Web Cool Tips » Blogging http://www.webcooltips.com Online Tips, Tools and Inspiration Resources Guide Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:04:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Add Links on a Picture of Your Blog http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-add-links-on-a-picture-of-your-blog.html http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-add-links-on-a-picture-of-your-blog.html#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:49:06 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=4129 If you decided to add links and descriptions on any parts inside a picture of your blog, so that people can have a better view of what your picture is saying, then the solution finally arrived. Why is it so important to have those links on your picture? The point is that most visitor only [...]]]>

If you decided to add links and descriptions on any parts inside a picture of your blog, so that people can have a better view of what your picture is saying, then the solution finally arrived. Why is it so important to have those links on your picture? The point is that most visitor only see a normal picture of your blog by default, and your descriptions and links directly inside a picture making them to explore the highlighted details of your picture easily.

All you have to do is to install the Thinglink tagging tool to your site. Like Blogger, WordPress, Typad or Drupal; all can be used. Just create a free  account and login. Once the Thinglink publishing tool is activated, stay login and view your blog on another tab. Bring your mouse on the Thinglink icon to add the link and description to the points you want on your picture.

Now, people viewing your website, will see the links and descriptions on your picture. Also, when you want to see how many people have view, hover or click on your images, just log in to your Thinglink account and see your personal statistic there. It’s so easy. Have a try and happy tagging!

 

]]> http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-add-links-on-a-picture-of-your-blog.html/feed 0 Easily Create a Favicon For Your Website with Favicon Generator http://www.webcooltips.com/easily-create-a-favicon-for-your-website-with-favicon-generator.html http://www.webcooltips.com/easily-create-a-favicon-for-your-website-with-favicon-generator.html#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:21:59 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=3784 Favicon could be an important part of a website’s brand, it is the tiny image that appear next to the URL of a website in a visitor web browser. Creating a Favicon for your website is so easy nowadays. We have found a very useful favicon generator tool for you to create your own favicon. [...]]]>

Favicon could be an important part of a website’s brand, it is the tiny image that appear next to the URL of a website in a visitor web browser.

Creating a Favicon for your website is so easy nowadays. We have found a very useful favicon generator tool for you to create your own favicon.

Favicon Generator, Favigen is an easy-to-use online favicon site allowing you to quickly create a great Favicon. You just have to choose an image then upload your site logo, make sure the image you want to upload isn’t too large. After that, select how big you want your favicon size to be. Normally, most browsers will use the 16×16 pixel favicons, you can also use larger size favicons, but it will automatically fit to the space allotted for most browsers nowadays.

Once your Facicon is generated, you will need to add it to your website. Rename the file of your generated “.ico” file to “favicon.ico” Next, upload to your root folder, add the generated code between the <head> tags of your site. Or see how to create a favicon for your blog.

]]> http://www.webcooltips.com/easily-create-a-favicon-for-your-website-with-favicon-generator.html/feed 2 Check the Readability of a Website with Free Readability Test Tool http://www.webcooltips.com/check-the-readability-of-a-website-with-free-readability-test-tool.html http://www.webcooltips.com/check-the-readability-of-a-website-with-free-readability-test-tool.html#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:35:12 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=3184 A website that is able to attract a large number of visitors must be readable no matter how interesting the website content is. The meaning of readability here is not referring to the font size, but is rather the beauty of language and flow of words on the site. In order to determine the readability [...]]]>

A website that is able to attract a large number of visitors must be readable no matter how interesting the website content is. The meaning of readability here is not referring to the font size, but is rather the beauty of language and flow of words on the site. In order to determine the readability of a website, a service known as read-able.com can generate readability statistics for all, or part of any websites. It will compute the results for the web page you are referring to. Besides, you can also copy and paste any text into the service box directly and run the readability report. If any of the sites’ report scores are in the green area, your site is readable.

To improve the readability of your website, the only thing we would change is to have the service point out which parts of your website need to be changed. In short, this is practically a web service built for developer, marketer, copywriter, usability assessor or SEO expert users.

