Hi, My name is Simon Rodrigues. I own my own IT consultancy and web developement company called tecHome, and I′m also a part time blogger and internet junky, you can find me on pretty much any social network site, such as twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, and digg. If you have any awesome ideas for anything internet related, let me know cause I′m always looking for inspiration.
Hi guys, here’s the second part of my blogger template tutorial. In the first tutorial I showed you how to resize your template, and in this one I’m basically going to show you how you can add a header image, and also how you can get rid of some of the unnecessary borders.
Cool, hope you guys liked it, and don’t forget to give me some feedback, even if the tutorial wasn’t helpful to you, I’d still like to know what you think of my style, and what I can improve for future videos.
This is my first video tutorial, and it’s the first in a series of tutorials where I will go through making your generic blogger template look kickass. Let me start off by saying that you should switch over to wordpress, but this tutorial is for all of you that are starting out, or maybe you just love blogger, who am I to judge.
Anyway, here it is:
I hope you enjoyed it. This was my first ever video, so please critique it. And if you have any ideas for tutorials, or any computer related questions, let me know.
I know I’ll be using this tool. I just realized that I should probably check how my blog looks in explorer, and as always, they never fail to disappoint (partly cause I only checked it on IE6, it looks ok on IE7). If you’re using firefox, please stay that way, and if you aren’t maybe now is a good time to start.
Anyway, my new blog theme looks very ugly, indeed, in explorer and I’m going to have to do some major repair work. Thankfully, I stumbled (literally) upon this nifty tool called browsershots. Basically, with this tool you can take screen shots of what your site will look like in different browsers, that should save me some time having to always load it up in explorer (the less I see of that browser the better). It’s amazing how pretty much every browser understands whats going on except explorer, you’d think that with all the money that users throw at Microsoft, that something would come right, anyway, enough ranting.
Most of us have heard of failing forward, or falling upward. Both those terms basically mean leveraging your mistakes and using them as a springboard for greater success. But here’s an interesting one, ‘quiting for success’.
I first heard about this concept from Dawud Miracle over at dmiracle.com, and it’s actually something that most of us know subconsciously but we sometimes find it hard to implement. For a lot of people, the thing that holds them back from any sort significant success, is all the insignificant projects that they hold on to. Typically 80% of what we do only contributes toward 20% of our success, so by quitting some of those projects that fall in the 80% category, we can actually focus more on the 20% that giving us the results. Simple really, but quite powerful.
It’s so politically incorrect, but have you considered quitting? It might just make you more profitable
Block Posters is a very very cool tool. Some people might think its a bit useless, but I have a friend that would have been very pleased to find out about it a few days ago.
Basically you can upload a photo, then you slice it up in as many parts as you want, then you download the slices in A4 size, after that you can do what you like. That would be useful if you wanted to take a photo and make a large poster out of it.
One of the coolest things about this little tool is that there is absolutely nothing else to it, you don’t have to register an account or anything like that, everything is pretty painless and straightforward.
Ok, I know I just updated my blog theme a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t quite happy with it. The theme I had before was pretty cool… if I was only reviewing awesome computer games, sounds like fun but thats not what I do.
I think this theme suits me and this blog a lot more.
If you are reading this, that means that the firefox add-on, ‘ScribeFire’, works. This is an absolutely awesome extension. With ScribeFire you can write posts to your blog directly from anywhere in your browser.
To get going with ScribeFire you firstly need to download it from the firefox website, once its installed you will get a very small link on the bottom of you firefox browser that opens the post editor. You have to configure your scribefire with your blog which is quite easily done by using the wizard on the right panel. After that you’re all ready to go.
I know I’ll be using this tool. I just realized that I should probably check how my blog looks in explorer, and as always, they never fail to disappoint (partly cause I only checked it on IE6, it looks ok on IE7). If you’re using firefox, please stay that way, and if you aren’t maybe now is a good time to start.
Most of us have heard of failing forward, or falling upward. Both those terms basically mean leveraging your mistakes and using them as a springboard for greater success. But here’s an interesting one, ‘quiting for success’.
Block Posters
Ok, I know I just updated my blog theme a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t quite happy with it. The theme I had before was pretty cool… if I was only reviewing awesome computer games, sounds like fun but thats not what I do.
