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Decide how you would prefer to host your political blog. If you already have web server space of your own, you may simply be able to turn on a blogging plug in on your server admin panel. Most people, however, opt to use a hosted blog from a dedicated blogging site.
Choose the blogging software you want to use. Depending upon the hosting situation you prefer, this choice may have already been made for you. WordPress and MovableType are two of the most common choices if you are hosting your own blog, and are also an option if you prefer to host with them. Blogger, LiveJournal and Xanga are all options that include hosting as a part of a blog package, but cannot be used on your own web space. Take the time to compare features between the different packages. Look for easy photo uploading, convenient access and remote blog posting abilities.
Set up your blog. Proprietary blog services, including Blogger and TypePad, make this very easy. It takes only a few minutes to establish an account and set up your web address. If you are hosting your own blog, you will find that software installation is generally quite simple, particularly if your host offers one click blog software access.
Choose a template from the choices available with your blog software. You can also design your own blog template, depending upon the options available with your software and host. Paid blog services or hosting your own will allow you the most design freedom for your political blog.
Fill out personal profile or about me information. Keep personal confidentiality in mind, particularly if your political blog could put you at risk at work or elsewhere. If you are not using your real name, choose a pseudonym that fits with your political blogging.
Begin blogging. An interesting blog requires more than just writing. Include images, photos and interesting links to keep your political blog entertaining and informative to your readers. You may wish to consider advertising programs to bring in additional income from your new blog.
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Monday, 29 February 2016
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Cheap Food Ideas for a Baby ShowerIn Feburary 2016 25,
In Feburary 2016 25,
Instead of the new mommy slaving over the stove for her own baby shower, ask guests to bring a dish. Include a short note on the invitation requesting each guest to bring a signature dish or dessert to the party. You can incorporate an 'around the world' theme by making sure each guest brings food native to her ethnicity. If you rather not require guests make the food for your shower, you can enlist the help of a specific guest or two that knows her way around the kitchen. Ask if she will prepare the food for your shower as her gift.
BBQ
If your baby shower takes place in the spring or summer you can celebrate with an old fashioned cookout. Not only will you save on the cost of food but also on venue as you can host the soiree in your own backyard or local park. Invite your baby's father to cook for the ladies so you don't have to and so he can still be a part of the festivities. Serve traditional barbecue food like hamburgers, macaroni salad and grilled vegetables. Put extra care into the condiments for a touch of class. Serve cranberry mayonnaise instead of the regular jar or a variety of unique sauce flavors served in attractive dishes.
Afternoon Tea
If you negotiate the time of day you hold your party you can save plenty of money on food. Instead of hosting your baby shower at breakfast of lunch time, set the time for after lunch but before dinner. Between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. most people usually just snack as breakfast and lunch have passed and dinner is on the way. A shower at this time means you only need to serve light snacks and hors d'oeuvres rather than a full meal. Serve items such as fresh fruit and vegetables, finger sandwiches, bruschetta and cocktail wieners. Create an afternoon tea setting and invest in a few unique tea blends for your guests to try like chai, green and wild flower.
Soup and Salad Bar
If your baby shower falls during the autumn or winter months, serve food to warm your guests' taste buds. Serve a light lunch to your guests with a soup and salad bar. Choose from a wide variety of soup flavors to satisfy everyone's tastes. Include beef, chicken and vegetable based soups. You can either purchase the soups or make your own for an even cheaper bill. You can also make various types of salad rather than the traditional leafy greens. Include potato salad, taco salad, Cobb salad and coleslaw for variety while still keeping the costs low.
In Feburary 2016 25,
Instead of the new mommy slaving over the stove for her own baby shower, ask guests to bring a dish. Include a short note on the invitation requesting each guest to bring a signature dish or dessert to the party. You can incorporate an 'around the world' theme by making sure each guest brings food native to her ethnicity. If you rather not require guests make the food for your shower, you can enlist the help of a specific guest or two that knows her way around the kitchen. Ask if she will prepare the food for your shower as her gift.
BBQ
If your baby shower takes place in the spring or summer you can celebrate with an old fashioned cookout. Not only will you save on the cost of food but also on venue as you can host the soiree in your own backyard or local park. Invite your baby's father to cook for the ladies so you don't have to and so he can still be a part of the festivities. Serve traditional barbecue food like hamburgers, macaroni salad and grilled vegetables. Put extra care into the condiments for a touch of class. Serve cranberry mayonnaise instead of the regular jar or a variety of unique sauce flavors served in attractive dishes.
