Blog Highway

Blog Highway Roadmap - Curious Attractions

2009-04-03T19:36:00.000-07:00

While on your highway trip, make a stop at these attractions and you'll find something worth perusing.

Boing Boing, one of the most popular blogs in the world
- Boing Boing
Artwork Not To Miss
Terrific artwork and a very long running novel:
- decadent tranquility
..and a blog for fans of "THE blog" (DT):
- Fans of decadent tranquility
Very funny and clever writing:
- Pearl, Why You Little..
An old grumpy Englishman reviews books and gripes:
- Grumpy Old Bookman
Orangette - a small French orange? Best Food Blog award...
- Orangette
Narelle World, not yours or mine:
- Narelle World
Who's In Charge Here? Pick the leader of the band from a photo...
- Who's in Charge Here?
National Rage, a place to legally get into trouble...
- National Rage
Brian Laks has numerous links to all that matters!
- Laks Foundation
Political Arithmetik, the only kind that matters =
- Political Arithmetik
Classic Photojournalism
- VII Photo Photographers
- Polaris Images

Blog Things to Add

2009-03-10T17:26:00.000-07:00

Animated GIFS:
- GIFs Net
- Webmaster GIFs
Msg Board Svc: Amazing Forums
Chat Room: IRCQ Net
Guestbook: Guestbook

Get Your Blog Listed: Feed Shark

Photos:
- Image State
- Getty Images
Visitor Counter

A bigger and better selection of counters I recently found: Free Counters UK
Visitor Map

This is the cluster map you see on the right: Clustr Maps

RSS to Javascript

2009-02-22T18:53:00.000-08:00

This site will convert an RSS feed into Javascript, this will allow a complete table of contents to be added as a widget. First, convert your blog RSS feed to javascript. Go to RSS to Javascript here:
RSS to Javascript

In the URL box at the top enter your blog feed:
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Substitute blog name in place of 'yourblogname'.

Turn on or off the options you want to read; if only the title is wanted, then choose 'No' to most of the options: Show Channel, Show Descriptions and Show Posting Date.

Enter zero for Number of items to show all available items, Yes to Use List Elements.

Hit the Preview button to check that your titles are shown.
If the Preview does not tally go to Settings--->Site Feed in your blog and turn on the site feed.

Click on Generate Javascript button to generate the code. Copy that Javascript code by selecting all. Put this in a widget, either in your Sidebar, or if you've changed the post settings to accept widgets, you can have the table of contents shown before or after the first post.

iDeceive Targets Internet Fraud

2009-01-20T00:49:00.000-08:00

This site specializes in exposing internet fraud and other scams, everyone needs to check this out: iDeceive

50 Best Websites of 2008

2008-08-25T18:16:00.000-07:00

Time Magazine's list and poll for the fifty best websites of 2008:
50 Best Websites of 2008

There are some good sites there, check out this one, Urban Dictionary, with the words all defined by users:
The Urban Dictionary

There's some very interesting stuff out there, check it out.... Jman

Intelligent Internet Media Organizations

2008-05-09T11:46:00.000-07:00

Check out these internet Media Organizations:

Media Channel

Consortium News

Guerrilla News Network

Buzz Flash

The Pacifica Radio Network

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

The BBC

The Guardian & Observer Reports

Create Your Own Blog in Five Minutes

2008-05-08T16:50:00.000-07:00

Blog Places

To create your own blog, which will get YourBlogName.blogspot.com as the address, after approval:

this one

Blogger

Log in with your Google name and pw, click “Create a blog”
Enter a blog name - have a name ready and about 10-20 alternates in mind, the first 10 will be gone, maybe the first 50; the title does not have to match the site's address.
Grab a template, doesn’t matter which one at first, you can change it later from a one click button and pick another, all posts, comments, other info will remain intact.
Blog created! Add a post – it can be a test and can be easily deleted later, you may as well make it an “Introduction” to the new blog. Just click the little pencil icon below the post to edit or delete it.

More Home pages, blogs, personal sites

WordPress
GeoCities
AngelFire
Homestead

Business Sites

Bigstep

Getting a Visitor Map

2008-05-07T17:05:00.000-07:00

How to get the cluster map of visitors that you can see on the right:

Click the map, go to the site
Click "Get One" on the top menu
Register, just your eMail and site name
Check your email for the password, copy it
Enter the password (paste it) at Cluster Map site
Click "Login"
COPY the HTML code from one of the boxes (A is best) to your site, select Add a page element-HTML code

Technical Help for Bloggers

2008-05-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

Tech Help: Blog/webmaster tools

Blogger Resources

The Blog Doctor
Pro Blogger
Web Monkey
Tech Republic (was CNET Builder)

Google Adsense Guides
Using Adsense
Blogger Hub Adsense Forum

HTML guide
Bare Bones
HTML 4
HTML Goodies
Webmonkey HTML Cheatsheet

Using Tables
HTML Tables

Database
Brinkster

Reference
Web Reference
About Com

Symbols / HTML Codes

HTML Symbol Codes

Codes for common symbols:

& = &
© = ©
® = ®
é = é such as José
è = è
&#?; = where ? is the ISO character number

</hr> = Horizontal line (like the one below)

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2008-01-01T02:21:00.000-08:00

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