Skeezix's Cat Blog Help Center

Welcome to the Cat Blog Help Center!

2009-01-02T23:27:00.000-08:00

I git a lot of qweshchuns frum new cat bloggers trying to figyur evrything owt. I don't have all the ansers, but I'm happy to share whut I know. And I suspect thare are qwite a few of yoo hoo are willing to help as well. I hope this blog will be a destinayshun for cat blogging reesorses and online stuff like Catster.

HOW TO USE THIS BLOG: Browse the TOPICS list in the right sidebar for topics of interest -- or just start reeding frum top to bottum. If yoo don't find whut yer looking for....

GOT QWESCHUNS? Add them to the comments feeld of this post and we'll try to anser them within 48 howrs. Then, chek bak in a day or two for the noo post ansering yer qweschun. NEW! If yoo klik the chekbox for "emale me followup comments," yoo'll see win I respond to yer qweschun.

How to put PayPal Links in Your Blog

2009-01-02T22:59:00.000-08:00

My best frends Katie and Da Katz asked the following:

HELP!!! We iz tryin ta find out hows ta put da pay pal codes on our site... any beans or furry babies knohs how ta do dat???

MomsBusy saids dat dehr is a tabbie... we gotz a tabbie named daisy, but she donts knohs where da code iz.

ooh she saids a TAB... Mawmee whats dat??? Dehr supposed ta be a tab or a links at pay pal fur dis... n weze needin ta gets dis sets up cuz da bloggin cats is helpin us thru ruff times while mawmee not got no jobbee and weze cold n hungree n stuffoms reel hard likes dat.

Tank U!!!

Katie Too...

That's a good qweschun becuz the Paypal site is not ixzaktly eezy to use. So let me show yoo ware to go:

Once yer logged into Paypal, click the Merchant Services tab. (Yoo mite have to be set up with a merchant accownt, but that's pritty eazy.)
On the Merchant Services tab page, click the donate link (klik to biggify). "Donate" is the 4th link down in the left collum:

On the Donate screen, enter the reqwired infermayshun (yoo probly want the peeple hoo are donayting to be able to set thare own donayshun amownt):

Then yoo'll go to a screen that gives yoo the code. Just hit the Select Code button, and copy it and paste it into yer blog:

I hope that helps! Once yoo find ware to go, it's pritty eazy!

Article abowt Cat Blogging

2008-09-26T13:24:00.000-07:00

I just red this blog post called, "All About Cat Blogging." I'm reprinting part of it heer for any cat hoo's considering starting a cat blog. Thare's a link at the end to reed the hole thing. --- StC

All About Cat Blogging

Have you ever tried writing using a different viewpoint? Most people will write using their viewpoint. Seldom can you find a person who writes in a different way. But if you want to be known online, you must be as unique as possible. If you try to surf the net, particularly in blog websites, you will note that some bloggers write using their cat’s viewpoint which is more commonly called as cat blogging.

What is cat blogging? Those who are unfamiliar with cat blogging may think that these are blogs about cats. Well, you can actually find blogs about cats online. Pets are interesting topics and aside from cats, some bloggers also write about dogs, birds, and fishes. However, some bloggers find cat blogging much better because it draws more attention. Readers find cat blogging quite interesting because the blogger writes blogs using their cat’s viewpoint.

Cat blogging is really strange and this may be the reason why many individuals are interested in reading it as well in posting comments. Blogs about pets, specifically about cats are quite ordinary nowadays because many bloggers want to share with the whole world the everyday life of their cats. If you want to become a well-known blogger, why not try cat blogging?

KLIK HEER TO REED THE HOLE ARTIKUL

How to Change yer blog to a 3-Column template

2008-09-23T10:12:00.000-07:00

My best frend Brandi rites

dear skeezix,
my mama wants to move stuff around and is afraid to. She wants to have a sidebar on the left and the right side to make our stuff look better. Do we have to do a brand new template or can you help? Remember, mama is not that teknical.
Thanks, brandi

p.s. we have blogger template "minima" and other sites don't seem to address that template. Waiting patiently...hugs, brandi and her mama, Carol

I haven't gon to a 3-column layowt myself, so I looked for a good tootoriul, wich I've pasted below. It's frum bloggerbuster.com.

WARNINGS!

Ferst, this is not a good projekt fur cats and kittins hoo are not teknikly profishunt. It's not hard, but yoo can skrew up yer template and not be abul to undo it. I rekummend praktissing on a new blog template. Frum yer dashbord, klik the "Create a Blog" link.

