Feedburner is the acknowledged leader in RSS feeds and you need to register your blog feed there as soon as possible. As long as you have a self-hosted Wordpress site, you can also make use of the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin for Wordpress. More  Read More →

This kind of thing always happens to me! When I wanted to import my old blog posts from my old Blogger Beta account, my wordpress installation was WP2.1. That did not support Beta imports, only ‘old Blogger. The solution was to move them via a Wordpress.com account. I think the guys at my web hosting company must have... More

I am so pleased that even I have managed to move a blog from Blogger to Wordpress on my web host’s control panel. When I tried to migrate the old posts across I found that the Wordpress 2.1 ‘import’ command was only able to bring Old Blogger. Of course I was using new Blogger – or Beta – already.... More

Here is the HTML code you need to redirect the entire contents of your blogspot blog to a new URL. It will work whether visitors click on the main blog address or the individual post URL. I am using this for my redundant blogspot addresses as I move them to wordpress software hosted on my webhost servers. I cannot get the complete... More

I have decided I have no option – my blogs will have to be moved from Blogger. You may recall that I moved Kevin the Collie’s blog on to his own domain a couple of months ago. We are still using a blogger template – I had spent some getting a three column template just right and I wanted to keep it. Although... More

Feedback is welcome on the design of this blog page: as you know if you are a blogger, the standard Blogger layouts and templates use three columns and are around 750 px wide. A three column layout allows you to display more of your important copy above the fold of the page, so that visitors do not need to scroll down to see it.... More

You may have noticed I have a smart new three column layout on this blog, thanks to Thur Broeders over in Amsterdam. But I now understand why some bloggers have been turning the air blue with frustration over the limitations of the new system. I am sure Google wanted to make it easier to use, but if you abandon the classic template... More