Topic for Your Blogs

One of the hardest part in making your own blog is what topic you will discuss on your blog. Some are making fictional stories, current event stories, travel, and others. When starting blogging, some of the questions raised are:

a. Will I focus on a specific topic to discuss or go with a random theme? The problem with a specific topic is that you will put a limit to what you can write in your blog but makes it easy for you to prepare the article. On the other hand, random post gives you a lot of option but will leave your readers confused on what the blog really is all about.

b. Language to use within the blog. I want to write my entries in my own dialect so that it will be easy for me to express my self since I am not really have a 100% fluency in English language but the problem with using my local language or dialect is it will limit the number of possible readers that I will have. If you wish to reach out for other people aside from your country or group, write it in English. it will reach out more people.

As part of the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 ring, I have already made up my mind. I will write about my province - Capiz, blogging and helping other bloggers through practical tips. That will be the overall purpose of this blog. How about you, what will you do with your blogs?

Funny Photo Effects Online

Today I stumbled upon some cool websites which provides online photo effect services. By using them you can turn your image into something cool. I have created some samples and I am now going to order them for print for as low as Rs. 2.95 per print through Snapfish.

Here are some samples :

Links for website providing this service :

Photofunia.com
Loonapix.com/effector

Website for Print the Photos at Rs. 2.95, Also get 10 first Prints for free.

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Enjoy and do post your comments Here.....

Capiz Picture Slideshow Gadget

Yesterday, I added another blogger gadget on the sidebar of my Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blog. It is a picture slide show gadget that showcases different photos of the different stunning and eye catching tourist spots of the province of Capiz. These pictures were taken from the Roxas City beach and the Olotayan Island, which I guess can pass to become a candidate of the 7 wonders of the world ( IHMO :) ). The source of these pictures were from one of the great photographer hobbyist / artist and native of Capiz namely Joy Barza and Neil Castano for the Olotayan Island pictures, Harry Talusan for the wonderful sephia effect of the Baybay and People's Park in Roxas City and Allan Toos for the fiery clouds of the rice fields in Culasi. However, these pictures are all in its lower resolution and I did not upload the high resolution of the said pictures as a sign of respect for the owners of the pictures. If you love them then you try to contact the owners. You can leave your comment here so I could ask permission from them if they want it to be distributed online.

How I did this? First I sign-up for an account in Picasa Web, an image hosting owned by Google. Then I added the Slideshow gadget on the sidebar and specified the URL of the Picasa Web album where I uploaded the said pictures. That's it, I did not make any changes on any script or whatsoever. A built-in feature in Blogger blogs. Try it yourself and show off of to the world all of your niciest pictures.

Enhancing your Blogger Blog with Gadgets

On my previous post, I mentioned about customizing the design of your blog to enhance its appearance and suit to your taste. Today, I will discuss about how to improve more your blogger blog's appearance by making use of the Google Gadgets. What are Blogger gadgets? See on the right sidebar of this Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blog. You can find some objects that are not usually found on the default design of your blog accounts such as the Google Maps, Subscribe to RSS and Blogger logo. These are "Gadgets" that I added today to enhance the functionality and appearance of this site. Now, how would you add this elements to your site too? Read the instruction below:

First, go to your Dashboard then click Layout. You will see like the following on this part of the dashboard:

What is shown on this image are the different elements of the page. You can drag the elements that are found on the right and bottom of the page on any location of the site where you want it to be placed. Aside from that you can easily edit the different option of the pages. From the header of the site to the post settings of the site.

To a new gadget, simply click the "Add a Gadget" link and a new window will pop-up showing all the Gadget you can add.

Here's what you can see on the window, a list of different Gadgets categorized in several classifications according to use. What are the gadgets that I used on this Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blog?

a. Subscription Links. This allows your readers to subscribe with your RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds both Posts and Comments. For your information, RSS Feed is web publishing standard format for frequently updated works such as blog entries, news and others. With this, readers around the world can have an easy way of reading your recently added posts. Thus generating a number of return visitors. Common RSS feed formats distributed online today are RSS 2.0 and ATOM. I will discuss abou feeds later.

b. Roxas City, Capiz in Google Maps. Do you know how I did this? Well, I just go to maps.google.com and search for the place then get the LINK of the map which can be easily seen on the right pane of the map. Then I add a new gadget on the blog, specifically HTML/Javascript gadget then paste the map code. That's it!

