Blogineering

This is the second post in the Feedburner Series.  In the previous post, we have created a Feedburner RSS feed account. In this post, we are going to create a chicklet or an icon where our readers can subscribe using an RSS feed.

Instructions in Creating a Feedburner RSS Chicklet

1.) Log in to Google and go to feedburner.google.com to go to the window containing the list of your feeds.

2.) We only have one feed in our example as shown above. Click the title of your feed to go the Feed Stats Dashboard.

3.) In your Feed Stats Dashboard, select the Publicize tab, and then select Chicklet Chooser.

4.) In the Chicklet Chooser page, choose your standard RSS icon as shown below and copy the HTML code below the page.

5.) Paste the code in your text widget or any part of the blog where you want the chicklet to appear.

In our previous post, we talked about basics of RSS. In this post, we are going to learn how to set up a Feedburner feed.

Feedburner is an excellent web feed tool that provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Feedburner is one of Google’s applications, so you need a Google account to access it.

Setting up a Feedburner RSS Feed

1.) Log in to your Google Account.

2.) Go to feedburner.google.com to go to the page shown in the first figure.

3.) Copy and paste the RSS feed address of your blog to the RSS feed box as shown in the red box above (click image to enlarge) and then click the Next button.  This will take you to the window shown in the figure below. Read the rest of this entry →

Being a blogger, you should be updated with the latest tools for learning, particularly social media and web 2.0. The presentation below shows the top 100 tools used by people all over the world that you might want to explore.

In the previous post, we have discussed some tips about designing blogs. In this post, we are going to suggest the pages, widgets, and sharing buttons that you should place in your home page. We are not saying you include them all, but you might want to experiment to see their effect to your traffic.

• Post List Tab/Page. As early as one month, create a Post List tab or page. This will enable you to organize your posts list later.  If your blog has grown much, you may want to create a page for each ‘big’ category. An example of this is Math and Multimedia, our main blog . Oor posts are divided into four: Mathematics, Multimedia, GeoGebra, and All4Free(for freebies).
• Calendar Widget. Many blog platforms include a calendar of posts. This will make navigation easier and would likely generate more traffic. In most calendar widgets, the colored dates indicate that a post was made.

• Top Posts/Popular Posts. If people visit a blog with a lot of posts, aside from searching in the search box, they would probably take a peek at the most popular posts. Read the rest of this entry →

In last Monday’s post, we have learned how to add a Follow me on Twitterbutton using a code generator.  In this post, we are going to learn a little HTML which will enable us to customize our button.

First, we will use the img src code to display the Follow me on Twitter icon. The img src code is the html code used to display images.  The code is as follows.

<img src = “the URL of your Twitter button”>

For example, the URL of my Twitter button at my side bar is http://www.howtonew.com/wp-content/themes/Simplista/twitter.png. So, to display button in this post, the code should be:

<img src = “http://www.howtonew.com/wp-content/themes/Simplista/twitter.png”>

The output of this code is the small Twitter button shown below.

We have have now displayed the button. The next step is to link the button to your Twitter account. Read the rest of this entry →