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This weekly blogger tip is complements of Shutterfly:   tips about how to take great photos, of various types, no matter what sort of camera you use. Why? Why take your own pictures, when there are so many free-photo-search tools out there? Well, if you want your blog to be copyright-legal , then you need to either find free-use photos, or make your own. Creating your own post-photos is especially useful to prove that your local blog really is local (like thumbnail image . How? Great tips from the pros, here: http://www.shutterfly.com/how-to-take-the-perfect-photo/ The best bit is that this isn't just a glossy, or a snobby "fancy-cameras-only" guide.    There are tips for every combination of  camera type: DSLR Smartphone Point and shoot and photo type: Portraits Selfie Bokeh Macro Action shots Close up Wide angle Food Candid By the water Landscape Panorama PS Shutterfly said "Please share this interactive on your si...

This article is about how to add a badge that someone else gives you to a blog made with Blogger. Sometimes, blog-owners run a blog-a-thon or a similar circle-of-blogs event. One aspect of taking part is by showing a badge for the event on your own blog , so that your visitors are invited to take part and to view other participants' blogs too. Usually who-ever is hosting the event gives you the code for the badge, and tells you to install it into your own blog.   Sometimes they even tell you how to install it to your Wordpress blog - like this . Fortunately, installing a badge to a blog made with Blogger is equally easy. Installing a badge to Blogger Decide where you want to put the badge.   Traditionally badges go into the sidebar, but you could choose to put it into the header or footer, into the space above or below your posts, or even into an individual post. Get the">How to make a Button for your Own Blog .   But 99.99% of the time, they ...

This article introduces the Free High Quality Picture Search tool which has been added to this website . Today I've added a new feature to . The Free High Quality Image Search tool is available from the sajian bar. It is a tool to help you locate free, high-quality pictures to use in your blog posts or other website projects. It is based on a Google-custom-search engine , and a carefully selected set of websites that offer images you can use for free on your blog, even if it is "commercial" (ie you have advertising or any other way of making money from it). The difference between this and the images that you can get from a general-purpose search using the Creative Commons image and multi-media search tool is the resolution of the images that are found and/or their photographic quality. How to use the Free-image-search tool Choose it from the sajian kafe on this blog, or navigate directly to it at   http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/p/free-...

This article explains how to copy and paste a website address (URL) when you are using the Chrome browser on an Android smartphone. Copy and paste on an Android phone When you are using an Android cellphone, the usual way to copy-and-paste text is to "long-click" on one word, and after it is selected, drag the selector-bars at either end to select more of the text. After this, you have options on a list at the very top of the screen to cut, copy and page. But this doesn't work on the Chrome browser's address-bar, ie the place where you type in website addresses, or see the address which your currently viewed pages has. Here, there is no long-click, and you have to use a slightly different approach. How to copy a web-address on a Smartphone using Google Android and Chrome 1 Inside Chrome, go to the website and page that you want to copy the address from. 2 From the top right handcorner, choose the Overflow sajian button: this is three vertic...

This article shows how to add a button that takes a user straight to Google Contacts to your blog or website.   It also distributes a picture that you can use in other places (eg your PC desktop) to make your own Google Contacts icon. Most people have a button on their computer or smartphone, which they use to start their email.  For some, this goes straight to their Gmail account in a web-browser, while others use an system like Thunderbird or Outlook to look at their email messages in a Gmail account and/or in email accounts they have with other services. If you use Gmail as your email system, then Google also gives you an address book, which they call Contacts. This is not the same as the address book in Thunderbird or Outlook etc, which is saved on your local computer.   Instead, the Google address book is saved on the internet, in your Google account. Google Contacts is tightly linked to your Gmail account, and the way that most people access it is...

This article shows how to use "marker text" to help find things when you need to edit the HTML code behind one of your blog posts. When you edit a post in Blogger, to start with you generally use the Compose mode, which shows you the formatted view of how your work will look. But behind that formatted view, every post is actually written in HTM L, ie Hyper-text Markup Language - a type of computer language that uses tags like <h2> or <a href="www.foo.com">  to say how to display the contents. A number of articles, here and in other blogger-helper blogs  tell you how to do thing by changing the HTML for the post. But if you are not used to working with HTML, it can be confusing tryign to fix the part that you need to change. Marker-text is a technique that you can use to "mark" persoalan areas while you are still in Compose mode, so that you can easily find them again when you are in Edit HTML mode. How to use marker-text to fi...

This article is about how to change internal cross-reference links in your blog, if you change your blog's URL or web-address. Blog Name vs Blog Address Your blog has two "names". The blog title  is what you type into the Title field when you create a new blog.   It is displayed in your header (unless you've replaced it with a picture), and in the title-bar of the browser window when someone reads your blog.  It does not need to be unique:  you can make a blog with the same name that anyone else has already used. The  web-address,  also called the  URL or just address is quite different. You select in the Address field when you create a new blog - but it's not just a matter of typing in what you want.   Web-addresses must be unique, so as you type in a possible URL Blogger says "checking availability" - and if someone else already has what you have entered, it says Sorry, this blog address is not available. and you have to kee...