Test Blog: August 2005

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Not coppied to a text file

I have been working on making template changes on my test blog. I had a template that I had all customized then I made one too many changes and
they whole thing blew up and I found out I didn�t have a recent backup for it.

So now it�s gone.

I really like Blogger.com there are a lot of really good features:
O Makes a backup for all your work.
O Can email in each post for easy publishing
O Format is good

But on the down side, I really like to have my Google ads imbedded in the article, and as far as I can tell there is no way to do this with Blogger.

And looking at my statistics it really does make a difference if you put the Google ads in the sidebar, or if you put a boarder around them.

Either one of these will really cut down on the number of people who see the ads.

I have figured out how to place the ad between the title and the text if I only put one post on each page then it will work.

I am not sure what that will do to the click through ratio, I guess I can put up one and see how it works out.

Template Changes to Blogger

I have been working on making template changes on this test blog. I had a template that I had all customized then I made one too many changes and they whole thing blew up and I found out I didn’t have a recent backup for it.

So now it’s gone.
I really like Blogger.com there are a lot of really good features:

Makes a backup for all your work.

Can email in each post for easy publishing

Format is good

But on the down side, I really like to have my Google ads imbedded in the article, and as far as I can tell there is no way to do that with Blogger.

And looking at my statistics it really does make a difference if you put the Google ads in the sidebar, or if you put a boarder around them.

Either one of these will really cut down on the number of people who see the ads.
I have figured out how to place the ad between the title and the text if I only put one post on each page then it will work.
I am not sure what that will do to the click through ratio, I guess I can put up one and see how it works out.

9-7-05
Now I am reposting this with Microsoft word, it really works good.
I was very surprised how useful this program is.

Now I can do all my posting to blogger from Word

I can even pull up documents and edit them.

test

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Microsoft FrontPage vs. Nvu

I have noticed that Nvu has a really nice interface for using CCS.

I am not a great programmer and I really don't want to take the time to learn how to program a CCS file from scratch.

What I want to do is make cool changes to my web pages and get them to look the way I want, and I want to do this fast and easy.

This is what Nvu allows you to do. It is a little complicated if your going to try and create a CCS file on your own. But if you copy another CCS file it will show you everything in it and all the options.

Then you can just click on what you want and make the changes to it.

It will only have the attributes that are in the file you start with but if you look around it's not too hard to find one with a lot of stuff in it, then just quick and easy make the changes you want to make, no programming knowledge needed.

Thursday, August 11, 2005