Afternoon Tea
If you negotiate the time of day you hold your party you can save plenty of money on food. Instead of hosting your baby shower at breakfast of lunch time, set the time for after lunch but before dinner. Between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. most people usually just snack as breakfast and lunch have passed and dinner is on the way. A shower at this time means you only need to serve light snacks and hors d'oeuvres rather than a full meal. Serve items such as fresh fruit and vegetables, finger sandwiches, bruschetta and cocktail wieners. Create an afternoon tea setting and invest in a few unique tea blends for your guests to try like chai, green and wild flower.
Soup and Salad Bar
If your baby shower falls during the autumn or winter months, serve food to warm your guests' taste buds. Serve a light lunch to your guests with a soup and salad bar. Choose from a wide variety of soup flavors to satisfy everyone's tastes. Include beef, chicken and vegetable based soups. You can either purchase the soups or make your own for an even cheaper bill. You can also make various types of salad rather than the traditional leafy greens. Include potato salad, taco salad, Cobb salad and coleslaw for variety while still keeping the costs low.
In Feburary 2016 25,
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Top User Friendly Web HostsIn Feburary 2016 24,
In Feburary 2016 24,
GoDaddy has been around since 1997, and it is now the largest registrar (400 million domain names) in the world. It also provides one of the most affordable ways to set up a website. It manages three times the names of its nearest competitor. Its success is largely due to the fun and friendly customer relations. GoDaddy will deal with you at your level of expertise and are patient about helping customers set up new accounts. Customers are fiercely loyal. GoDaddy has been part of some interesting controversies such as refusing to cooperate with Chinese authorities about gathering information about GoDaddy customers. GoDaddy has been known to fine (or terminate) customers for spamming or other inappropriate behavior.
InMotion
InMotion is a more business-oriented hosting service. It is excellent if you want to rent a server of any size. It also provides affordable personal domains and excellent technical service and customer help. Some people like its more conservative, less controversial approach to hosting. Almost all billing is monthly, which is perfect for launching new experimental businesses. InMotion is also compatible with everything you will probably need: php, perl, python, mySQL.
FatCow
FatCow is on just about every top 10 list. It may not be the absolute best in some particular category, but it is usually second or third. FatCow is famous for advertising that its entire operation is powered by wind technology. It is generally regarded as a user friendly and socially conscious company and offers a lot of specials, tools, tutorials and contact methods--some people say too many. It also features excellent help for setting up your first website.
In Feburary 2016 24,
GoDaddy has been around since 1997, and it is now the largest registrar (400 million domain names) in the world. It also provides one of the most affordable ways to set up a website. It manages three times the names of its nearest competitor. Its success is largely due to the fun and friendly customer relations. GoDaddy will deal with you at your level of expertise and are patient about helping customers set up new accounts. Customers are fiercely loyal. GoDaddy has been part of some interesting controversies such as refusing to cooperate with Chinese authorities about gathering information about GoDaddy customers. GoDaddy has been known to fine (or terminate) customers for spamming or other inappropriate behavior.
InMotion
InMotion is a more business-oriented hosting service. It is excellent if you want to rent a server of any size. It also provides affordable personal domains and excellent technical service and customer help. Some people like its more conservative, less controversial approach to hosting. Almost all billing is monthly, which is perfect for launching new experimental businesses. InMotion is also compatible with everything you will probably need: php, perl, python, mySQL.
FatCow
FatCow is on just about every top 10 list. It may not be the absolute best in some particular category, but it is usually second or third. FatCow is famous for advertising that its entire operation is powered by wind technology. It is generally regarded as a user friendly and socially conscious company and offers a lot of specials, tools, tutorials and contact methods--some people say too many. It also features excellent help for setting up your first website.
In Feburary 2016 24,
Thursday, 18 February 2016
How to Detect Connection Speed With JavaScriptIn Feburary 2016 18,
In Feburary 2016 18,
Open your web page to which you want to add the connection speed detection JavaScript in your text editor.
