted. The Firefox Collections page allows you to view lists of Editor’s Picks (so far only Firefox Created Collections), Popular Collections, your own and your favorite Collections. The lists are searchable by most popular all time, most popular this week or [...] Continue Reading…

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WordPress Multi User

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: May 17, 2009

Work with WordPress MU (multi user) is the reason from my recent absence from blogging. The East Coast area of a UK charity, the National Coastwatch Institution, needed a rebuild of one its website to go along with an extension of it’s activities. Although you may not have the same needs as this organization you may consider using WordPress MU if you want to develop more than one blog. I had originally created the coastwatch site using the Joomla CMS system but, as the interface was complicated for them, WordPress was my obvious choice. After working with WordPress on various [...] Continue Reading…

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