06
March

10 rules to make your content “additable” into the social bookmarks - part 2

5.Make the list of recommendation. When the readers trust the blogger, consider him as authority and respect his mind and interests. Write down the list of favorite TV-shows, websites, movies etc. Then readers will follow your advice and try e.g. to watch recommended films. Accomplish this they add your post (just not to forget).

6.Jot down the crib sheet. For instance, if your blog about CSS then on one page you can collect all terms with explanations. Or if your blog is about Japan, then you can create an article with the most widely used Japanese expressions, write about tourist sightseeing, traditions, culture of the country etc. Other words to express info that will be useful and in need for lots of times.

7.Prove your rightness about any disputable question. As usual readers support the blog’s author point of view in the disputable situations. And if you write an article with proves then surely the user will add it in the bookmarks because when next time he will be arguing about this subject, then he can use your pleas.

8.Collect videos. You can create a post when you have for instance 10 videos dedicated to your topic. If the length of each video clip is 5 minutes then you need about one hour to watch it. That’s why reader will add the page into the bookmarks and will watch it later during free time.

9.Advice the problem solution. Posts with the info how to decide this or that issue enjoy popularity. And even if you hadn’t collided with this problem before, you would probably add this article just in case. E.g., it can be explanation how to correct wrong coding in the WordPress engine. And there is no certain theme here; any problem can be the plot.

10.Collect useful links. Post can contain links to the sites of any direction. You can add brief clarification to the links. But it must be dedicated to the useful topic. This kind of links is often effective for users and that’s why they save addresses.

04
March

10 rules to make your content “additable” into the social bookmarks - part 1

Why it is necessary to create articles suitable for social bookmarks?

There are many reasons why each blogger tries to make his/her articles better, more interesting and easy on the eye. And sure addition into bookmarks storage services is one of the reasons. Because how can you get new visitors, significant links, engaged audience? So the more suitable for bookmarks post the better.

What should this post contain?

Further there are 10 points about what is necessary for that. There is no needs to mix all of these aspects in your article, but if you combine just a few of them in a clever way, then you can gain a good results.

  1. Pay attention to the post length. One of the most spread reasons why users add articles into bookmarks is lack of time to read from the very beginning till the end. That’s why you’d better write informatory articles of big volume but it must be really factual and without senseless yackety-yack.
  2. Imagine new idea. There can be short posts that are very often added to the bookmarks, but why? Because these posts contain a really new fresh idea, food for thoughts. And users want to come back and think over about it again when you have free time.
  3. Write the instruction, sequencing guidance. In the Internet there are lots of different instructions that teach how to act in order to achieve something. And if it is told about something unique, previously undescribed, then a fortiori add to the bookmarks.
  4. Perform full-width review. Sure that requires a lot of time and forces but the game is worth the candle. If to develop a big review on something interesting and useful, include there description “from the all sides”, gather all data about this subject then such post will be certainly in demand and it will add into the bookmarks to back later if one needs.

20
February

How to create your own template in Joomla

Jooml! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Asked me once how to create once own templates in Joomla.

Maybe somebody is interested…

Download any template (it can be free). It is in archive. In this archive you will find XML file that represents structured list of all files that are included into install pack of  this template. Install this template in Joomla. The whole this archive open into your-joomla-based-site/templates/template’s name. There can be directories, e.g. images and/or css.

So you are working with this deal, with the directory I mean.

Change/add/delete files etc. At the end you put all changes in that XML file, rename it, change copyright etc and make a ZIP-archive. After these new template is ready to be installed.

The main template file as usual is named index.php. That is mainly HTML-page, in which not only PHP-code is included but this code is destined to run on Joomla.

E.g.

Code:

<jdoc:include type=”head” />

So that is just a site page based on Joomla from which are “Joomla area” functions are given rise. Among these functions are distinguished that which arise modules like:

Code:

<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” style=”xhtml”/>

 

This code is situated on the place where the left blog design is loading.

