SDE & Blogger tips !

Welcome new followers, and my already following hello again. Thanks for joining in on our blog hop!

Don't forget SDE is giving away a chance to go to National Conference HERE .....You must like SDE's FB page to enter ! I entered did you?

I am techy thinking person (one of my coworkers says I think with one) so I will be trying to pass along things that are useful. (I found some great tips on the blog hop this weekend too)

But speaking of the Blog Hop, when I went to reply to my comments some are set up with no reply email......So thought I'd share how to fix that! Click the link below (why reinvent the wheel) 


the tattooed teacher: what?! I’m a no-reply blogger!? the google+ fix

Rachel shows how to fix this! HERE are some blogging tips I have shared before. Thanks and be back soon !

Blog updates added

Another item on my list.............but I've added some new features t0 my blog!

Here's what I am done,

Redid my header

Added the lyrics to the header. Also in the bottom of the above picture, I've added a Favorite Posts tab.


I've also added some circus themed pics on the right side for following me/contacting me!

Just adding these touches when I get the chance! Thank you for reading my blog and following. Take a look around and see some of my updates! Be back soon!

Reactions to your posts

This maybe old hat to you, but when I was on a scrappy blog I saw her reactions buttons....her's were the standard that are given to you by blogger....I have gotten so used to "liking" things on facebook, I often said I wished that there was one on all the things I read in life. So here is what mine look like:

I admit I am trying to use my sense of humor....I couldn't think of a different name other than Reactions: 

but have to admit I love my choices! Now, if you want to do this .....I found a clear cut no jibberish how to...so go here and give it a whirl...(to change the names etc, when you go to click on reactions hit edit) 

BUT...if you get stuck come back and read the rest of the post for some more tips and tricks...OR come back and tell me you got your's up and running!

So if you go to this sentence in the article

"Reactions works with Layouts templates, though if your template is heavily customized, you may have to reset your widget templates for Reactions to appear."

Your thinking, how do I reset my widget templates (the pictures, blog rolls etc on your blog) Here's what you need to do(This will not clear all your widgets out just adjust the codes etc)

1.  On the upper right hand side of your blog it says New Post, Design, Sign out. Click on Design

2. When you get there you should see this on the left side of your screen, click on Edit HTML in second row

3. When you do this is what you are going to see

ALWAYS BACKUP....(sorry that is my mantra with the kids) so click on Download Full Template
Save it to your documents (I left named what they did but added no reactions after templates)

3. After doing that scroll down to almost the bottom of the page and click on Revert widget templates to Default.

 You can preview? Did it work?  If so, then click on save template....scroll back to the top, it will say changes saved to blog...view blog...check it out.... Woohoo...cool right? If yours still didn't email me or leave me a comment and I will help! Hope this helped you some!

Blogging

Just a few things....

This is the new Blogger Draft blog, it has been a year since I posted on my personal/scrappy blog, so there were just enough changes to throw me off a little, but reading some the changes coming ...Boy am I glad it rolls out (hopefully) over the summer ! Blogger in Draft

I've been catching up blogs, finding new ones etc. I have noticed ALOT do not have email listed. My coworkers, friends, and family will tell you that I think with a computer. Most of the time I will shoot off an email with something to share with a blog post (too long for comments). In all my years in computers, I learned you can disguise your email so spammers won't get to it...For example timmgraw at timmcgraw dot com....It is ALWAYS good to disguise your email when you leave it in comments..  Here is more on the topic.

I personally, do have more than one email (6 in fact one for blogs, one for school, one for ordering, paypal (oh I love the spam from them) see what I mean) My brother in law who is a bigger computer person than I am told me to do this eons ago, and it does wonders. So set up another email for other things, there is a way, you can have it all download in same place(here is what my brother in law did to theirs, if you are so inclined)...Keep your gmail one for blogs (as blogger and gmail are all together)!

Ok,  now we shall see who stayed with me on this journey. If you go and put your email on your blog, leave me a comment here saying you did so! If your email has always been visible go here saying just that!

Thanks for joining me on this winding road called blogging :)


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