Tweaking My Blogger Blog

Blogger is a free platform and for work-at-home mavens like me who needs all the money we can save,  we can still have our own personal domain and still enjoy free hosting.

The trouble is, Blogger isn’t as easily customized as a self-hosted WordPress blog. With a little Google research and a lot of errors (especially if you’re not as expert in CSS/HTML tweaking as me), you can still personalize a Blogger blog to suit your, er, designer bent.

I’m going to show you some of the customizations I did for this blog to make it look like this current incarnation:

CAUTION: 
Please, please, puhleeeease: before you insert any of these changes, back up your template. (I won't be responsible for any error if you don't!)

1. Click on Template, choose Edit HTML, Proceed to the Template Editor and then Expand Widget Templates. 
2. Place your cursor inside the Template Editor, click Ctrl+A to highlight every single piece of code, then click Ctrl+C to copy everything to the clipboard.
3. Open Notepad, paste (Ctrl+V) the whole stuff, and save the document to finish.

Don't Sit and Die. Use Workrave.

Several posts ago, I talked about how sitting for prolonged stretches can be the death of us desktop warriors. I forgot to mention that hitting at them keyboards for long stretches of time can--and often, will--lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. Now that isn't something you want to happen to you if your livelihood depended on your hands, believe me!

There's one free tool that I stumbled on a few weeks past that's designed to prevent (1) repetitive strain injury, and (2) croaking over your desk because you've been sitting an hour too long. It helps you take micro-breaks and longer rest breaks…and it tells you when your eight-hour workday (or your daily work limit) has ended.

Let me introduce to you…dun dun dun dun (drum roll)…Workrave.

It's a nifty tool for your Mac or PC and you can get it for free. (Praise God for good souls like the developers of Workrave.)

Workrave, like I said, has two kinds of breaks: the micro-break and the rest break.

5 Compelling Reasons Why Online Marketing is Crucial to Small Businesses Today (Infographic)

When you’re down with a bad case of the colds and an even worse bout with unexplained hives, you’re lucky if you're awake long enough to read your emails and surf the Net. Unfortunately, I’ve had both for the last few days...but getting better now. More or less.

One thing I found out about hives, they're like guerrillas—they're all over the place, appear where you least expect them, disappear in a flash, are somewhere else the next moment, compelling (you'll never be able to ignore them, ever!)...and they don't rest until they've driven you beyond crazy.

Hmmm, there's a striking similarity to online marketing there somewhere. Heh. Or at least, when you want your content to go viral.

So there I was, in between medicine-induced grogginess and insanely itchy lucidity when I stumbled on a little gem.