Make all yer layowt changes on the new blog, then win yer done, copy and paste it into yer own template (in the Layout > Edit HTML view).

Secund, ALWAYS bak up yer template beefore yoo start messin' with it. The bakup proseedure is deskribed in the post beelow this one.

Source: bloggerbuster.com

"In this tutorial, I'll explain how to create a three column template in Blogger layouts, using the Minima template as a starting point.

The Minima template is the easiest Blogger template to customise, as this is the simplest two column template, and has few parameters regarding margins, padding and the like. Once you have developed the third column, it will then be easier to alter font-size, colours and such so leave this until later on. We're going to concentrate on the actual layout first.

First of all, set your template to Minima (not the stretch template, but any colour will do!), then follow these instructions:
Go to Template>Edit HTML, leaving the "Expand widget templates" box
unchecked.
Now, find this section in the HTML code:

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 220px;
float: right;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for
long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long
non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
Copy this entire section, and paste it directly below. We're going to change the elements I've highlighted in red to the following:

#left-sidebar-wrapper (this makes the css for
this section unique)
float: left (this will make the
new sidebar float to the left of the main column)

This will provide the styling for the new sidebar element which we will create
next.

Now, you need to find this section further down the page:

<div id='main-wrapper'>

Immediately before this section, you should paste the following piece of code:

<div id='left-sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section
class="sidebar" id="left-sidebar" preferred="yes">
</div>
Let me explain the elements of this code to help you understand what we've just done:

<div id='left-sidebar-wrapper'> This section tells the browser that the left-sidebar element exists here, and to look in the css for the appropriate styling for this element.
<b:section class="sidebar" id="left-sidebar"
preferred="yes">This tells the browser the class of the sidebar
element and all other elements (widgets) which may be included in this section.
The ID of this element must be "left-sidebar" in order to make it unique,
otherwie this would cause problems when viewing. It is preferred so that it
will feature in the layout, even if no widgets are placed within it.
If you preview your template, you will notice that the right sidebar will be beneath the main section at the moment. This is because the outer-wrapper is still only wide enough to accomodate one sidebar. So now we need to expand the outer wrapper to accomodate this new sidebar.

Find this section in the HTML code:

/* Outer-Wrapper
-----------------------------------------------
*/
#outer-wrapper {
width: 660px;
margin:0
auto;
padding:10px;
text-align:left;
font:
$bodyfont;
}

We need to increase the width of the wrapper by the width of the left-sidebar-wrapper, in this case 220px. So, change the value in red to 880px.

You may also want to change the width of the header-wrapper to 880px so that
it spans the new width of your blog:

#header-wrapper {
width:880px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
}

At this point, you should save your template. At present, your new sidebar will not be seen as there are no widgets contained within it, though it will still be present in the markup of the page. Once you have saved your template, go to Template>Page elements in your Blogger dashboard.

Your layouts section should now look something like this:

You can now add a page element (or two) to your new left sidebar.

But we aren't quite finished yet! If you add anything to this left sidebar, you will probably notice that it jams right up to the main section, like this:

This is because there is no space defined between the left-sidebar and the main ection. We need to create this space in the template's HTML.

To do this, we will add a margin to the left hand side of the main posts section. Find he following code in your template's HTML and add the code defined in red:

#main-wrapper {
width: 410px;
float: left;
margin-left: 20px;
word-wrap: break-word;
/* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden;
/*
fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

This defines a margin space of 20px between the left-sidebar and the main column. You should also ensure you adjust thewidth of the outer-wrapper from 880px to 900px to ensure the width of your blog is enough to accomodate this margin too. Either that, or you could reduce the width of your main column/a sidebar by 20px to serve the same purpose. Now, your previewed template should look more like this:

Finally, save your template and enjoy your new sidebar!
The same principles described here can help you create a three column template from any Blogger template, though you may find that you'll need to adjust the width, margins and padding for your new sidebar in order for it to look the way you would like.
Also, you can configure your new sidebar to float to the right, and have two sidebars on the right of the main column if you prefer. Simply set the CSS of your new sidebar to float: right; instead.

Here is a download of the three column Minima template for reference (or if you prefer to use a preconfigured template instead!):

Download 3 column Minima template (Skeezy's note: this link wasn't werking erlier, but keep trying. I cood aksess it later on.)
For more Blogger templates to download, please have a look through the Templates section here at Blogger Buster.

How do I back up my Blogger blog?