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Web users are more likely looking through the Internet to make decision for selecting a decent host for their site.

Normally, most hosting companies provide the service for data you may store on their servers in MB or GB, different bandwidths and quality of services. The major difference can also be Linux server versus Microsoft server.

So, if you come across a website feeling that it is a good host, you would like to figure out which hosting company that particular site is using. How do you determine it?

One of the way you can check is to use a site called HostLogr, it has over a million hosting reports in its database. It can easily help you to determine information instantaneously from almost any URL you key in, giving you a report stating a site’s host, a link to the host’s site, showing the site’s IP address and a give you map displaying the location of a site’s hosting server.

Another additional feature you can enjoy is, by subscribing its email or RSS service, you will be notified when a particular Web site changes its hosting provider. Give it a try!

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It is very important for webmasters to plan properly before they want to move or transfer their site to another domain. Right steps need to be followed so that your new site won’t be loosing some organic juices from major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, in other word- visitors.

A program manager, Chris Moore from Microsoft was working on Search Engine Optimisation(SEO) during the Microsoft Value Professionals (MVP) SEO clinics. He was asked about best practices when moving a website from one domain to another, or from one subfolder to another in the host directories. Some important things to consider includes sitemap, 301 redirects, updates, etc. Therefore, he has created this infographic to illustrate the process steps we need to follow when moving a website.

]]> http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-move-a-site-without-breaking-seo.html/feed 0 Interesting Facts about WordPress Blogging [Infographic] http://www.webcooltips.com/interesting-facts-about-wordpress-blogging-infographic.html http://www.webcooltips.com/interesting-facts-about-wordpress-blogging-infographic.html#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:46:42 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=2966 If you know how to blog, maybe you know what is WordPress. And, what’s WordPress actually? WordPress is a very popular open source Content Management Software (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL, currently it’s powering more than 8.5% of all websites on the net. In 2003, Matt Mullenweg [...]]]>

If you know how to blog, maybe you know what is WordPress. And, what’s WordPress actually?

WordPress is a very popular open source Content Management Software (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL, currently it’s powering more than 8.5% of all websites on the net.

In 2003, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress with 0.7 version. Years later, WordPress launched its versions with a lot of interface revolutions until 2010, version 3 came out. Nowadays, WordPress.com had passed 11 million users.

Don’t get confused with WordPress.com and WordPress.org. There are not the same. Just like BlogSpot (blogger.com), beginners can try out the free blogging service-WordPress.com that use the software named WordPress first.

Once you have get familiar with it, you can try to download WordPress from WordPress.org to install it at the host of your choice.

WordPress uses plugins, therefore users can use these free plugins to support their blogs. Thoundsands of plugins are available, and the most popular one is Hello Dolly and Akismet. The Akismer helps bloggers to catch spams automatically in the blog comments. Some others top downloaded plugins for bloggers are:

  • All In One SEO Pack
  • Google XML Sitemaps
  • Contact Form 7
  • Nextgen Gallery
  • WordPress.com Stats
  • WPTouch IPhone Theme
  • Google Analyticator

One more reason why many people love to use WordPress is because there are many free, elegant, and beautiful themes available either from WordPress directory or from the Internet.

The most popular themes are Arras Themes, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel. Easy customizable, setups, auto schedule backups, one button upgrades, and with security features for webmasters.

WordPress is also used by many top ranking websites like TechCrunch, BlackBerry, National Geographic, Forbes, etc.

What’s more? Have a look at the infographic designed by Joshua Strebel of Page.ly WordPress Hosting below.

]]> http://www.webcooltips.com/interesting-facts-about-wordpress-blogging-infographic.html/feed 1 Bring Thousands Visitors to Your Site with StumbleUpon http://www.webcooltips.com/bring-thousands-visitors-to-your-site-with-stumbleupon.html http://www.webcooltips.com/bring-thousands-visitors-to-your-site-with-stumbleupon.html#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:45:17 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=2918 You got a very nice website with interesting contents, but you found that not much people visited your website as many haven’t discovered it. Well, here is a very powerful traffics driver social bookmarking site where you can use it to discover either your own site or another websites to share with your friends, it [...]]]>

You got a very nice website with interesting contents, but you found that not much people visited your website as many haven’t discovered it. Well, here is a very powerful traffics driver social bookmarking site where you can use it to discover either your own site or another websites to share with your friends, it is StumbleUpon! As a result, it had became one of the important tool for publishers submit their blog content and stories to view and share by people around the world.

