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Make Or Break On Live Writer

Finally, after so many drafts on my wordpress blogs, I realized it is about time to use Live Writer.

All Blogger users will agree that the Create Post area is not spacious at all and it’s really hard specially if you are writing a long review such as accutane reviews. It’s a bit hard to picture/ imagine what your post will look after you publish it not unless of course if you keep looking at the preview, which can be very time consuming. That is what I like most about WordPress, you have an option to toggle the draft page into full screen. In blogger, the only way you can do that is when you set your dashboard into Blogger Draft and it’s even in full screen.

They say that when using Live Writer, you can post in you blogs even without signing to each of them. Now that is good for someone like me who maintains a lot of blogs. And I can do my entries without peaking much on my browsers, which always led to spending more time in Facebook than doing my post.

So this is my first post, later I will try it with my WordPress blog Smile

The Space Saver Computer

How many computers we own? We have two but three are being used in the house. We have a desktop (which is now gathering dust) and my small laptop. The other one is not ours but a unit my husband uses, issued by the company he is working for. I love my laptop because I can bring it anywhere. I can do my work at the dinning table and when the kids want to sleep in the bedroom, I can just ask my helper to bring it up. I cannot deny the fact though that I misses the power the desktop brings. Big screen, big memory, core duo, and as my husband puts it, having multiple tabs and still in good fast working condition. Maybe an all in one computer like www.dell.co.uk/all-in-one will give me the satisfaction I am looking for. So aside from it having the power of a real desktop, it can save a lot of space here in the house. You can just imagine how clutter we are right now. We are using two tables. One for the desktop and of course one for me (yes aside from the dinning table that I always use). The other one, I use when I am writing. With this all in one computer we can ditch the other table and who knows we can now have a space for a Christmas Tree. Further information can be found here about the All-in-One desktop. I’m sure you are curious as I am. And if you want to see how it functions, you can watch the youtube Video and see for yourself. Just so yuo know, aside from this saving you a lot of space, this also has an optional multi-touch display technology. And yes, through an HDMI port, you can play here Final Fantasy games (my ids can’t stop playing this).

Creating Links While Commenting

This is just being OC and all… if offended.. please hit the x button..I just noticed that a lot of you are not aware that you can build back links while you comment here on on any other blog. How is that possible? Well by leaving a link on your comment. The next time you tell me, you have a new post that is interesting or you want me to check out your entry in our favorite memes, you can try it by leaving here a text (clickable) that is linked to your post. I noticed that most just leave a plain text with the http.. etc..

It’s not doing you any good.. this is an example OK..If a new blogger chanced upon an awesome site and commented saying:
Hey this site is so cool, you might want to check out my post about this subject matter too:
http://socool.blogspot.com/2009/07/check-out-my-site.html

What will the blog owner do? Most likely than not, he would ignore it.. why? who would wanna copy the http, open a tab and paste it? that’s a lot of work eh? What if another blogger chanced upon the awesome site and saw the comment of the socool blogger? Would he have the patience to copy and paste it in another tab? I guess not?

But of course here in my blog, however long your http codes, I am more than willing to open a new tab/s and copy paste your link… but you can make our world a lot simpler and yours a lot better and more back links..

How to? Put an anchor text instead of a plain text…

The anchor text, link label or link title is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink.(source)

(Hypertext REFerence) The HTML code used to create a link to another page. The HREF is an attribute of the anchor tag, which is also used to identify sections within a document. The HREF contains two components: the URL, which is the actual link, and the clickable text that appears on the page, called the “anchor text.”(source)

How to make one? You have to make a code that starts with href… etc.. ugh! Honestly, even if I am using it for more than 6 months now, I still can’t remember how to make an anchor text, but we can always cheat right?Here’s what I did.. I open my create new post tab, typed in a word, usually the title of my blog, Make or Break.. create a link by clicking the cutey green round on my post dashboard, and typed in the blog address of my blog.. then I clicked on the edit html and copy it in a notepad or somewhere else… It looks like this:

Make or Break

Whenever you want to brag about your post, you just change the url and put the url of your post.. so if I want to comment on you and tell you about my take on Siblings Rivalry.. here it is on its bare html code:

How to Handle Siblings Rivalry
clickable text: How to Handle Siblings Rivalry

So for the sake of comparison, tell me which one is less of a hassle to click?

Blogger1: Do you know how you can handle siblings rivalry? check this out:
http://pehpot.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-handle-siblings-rivalry.html

Blogger2: Do you know how you can handle siblings rivalry?