blogging: Optimize Your Images for Website Pages - Compression
- 01/12/20 03:53 PM
Images are very important to help your web pages engage your audience. The combination of informative text along with appropriate photos and illustrations is the formula for a captivating post. Some of the biggest amateur mistakes of creating web pages is related to working with images. Doing it wrong will not "break" anything, but doing it right shows your expertise. The ways to optimize images that you should be aware of are: (1) file resolution/pixel size not exceeding actual page frame size (2) file aspect ratio (3) maximizing file type compression (4) SEO optimization In this post, let's talk about the first 3 ways noted above to optimize … (18 comments)
blogging: Creating a Block of Emphasis Text for Your Blog Post
- 03/05/16 11:08 PM
A Chef Has Excellent Ingredients AND a Well Thought Out Presentation Creating an interesting blog post is first of all dependant on relevant information that the reader wants to read. The other essential consideration to a successful post is how you present the information. A good chef may have the best ingredients in a dish but she doesn't just slap it down as a messy plate of food! A good blog post starts off with proper white spacing. You don't want to just write a singular run on paragraph that goes on and on and on. We call that the wall of words! Proper text sizing is also … (57 comments)
blogging: Cataloging Your ActiveRain Blog with Tags
- 12/05/14 09:28 PM
You walk into a very large library and you have in mind to find a book to help you on a very particular topic. As you stand in awe at how large this library is, you don't have a clue where to start. You ask the librarian about your topic. She says, "I believe we had a few books come in on that maybe a year ago. If you look on the second floor, down towards the middle of the library, that's where the books of that timeframe were placed." You think, "huh!?? How am ever going to find it?" After … (62 comments)
blogging: Blog Enhancements - Adding Drop Shadow to Images
- 07/13/14 01:27 AM
Having an image in your blog post makes it interesting for the reader. Of course having valuable text content is the first priority! However the synergy of the text and the graphics that you use is not to be overlooked for the ingredients of an A+ post. Oftentimes, bloggers will size an image so that it is not too wide and this allows you to have the text alongside the photo. That is what I am doing here with the photo of my cat Buddy. He’s having a great time hiding in a shopping bag over there. Do you see something different about the photo though? … (63 comments)
blogging: Blogging Basics – Resize a Photo
- 07/12/14 07:32 AM
To make a blog post more appealing, you should use images for eye appeal. Often the images we would like to use are in the form of photographs. I see very often (with even experienced bloggers) a mistake with images because of not understanding proper sizing of a photo. Let’s go through an exercise of preparing a photo for a blog post so you can learn proper technique. When you are blogging, you have a main content area where your text will go. On web pages, our unit of measure is the pixel. Most blogs have a content area ranging between 600 and 800 pixels. It depends on the theme you are using … (35 comments)
blogging: Don’t Make These 3 Hyperlinking Mistakes
- 02/17/14 12:22 AM
When you write a blog post, you have opportunity to share helpful other pages with your readers. To do this, you insert hyperlinks in your text so that they can easily click the link and jump to the new page. This is something I’m sure you realize already! What you may not realize though is that there are some very common mistakes people make and after this blog post, you can take yourself off of that list. Mistake #1 – You Can’t See the Hyperlink For many bloggers, they are working with a page theme where fonts and colors are predetermined for … (141 comments)
blogging: Where IS that Blog Post! I Know I Wrote It!!!
- 06/02/11 06:52 AM
I have a feeling you have been there... "I know I wrote that article! Now where is it!!! I want to share it with somebody!" You can go back through your archives listing (it's over there on the right-hand sidebar... every post you have on AR sorted by MONTH). But that takes Wayyyy to long! After a couple of months of listings, you give up on that one. But wait, I can search my tags! Uhhh, well the first 479 posts on ActiveRain you had no clue how to properly tag an article, so that's not going to work (on the … (72 comments)
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Images are very important to help your web pages engage your audience. The combination of informative text along with appropriate photos and illustrations is the formula for a captivating post.
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