StumbleUpon is a popular social bookmarking site for users to discover and share the favorite site they like using the StumbleUpon toolbar. StumbleUpon toolbar can be installed easily in the Mozilla Firefox add-on.

The moment you share a site article through StumbleUpon, your all friends will get the link through their StumbleUpon toolbar when they do stumbling. This is how you can drive hundred to thousand visitors in one day if another stumblers repeatedly share your links to their friends, the processes will flow continuously, your site will also get alternative visitors through the stumbling button. Users can give reviews, thumb up or thumb down for the webpage you like.

Do you know that StumbleUpon is ranked number 1 in the US and many other countries based on traffic coming from a social media site(StumbleUpon) to external sites (blogs or websites).

Since 2009, StumbleUpon has had a 118% increase in active users. Now, StumbleUpon has over 10 million registered users globally.

Everything you need to know about StumbleUpon:

StumbleUpon’s
Facebook Page

How to use StumbleUpon?

Getting Mass Traffic from StumbleUpon: A Definitive Guide

Infographic below shows more details of Data Numbers Behind StumbleUpon’s Social Media Network via socialmedianews.

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Snap Bird is a very useful innovative search engine application that can help you to find older Tweets, any terms, keywords and phrases as mentioned by the user in Twitter community.

All you need to do is to key in the username of who you want to search for and what you want to search for.

Currently, SnapBird allows you to search for tweets further back than 10 days and also tweets within only your friends, within your Direct Messages and within any user’s favourites.

It is really an instant way to find information that can’t be easily retrieved in Twitter.

]]> http://www.webcooltips.com/search-engine-to-find-tweets-direct-messages-users-favourites-in-twitter-history.html/feed 0 How To Tweet with Special Characters and Symbols in Twitter http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-tweet-with-special-characters-and-symbols-in-twitter.html http://www.webcooltips.com/how-to-tweet-with-special-characters-and-symbols-in-twitter.html#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 03:22:34 +0000 JackSimz http://www.webcooltips.com/?p=2172 We have seen a lot of special symbols in Twitter’s tweet by some Twitter users since it’s launch. Not many of us actually know that we can extend Twitter’s 140 character tweet limitation by adding more content than just of the 140 characters. As a result, more and more creative text arts are coming out [...]]]>

We have seen a lot of special symbols in Twitter’s tweet by some Twitter users since it’s launch. Not many of us actually know that we can extend Twitter’s 140 character tweet limitation by adding more content than just of the 140 characters. As a result, more and more creative text arts are coming out due to special unusual symbols mixed with major usual text characters and numbers. You might be wondering where are those special symbols come from.

Here are some tips for those who want to find those special characters to include in their tweets by head over to these two website.

Twitter Symbols

TwitterKeys


Select(double click) and press Ctrl + C to copy any of your favorite special symbols. After that, go to your Twitter account, press the Ctrl + V to paste the special symbol and send tweets. Make sure you bookmark them. For Twitter Symbols, you could drag to your browser bookmarks toolbar while for TwitterKeys you could install in your browser.

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Twitter seems to be a popular social media choice for Internet users to promote their websites and blogs.

This is probably due to its simple user base and user friendly features. But of course, do you know who started with the first tweet?

The first tweet was done by Jack Dorsey and the tweet is still exist on Twitter, it is dated “just setting up my twttr” on March 21, 2006.

Jack Dorsey is the first man who came up the idea for Twitter. It is sometimes also known as “SMS of the Internet”. On March 2010, Twitter has gained a 1,500% growth in the number of registered users and still increasing.

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