2008-07-15T20:00:00.000-07:00

My best frend Castle asks

Dear Skeezix,

How can we back a Blogger blog up?We are thinking that it would be absolutely heartbreaking if anything happened to Storm's blog...and we wanna make a copy of it, just in case...

Love,
Castle xxx

Castle, yer in luk! Blogger has a new feecher called import and export wich helps yoo do a bakup. GO HEER FOR COMPLEET INSTRUKSHUNS!

How to Make an Email Link

2008-03-19T10:45:00.000-07:00

Camies's Kitties asked:

Skeezix,

We were wondering how we can put up a link with our e-mail address so people can e-mail us. We looked but didn't see it in the topics covered.

Tiki, Tavi, Cody and Camie

This is eezy, but yoo mite not wunt to do it cuz it will jenerate spam. Spiders and bots crawl the innernet looking for emale adresses to harvist, and beefore yoo know it, yer male box will be full of viagra offers and reqwests to send munney to Nijeeria.

Heer is whut the link strukcher looks like:

<a href="mailto:camie@camieskitties.com">camie@camieskitties.com</a>

Yoo just replace it with yer emale adress.

But as I sed, this will make spam show up in yer male box.

There are forms and javascript yoo can use to make yer emale adress invizibul to the spiders and bots, but I'm not sertin thare 100% effektive (I'll look up one of thoze skripts and post it heer shortly.) I purrsunully think the safest thing to do is post a grafik with yer emale adress on it, and don't link it.... yer frends can still eezily find yer emale adress, but it's more safe frum spammers.

A reeminder, win yoo post an emale adress in text on yer blog, don't paste in the emale adress, insted use the following format:

myname AT mydomaine DOT com

Blogger image upload problems

2008-03-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

My best frend Jeter Harris rites:

deer skeez,
heer it iz ... day deux uv not bein able to uplode a pikshur.
da messije i get iz dat i'm havin sum server difficultiez.
i'm reelee reelee mad at google fer dis.
do u hav any idearz?
yerz troolee-o'jh

Jete, I understand yer frustrayshun. Forchewnitly, thare's an eezy werkarownd. Yoo need to uplode the foto to anuther site and then point to it frum yer blog. Yoo can uplode to Catster, Flickr, photo bucket, or any one of many free image hosts. Once it's bin uploded sumware other than Blogger, git the image "path" - that's the URL ware the image livs. To do that, rite-clik on the image to pop up the menu as shone beelow:

Selekt PROPERTIES and then the dialog box that comes up will show yoo the URL of the image:

Copy the URL (by selekting and hitting CONTROL-C), and then bak at yer blog, in the EDIT HTML mode, paste (CONTROL-V) the URL into yer post and in frunt of it, put <img src= " and after it, tipe " border="0" >

so that the hole thing looks like:

<img src="http://www.fotosite.com/jeterspikcher.jpg" border="0">

... and yer dun!

How do I git started with blogging?

2007-12-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

How do I git started blogging?
It's as easy as setting up a Blogger account. Blogger is probably the easiest blogging platform to git yoo up and running without having to know any kind of coding. (The new Blogger werks much much better than the old Blogger.) There are other blogging applikayshuns as well, including Typepad, Wordpress, LiveJournal, Blog.com, and Blogstream. Many ISPs also offer blog functionality with thare hosting akkownts. Some of theeze are availabul for a low yeerly fee, and offer a free trial. Take advantije of the free trial to see if yoo like thare templates, and if it's eezy for yoo to use.

Heer are a few:

How offin shood I blog?
As offin as yoo have sumthing to say. It's best if yoo post at leest a few times a week, so that evrywun gits used to viziting yer blog and it becomes a habit --- this will help bild traffik to yer blog and yoo won't feel like yer blogging in a vakyoom. If yoo don't blog in a wile, yoo cood fall off evrywun's radar.

On the other paw, don't bern yerself owt! Naptime is importunt! And don't just post entreez for the sake of bloggin more offin than not --- if yer blog izn't intristing, yoo won't be abul to establish a fan base.

Nobuddy's commenting on my blog!
Comments are a good mezhure of how engaged other cats are with yer blog. If yer not gitting comments, chek to make shur yoo don't have comment moderayshun enabled. (Uzhually a chekbox in "Settings" for comments, depending on whut blog platform yer on.) If comment moderayshun is NOT enabled, yer blog probly needs more vizibility. Ferst of all, both me and the Cat Blogsphere try to annownse new blogs -- so drop us an emale or comment and let us know yoo've got a new blog. Second, get owt thare and start commenting on other cat blogs. Win we see new faces, we'll chek yoo owt and comment on yer blog.

