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A great little blog editing tool

I’ve been using a program called MarsEdit for the past week, which is really, really good. Here’s a screenshot of it: Now, to start off with, it shows the blogs that you have an account with, and when you select … Read more …

What do you like about this blog?

If you’re one of my regular visitors, I’d be very interested to know what keeps you coming back. Understanding this can help me provide more of what you like. Please click on Post A Comment and leave your thoughts on … Read more …

History of blogs

Interesting post over at Instabloke’s blog: History of the Blog: The Evolution of Blogging. Many have participated in the evolution of the medium and that also includes you and me. What’s more important than who did what is that the … Read more …

Add smiles to your blog

Over at The Last Word is the code for you to add to your Blogger HTML. When you’ve done that, you can use smilies! 🙂 Wheee! 😀 If you have padding or borders around your images, you may need to … Read more …

Neo template tip

Someone sent me an email today asking how I did the menu that’s in the box above this post, that allows you to click on Home, About Me, etc. It’s very easy to do, actually. First, you Add A New … Read more …

Niche content? I think not

An article I recently wrote on Website and blog design talked about niche content. It’s been on my mind since then, about how I have tried writing niche content in the past with various blog experiments, but always gave up … Read more …

Website design examples

Here’s some smalll screenshots of websites I’ve done in the past: More recently: Please feel free to contact me if you would like something done for you too.

Website and blog design

I’ve been doing website design as a hobby for around a decade now, on and off. As a result of just dabbling in it, I’m not up to the high standards of many professional website designers, but I think I’m … Read more …

Beta blogger 3-column template

Thanks to Hackosphere for providing a 3-column template to use in Beta Blogger. I modified the Denim version’s CSS so that I can get it how I want, then modified the colours, and voila! Now I have 3 columns….

Horizontal Menu Bar

You might have noticed that there’s a horizontal menu bar sitting above this post. I found a way to implement CSS styling to create a menu bar. There’s all kinds of different options, of course, but most of them, for … Read more …

Beta blog hacks

Being the ever-curious fellow that I am, along with the fact that I can never be happy with ‘how things are’, I like to push the boundaries a little, and modify things according to my preferences. Most people have a … Read more …

Blogging about your passion

One of the things that I’ve been neglecting lately is blogging about my passions, the things that interest me most of all, and which excite me and inspire me. For some reason, the biggest passion I seem to have is … Read more …

Why a new blog?

I know that as I change, so too can my blog. But really, my (old) blog doesn’t have all the features that I really like about this new blog. I’m using Blogger’s new blogger system, which is currently in beta. … Read more …