Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Blog Design For All


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Exactly one year ago this week we began blogging with little direction and even less technical knowledge of this series of tubes known as 'the Internet'. We were so daft, in fact, that we understood a widget only as a unit of production and javascript only as the typeface on a bag of coffee. After 52 weeks and much googling, though, we've accumulated quite a bag of programming and design tricks, and we've recently begun to wonder if perhaps our readers wouldn't be interested in learning how to implement some of them on their own sites? From simple operations like removing the thin, branded Blogger banner from the top of your blog to more complex hacks like tracking outbound links to sites like your Twitter account and your sponsors' websites, we can help pull back the proverbial curtain standing between you and all those zexy blogs you've been swooning over.

SO, leave us a note about what trick(s) you'd like revealed, and, assuming there's enough interest (and we're fluent), we'll start spilling the beans in a weekly tutorial geared explicitly toward you, Gentle Reader of the Huzzah! logbook.

9 comments:

Wildfell Hall Vintage said...

yes! all of the above, removing banners, making pics sit together in lovely groups...oooh anything!

osovictoria said...

Are you kidding me, you can tell all? I would love to know more about widgets and javascript and linking, when do we get started? Thanks so much!

Karen/Small Earth Vintage said...

WTF? I started blogging a year ago, too, and I don't know any of this stuff. Tell all, baby!

And happy blogiversary to you!

Jessica / Lola Vintage said...

I'm with Karen, TELL ALL! I'm lookin' out for that first how to post!

alexkeller said...

i'm all ears!!!!

Mother Midnight Vintage said...

what i want to know is how you took a photo with both your hands on the keyboard?
oh, also, how to get the little "share" button under the posts. yes, i know this is a blatant lmgtfy issue but i'm feeling lazy.

Huzzah! Vintage said...

MM: I guess you don't yet have that iPhone app that lets you take hands-free photos with your eyes?

Mother Midnight Vintage said...

damn. i really need to get that.
first order of business: get a cell phone.

Mother Midnight Vintage said...

also, do you have any idea how to get an image to link to the specific item in your shop?
thank you and i'll take my answer off the air...