Get on blogrolls
Emale me (skeezix AT skeezixthecat DOT com) and I'll add yoo to mine. After yoo've vizited spesifik blogs sevrul times and left comments, ask the blogger to add yoo to thare blogroll ... and reesiprokate. To reesiprokate meens to add them to yer own blogroll as well.

Partisipate in Memes
If yer a regyuler kontributor to the vareeyus memes (Thursday Thirteen, for ixzampul), others will git used to viziting yer blog on thoze days. Adding auto-linkies helps a lot!

Use Cat Blog Help as a resource
We're heer to help. We hope to provide help on evry aspekt of cat blogging and will be adding kontent daily, so chek heer offin for the newest stuff going on of intrist to cat bloggers.

Shood I go with Blogger or Wordpress?

2007-10-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

If yer new to blogging and are trying to figyer owt wich platform to use, I fownd a good deskripshun of the pros and cons of Blogger vs. Wordpress.

KLIK HEER to reed a good summayshun of the relative merits of Blogger and Wordpress.

How do I add a pikcher to my sidebar - what's this "widget interface" yoo talk abowt?

2007-09-26T11:54:00.000-07:00

My best frends Skeeter & LC ask:

We want to put a pic in our sidebar, but we can't find this "widget interface" that you mentioned. What is it and where do we get it?

Skeeter and LC

It isn't anything yoo need to "get" --- now all Blogger blogs utilize the widget interface. I used to have to differensheeate between the two when cats askt for blog help becuz the old and the new interface were compleetely diffrint. The old Blogger interface made yoo make edits to yer template in HTML. But Blogger forst evrywun to convert to the widget interface erlier this yeer. So win yoo hit the template tab yoo now see a bunch of boxes on the template page that yoo can moove arownd or clik to edit insted of digging thru HTML.

Widgets are self contayned mini-applikayshuns (often, therd party applikayshuns) that yoo can plop into yer blog withowt a having to have a lot of programmer knowlidje.

We have an explanayshun of how to add a linked image to yer sidebar heer. If yoo don't wunt it to be linked, just don't inklood the link code.

How do I change my Catster bakgrownd?

2007-09-17T21:53:00.001-07:00

Miz rites:

Skeezix, I like you and Daisy's backgrounds on Catster. How do I change mine? I
am not a plus member if that makes a difference.

I don't know if non-Plus members can configyer thare pages, but if yoo can, heer's how to do it:

1) Go to yer accownt set up page and klik "Modify biography & traits":

2) On the Bio screen, skrole down a little bit, and klik "Fun Stuff."

3) Yoo'll see a bunch of oranje bio feelds.

The little one on the left is the feeld name. For this use, yoo'll just stik in a peeriod so it won't show too much on yer profile page.

The little one on the right deetermines the vertical height this line takes up on yer profile page. For this usage, tipe in "10".

The big box in the middle is ware yoo'll put the code for a bakgrownd or a musik file to play win the page lodes. The code yoo stik in thare is

with the "http" part pointing to the path of yer bakgrownd image file (yoo can have it hosted on photobucket or other file sharing site.) Klik heer for infermayshun on image hosts.

Yoo can test it with this backgrownd: http://skeezixthecat.com/images/bg_donanobispacem.gif

The code for an mp3 file is:
<embed src="http://www.skeezixthecat.com/music/happyboy.mp3"
height="20"
width="145"
autostart="true"
loop="false"
width="0"
height="0">
</embed>

With all that sed, yoo mite have to be a Plus member to be abul to go to the Fun Stuff area... so why not upgrade???

I'm sick of my page. How do I change it?

2007-09-17T21:06:00.000-07:00

My best frend Jeter Harris rites:

... i'm sick uv mi page ... it'z borin fer me an i wood like to change it. i'm prettee scared dat i will blow it ... do u hav sum sugjeschunz fer me? thank u.

Jete' it's as eezy as backing up yer current template, then pikking a new one.

Ferst, save a copy of yer existing template (so if yoo skrew up, yoo can go bak). To do so, klik the Template tab (or link), and under it klik "Edit HTML". (Yoo can klik theeze pikchers to biggify.)

Make shur the "Expand Widget Templates" chekbox is chekt.

