There's a big new feature on Blogger! In addition to blog posts, you can now have up to 10 static 'Pages.' That's huge. The ability to make pages is why I started using Wordpress for all my websites/blogs except for this personal blog. (http://www.wifisavvy.com/ and http://www.picasatutorials.com/) I've become such a fan of Wordpress that I've even been considering switching this blog to Wordpress. But, Blogger is still by far the easiest blogging system - and the one I like to teach for Travel Blogs.
And, now - it even includes pages. I just created a page called 'Our Other Websites' - you might be able to see the link to it at the top of the blog posts.
I've been using this same template - the colors and layout that you see - for several years. It doesn't have a very good way of displaying the 'Pages.' Or many of the other, newer, features. It's been time to find a new template for quite some time, but anything I tried just resulted in errors. Another reason I've been so enamored with Wordpress is the abundance of styles - 'Themes' available to pick from.
So, it's time to start investigating Blogger options again. I tested a couple new templates on a sample blog and was impressed at how well they worked. So ... it's time to make some changes to this blog.
Watch out! I may be opening Pandora's box here. Yes, I'm going to make a backup first!
Here's the video where I show you how to backup your Blogger blog posts. And this video shows how to back up the images and other page elements.
A Geeks on Tour membership ($39/year) is required to watch these.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Next Rally - Albuquerque
We're back in Fort Lauderdale, back to working on websites, seminars, books, and DVDs. We just confirmed our list of seminars for the March 22 FMCA Convention in Albuquerque. We're not ready to leave Fort Lauderdale in time to drive to Albuquerque, so we're going to fly there this time. That’ll be weird – to be at a rally without our RV. We are scheduled for 7 seminars - 4 on Wednesday and 3 on Thursday:
Wednesday:
Wednesday:
- Managing Digital Photos with Picasa
- Picasa: Beyond the Basics
- Using Google Earth
- Internet on the Road
- Every RVer Needs a Blog - using the free and EASY Blogger.com
- Blogging: Beyond the Basics - still using Blogger
- Make Your Website with Free Wordpress.com
Thursday, February 04, 2010
FMCA SE Area Rally
Hundreds of RVs arrived at the Hernando County Airport. Here is one group. The owners of ‘Born Free’ RVs stick together here:
We got parked and then set up our booth. There’s not much to it.
Our main reason for coming to these rallies is to present our seminars – and get the word out about our tutorial videos on our website. For this rally we scheduled Picasa, Internet on the Road, and Google Earth. We were expecting 50-100 people in Picasa and were pleasantly surprised when the number was closer to 150.
The next day was ‘Internet on the Road.’ It’s been our experience that interest in that topic has been waning since the cellular data cards have become so popular. Many people stopped by our booth to chat and, when we asked them how they connect to the Internet, they responded with ‘a Verizon card.’ and the tone of voice was like, ‘Duh – what a stupid question!’
So, we were doubly surprised when we had nearly 250 people for that seminar.
The bad part is that we were *way* short on handouts. Oh well … it just gives them a reason to visit our website! All our seminar handouts are available for download at http://www.geeksontour.com/ – you just need to click on the topic you want on the left-hand menu.
Today, the vendor area closed down at 3 so everyone could enjoy the parade. It was a gorgeous afternoon, so we got outside and watched too.
No, that’s not Odie. Just some other handsome dog … with balloons on his back.
Here’s Odie – he just has a special paper flower that someone in the parade gave him:
We got parked and then set up our booth. There’s not much to it.
Our main reason for coming to these rallies is to present our seminars – and get the word out about our tutorial videos on our website. For this rally we scheduled Picasa, Internet on the Road, and Google Earth. We were expecting 50-100 people in Picasa and were pleasantly surprised when the number was closer to 150.
The next day was ‘Internet on the Road.’ It’s been our experience that interest in that topic has been waning since the cellular data cards have become so popular. Many people stopped by our booth to chat and, when we asked them how they connect to the Internet, they responded with ‘a Verizon card.’ and the tone of voice was like, ‘Duh – what a stupid question!’
So, we were doubly surprised when we had nearly 250 people for that seminar.
The bad part is that we were *way* short on handouts. Oh well … it just gives them a reason to visit our website! All our seminar handouts are available for download at http://www.geeksontour.com/ – you just need to click on the topic you want on the left-hand menu.
Today, the vendor area closed down at 3 so everyone could enjoy the parade. It was a gorgeous afternoon, so we got outside and watched too.
Here’s Odie – he just has a special paper flower that someone in the parade gave him:
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Nothing Like a Deadline!
We’ve had 4 days here at Thousand Trails Orlando with nothing but catch-up work on our schedule. We start the next rally tomorrow at Brooksville, so anything I wanted done has to be done before we leave.
Whew!
- I got our newsletter (long overdue) done – you can read it here.
- I re-organized all our Picasa videos into a new disk that we will sell at the rally. 50 videos! Over 4 hours now of tutorials on Picasa.
- I wrote 2 Picasa tip-o-the-weeks
Capture one Shot from a Video
Importing Photos to the Proper Folders - I wrote my weekly post for RV.net. Here I cheated a little and took an article from the newsletter – just enhanced it a bit.
- Jim’s been busy printing up books, disks, brochures, certificates etc.
And you thought we were on vacation! Whatever would give you that idea?!
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