Actually that is all. Design itself you place in index.php. But the devil is in the details, of course. The most unpleasant part is making all fonts and other design elements placed in CSS matching. Here the most efficient way (if you don’t get hand in hundreds of Joomla designs) is just dully look at the loaded page source and search for what note on the page has this or that class name in CSS. Obtusely but no way out.    

So if somebody has questions, please ask here.

16
February

Food blogs themes

We live to eat or we eat to live? )). Whatever, anyway food is an inseparable part of each leaving being.

How can you conquer a man? Yes, it may seem trivial but the path to man soul gets through his stomach. And food plays the main role in human life as the most important energy source.

Family, Food & Drinks

We have many different directions in food making (cooking). And that is one of the advantages of food blogs. It can be place where people with the same interests and food preferences can put useful and interesting facts. But it does not mean that vegetarians or gourmand can’t participate in discussions and leave the comments, sure that is wrong that’s why there are different categories in the food blogs dedicated to various spheres.

Food blogs are informational base that grounds on the facts about cooking. Besides you can use such food blogs for sharing ideas, recipes, new tendencies etc. Provide different data about various national cuisines because most traditions have a recognizable cuisine, a specific set of cooking traditions, preferences, and practices, the study of which is known as gastronomy.

Food & Drinks

Many cultures study the dietary analysis of food habits. While humans are omnivores, religion and social constructs such as morality often affect which foods they will consume. Many cultures study the dietary analysis of food habits. While humans are omnivores, religion and social constructs such as morality often affect which foods they will consume.         

Just look how many fascinating things can be put into such food blogs! And even to people who are not from the regular community but who search to find a solution to the question can help these food blogs!

13
February

ST. Valentine’s Day Postcard Template

ST. Valentine’s Day is snapping at the heels and to my mind that is one of the sweetest holidays, the day when you must pay your attention to people you love. Very important aspect is presents. Each person likes to get presents, but that is a day of exchanging LOVE and presents. One of the ways to demonstrate your REAL feelings is to make this day to be a day of a lifetime.

And inseparable part of every present is postcard. And today I’d like to present you a postcard template where you can put words of tenderness. Very often it is too difficult to make an avowal of sentiments, that’s why this postcard template can be a place, even a way how to say the “I LOVE YOU”, dearest words in the world.

ST. Valentine’s Day Postcard Template

But I think that we should present not just wife/husband or girlfriend/boyfriend, but that is a day when your mother, farther, relatives are “objects” during this day, so this postcard template is designed the way it can suit for such needs.

One of the interesting things is that in USA, the day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of “valentines.” Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The mid-nineteenth century Valentine’s Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow. The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines (then they didn’t have postcard template) are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines. (Fortunately today we already have such phenomenon as Postcard template!).

Men, where are you??? Knock the spots off! Everything is ready for you, there lots of postcard template in the web!

Happy ST. Valentine’s Day! I love all of you & I’ll be back soon!

12
February

Useful things about salon blogs

Health is the dearest thing. But nowadays world all of us are beauty connoisseurs. Wonderful body is the first step to get not only beauty but also health. We have very wide range of different health and medical organizations so salon blogs can be very useful in order to provide people with data about them. Lots of women do have different issues dealing with their health and body, and what is the best way to get a piece of advice? Surely, that is to get it from the women with the same troubles; or to find the answer among professionals. But when you are thinking about visiting doctors, we understand that it’s much easier to leave everything as it is.

But fortunately today we do have such phenomenon as salon blogs. It can be a blog of one salon or its owner can be a number of salons.

What is useful of these salon blogs? There are many advantages: first of all that is a community of people who have the same interests as you do and people that can help you to find the answers.

Health&Beauty Salon Blog Theme

In case you are a salon owner, you can create one the salon blogs and help people to find solutions, to advice them something, finally we are always trying to find people with the same problems as we have.

You are not going to create a serious blog that will become one of the best salon blogs, but it does not matter that it should be coffee-and-doughnut. So you can easily take one of the salon blogs template and it is already almost ready.

One important thing is that you should keep your blog alive, writing different posts and do not forget pay attention to the comments that people leave on your salon blogs!