Now, klik in the big text box that has yer template. Select-all (CTRL-A on yer keybord) and copy (CTRL-C), then open up notepad or werdpad or other text editor (MS-Werd is not a good choice) and paste (CTRL-V) the contents of yer klipbord into the empty doc and save. Now yer bakt up.

Next, yoo'll need to pik a new template. It's as eezy as pikkin' yer noze. Ferst, klik the "Pick New Template" link. The templates will be displade beelow it. Just skrole thru the deezines (most have three or fore diffrint choices in diffrint colors), selekt the one yoo like and then klik the oranje SAVE TEMPLATE buttun:

Switching templates will NOT do anything to yer blog posts. Evry once in a wile, it does eet sum of yer page elements in yer sidebar win a new template is selekted .... but thare eezy to reetreeve if yoo bakt up beefore yoo started. In fakt, it's kind of teedius, but it can be helpful if, beefore yoo start, yoo open eech one of yer sidebar elements and copy the html to a blank text file (one long file with all the pasted code) ... it will save yoo having to reed thru a lot of XML to find yer widget code in yer backup file ~~when~~ if yer mom is helping yoo and she messes up.

Heer are sum tips:

Don't stress owt abowt making the switch. 99% of the time it is seemless.
A littul wine helps kalm yer helper down, but more than a littul is not such a good thing. So, like, win yer ladey gits home frum a Book Club meeting and she's all giggly and duzn't say her werds vary kleer, win she sez, "Jeter, how's abowt we change da way yer blog looks tonite??" JUST SAY NO!
If yoo reely mess up, just paste yer backed up old blog template into the box on the Edit HTML page.

Can one gmail account have 2 blogs?

2007-09-17T20:29:00.000-07:00

Laura rites:

Hi Skeezix,

Can one gmail account have 2 blogs?

When I set up Buddy's blog (Nezbine.blogspot.com), I used my gmail account & used her name for the blogger part. Now I want to make my own blog, and I did create a test one, but I can only post to it as Buddy (nezbine). Is there a way I can create my own blogger account without deleting hers or messing it up? If I modify it so it's me instead of her, then her blog will have my picture & stuff from the profile page, instead of her info. That would bother me.

Laura

Akshully, Laura, it's eezier than yoo think. The post beelow (wich ansers a similer qweschun that Jeeter askt) deeskribes the process. But let me ixplane a littul bit more....

When yoo set up a blogger (blogspot) blog with a blogger ID, the blog and ID are linked but not exkloosively so. The cat hoo orijinully set up the blog will be the administrayter (meening s/he can chanje the layowt and add new awthors), but addishunul awthors can be set up for any blog. And, a singul blogger ID can set up many other blogs and add many addishunul awthors to thoze blogs.

And, the orijinul blogger accownt under wich the blog was set up need never be used for posting.

So, say Buddy's blogger accownt was set up under the emale adress nezbine@gmale.com. And say thare are two blogs set up under that accownt (the blogs yoo see win yer in yer accownt dashbord):

Nezbine.blogspot.com
Laura.blogspot.com

Yoo cood have the following awthors set up under thoze accownts:

Accownt: Nezbine.blogspot.com:

Buddy (nezbine@gmale.com - the administrator and sole awthor)

Accownt: Laura.blogspot.com

Buddy (nezbine@gmale.com - the administrator)
Laura (laura@yahoo.com - an awthor/contributor)

Once yoo add yerself as an awthor to the "Laura" blog, you can post with yer name. What will happen once yoo set up yer emale adress with permisshun to post, is that yoo'll git an emale frum Google to validate yer adress and yoo'll klik the link to compleete the process, and then yoo can set up yer compleete profile with pikchers and evrything.

The post beelow ixplanes how to set up permisshuns wich will enable yoo to have yer own blogger ID - even if it's with an ixzisting blog!

(Thinking abowt Buddy makes me sad, but I'm happy she had a good long life with yoo.)

FOLLOWUP QWESCHUN:

Laura asks:
When I set up Buddy's blog, I used my gmail address, but she had(s) her own email address. Can I add that and reassign ownership somehow? Her picture/profile is connected with my email address rather than her own. Is that making any sense? I know I know, I totally botched this when I did it. (Slapping forehead)

What I wood do is:

1) Add her as an awthor to her blog using her emale adress (not that it matters, but still, I'd probly do that), then

2) Sine in to blogger with yer emale adress and edit the profile so that it has yer foto.

The problim is that the profile on her blog wood then show YOO, so I wood deelete the page element on her blog that contanes the profile and add a new element (pik the HTML/Javascript one) wich will allow yoo to add a foto and the profile manyully.

