Ever get tired to having to insert your details every time you leave a blog comment? Want your photo to show up next to your post with a link back to your website? Gravatar is what you're looking for. Before we take a look at how to set up your Gravatar let's answer the question that those of you who are not familiar with the term are asking yourselves...
What is a Gravatar?
This is the definition given on the website:
So How do you set one up? It's actually really easy.
2) Click on modify profile
3) Insert your information in the online form
4) Upload a photo
5) Insert your preferred method on contact
6) Add links to your website and/or blog
Congratulations! You now have your very own Gravatar.
Ok Guys in this tutorial you will learn how to make a banner on Paint once you have finished you can do alot of things with it.If you need to place that banner in myspace or somthing like that upload it to photobucket.If you need it on a freewebs site or wetpaint wiki you can upload it directly while you are editing your site.I will make tutorials on how and where to put these banners.
Programs Used:MS Paint & HyperCam WMM
Song:A Place For My Head
Artist:Linkin Park
Being a writer is no longer just about being able to put pen to paper. Lucky for us writers there's an increasing amount of applications to make things easier and help us in our writing careers.
Technology advances, and all writers either own or at least know about little gadgets like the Kindle, Ipad, Smartphones and Nook.
Nielsen did research into the consumer market for connected devices and found out some interesting facts e.g. ipad tend to be male and most are under the age of 35.
A list of useful applications for the ipad especially for writers can be found at the
Gadget Cage site.
It's also important these days to know if your website is performing optimally, and that the content is penetrating your target markets. Analytic tools can help writers keep track. A selection of the top tools and add ons of 2010 can be found at the Tech Line Info site.
Writers need to improve their skills and evolve to make sure writing assignments keep on rolling in. An easy was to do this is to take part in courses and workshops designed for writers. A huge list of online courses can be found at the
Writers Digest University site.
Diploma Guide has a great list of 30 useful tools for writers ranging from calendars and project planners to writing and editing applications.
If you're not sure where to start, try checking out this
list of 100 open source tools
that can make your life as a writer easier.
If you know of a fantastic application or tool that hasn't been covered here, tell us about it in the comments section.