Monday, July 18, 2011

Some Good Widgets/Gadget

Finding good widgets for your blog can be so hard at time, that is why i decide to write a post on some of the widgets I find very useful, hope you find it useful too.

Wibiya Toolbar -is an application platform you can easily install onto your site. Add a large variety of apps that will boost your site’s functionality and reach, also it is free and requires no technical no-how.

DISQUS -is a comments platform that helps you build an active community from your website's audience. It has awesome features, powerful tools, and it's easy to install.
Follow By Email- this widgets enable to user to allow readers to subscribe to the blog/website feeds or news letter via email, using a external service (Feedburner) or a built-in one. 
Search Box – enables the reader the search the entire blog/website using  a specific keyword.
Survey or Poll – allows you to survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog.
Subscribe Button - Let your readers easily subscribe to your blog with popular feed readers.
Share Button –allow your users to share you post using popular social networks.

Twitter badgeallows users to connect directly to the blog/website twitter account/page.
Facebook Like Box – lets users “like” your Facebook Fan Page directly from you website/blog. 
Favicon- This widget is the little icon you see at the top left off you browser tab, usually its is a pictures of the website logo.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Free Blogging Tools You May Find Helpful

In this post I would give you a list of blogging tools i have found useful  as a blogger, hope you find them useful too. If there is any tool that you think I should add or remove please leave a comment.

Google Analytics - a powerful, easy to use website analytical tool which generates a large amount of statistics/info about a particular website/blog. Some of its mean features are; Advertising ROI, Cross Channel and Multimedia Tracking, Customized Reporting, Sharing and Communicating, Visualizing Data and Google Integration and Reliability.

Feedburner - is a tool similar to Google Analytics, which gathers information and statistics of your feed allowing you to easily manage them.

Google Trends –  simple to use tool, which allows you to generate valuable insight on various search keywords. Google Trends also allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time, frames and properties.

ScribeFire – a web browser extension which is compatible with Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, which basically allows you to post to all your blogs from the comfort of your browser.

Windows Live Writer –  a software that allows you to create professional blog post with pictures, videos and rich text format without actually logging in to your blog, from you desktop. This software allows your to manage multiple blogs from different blog providers including; Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint blogs, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Telligent Community, PBlogs.gr, JournalHome, the MetaWeblog API, the Movable Type API, Blogengine, Square space and all blogs that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability).

Facebook Fan Pageis a easy to create profile that allows you to share your blog post with the Facebook community/Users, to generate more traffic for you blog.


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Stock.XCHNGis a free stock photo site, that basically gives you the option of downloading and using their photo accordance with the licence agreement.