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Choose a Blog Service or Software
Looking for FREE? Click here for our pick of the best free blog services, plus the low-down on problems you may face and some work arounds.
Is it worth paying for?
To answer this question, we heartily recommend that you take one or more of the 30 day free trials of high quality, low cost blog services. After using it for at least a solid two weeks, go sign up for free blog. You will have a good grounding in what you like and want by this time. If you feel at that point that the all-free service does what you need, cancel out of the free trial.
For us, it comes down to loving the pro layouts, style control, and active development of cutting edge features by a well-funded vendor who is serving our best interests instead of advertisers. Freedom to move, import and export gives us a good feeling too.
How to Post Articles to Your Blog Using Nothing But a Web Browser
1. Go to the web address for administering your blog, such as: http://blogware.com/admin/ and login.
2. Click "Post a New Article." Look at this screenshot to see how easy and familiar it is. I think you can do this:
Automatically Resize Digital Camera Photos
Megapixel cameras are great for quality, but megapixel photos need a lot of drudgerous resizing to look good for sharing over the internet. Blogware brand blog services resize all images automatically for you. Blogware also automatically makes thumbnail and full screen images from your photos. A sleek slideshow, thumbnail photo albums, space for captions and articles about each photo complete the package.
I don't email attached photos anymore - I just email the link to the pictures on my blog. This has solved a ton of problems on both ends. I can even email them the slideshow link directly.
I really appreciate how Blogware lets me assign each photo to more than one category, and being able to find a certain photo among thousands just by searching keywords like 2005 trampoline dog. I am wowed by the option of resizing all thumbnails or full screen sizes in an album with one command - at any moment I want to change the layout. (Do you know how much time this would have taken me in the old days? I have automation tools such as PhotoPhilia and Photoshop but still would have to redo web links upload and download the old way.)
Next... Promoting your blog and getting noticed in a big way
To continue your education in How to Blog, please sign up for your own blog. Your blog will be up instantly, ready for you to practice what you are learning here.
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