One the interesting facets of marketing ourselves on the internet is that someone can meet us online first before they ever see us in person. Having a blog is a way for us to share our expertise and help a person come to know and trust us. Letting them see who we are helps fill a hole in the whol
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08/07/2014
Having an image or two in a blog post makes a huge difference as to the drawing the reader’s interest to the page and capturing their eyes. The method to add an image is not hard and in this post I wanted to walk you through the steps so that you have that ability. Each blogging platform has a si
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07/26/2014
Besides adding photos to enhance our blog posts, we have the ability to also embed objects such as YouTube videos. These are not simple static objects like an image file and so they require a little different means to use them... but no worries it is not hard to do! I also want to highlight a cou
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07/19/2014
Having an image in your blog post makes it interesting for the reader. Of course having valuable text content is the first priority! However the synergy of the text and the graphics that you use is not to be overlooked for the ingredients of an A+ post.Oftentimes, bloggers will size an image so t
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07/13/2014
To make a blog post more appealing, you should use images for eye appeal. Often the images we would like to use are in the form of photographs. I see very often (with even experienced bloggers) a mistake with images because of not understanding proper sizing of a photo.Let’s go through an exercis
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07/12/2014
If you saw my previous post, you'll know I'm a little upset with a recent user interface design change here in ActiveRain. Bottom line is that, at the moment, there is no longer a link on the home page that takes us to a summary newsfeed of all the posts of all the people that we have subscribed
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07/08/2014
Dear ActiveRain, On your recent interface update, you took something away from us and I'm going to be first in line to ask for it back. We are missing the "Following" link on the top menu bar. Besides taking away the easiest way to get to a feed of posts to those we have subscribed to, you have b
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06/20/2014
When you write a blog post, you have opportunity to share helpful other pages with your readers. To do this, you insert hyperlinks in your text so that they can easily click the link and jump to the new page. This is something I’m sure you realize already! What you may not realize though is that
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02/17/2014
I was looking at my facebook timeline this morning and noticed the contrast of these two recent shots that were taken from same vantage point out of our living room window. The brilliant and beautiful colors of fall were followed by winter with its own beauty. By his expression, you can tell tha
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12/15/2013
Being able to insert pictures in our blog posts is an essential first step to making an appealing presentation. Images along with valuable textual content will help you to keep the attention of the person that just clicked onto your page. Would you like to step up your game with the option to cre
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12/14/2013
