Bloggers need home IT support

I don't know about you, but my field is science, not IT. I have no formal training in IT and whatever I learned about HTML, XHTML, CSS, skills needed by a webmaster (bloggers are by default webmasters as they are response for how their blog are displayed and found by surfers on the Web). Further, I have 4 computers in my home which are networked together for Internet access. Beyond that, I have

Protection for bloggers and surfers

I have read of many cases of blogs being hijacked, hacked into, and all kind of very unpleasant stuff. If your blog get hijacked, not only you may not have access to your blog, you may find it being redirected to porn or sexually explicit websites which can be really embarrassing especially if you have given the blog URL to relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates, etc. Further, as a

Searching for blogs by topics or subjects

I have previously published Technorati blog search engine and blog ranking website but a more comprehensive post need to be published. We will discuss the possibilities one by one:Blogger Profile's Interests and FavoritesYou can add your interests and favorites in various fields when editing your Blogger Profile (if you don't know how to do this, you will have to commend and ask for help). The

Update: Why use plain narrow template for my blog

I have previously explained why my main blogs are so plain (no graphics) and narrow with "wasted blank space" on both sides if viewed with large screen at Why I use this plain (Minima) template for my main blogs (click BACK button to get back to this page) where I pointed (linked) to a big news website (BBC news) which will have large "wasted blank space" on the right side. Today, while examining

Why I use this plain template for this blog

Choices of templates are very personal, as different people have different preferences and requirements. Some like very fanciful ones with lots of colors and graphics, some like plain ones like this blog. Some cannot stand the blank "wasted" space of this blog if you are viewing this blog with a wide or big screen and prefer templates which display the blog across the whole screen with no blank

Unable to find post? Possible reasons and solutions

We get frequent questions who are keen to have their blogs found by search engines. They say they search for their blog by searching for their own name or the topic of the blog or post, but failed to find any. Before your blog or posts can be found by search engines, they must be indexed first, and that may take some time. So the first thing to do is to find out if your blog had been indexed.

Green Bloggercon 2008, United States of America

Bloggers conferences, forums, exhibitionsUnfortunately for us non-US residents, most of the bloggers related events are held in the United States of America. My first blog was an Environmental blog: Enviroman Says and if it is practical, I would love to go for this event:

Green Bloggercon 2008
May 16th Chicago, Illinois

It will be a conference for green bloggers, by green bloggers. Not only

Spell check for Blogger: How to overcome current problem with Blogger built-in spell check problems

The spell check built-in the toolbar of the Blogger post editor is broken (not working). Blogger is aware of the problem and is working on the problem and hopefully will get it licked soon. In the meantime, you will have to use other ways:Spell check with Google toolbar in Internet ExplorerI used to very much prefer using the spell check with the Google toolbar in FireFox. However, ever since

Moderating comments from Dashboard plus problems

Advantages of moderating comments via email notificationI have set comments in almost all my blogs for moderation via email notification. This means each time a visitor makes a comment, I get an email with the full message and I can approve or reject a comment from there. Moderating comments via email notification has many advantages over moderating via the Dashboard. The first big one I would

Earn with blogs

Why people blogBlogs are created for various reasons. Some are created as a result of an itchy mouth like http://my-first-grandchild.blogspot.com/(My first grandchild)which resulted from a simple question when my daughter gave me the CD containing the nuchal scan of her unborn baby, my first grandchild: "Why don't you put it on the Web?". She retorted: "Why don't YOU do it?".Some created blogs to