LittleXpert Daily Internet Tips

Todays Tip is about Blogging.

A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.  – Wikipedia

These days there are blogs everywhere for everything, there is no subject that is not blogged about.  Everyone seems to blog about everything

Here are some popular resaons or subjects people blog about:

• SEO
• Personal Life
• Articles – News
• Product Reviews

I will get into what SEO is in a later post, but here is a short definistion of what SEO is.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion. – Wikipedia

Many people like to blog about the latest news, and write article about their opinion about a certain category’s they enjoy like polictical, technology, etc.  Some even blog about websites they have visited, and found worth blogging about.

Product Reviews are one of the top reasons to blog. If you are creating a blog  for your e commerce store, this is a great way to gain buyers and visitors to your store sites.  You can blog about your products you sell and even get feedback/comments about those items. The more posts you have, the more people will find your site, and your products.

And the last top reason is your personal life.  Many people just love sharing their personal life on the internet, some of the biggest blogs on the interweb are people just talking about their personal life and what has happened to them.  And from what i have read and seen with these biggest bloggers is they make it big because they have had something traumatic happen in their life so people find ways to connect with them.

Here Are Some Popular Free Blogging Sites:

• WordPress
• Blogger – Blogspot

I will talk about each of these sites in a future post.

But those are just some of the many reasons people blog and what they blog about.

My personal reason i do it is for this site at least is for fun, i love find ways to help people and share my knowledge about the stuff i love doing.

That is it for this post, thanks for reading. Stay tuned for the next Tip.

Todays Internet Tip Is On “Firefox Add-ons”.

Firefox has come along way with how it runs and what it can do, it seems like i find a new and exciting feature or Add-on every day.  And since its “Open Source” that helps a lot with getting updates, new features and keeping it alive.

There are so many Add-ons out there, you can pretty much find a add-on that can do anything. The possibilities are endless.

List Of Popular Add-ons: Clicky

My Favorite Add-ons are:

• Firebug - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
• Cooliris - The Cooliris 3D Wall — Simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.
• Web Developer – The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

I use these Firefox Add-ons everyday, most of all Firebug and Web Developer, as they help me with my every day jobs with creating websites, fixing broken code, pretty much anything to do with html,css,websites i use them on.

I will get into their features and what they can do in future posts.

Please feel free to comment on/promote/suggest your favorite Firefox Add-ons.

Todays Tip is about CSS.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

Here is a good description of CSS:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Tutorials, books, mailing lists for users, etc. – w3.org

A CSS file allows you to separate your web sites content from it’s style. As always you use your HTML file to arrange the content, but all of the presentation (fonts, colors, background, borders, text formatting, link effects, etc.) are accomplished within a CSS.

Internal File Stylesheet:

<head>
<title><title>
<style type=”text/css”>
CSS Content Goes Here
</style>
</head>
<body>

Extrernal File Stylesheet:

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=“Path To stylesheet.css” />

<head>
<title><title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”href=”style.css” />
</head>
<body>

By using an external style sheet, all of your HTML files link to one CSS file in order to style the pages. This means, that if you need to alter the design of all your pages, you only need to edit one .css file to make global changes to your entire website.

Here are a few reasons this is better.

• Easier Maintenance
• Reduced File Size
• Reduced Bandwidth
• Improved Flexibility

This was just a basic understanding of CSS, and how it works.  To learn more please checkout our guide links below.

Here are some guides on learning CSS, i use these quite often and they are very helpful:

• w3schools.com
• cssbasics.com

CSS Cheat Sheets:

• CSS Cheat Sheet V1
• CSS Cheat Sheet v2

Today’s Daily Internet Tip is about HTML, and how to use it.

So i thought today id focus on helping those that need it get help on learning HTML.

HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

HTML is what websites are written in, its the building block of the internet.

For many years i have been building/customizing websites and have had the opportunity to learn alot about how HTML works.  Just the past couple years i have finally started to understand it, and really get into it.

I remember when i was in Middle School and i was in a Technology class. We had a project that i don’t remember all the details but for my project i chose to create a web page.

I had no idea how or what to do, so i looked around the Interweb and found a few great guides on learning HTML.

Here are a few of my favorite sites on learning HTML:

1. w3schools
2. htmlgoodies

I still use both those sites today, they are a very good reference, and id suggest them to anyone that wants to learn HTML, or wants to better their skills.

Here are a few examples on some HTML code with what they do.
How to create links:

First here is the link, or Anchor code: <a href=”link”>Link Name</a>.
And here is a link in action:
RFEHosting.com
And the code for this link:
<a title=”RFEHosting” href=”http://www.RFEHosting.com” target=”_blank”>RFEHosting.com</a>

“<a”  is your starting tag, its the “Anchor” tag.
“Href” is the reference tag, meaning what you linking to.

The “title” tag creates text that will display  when you mouse over the link.

“Target” is the target the link will go, some options for its values are:

• "_blank"  <-- Most popular, opens the link in a new window/tab
• "_parent"
• "_self"
• "_top"

Then you close the link by using the “>”, then you name your link, And fully close it using </a>.

How to insert images.

Here is the basic syntax for inserting images into a webpage:

<img src=”imagelink” alt=”" title=”" />

Then here is a example of its usage:

<img title=”RFEHosting” src=”http://www.rfehosting.com/images/logo.png” alt=”RFEHOSting Logo” />

“<img” is your opening code to start inserting a link into a webpage.

The “title” tag creates text that will display when you mouse over the image .

“src” is the source location of the image.

“alt” is alternate text that describes the image.

Then you close the image with “/>”

Links and images are the most used HTML tags, they are used on pretty much every single page on the internet.

Here are some links of some “Cheat Sheets” for HTML:

HTML
HTML Characters

That ends this internet tip, till next time.

If you have any questions,comments or other guides that could help, please feel free to comment and leave links.

Thanks

LittleXpert Daily Internet Tips is the site where you get a daily tip on all things interweb.

So Welcome to LittleXpert!

Throughout the next days,week,years we will be working on getting you a daily (if we can) random internet tip, about all things internet.

AS this site grows, we will work on adding more features to it as well as adding the option to ask questions and then we will answer them with the next days tip.

Thanks to all that find us and read us.