An important part of blogging is the interaction, not only with your own readers, but with other bloggers. There are two tactics to creating the interaction with other bloggers..
The first, includes visiting their blog and leaving a comment. Not a “nice blog” comment but something that actually adds value, an observation or well thought out comment means more to both them and other readers.
The second, is create a blog post on your own blog that talks about, reflects, adds a different spin or expands on what they have said. WordPress will automatically ping that blogger that someone has created a “trackback” to their blog and is talking about them and they will most likely come visit your site to see what is being said.
If you are a blog reader, you may see those nice colored or fun blocks of text that are built into a blog post that make it easy to separate out quotes from other sites and sources. These are referred to as “blockquotes” and can easily be added to your blog post automatically, with no coding required from you by clicking one button on your dashboard- are you interested in a dressing up your blog?
First, while in your dashboard and crafting your blog post visit the html tab. You will see a button that shows “b-quote” go ahead and click that.
This is what happens you will get a small snippet of code automatically created for you, then you type the quote you want and click it again for the ending
Simple right?
What if you want to dress it up a little? You can easily style your blockquote fonts, style, size, borders, background colors with a little css coding in your style sheet. Here are some resources to check out that will show you just how to do this- all you need to do is copy their code and paste it into your own site and make any changes to the fonts, sizes, color you want.
Mon, Nov 10, 2008
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