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activerain blogs: Top 3 Guerrilla Marketing tactics to get people to read your blog posts - 05/21/10 09:03 AM
It's disheartening to me to see some of the writing — and I use that word loosely — on Facebook, Twitter, and even here at ActiveRain. Throughout the years, though, I've kind of gotten used to it, although I still find it extremely difficult to participate in it.
One of the things that I have done, though, is learned to make my paragraphs smaller, even if it means putting "paragraph breaks" where they would not occur in standard writing.
I do that to get around pictures, to make the layout of my blog look better, and, most important of all, to … (28 comments)

activerain blogs: Putting mouseover text with your pictures - 03/30/10 12:51 PM
I often like to hide messages in my pictures using mouseover text, and recently I had a couple of requests to teach people how to put mouseover text with their pictures.
It's really pretty simple but it is not necessarily intuitive.
Place your mouse over any picture, hold it steady for about a second, and if there is an mouseover text, it will magically appear. For example, scroll down to the bottom picture of Zoey the Cool Cat, hold your mouse steady over the picture, and you should see this:

Here's how you do it:
Click on the little oak … (29 comments)

activerain blogs: Are you like a....? Maybe a....? How about a....? - 12/19/09 02:39 AM
With each new post to my blog, I use a different picture of my cat. How ironic, perhaps, that the last picture in my old pictures directory is the one here since it might go well with the nature of this post.
I'm not usually on ActiveRain at this time of night, but I feel like I just finished writing the millionth offer for this Client over the past three months and wanted to wind down my day by reading a few blogs.
What I've noticed recently is that there seems to be a propensity, getting more common, to build up … (15 comments)

activerain blogs: A guide to Balboa Park in downtown San Diego - 10/25/09 08:15 PM
Balboa Park is the largest urban cultural park in America and the second largest in North America behind Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
With over 1,200 acres, there's lots to do -- picnicking under the majestic eucalyptus trees, watching volleyball games on weekends, visiting museums, taking in a live performance, visiting the world-famous San Diego Zoo, and much, much more.
If you're going to spend some extra time sightseeing in San Diego, you can't go wrong with Balboa Park. The Park offers a Passport for $39/$21 (adults/children) that gets you into fourteen of the Park's Museums, a savings of over … (4 comments)