Eden Bloggers – April 28, 2011 at 7pm: Blogger's Club

Contributor: Dusk Dusk
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Originally posted by Kayla
Sailor Moon! Man, I haven't heard of that in ages. Welcome to the meeting!
Thanks!
04/28/2011
Contributor: Lady Venus Lady Venus
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
ooh, thanks for the link!
welcome!...although I see now that I spelled it wrong...it's actually w3schools.com ...LOL
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
First, we'll focus on how to do some basic tricks with the text you write in HTML. These are the same tricks you can do on the EdenFantasys forum as well: bold, italic, and underline.

Bold is supposed to show importance to whatever text you'd like to use. Using bold makes your text stand out more.




Italic is what makes the text tilt sideways. I use it to show tone mostly.




Underline is used to show importance. It also can be used for headers of sections to show an order.




To see other neat ways to edit your text, W3Schools has a good article about it.

What do you normally use bold, italics, and underline for?
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
Where can you find nice layouts for your blog at. I used one that they had to choose from but would like to pretty it up a little bit.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Wondermom Wondermom
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Originally posted by sexyintexas
So did I, I kept forgetting which kid had to be where and would end up at the soccer field during cheer practice grrrrr....
I'm old school, I have paper and wall calendars. a huge velcro one for my son and a cheap paper one for my husbands work schedule and drs appts, then my personal notebook calendar for workshops, deadlines etc.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Lady Venus Lady Venus
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Originally posted by Kayla
I'm glad to hear it. I'm always open for questions too though it might take me a day or so to respond depending on what day it is.
Thanks! I'll keep that mind
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Lady Venus
welcome!...although I see now that I spelled it wrong...it's actually w3schools.com ...LOL
Glad you corrected that I would have been looking for days lol.
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Kayla
First, we'll focus on how to do some basic tricks with the text you write in HTML. These are the same tricks you can do on the EdenFantasys forum as well: bold, italic, and underline.



Bold is supposed to show importance to whatever ... more
Titles, Names
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Wondermom
I'm old school, I have paper and wall calendars. a huge velcro one for my son and a cheap paper one for my husbands work schedule and drs appts, then my personal notebook calendar for workshops, deadlines etc.
I tried that and kept loosing them.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Jul!a Jul!a
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
I'm pissed he & what's-her-face broke up. grrr! i know her name, just my mind isn't finding it in its memory palace atm. :/
For House, are you talking about Cuddy?
04/28/2011
Contributor: Lady Venus Lady Venus
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Originally posted by sexyintexas
Glad you corrected that I would have been looking for days lol.
I type too fast for my own good sometimes!
04/28/2011
Contributor: Wondermom Wondermom
Quote:
Originally posted by Kayla
First, we'll focus on how to do some basic tricks with the text you write in HTML. These are the same tricks you can do on the EdenFantasys forum as well: bold, italic, and underline.