08
February

Cheerleader blog

Cheerleading first appeared in the United States in the late 1880s with the crowd chanting as a way to encourage school spirit at athletic events. The first organized, recorded cheer was yelled “Ray, Ray’ Ray! TIGER, TIGER, SIS, SIS, SIS! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Aaaaah! PRINCETON, PRINCETON, PRINCETON!” at Princeton University in 1884.

Cheerleading among others has had debate on whether or not it truly is a sport. Some consider Cheerleading as a whole as a sport citing the heavy use of athletic talents while others do not see it as deserving of that status since sport implies a competition among squads and not all squads compete along with subjectivity of competitions. There are also some that believe that only certain aspects, namely Competitive Cheerleading, can be considered a sport. While individuals and organizations have their own beliefs, no one answer has emerged.

But to my mind cheerleading means not only sport but some kind of art. And Cheerleader blog which I’d like to put on your approval today is the following:

Sport Cheerleading blog theme

To my mind Cheerleader blog is a good idea because every school has its own Cheerleaders and to create a place (Cheerleader blog) where everyone who is interested can find information, discussions, answers, useful articles etc. Cheerleader blog is a way to say the world about you and to find people with the same enthusiasm. Cheerleader blog may become a face of your team and therefore somehow the face of your school.

Conclusion: if you decided to start your school cheerleader blog then you should keep it carefully.

05
February

Cool layouts

It happens sometimes that one thought just doesn’t get off your mind’s back. I created this blog in order to write reviews on different web templates but it seems to me that this blog will become a place where I will place my thoughts not only about layouts but about life in general. You know, in life of everyone sometimes there are periods when we want to change something, to leave the place where you are living and go to the place of your dream. And it’s not a crack-brained step, ad rem you were thinking about it for a long period, but something always stopped you. So now I’m thinking over the idea to turn my life through 180 degrees. If you have anything to tell me because of this, please do, I’ll appreciate it.

O… these philosophical essays…entire questions…

I’ll better tell you about new cool layouts which I found surfing the Net. You know, previously I have never explored the worldwide web so closely, but now I find it interesting, and besides I have time to do it and then share some interesting (as for me) cool layouts.

So today’s “cool layouts” are about:

Travel Blog template

I chosen this cool layouts ‘cause maybe I’m tired of this everyday life, routine and I wanna have rest, to go somewhere like this, and to be frank I think I am not alone feel like this, but actually who knows.))  

And the second one is:

сomputer layout template

I cannot say that this one refers to cool layouts but nevertheless it is free and it attracted me because of its simplicity, nothing special but at the same time nothing over.

30
January

Wordpress Photo Blog Theme

Wordpress Photo Blog Theme
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From the very childhood I had a dream to be a great high-experienced photograph, that’s why when I was a little girl my parents presented me my first camera (surely it was film camera as it was almost 20 years ago), then I had my first job and dreamed about Olympus when in 1990 new first in the world ulrtalight compact completely automatic camera “m”-series saw the world, I was hung up on it. I was working many hours to reach it. Afterwards I had a great number of different devices (film and digital) but unfortunately I didn’t follow my dream and now I have my own business, I am the owner of the electronic shops. I have a family and I am happy but I will never become a professional camera clicker.
My business prevented me from my dream come true, but I’m still interested in taking photos, another words I am amateur.
Maybe from the very beginning you are thinking what for this picture on the top, I understand that. And this entire preamble I wrote in order you better to understand me.
So, this wordpress photo blog theme (what clever words!) I have found surfing different blog designs. I am not a designer and I am not going to judge the technical side of this wordpress photo blog theme but I liked it very much and decided to share my it with people who are interested in these things. Actually first of all I decided to create a blog for those who are taking photos and does not matter whether professionally or just spend time.
To be frank this spontaneous idea made me feel happy maybe because that is a part of me, my childhood and desire. I didn’t search a lot but when I saw this one I liked it much. Actually this wordpress photo blog theme has nothing special the best-looking I found its header because I adore taking photos of people and nature. ThereI found some other wordpress photo blog theme but to put them here… I decided not to do this but you can look it through if you fall over it.

29
January

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