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| 10 Blogs Every Blogger Should Check Out in 2014 Posted: 31 Dec 2013 01:29 AM PST Want to go further in blogging and entrepreneurship in 2014? This is far from a definitive list, but these ten blogs are all packed with great advice. (And I'd love to hear your recommendations in the comments.) I've listed the blogs in alphabetical order, rather than ranking them in any way. Jon Morrow's blog has in-depth posts packed with great advice (whether it's from Jon or a guest poster). Enter your email address on the front page to get his great Headline Hacks "cheat sheet" – a one-stop shop for great blog post titles. #2: Copyblogger One of the best known blogs out there, Copyblogger consistently has great advice, in punchy, easy-to-take-in posts. If you're going to succeed online, you need to establish yourself as an authority – and Copyblogger will teach you how. #3: DailyBlogTips Perhaps I'm a little biased here Danny Iny's Firepole Marketing blog always impresses me with high-quality posts. They've got a newly-launched podcast, and Danny writes one of my favourite newsletters, answering readers' questions with thoughtful but honest advice. #5: HubSpot The HubSpot team publish consistently great content that's bound to teach you something new. They put quite a lot of posts out, but they're all great reads, covering a wide range of online marketing topics. #6: Michael Hyatt Michael, former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, blogs about leadership, entreprenurship, and publishing. If you're looking for inspiration and ethical, value-centred advice, his blog is a great one to follow. His book Platform is also well worth a read (it's based on many of his best posts, plus extra material). #7: ProBlogger If you've been around the blogging world for any length of time, you'll have heard of ProBlogger. Darren Rowse – plus guests – publish lots of excellent beginner-friendly content, plus some more in-depth tips and advice. #8: Quick Sprout With in-depth posts, plus lots of statistics and screenshots, Neil Patel produces excellent content that's well worth your time (even the really long posts!) He's founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics, and has a bunch of free extras to offer – like the "Double Your Traffic in 30 Days" course. With excellent guest authors and definitive posts, Social Media Examiner is the blog to read for everything Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ or Pinterest related (they also have occasional posts on blogging). #10: WP Beginner Whenever I need a WordPress tutorial, chances are that WP Beginner has it. Their posts range from fairly straightforward ones aimed at general users to those aimed at developers and designers working with WordPress.
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| A Very Simple Introduction to HTML (and Why You Need to Know About It) Posted: 30 Dec 2013 07:29 AM PST If you've been around the blogging world for more than a few weeks, you've probably heard of "HTML". You may even have glanced at a few bits of HTML code. (I know some DBT readers are expert HTML, CSS and PHP coders – I'd love your best beginner-friendly tips in the comments, to help out our readers who are much newer to this.) So what is HTML – and why might you need to know about it? HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It's a special language that tells web browsers (like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera) how to display different elements on a page. HTML consists of tags that wrap around different areas of text. Here's an example: <strong>Here is a line of text in bold.</strong> This produces: Here is a line of text in bold. The opening tag <strong> tells the browser to start putting the text in bold, and the closing tag </strong> tells it to stop. Here's another example: <em>Here is a line of text in italics.</em> This produces: Here is a line of text in italics. (Here, em stands for emphasis.) If you want to see these tags: 1. Create a new post or page in WordPress. (You don't need to publish it.) 2. Type some text then make it bold and/or italic: 3. Click the "Text" button on the visual editor to view the HTML code: Why You Need to Understand (Some) HTMLNowadays, there's no need to code posts in HTML before adding them to WordPress, which a lot of bloggers did in the past. And with plugins like Black Studio TinyMCE Widget you don't even need to use HTML for your widgets. However, it's a big advantage to get comfortable with HTML code, just in case something goes a bit wrong with a post or page that you're formatting. Have you ever seen a post that ended up all in italics, for instance? This happens when the closing </em> tag accidentally gets missed off after a phrase in italics. It's easy to add it back into the text view of your post, when you know when you're looking for. As a blogger, you'll probably run across some occasions when you want to use HTML code. Maybe it's on a forum, or even in a blog comment (some allow HTML), rather than on your blog itself. Also, HTML isn't very hard to understand, and if you want to make small tweaks to the theme of your blog, HTML is a good stepping stone on the path to understanding CSS (the code that styles your blog). I'll be posting about some more tags every blogger should know next week. In the meantime, revisit one of your past posts in editing mode, click on that "Text" tab and see what you can discover about HTML. Wanna learn how to make more money with your website? Check the Online Profits training program! |
but I think DailyBlogTips has a good balance of content for beginners and for more advanced bloggers. We make sure we include plenty of concrete tips that you can put into practice right away.
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