Archive | January, 2008

How To Set up A Blogger Blog

By on January 28, 2008 in blogging

It is fairly straightforward to set up a blogger blog. Just follow the instructions at:

http://www.blogger.com/home

  1. You will need to Create a google Account
  2. Then click on Create Blog.
  3. Give it a Title and choose domain e.g.

Title: "How to Grow Potatoes"
Blog URL: howtogrowpotatoes.blogspot.com

  1. Choose A Theme.
  2. Your blog is created! http://www.howtogrowpotatoes.blogspot.com

To Use Your Own Domain Name

If you would prefer to have www.howtogrowpotatoes.com rather than http://www.howtogrowpotatoes.blogspot.com You need a few extra steps.

  1. Click on Settings.
  2. Click on Publishing
  3. Click on Switch to Custom Domain
  4. Buy A Domain with Google. They will then switch your blog to your new domain name.
  • You can do this at any stage, google will automatically redirect your old .blogspot domain
  • You can buy a domain name elsewhere, but you will need to switch cmod or something like that. That starts to get a little more complicated.
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The fifth maintenance release of Plone 3.0 is out

By on January 13, 2008 in general, plone

Plone 3.0.5 came out on January 7, 2008.

Full release announcement

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Keeping More Visitors

By on January 5, 2008 in blogging

I watched a fascinating video about how to keep visitors on your site for longer.

One thing that stood out is that web viewers get confused and bored with reading long lists. If you have a navigation bar with many items, people can’t be bothered to read through it, so they leave the site.

If you make the navigation bar shorter, they are 25% more likely to click on something.

The optimal number of text blocks is 5-7.

This is a problem if you use Plone navigation bars – they can become very long and unwieldly

Compare these 2 examples of a navigation bar at Sri Chinmoy Poetry

Hopefully, you will find the navigation bar for happiness makes it easier for the eye to choose a page.

This fits neatly in with the principles of Don’t Make Me Think

BTW, I like the principles of: USEit.com

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