You could try other gadgets, you just need some imagination to do it and your creativity counts! Have fun with enhancing your site and happy blogging.

Customizing your Blogger Blog Design

Do you want to customize your Blogger blog design? Do you wonder how I customized this hectic capiznon blogger 2009 blog on my own without using templates from other Blogger theme providers? This post will discuss to you the different steps I made to make this design possible. From removing the navbar of the blog which usually found at the top of the page to setting your own background picture for the site.

Removing or Hiding the NAVBAR

Let us start with removing the navbar. Navbar is the long found at the top of your blogger blog. First select a Minima theme from the Layout tab of the Dashboard -> Pick New Template. Select the Minima theme as shown on the image. Then in the Layout tab again, choose Edit HTML. This will show you the HTML code of the current theme you have. Paste the NavBar CSS code to the portion as shown below (paste only the code on the green background), then click Save Template to save your changes:

...
[CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Minima Black
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL:      www.stopdesign.com
Date:     26 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

/* Variable definitions
====================

...

Change the Background
Now, after you make this work, the next thing that we need to do is to change the background of the page. First make sure you have a background image uploaded in image hosting sites like ImageShack, Picasa, etc. I recommend that you use at least a background with a resolution of 800x600. Then modify the portion specified on the following code and change the background parameter of the CSS code for the body, as shown below. Don't forget to save the changes you made to see the effect of your changes on your blog.

body {
background:$bgcolor;
margin:0;
color:$textcolor;
font: x-small "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, Sans-serif;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
text-align: center;
background: URL(http://yourimageurlhere/imagehere.jpg);
}

Change Font and Color
Next, is to change the color and font of the site to fit on the new selected background that you have. To do this, on the Lay-out tab, click Fonts and Colors then each element of the site, from title, sidebar to the body text are listed on the left side of the window. Choose the appropriate color that you think that fits or blend or passed to your taste. Then save again.

That's it! You have your very own customized templates / theme for your blog on Blogger. You can play with all the CSS code on the template if you want to fit with your desired appearance of your new blog.

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Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Definition

Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Log. What is this blog all about? Well, this site will be discussing different topics about the different hectic schedules of different Capiznon bloggers. Before I start describing every single activity of this group of people. I would like to introduce the three terms which is indicated on the title. Let us start, shall we.

Hectic. This term is synonymous to words frenzied, frantic, excited, confused, chaotic and wild. This is the usual adjective used for describing a very tight schedule of busy people. Etymology speaking ,the word came from hecticus which was derived from the Greek word hektikus which refers to habitual or consumptive word. In middle english, hektikus came from etyk, and from Anglo-French etique. The word also used to refer to persistent fever causes by diseases such as tuberculosis (TB).

Capiznon. Refers to the dialect spoken by group of people from a place called "Capiz." This is usually used by other people instead of the word "Capizenio", which refers to the native of the said province. This language spoken by natives is a combination of Akeanon and Waray and sometimes mistaken to Hiligaynon or Ilongo.

Bloggers. A term used for people who blog. The term was taken from two words "web" and "loggers" which this combination refers to persons who make their logs of their activities online. These people loves to discuss anything about what they like, love and hate. Actually I am one of those who write and publish different kinds of articles, write-ups and practical tips online.

Now if we will combine, Hectic + Capiznon + Bloggers it will be equals to the key phrase "Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009."

Update: I made changes to the title of this post and change the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 title, adding the phrase Spam vs Real Content which indicates a challenge between spammers and real content writers who wants to spread the Capiznon words through out the cyberspace in the most relevant way. I have seen a lot of spam lately linking to the phrase and I must do something about this. That's why whenever I made topics about Capiz, I make sure that it is related to the province. Let just see who will win, spammers or our way! :) For others, the phrase Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 is just a game to play. They just don't know the responsibility that lies behind this. I will try what I can do to make sure that blogs that is relevant to the phrase will be the one who will only swarm the world wide web.

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