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Facebook Photo Zoom

‘Facebook Photo Zoom’ Browser Extension (Chrome & Safari)

Viewing images in Facebook is a bit of a faff…  I know it’s only a few seconds, but having to click into an image to view it in what you hope will be a big enough size to be able to see any detail is particularly frustrating when you find the original size wasn’t worth [...]

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Typepad, Guest Authors & Keywords

An email from a client who uses Typepad asks, “One of my guest authors is saying that there is no box on her post for keywords… ” This video explains how to fix the issue…

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Video Tutorial: Inserting Images into Typepad Margins using a Typelist (Notes type)

Video Tutorial: Inserting Images into Typepad Margins using a Typelist (Notes type)

Following on from my last video tutorial about how to split your post up in the new Typepad compose editor so you get the "Continue reading…" link on the front page of your blog, Bebe Jacobs of BeginAfresh.com has asked me to show her how to insert images into the side margins. Here are 3 [...]

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Video Tutorial: Breaking Up Your Posts with Typepad ‘New Generation’ Compose Editor

Video Tutorial: Breaking Up Your Posts with Typepad ‘New Generation’ Compose Editor

Was doing a Typepad Coaching Call earlier today with client Bebe Jacobs of BeginAfresh.com. Something which came up which we didn’t have time to go through on the call, was how to ‘split up a post’ so you end up with just 2 (say) paras on the front page of your blog, followed by a [...]

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Drop-down Archive Menu – how to put one on your Typepad blog

Drop-down Archive Menu – how to put one on your Typepad blog

Oh to be able to peek inside someone else’s Typepad account and see all their lovely code!  Yeah – I know – that sounds indecently nerdy doesn’t it? But I’m sure you’ve been there – or somewhere close at least. You know how it goes… you visit a blog, you see something on it that [...]

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A thumbs up to StumbleUpon

A thumbs up to StumbleUpon

I keep on reminding Claire that she should get into Stumbleupon as another extension of her social media networking strategy… and she keeps on telling me that she will once I explain to her how it all works.  There’s nothing like a challenge to get my creative juices flowing, so I decided to combine an [...]

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Inserting Google AdSense into Typepad Blog Posts – Video Tutorial

Had an email from a client this morning asking about inserting Google AdSense into blog posts – as opposed to ‘in the margins’ as a Typelist.  I’ve been meaning to start doing this myself so thought I’d knock up a quick ‘how to’ video on the topic. As you will see when you watch, my first [...]

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PopShops.com – New Typepad Affiliate Widget

Gosh – I’m always doing this… starting a post and forgetting about it.  Wrote this a couple of weeks ago! Came across a new Typepad Widget today. PopShops.com is described as an Affiliate Shop Builder. Here’s the blurb on this affiliate program ‘aggregator’ from Typepad’s Widget Gallery, "Imagine being able to add virtually any product [...]

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Video Tutorial for Business Bloggers #1 – How to Resize Images Without Special Software

Video Tutorial for Business Bloggers #1 – How to Resize Images Without Special Software

One of my very recent projects, is the wonderful Thinking Blossoms blog for Judy Barber around her passion for photographing flowers. Cleverly, she is using it to promote her business by posting beautiful shots around which she can tell a coaching story. Anyway… Crucial to her blog model is the ability to take photos from [...]

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