http://simsnotes.com The ramblings of a messy geek Thu, 15 May 2008 21:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a new social kid on the block. SocialSpark is still in it's beta stage, but I'm already noticing a fair amount of activity. Social Spark is kind of similar to PayPerPost, except that it has a much more social feel. Social Spark makes it very easy to connect ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/05/give-your-social-networking-a-spark.html Ok so I've been blogging for about a year now, and while I haven't been as successful (or as faithful) as I would have liked to be, I do believe that I've learned a thing or 2 about blogging, and I've certainly identified some thing that I would do differently. If ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/05/starting-a-blog-what-i-would-do-differently.html In my quest to create a perfect environment for my blogging activities, I decided to look for a text editor that allows me to write posts away from my browser and save them onto my PC's hard drive.  I believe the correct term is 'desktop blogging client', or something in ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/05/windows-live-writer.html Hi guys, in the last video I mentioned a bit about paddings and margins in css, but I fear that I may have left things a little more confusing. So I made this video where I explain paddings and margins in a bit more detail. Hope it helps. Enjoy Simon http://simsnotes.com/2008/05/explaining-paddings-and-margins.html 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 ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/make-you-blogger-blog-kickass-header.html 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 ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/make-you-blogger-blog-kickass-resizing.html 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 ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/test-your-web-design-in-different-browsers.html 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 ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/quitting-for-success.html I stumbled across this page of 'Calvin and Hobbes' today, and I just had to share it.  Calvin and Hobbes are hilarious. You can check out the rest of them here. Simon If you like this post consider subscribing to my full RSS feed. http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/calvin-and-hobbes-snow-art-gallery.html 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 ... http://simsnotes.com/2008/04/block-posters-very-cool-tool.html