5 tips for blogging

Blogs or personal diaries are becoming popular with Internet users. Not only young people but now the blog has become the personal website of both writers, musicians, singers, . the elderly, young people with many different purposes.

However, there is one thing in common, the blog is a place for each person to express their personal ego.

So how do you fully express your personal ego through the tools provided by the blog? What is your favorite song? Which verse do you like? How do you get your personal photo on your blog? . Here are some very useful and prominent tips on the blog for you to express yourself in the most complete way.

On the Internet today there are many websites offering free blog services, but the most popular with Vietnamese Internet users is Yahoo 360's blog. This is a blog that has the largest number of users, and has convenient and easy to use features. So the tips below write specifically for Yahoo's 360-degree blog.

First to apply the tips below, you must have a blog of Yahoo and want to have this blog you need to register for an account on http://360.yahoo.com (Yahoo ID).

After you have an account and login to http://360.yahoo.com, you start creating your blog page by clicking on ' Star my page '. From here, you can decorate and organize your blog with the following tips.

1. Create Blast

A blast is a box displayed above the top of the blog. This place is for you to make a comment, a philosophy, a personal opinion . At the same time, you can also include a link (link) of your favorite image, one Nice website address and whatever information you want for people to visit your blog.

Since blast occupies the most prominent position in the blog site, anyone who visits your blog will read this blast, you should be interested in blast content and invest content for it. Here's how you can create and edit your blast:

- Go to the ' Home page ' page , enter the text for the blast in the ' Blast message ' box, on the bottom left.

- You can also edit and update the blast by clicking on ' My Page ', then selecting ' Edit Blast '

2. See the number of visitors to your Blog

At your blog site, Yahoo! 360 ^o has a box to display the number of people visiting the blog in the middle position, the column on the left. It's Visitor Stats, with this box you can let everyone see or show you how many people visit your blog by selecting ' Show to Public ' or ' Show to Just Me '. This Visitor Stats function was put into use since January 18, 2006, so the number of visitors will be counted starting January 18, 2006.

3. Show list of featured articles

When you have your favorite articles, you want it to stand out and attract readers to visit your blog, you should use the ' Highlighting blog entries ' function.

To put an article in the Highlight list, while composing blog content, click on ' Show option ' at the bottom of the screen. Then, select the ' Highlight this blog entry ' box, this entry will be included in your blog's 360 ^o remarkable list of posts.

4. Insert photos into the blog

The article that comes with the image is always more vivid and below is how to include it in a blog.

+ From your computer:

At the blog editor screen (Blog Compose). Press the Browse button just below the words ' Photo '.

A window will appear allowing you to select an image from your computer's hard drive, then click Open . This photo will be displayed by default at the top of the blog you are editing.

+ From a website on the Internet:

This method allows you to insert images into any part of your article. At the blog editor screen (Blog Compose) and at the paragraph where you want to insert the image, select the outer ' View HTML Source ' button on the right for HTML editing.

Then in the blog content (Entry content), you add the following HTML code:

In it: - Image link is the link (link) of the image you want to display at your blog. This photo must be posted on a website on the internet but not on your personal computer. So usually you should use some websites that allow uploading free images like http://photobucket.com, http://imageshack.us. After uploading the image to this website, it will give you a link (image link) and you paste (paste) the link into the above location.

- Image name is the name you set for the image displayed in your blog.

- Width is the width of the image. You should accurately type the actual width of the image so that the blog is sharp.

- Height is the height of the image. You should accurately type the actual height of the image so that the blog display is sharp.

You then turn off the View HTML source effect by clicking again on ' View HTML source ' and continuing to edit the normal blog.

5. How to insert Video Clip into blog

Yahoo has not yet embedded Video directly into the article. So you need to upload that video file to a website on the internet, usually using the website www.youtube.com.

After uploading successfully, open the video. Right below the video image of youtube you will see the ' Embed ' box.

Copy the entire code in embed and paste it into the blog you are editing (please turn on ' View HTML Source ' mode). Then turn off ' View HTML Source ' and continue editing the normal blog. After posting the blog, this video will be viewed directly on your blog without having to open another window.

Phan Anh Chuyen