blog: 8 FREE Web Tools For Your Website and/or Blog - 11/28/09 09:45 PM
8 FREE Web Tools For Your Website and/or Blog
Here are some helpful sites that offer FREE Website Tools for Bloggers and Webmasters. They are listed in no particular order of importance or recommendation, although the first two are the toolbox offerings from Google and Bing.
iWEBTool is a web portal of web tools, PR Checker and Ranking.com are page rank checkers, Blog and Website Graders are pretty self-explanatory and Submit Express not only submits your website to 40+ different search engines, but they offer their own web toolbox as well.
 
1) http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

 
2) http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters

3) http://www.iwebtool.com/tools
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blog: How To Embed A Picasa Photo Slideshow Into Your (ActiveRain) Blog - 11/01/09 01:27 PM
How To Embed A Picasa Photo Slideshow Into Your Blog
Thanks to another inspirational comment by Jane Peters on my blog post "Coconut Grove - Milpitas, CA (Santa Clara County, California)" I decided to write this tutorial on how to embed a Picasa Photo Slideshow into your (ActiveRain) blog:
Once you login or sign up for Picasa, create or select a photo album that will contain all of the photos you wish to display on the slideshow, then upload all of your photos into that photo album.
1. After you click on the photo album from the "My Photos" page (or … (22 comments)

blog: How To Embed A Google Map Into Your Blog or Website - 10/16/09 11:55 AM
How To Embed A Google Map Into Your Blog or Website
1. Type in an address or just a city and state in Google Maps and hit "Enter" or click on "Search Maps" and you will see a red tag pinpointed at the location you entered.
2. Click on "Link" in the upper right corner and a box will appear like you see below.
3. Click on "Customize and preview embedded map."

4. Now you are ready to customize the map size. I suggest doing a "Custom" size if you'd like to appear uniform with the photos on your blog … (63 comments)

blog: How To Set Up A Blog Feed On Your Facebook Business Page - 09/22/09 07:11 PM
How To Set Up A Blog Feed On Your Facebook Business Page
This post is dedicated to Jane Peters, who asked how to feed blogs onto your facebook business "fan" page...thanks for the inspiration for my new blog post topic!
1. Go to your facebook page and click on "Edit Page."

 
2. Click on the pencil icon for "Notes" then click on "Edit."

 
3. Click on "Import a blog."

 
4. Enter your ActiveRain blog's URL, check the box and click on "Start Importing."

 
Done! :)
P.S. Even though I haven't really worked on … (19 comments)