In this short video you will learn how to create a custom background for your Blogger blog and how to use it to replace your current background.

By the way, want to show off your website’s Easter Bonnet this holiday season? Check out this package of beautiful matching HTML Templates, Blogger and Wordpress Themes.

Till Next Time,

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The following article is reprinted with permission from Denise Griffitts, Virtual Assistance Industry Expert

My Website Does Not Bring In Virtual Assistance Clients

Question:

Denise, I have looked at all of your websites and understand that you are a professional web developer as well as a virtual assistant. Very impressive!

My question to you is this. My website is not professionally built but I did what I could with the limited resources that I had at the time. It is an HTML site. Do you recommend that I move to WordPress.com?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Monica, San Diego, CA

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The other evening my friend Andrea Chin and I spent a good part of our 2 hour phone call discussing how “iffy” and time-consuming it is finding royalty-free images to use in a blog post.

Almost as if the Twitter gods were smiling down on me, within 5 minutes of finishing our telephone call Michel Fortin sent a tweet that directed me to Seth Simonds’ article, “How I Discover & Use Images On My Blog”.

In his article Seth reveals that he uses Flickr to find his images. However; as he himself puts it…

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If you’ve ever spent hours looking for icons to visually display the social networking sites you belong to, you’re going to love this free download.

Aquaticus.Social is an icon set consisting of 30 individual icons of the popular social networking and Web 2.0 sites that are currently online. I’m using 5 of them in the “Let’s Connect” box in the sidebar of this blog.

The website icons that are included in this free download are…

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Is it just me, or does publishing the first post on a new blog remind you of being the “new kid in school”?

You know that first day (post) is coming, but you’re excruciatingly nervous about it because you also know what’s going to be expected of you…

…the dreaded moment when you have to stand in front of everyone and “introduce yourself”.

You practice your signature speech for weeks, yet when the time comes you hem and haw, shift nervously back and forth, then blurt out something really lame like…

“Hi, my name is Sharon. I just came here from Florida, my interests are Twitter, graphics, templates, blog themes and mini-sites and I’m looking forward to getting to know you all.”

You then high-tail-it back to your seat to the unmistakable snickers and whispers from the “regulars” – as they attempt to size-up the new kid from first appearances alone.

Till Next Time,

P.S. Keeping with the new kid in school analogy, think of posting a comment as your way of inviting the “new kid” to sit with you at lunch.