All of blogging

Monday, December 10, 2012

Best of blog award

A Germany organization Deutche Welle organizes award for blogger around the world every year. There are 17 categories in a total of 11 languages in the BOBs (BOB = Best Of Blog). Submissions to the contest can be in the any of the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

If you want to participate in this competition, just go to their website and read details.

Multilingual categories - Jury Award & User Prize

Submit XML sitemap to search engines

If you are a programmer, then you can create your own xml sitemap. But if you cannot, then there are lots of website which do it for you in gratis. You shall find easily these kind of websites through search engines by searching ‘make xml sitemap’.

If you use wordpress, you can use the google xml plugin. This plugin shall create an xml sitemap for your Wordpress site.

After creating your xml sitemap, you have to upload it to www.yourdomain.com/sitemap. xml. You have to submit this url as your xml sitemap url to search engines.

Terms of blogosphere

Anonoblog - a blog written and maintained by an anonymous blogger.

Blogosphere - the collective content of the blogs worldwide.

Blook - book written by blogger and generally grow out of his blog.

Copyright – the exclusive right of a person to copy, publish etc.

Endnotes – the reference list at the end of an article.

How to delete blogger/ blogspot blog

To delete blogger blog, follow the steps below:

1 Go to the blog dashboard which you want to delete. I am on dashboard of blogging help blog.

Add google translator to your blog

Increase traffic to blog

Addition of Google translator shall increase your blog's/ website's visitors. Because your visitors shall be able to see your website on different languages. So a person who does not know the language of your blog, shall be able to read your website in his language.

How to add Google translator

To add Google translator go to <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_tools" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_tools</a>. You can determine criteria and then add the code to your blog/ website. You can use 'add to blogger' button if you are blogging on blogger. 
Addition of google translator shall increase visitors of your website. Because visitors shall be able to view your site in their own languages.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

HTML elements

This is lesson 4 of HTML. The elements of HTML are
(the code to test all of these elements is given at the bottom)

The a (anchor) element is used to set link.
Attributes: href, name
Example: <a href="www.websitebuildingguide.blogspot.com">build website</a>

…

This is used to bold a text.

Attributes: none
Example: this is bold text

HTML basics

A HTML document has elements. Elements have attributes. Attributes have values. For example,The elements of basic HTML document is

<html>
<head>
<title> … </title>
…
</head>
<body>
…
</body>
</html>

HTML: where to write and test on desktop

This is lesson 1 of HTML. If you are making website or trying code of HTML, you have can do any of the following:

1) Write on Notepad

Go to Start > programs > accessories > notepad. write you HTML code and save it with HTML extension. It means if you are saving file with the name of "new", you have to save it by the name of "new.html". Then save it. And run it in a browser.

2) Use a software

You can use Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage, and test your code there. These are commercial software.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Test HTML of a website maintains w3 standard or not

It is necessary to test whether HTML of your website maintains standard of W3 or not. To test that you can try any or more than one ways described below. First one is validator of W3. This validator tells your errors of your websites. This validator can be found on http://validator.w3.org/.
You just enter domain of your website on the address bar and click check. Then this validator shall tell you errors of your website and also suggestion.

Best Wordpress plugins

Wordpress is the most popular CMS with lots of beneficial free and commercial plugins available around you. These plugnins are useful and necessary to fulfill your blogging need with Wordpress. Some most popular and super plugins are described below:

1) Search engine optimization for wordpress:

For search engine optimization of your wordpress, you have to use plugin which provides opportunity to do all steps necessary for seo. The most popular two plugins for seo are ‘all in one seo pack’ and ‘headspace2’. With this two plugins you can edit page, post and site for seo. These two are free.

Favicon HTML

Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is the short name for “favorites icon” and is otherwise called as a shortcut icon. It is a square icon that is shown next to the URL of any webpage in a browser that supports tabs like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer. It works as an identity of the website and company. It must be 16×16 (most common) or 32×32 pixel using 8 bit or 24 bit color.

If you are using Blogger blog, you might have already noticed that Blogger shows default favicon next to the URL of your blog as shown here:

Contact form for blogger

There are many websites which build contract from for free. You have to create free account, then on dashboard you have to choose which option will be provided in the contract form. Then after selection, they shall provide you html code. You can embed this html code in two ways.
1 Create a post and paste the html, in edit html mode. And give label 'contact me' or create a menu if you are using menu.
2 Create a page by going to posting>edit pages and name the page 'contact' and paste the html in description. Then, done
You can do this on www.kontactr.com.

HTML to redirect website/ blog

Redirect htmlRedirection is process where url of a website/ blog is redirected to another website/ blog. sometimes, website owners and blogger change their domain. To keep visitors of past domain, website owners and bloggers have to redirect their past domain to new one.
For example, if you have a blog of which domain is www.pastdomain.co and you redirect that blog to www.presentdomain.com. Then when visitors shall attempt to visit www.pastdomain.com, they will automatically be redirected to www.presentdomain.com. And they shall see your present website.

Benefits to blog on Blogger

A blog site is a site where the publisher of the blog writes about something. People and enterprises publish blog to provide information on a definite topic. They write valuable theories, critical reviews, news, services etc.
Deutsche Welle, a German radio organization, organizes the best of bloggers award. In this event, bloggers from the whole world participate in various categories.
Blogs are of various categories such as text, video, audio, podcast. The blog site which I am writing about can be used as text blog. But you can also add video, audio, picture and lots of others services available in that site.

There is no free domain

Many person look for free domain around internet. But, is there any free domain? The answer is there is no free domain. Because, domain is for selling and buying. No organization gives free domain which it has to buy. But free sub domain is available. Lots of organizations provide free sub domain (with hosting or without hosting).

Sub domain is not a domain, but a part of the main domain. For example, blogspot.com is a domain. And sub domain websitemakingguide.blogspot.com is part of the main domain.

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