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Keeping Up With Friends; Subscribing to Blogs

1:06 AM, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 .. Posted in HTML and Blogging .. Link

I just realized this week that I am missing out on some of my favorite blogs! And, furthermore, I don’t have to! I have tried using a reader, and that just does not work well for me. Let me tell you what usually happens about reading my favorite blogs:

  • I am writing on my blog and I see their link
  • or I get an email
  • or I find a comment from a friend on another blog.
  • I think, “Oh, man, I haven’t read their blog in forever, I wonder what they are up to,”
  • I go to their blog and spend a looooong time looking over posts I have missed for days or weeks, sometimes months.
  • I spend a whole bunch of unplanned time online, and I don’t get other things done;
  • or I forget to visit them entirely.

So, I have decided that to keep up with my friends, I need to subscribe to their blogs. I need the post delivered right into my inbox. It has worked out rather well already. I can read the post right away and comment right then if I want, instead of spending hours catching up.

Here are some blogs that I subscribe to. Hopefully I will better keep up with my friends better this way!

The Daily Planet
A Pondering Heart
Bunny Trails
My Home Sweet Home
Sprittibee
Heart of Wisdom

Some of my friends’ blogs, I can’t get by email, because they don’t have a feedburner by email subscription that I could find. :(



Basic Mr Linky

12:40 PM, Thursday, September 20, 2007 .. Posted in HTML and Blogging .. 2 comments .. Link

I have had some questions/seen some questions about Mr. Linky. Let me tell you what I have learned.

First of all, you need a Mr. Linky acct. It is free, unless you want to display more than 1 Mr. Linky at a time - then it is only $5 for the basic subscription for a whole year. Not much for the meme addict, huh? ;)

Alrighty, the big question has been, "How do I get it onto my post??". Well, my experience has been with using the HTML Linky. It is simple, and it's what works with hsb. There are an abundance of different ones, though, to accomodate the different blog forums. I'm pretty sure that they work pretty similarly, since it is javascript.

Here on hsb, there is a little button on your Add Entry/ Edit Entry page. It is in the taskbar of the entry. See it? SOURCE. It turns your post into html. When you push that button, you open a whole new world of post design, lol!

To add Mr. Linky to a post, you simply push the Source button and scroll to the bottom of the page and paste the Mr. Linky code. If you need to hit enter to paste it on a new line, go ahead and do that. Be sure to paste both of the codes that were generated on the Linky Wizard. Push the Source button again. You're done. Mr. Linky will NOT show up on the Edit Entry page. It will show up on your Preview though, so you can check it there.

So, getting the Mr. Linky is pretty easy. After you sign up, you can go to the Wizard and start getting codes to paste into your entries.

To join a meme and put the linky on your post, it must be a shared meme. You subscribe to the meme on the linky by pushing the Suscribe Link. After you subscribe, you go to the Linky Wizard and get the code. It will have the meme id and your name on it. Paste it into your post, Voila! You now have a linky of your own for that meme.

If I have made an error in typing any of this up, please email me and let me know. Feel free to add any other info in the comments, too, as I have not used all facets of Mr. Linky!

.....Off to find out how to use it on Blogger!

 blessings! -Jacque

UPDATE: 10/04/07

Mr. Linky is now formatted for Homeschoolblogger (though I am not sure it is any easier than what I have been doing). You have to add something to your template... I knda' freaked out at that at first, but we re-do ourtemplates all the time, and it really isn't that big of a deal.

The only thing I found is that what you put into your template is just the header, and you still have to enter the javascript into your Source on your Edit entry page. So, if you don't mind copying (Cntrl+C) and pasting (Cntrl+V) both codes, just use the HTML only button. Otherwise, use the Homeschoolblogger selection and change your template.

Ok... I think that's all for now.

 

Here is a Mr. Linky for my Saturday Psalm & Praise meme for this week... just as an example!

 



Viewing My Blog

1:08 AM, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 .. Posted in HTML and Blogging .. 1 comments .. Link








I have had a couple of comments that

my template is outta' whack....

It is worse on firefox. 

It seems my entry column

goes across my who-o-o-

o-o-le template! 

However, if you go to the
sidebar and just view the

actual post on its own page,

you can read it.

Open up IE and view it that way.

So, sorry about this.

I am going to change it-

*if* it cannot be fixed by hsb.

They upgraded the new and

nifty jump bar above

and my blog has not been the same since!

I put in an email to Jodi, who has always

been most-helpful, so I should

hear back soon enough!

In the meantime, you'll have

to view it one page-at-a-time!

If you want to view something

*REALLY* funny....

View this: The Handy, Dandy, Scrubby-Dish-Gadget post


-me again...



 Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers:

for they shall be called the children of God.

 



Blog Ills

12:25 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 .. Posted in HTML and Blogging .. 1 comments .. Link

Ok , anyone else having blog ills yesterday and today??

Yesterday I heard....

Where is my background?

Oh my... What happened to my template?

Why is my sidebar in my title?

- in addition to the lo-down on Friends' blogs whose templates are also 'messed up'!

Today, you may notice my sidebar looks like it may have disappeared... but it *is* to your right... and down a little...  scroll over....

Patience..... patience....

( ;

 



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