Bold is supposed to show importance to whatever ... more
I bold or underline headers, and italics for quotes or emphasis
04/28/2011
Contributor: Dusk Dusk
I usually use italics when I want to emphasize a word like I would when I was speaking. In fact, I often use it for the moments when I would be rolling my eyes if actually talking to you, XD
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Jul!a
For House, are you talking about Cuddy?
I like Cuddy
04/28/2011
Contributor: Lady Venus Lady Venus
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Originally posted by Wondermom
I bold or underline headers, and italics for quotes or emphasis
Same here. I'll italic for sarcasm as well.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kake aka PoeticErotica Kake aka PoeticErotica
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Originally posted by Wondermom
I am the same way, I google or look in help docs, copy to notepad and play around with it to see if it works. I love bloggers preview feature because I can see if I screwed up.
I've had blogs in one form or another since writers mainly blogged on myspace back in like the late 90s/early 00s, lol. my myspace blog has over 50k views. however, it's a whole new world out there now compared to then. everyone has a blog & its much harder to generate traffic, imho. it's not enough to be really good at whatever you're doing, you have to be an excellent self-promoter as well, & really skilled at using the tools at your disposal (and have knowledge of them) to get hits. I'm having issues drawing in readers, though the 2 blogs i'm maintaining at the moment are both fairly new (1 is about 4-6 months old, the other i started sunday, lol). If we have time after we go over coding or if there's anyone who I can msg privately, I'd really love some tips on building traffic.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
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Originally posted by sexyintexas
Where can you find nice layouts for your blog at. I used one that they had to choose from but would like to pretty it up a little bit.
It depends. You can find some pretty decent ones by searching "free blogspot/wordpress layouts", but it's mostly a matter of looking around. The really nice ones cost money. (I purchased Kinky World's with cash.)
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Dusk
I usually use italics when I want to emphasize a word like I would when I was speaking. In fact, I often use it for the moments when I would be rolling my eyes if actually talking to you, XD
I have a feeling if I did that I would have a lot of italicized words.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kake aka PoeticErotica Kake aka PoeticErotica
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Originally posted by Kayla
I can't even count how many times I've destroyed a code by just forgetting a minor piece. Preview can help quite a bit!
omg! i know EXACTLY what you mean. it's the WORST, especially when you have a huge section of code and ONE friggin piece is wrong & you can't figure it out for the life of you.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Dusk Dusk
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
I've had blogs in one form or another since writers mainly blogged on myspace back in like the late 90s/early 00s, lol. my myspace blog has over 50k views. however, it's a whole new world out there now compared to then. everyone has a blog ... more
Yeah, building traffic can be a bitch. I was going a good job of it but then I moved to my own domain, so it's been like starting from square one.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
I've had blogs in one form or another since writers mainly blogged on myspace back in like the late 90s/early 00s, lol. my myspace blog has over 50k views. however, it's a whole new world out there now compared to then. everyone has a blog ... more
Of course! We'd love to help, Kake! Next months' meeting is actually about how to gain new readers, so you can come to that of course, but feel free to message me after the meeting for tips too.
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Kayla
It depends. You can find some pretty decent ones by searching "free blogspot/wordpress layouts", but it's mostly a matter of looking around. The really nice ones cost money. (I purchased Kinky World's with cash.)
Nice, I will look into that.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Wondermom Wondermom
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
I've had blogs in one form or another since writers mainly blogged on myspace back in like the late 90s/early 00s, lol. my myspace blog has over 50k views. however, it's a whole new world out there now compared to then. everyone has a blog ... more
being on twitter has helped increase my traffic, its helped me find blog hops and giveaway link ups. There are some blog directory sites out there, bloggymoms is one of them I use.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kake aka PoeticErotica Kake aka PoeticErotica
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Originally posted by Jul!a
She did, I'm about to go add it right now
Blog directory? Where can I check this out and what do I need to do to qualify to add my blog to it???
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
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Originally posted by Dusk
Yeah, building traffic can be a bitch. I was going a good job of it but then I moved to my own domain, so it's been like starting from square one.
Yeah. Moving to a new domain definitely can suck. I moved mine to a domain only after having it for 2 weeks, so I didn't have too much of an issue, but it can be hard.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
Blog directory? Where can I check this out and what do I need to do to qualify to add my blog to it???
link
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Kake aka PoeticErotica
Blog directory? Where can I check this out and what do I need to do to qualify to add my blog to it???
In the forum under bloggers club there is a post on it.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Dusk Dusk
PS: Kake, I can't seem to submit any comments on your latest blog.
04/28/2011
Contributor: sexyintexas sexyintexas
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Originally posted by Kayla
link
Lol, I was too slow.
04/28/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
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Originally posted by Wondermom
being on twitter has helped increase my traffic, its helped me find blog hops and giveaway link ups. There are some blog directory sites out there, bloggymoms is one of them I use.
Being on social networking sites help a lot. Twitter helps me, and Facebook can be okay too. I find Twitter better for getting readers though. There are a ton of mommy-blogger type directories and link directories too.
04/28/2011