Blogging Tips

Do you need a logo for your blog? The answer is yes. It’s little things that make big differences between you and other bloggers.

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WordPress magazine style themes have been all the rage lately, and everyone seems to want some aspect of their WordPress blog to have a magazine-y look and feel.

So if you have been around blogosphere recently, you must have seen those cool image thumbnails with short excerpts displayed on many blog home pages.

Today I went around searching for the easiest post thumbnail method, and was surprised to see how unnecessarily complicated some of the code junkies make something as simple as adding image thumbnails to posts.

So I hunt around a bit more and came up with an easy as pie way to add pretty little thumbnails to a WordPress 2.5 powered blog.

What you need to know: You need to know how to copy and paste.

What you don’t need to know: You don’t need to know how to open Photoshop.

So let’s get started.

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Audience, audience, audience. Everyone who has something to say wants audience. So few ears and so many voices. It looks almost impossible to find people who can give you what you desire most: their attention.

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Ever wondered why the best ideas occur to you in the shower? Or while eating, or driving?

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A few days ago I reached the del.icio.us front page for the second time, and the results have exceeded my expectations.

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Boy - that sounds sweet to the ears. 17 K visitors in two days!

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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Matthew Arnold

I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader. Robin McKinley

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. William Gibson

If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster. Gustav Mahler

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. Pat Schneider

If you don’t know it, don’t write it. Darrell Schweitzer

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. C. J. Cherryh

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn’t, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. Stephen King

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. Ursula K. LeGuin

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught. Erno Paasilinna

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. Kingsley Amis

Your favorite quotes from top writers?