Add starting and ending script tags in the header area of the web page (after the starting
tag but before the ending
tag), for example:
Add the following code between the starting and ending script tags, replacing \'myimage.jpg\' with the file name of the image you want to use for the speed test. The \'?n=\' + Math.random() part of the address that is built and assigned to imageAddr tricks the web browser into fetching the image every time instead of using a locally cached version. Use an image with a file size of approximately 200 kilobytes.var imageAddr = \'myimage.jpg\' + \'?n=\' + Math.random() ;
Add the following code on the next line of the script to create the variables to store the test's start time, end time and download size. Set \'downloadSize\' to the size of the image file in bytes.var startTime, endTime
GO
var downloadSize = 200000 ;
Add the following code to set up the image that will be downloaded for the test. \'download\' is set up as an Image object. The action to capture the end of the download is assigned to activate when the image download completes. var download = new Image() ;
download.onload = function() {
endTime = (new Date()).getTime() ;
showResults ()
GO
}
Add the following code that runs the speed test. The current time is captured into startTime. The image address being assigned to download.src starts the image download.startTime = (new Date()).getTime() ;
download.src = imageAddr ;
Add the following function to the script that calculates displays the speed test results. First, it calculates the duration, converting milliseconds to seconds. Next, it converts the download size to bits, calculates the download speed, and converts the speed to kbps and Mbps. Finally, it pops up a message box with the results.function showResults () {
var duration = Math.round((endTime - startTime) / 1000) ;
var bitsLoaded = downloadSize * 8
GO
var speedBps = Math.round(bitsLoaded / duration)
GO
var speedKbps = (speedBps / 1024).toFixed(2)
GO
var speedMbps = (speedKbps / 1024).toFixed(2)
GO
alert (\'Your connection speed is: \n\' +
speedBps + \" bps\\n\" +
speedKbps + \" kbps\\n\" +
speedMbps + \" Mbps\\n\")
GO
}
Open the page in your browser, and test it to make sure the script works correctly. It may take a few seconds for the message box to pop up with the test results.
In Feburary 2016 18,
Open your web page to which you want to add the connection speed detection JavaScript in your text editor.
Add starting and ending script tags in the header area of the web page (after the starting
tag but before the ending
tag), for example:
Add the following code between the starting and ending script tags, replacing \'myimage.jpg\' with the file name of the image you want to use for the speed test. The \'?n=\' + Math.random() part of the address that is built and assigned to imageAddr tricks the web browser into fetching the image every time instead of using a locally cached version. Use an image with a file size of approximately 200 kilobytes.var imageAddr = \'myimage.jpg\' + \'?n=\' + Math.random() ;
Add the following code on the next line of the script to create the variables to store the test's start time, end time and download size. Set \'downloadSize\' to the size of the image file in bytes.var startTime, endTime
GO
var downloadSize = 200000 ;
Add the following code to set up the image that will be downloaded for the test. \'download\' is set up as an Image object. The action to capture the end of the download is assigned to activate when the image download completes. var download = new Image() ;
download.onload = function() {
endTime = (new Date()).getTime() ;
showResults ()
GO
}
Add the following code that runs the speed test. The current time is captured into startTime. The image address being assigned to download.src starts the image download.startTime = (new Date()).getTime() ;
download.src = imageAddr ;
Add the following function to the script that calculates displays the speed test results. First, it calculates the duration, converting milliseconds to seconds. Next, it converts the download size to bits, calculates the download speed, and converts the speed to kbps and Mbps. Finally, it pops up a message box with the results.function showResults () {
var duration = Math.round((endTime - startTime) / 1000) ;
var bitsLoaded = downloadSize * 8
GO
var speedBps = Math.round(bitsLoaded / duration)
GO
var speedKbps = (speedBps / 1024).toFixed(2)
GO
var speedMbps = (speedKbps / 1024).toFixed(2)
GO
alert (\'Your connection speed is: \n\' +
speedBps + \" bps\\n\" +
speedKbps + \" kbps\\n\" +
speedMbps + \" Mbps\\n\")
GO
}
Open the page in your browser, and test it to make sure the script works correctly. It may take a few seconds for the message box to pop up with the test results.
In Feburary 2016 18,
Saturday, 13 February 2016
How to Create a Website to Sell ThingsIn Feburary 2016 13,
In Feburary 2016 13,
Take some time a really think about your audience. Who are they and why do they want to buy your product(s). Make a list of their demographics and psychographics, and create a benefit hierarchy which will show the most important reasons they buy to the least important. Are there different segments that have slightly difference characteristics or may behave differently? How do each of these individuals get information - where do they go to learn about products like yours? Are there other outlets (competitors) for these products? If so, what is your compelling competitive differentiator (why should they buy from you)?
What Do You Want Your Market to Do?
Of course, we want the audience to buy, but the buying process may not be instantaneous. Make it easy for them to find the information they want. Engage their interests and bring them to the logical conclusion: a purchase. And don't forget that many may be accessing your site from a mobile device. Increasingly this is BIG part of e-commerce and you must maximize the customer experience for the mobile buyer.
Building the Site
Your site must have a way to display your goods and a way to process the transaction. You might want to consult or use a professional web designer. If you want to do it yourself, please think about using a service such as Shopify, which provides easy templates for website construction, secure hosting, a merchant account, and all the back-end processing. They charge a fee, but they take all the worries away.
Market the Site
Get the word out, consistently and with urgency. Your message should be where your audience goes for information, such as social media. Integrate the message about your e-commerce site with all your other marketing. Keep your site interesting and fresh with new content, such as a blog. You may not be able to exactly measure the contribution of this content, but it adds credibility, builds your brand and provides other ways that people may find your site. If someone buys, say thank you and repromote your products and competitive differentiation. If someone is interested, but doesn't buy right away, develop a program to nurture them, perhaps through email.
