Hi everyone... I'm drowning in work & a ton of new projects right now so I'll skip the formalities and get right to the "stuff". Following up on my post from last week Pimp Your Blog part 3... using image tiles to speed up your blog , here is a new Active Rain themed image tile that you're welcome to use on your blog.
New Blog Background Image Tile: Active Rain Tile # 2
If you're looking for a background image to use on your AR blog, feel free to download Active Rain Tile # 2. … (62 comments)
Hi everyone... in the past 2 weeks I've seen a lot of comments about how slow some blog pages have become after they're been "pimped" so... This week before we get into more customizing I thought I'd talk about a few basics re images, widgets, etc... that should help to speed things up.
Let's Take A Look At The Average Person's Screen Resolution
The image above shows the stats for visitors to my art website. If you take a close look almost 65% of my site's visitors have their computer monitor set to 1024 W X 768 H … (84 comments)
Hi everyone... again this past week there was a lot of talk, activity and still some confusion about using the new customized blog feature by Brad Carroll so to try and simplify things for anyone who needs help, I've designed some graphics that you can use as a starting point on your blog headers and... some ideas on how to use them.
First, let's take a look at the Active Rain Blog Header I realize that some of this might seem overly simplified but just so we're all on the same page, here is a diagram to illustrate a few basic points. The … (118 comments)
Well, well, well... look at all the pretty blogs! Unless you've been on another planet this past week, the Big News here in the Rain was Brad Caroll's wonderful gift... the Active Rain Customizer that allows us to turn the plain old generic version of AR into a personalized way to express and brand yourself with color and images. If for some reason you haven't heard this news or haven't seen Brad's post, here it is... ActiveRain gives the "Green Light" on Customizing - ActiveRainCustomizer.com
As you can see from the screen shot above, you can use … (110 comments)
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