Marvin Trilles

With the market for mobile devices increase, the need to access and view information on the web on formats that suit mobile devices is a must. I remember Wordpress already supported this format  a year back and I ended up saying to myself, I wish Blogger would do the same.  It turned out that I was not just looking enough, this feature existed way back December 17, 2010 .  I was playing around in my Ubuntu box and logged in to my blogger account when a pop up box asked me if I want to turn on mobile templates, that made blogger cooler than yesterday.

Bloggers often look for the best way to keep their blogs up to date in whatever way they can think of. With iPhone, iPod and iPads coming to view, I would expect that developers would jump into the wagon of building blogging apps for bloggers. I am not really a paid app fanatic, I settle for free apps that satisfies what I need. So I ended up searching iTunes for free apps that could enable blogging on my portable device. The result were not encouraging. No need to shortlist a very short list of results. First on the list is the BlogWriter Lite . Its a simple app and very light at 1.3MB size. The installation is almost as fast as other light apps we have in the iTunes cloud.  Setting up your account is a breeze. Username and password is required and there are 4 available blog type to choose from : Blogger.com , Wordpress.com , Self-host WordPress Blog, and Others. after choosing the blog type, user needs to provide the blog URL and the port number to be used. Once set, you a...

Blogging has been different since my last post. Before, I had an article about writing blog in ms word 2007, today I'm trying out blogging using blogwrite for iPhone/iPod touch. Hence, this rather short blog to start with. A more comprehensive review will follow (?).

Growing tired of the big E as your blogs icon ? Heres the simple way of doing the make over . 1. Choose or create the icon that you want . You can use any graphic program for this . 2. Visit this site to convert your created/chosen picture file into a format that is suitable for shortcut icons. The site will provide you files that is in ZIP format and to be downloaded in your machine . 3. For bloggers who uses BLOGGER as its site , upload the provided PNG file to you favorite image hosting site. For those who have control to their website , upload the provided favicon.ico into your root directory. 4. Edit you page by adding the following tag inside your HEAD. For BLOGGERS link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http:[whatever your image hosting site is]/favico.png" For site owners link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="favicon.ico"

A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag. For bloggers like me who did not really built the site from scratch , we have to stick with the basic features that blogger offers . Yes , the tag cloud is not supported . With a little searching , I came across a site that explains how to hack blogger and create a tag cloud . Just look at my blog for the output tag cloud . Start Creating a Tag Cloud.

I found this simple CSS code from a cool website that hides your Blogger Navigational Bar in your blog ( did you notice I dont have it on my blog ?) . Just edit the HTML code of your template and paste the following code on the CSS portion . #navbar #Navbar1 iframe{ display:none; visibility:none; }

I am just a blogger with no funds to invest on domain names and hosting services . Yes , I have to be contented with freebies . No cost , lesser maintenance but lower flexibility . I've been in blogger since 2005 , pity me , I have to deal with monotonous templates just to get along . With some CSS revisions , I managed to do some tweaking with my site . Until recently , because of the bloging craze that has been selling like hot cakes in the office , I wanted to go up further . Theres no harm in trying to make your site easier to navigate , less lengthy on the sidebars and yes , more room for advertisements be it for adsense or for adbrite . I really envy those who created their own blogs from scratch (e.g. Chris , Rod , Ryan ), they have all the flexibility at hand . So I began looking for the most intuitive layout that i could find . Unlike before , my eye for three column blogs have changed , i started liking it . So i begun looking for ways to make my layout use 3 columns ....

it's been a while since I last posted a blog . it's been a busy week trying to finish some task to be free come Christmas . one nice thing I learned is that word 2007 supports blogging. two years ago I used a similar pluggin called word for bloggers and it was a great help, now it's integrated to word. that's good news to all you bloggers out there. creating blogs could be easier with all the features that word 2007 has to offer. i mean spelling correction , grammar stuffs and others you would like blog editors must have. so here I am posting the easy steps on how to set up blogging with word 2007. On the main office 2007 ribbon button select NEW. A wizard will appear , then select BLOG. Set up your blog account (in my case I set up BLOGGER). If you have several blogs in the set up, select the right one in the editing window. Start creating you blog. Hit the PUBLISH button.