Metrics and Measurement
We want to do more of the things that work and less of the things that don't work, and the only things that can be improved are the things we measure. So there are a few metrics that we want to pay attention to. The number of visitors is a starting point. People can't buy unless they come to the site. How many came and how many interacted or went to multiple pages? How many didn't interact (bounced) and what's your opinion why? Next, how many registered (perhaps for a newsletter), entered the shopping cart and how many bought? The conversions from visitor to registrant, visitor to shopping cart and visitor to purchase are key to success, you want to make them go up.
In Feburary 2016 13,
Take some time a really think about your audience. Who are they and why do they want to buy your product(s). Make a list of their demographics and psychographics, and create a benefit hierarchy which will show the most important reasons they buy to the least important. Are there different segments that have slightly difference characteristics or may behave differently? How do each of these individuals get information - where do they go to learn about products like yours? Are there other outlets (competitors) for these products? If so, what is your compelling competitive differentiator (why should they buy from you)?
What Do You Want Your Market to Do?
Of course, we want the audience to buy, but the buying process may not be instantaneous. Make it easy for them to find the information they want. Engage their interests and bring them to the logical conclusion: a purchase. And don't forget that many may be accessing your site from a mobile device. Increasingly this is BIG part of e-commerce and you must maximize the customer experience for the mobile buyer.
Building the Site
Your site must have a way to display your goods and a way to process the transaction. You might want to consult or use a professional web designer. If you want to do it yourself, please think about using a service such as Shopify, which provides easy templates for website construction, secure hosting, a merchant account, and all the back-end processing. They charge a fee, but they take all the worries away.
Market the Site
Get the word out, consistently and with urgency. Your message should be where your audience goes for information, such as social media. Integrate the message about your e-commerce site with all your other marketing. Keep your site interesting and fresh with new content, such as a blog. You may not be able to exactly measure the contribution of this content, but it adds credibility, builds your brand and provides other ways that people may find your site. If someone buys, say thank you and repromote your products and competitive differentiation. If someone is interested, but doesn't buy right away, develop a program to nurture them, perhaps through email.
Metrics and Measurement
We want to do more of the things that work and less of the things that don't work, and the only things that can be improved are the things we measure. So there are a few metrics that we want to pay attention to. The number of visitors is a starting point. People can't buy unless they come to the site. How many came and how many interacted or went to multiple pages? How many didn't interact (bounced) and what's your opinion why? Next, how many registered (perhaps for a newsletter), entered the shopping cart and how many bought? The conversions from visitor to registrant, visitor to shopping cart and visitor to purchase are key to success, you want to make them go up.
In Feburary 2016 13,
Friday, 5 February 2016
How to Open an Online Radio StationIn Feburary 2016 05,
In Feburary 2016 05,
Choose an online radio hosting service to register or sign up. There are many choices, both free and at a cost. Consider features when choosing a provider. These will include the number of live listeners you can have at one time and whether copyrighted music fees are covered as a part of a subscription.
Download and install the software required by your service provider. For Ubroadcast, you must download 'Station Manager.' For Shoutcast, you need to download Winamp and the required plug-in. And with Live 365, 'Studio365' is required. The software comes with your registration or is free of charge.
Configure your software or online station account to your liking. For certain hosting services this will include naming your station, listing your station's musical genre or scheduling live shows, as in the case with Live 365's software.
Move songs to the software program you installed or, as with Live 365, upload your songs to your account through the software program.
Create a play list from the collection of songs you made available to your software program. Your play list should include enough music to cover the number of hours you would like your radio station to stream music.
Launch your play list or other programming to inaugurate your online radio station.
In Feburary 2016 05,
Choose an online radio hosting service to register or sign up. There are many choices, both free and at a cost. Consider features when choosing a provider. These will include the number of live listeners you can have at one time and whether copyrighted music fees are covered as a part of a subscription.
Download and install the software required by your service provider. For Ubroadcast, you must download 'Station Manager.' For Shoutcast, you need to download Winamp and the required plug-in. And with Live 365, 'Studio365' is required. The software comes with your registration or is free of charge.
Configure your software or online station account to your liking. For certain hosting services this will include naming your station, listing your station's musical genre or scheduling live shows, as in the case with Live 365's software.
Move songs to the software program you installed or, as with Live 365, upload your songs to your account through the software program.
Create a play list from the collection of songs you made available to your software program. Your play list should include enough music to cover the number of hours you would like your radio station to stream music.
Launch your play list or other programming to inaugurate your online radio station.
In Feburary 2016 05,
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