How do I git my own pikcher and name to show win I leeve comments?

2007-09-15T12:40:00.000-07:00

My best frend Jeter Harris rites:

deer skeezix,
u wood think dat i wood be a bit smarter abowt dis ... but i'm not. az u mus know ... mi brudder mickey mantle an i share da same image wen we make commentz (mi squillion laffin an laffin) i'm purrsonallee sick uv dis an wood like mi own hansum image. thus, cood u talk mi brudder an me throo da stepz to havin owr imagez show up wen we make commentz? thank u.

This is eezy to do, Jeter!

1) Ferst, set up emale adresses (on gmail or yahoo) for eech of the cats yoo wunt to have profiles for. So for ixzampul, yoo mite set up emale adresses at yahoo for:

jeterh0303@yahoo.com
laffinanlaffin07@yahoo.com
mickeymantledacat@yahoo.com

Now, sine into blogger with whatever emale adress and passwerd yoo usually use. Whut yer going to do is ADD thoze emale adresses as blog awthers. (Yoo can akshully akomplish the same thing setting up yer own blogger accownts sepritly, but this way is a littul more streemlined and yoo won't aksidently set up extra blogs.)

2) So, frum yer Dashbord, klik the Settings tab,
3) Then klik the Permissions link:

This gits yoo to the skreen ware yoo will add blog awthurs.

4)Klik the bloo ADD AUTHORS buttun and add the emale adresses yoo set up above.

5) Sine into the emale acccownts yoo gave permisshun to, and klik the link that Blogger sent yoo.

6) Now the new emale adresses are linked to yer blog, and all yoo need to do is set up the Blogger profiles for theeze new adresses... compleete with yer own pikcher and evrything.

Once yoo have theeze profiles set up, yoo can log into comments with the new emale adress and passwerds and yer hansum face will show up next to the comments.

Deleting Spam Comments on Blogger

2007-09-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

When you get an icky spam comment (or any kind of icky comment you wanna get rid of) you want to know how to delete the spammy or icky comment even if you don't have comment moderation turned on. Here's how you do it in blogger:

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to the post that has the icky comment the same way you'd go to read cool comments.

3) The comments page part may look one of these two ways below, but that's ok!
Look for the lil trashcan icon that's with the icky comment and click that.

After you've clicked the lil trash can by the icky comment, you'll see this.

5) Check the box next to "Remove forever" and then click "Delete Comment".
Checking "Remove forever" makes it vanish like there never was an icky comment at all, so that's good.

6) Once you've done that, you see this, and you're all done!

No more icky comment! Woo hoo!

How to make a moovey

2007-09-02T17:45:00.000-07:00

Phoebe rites:

Dear Skeezix,
Can you please give me some information about how to make my very own movie? I would really like to be an adventure movie star, but I don't know how to edit my footage and add interesting captions and things. I searched all the help center posts and couldn't find info about this question. Thank you.

Ferst, yoo'll need a moovey camra that takes digital mooveys. Thare are sevrul tipes frum wich to chooze: ones that rekord strate to DVD, ones that use mini-DVR tapes, memery cards, etc. I have one that uses mini-DVR tapes and I like it a lot. It's mostly a matter of persunul preferinse.

Secund, yoo'll need movey software.

If yer on a PC, yoo shood have Windows Moovey Maker alreddy installed. Thare's a tootoriul heer on how to use it. It's pritty strateforwerd. As much as I hate Bill Gates, this akshully isn't a bad peese of software, it's free, and it duzn't take vary long to lern it.

If yer on a Mac, it's even eezier. Just use iMovie. The tootoriul is heer.

Most evrybuddy I know was abul to figyer it all owt by going thru the tootoriul and taking a stab at it: if yoo run into problims, don't hezitate to ask!

Expandable Content Skript

2007-09-01T15:34:00.001-07:00

Heer's ware yoo can git an expandable content skript. It's good for win yoo have a lot of content for sumthing in yer sidebar that takes up a lot of space and yoo wunt to only show it win yer reeder expands it. It's good for menus, blogroles, bios and stuff like that.

Reading All those Cat Blogs

2007-08-06T11:59:00.000-07:00

Ever since blogrolling stopped automatically updating the other blogs, it's been harder to visit friends. We set up an account with bloglines to start a feed reader. Bloglines will automatically tell us which blogs have been updated and which haven't.

Right now, we have all of our cat friends in one folder. This makes it quick and easy to check everyone.

The PROS of Bloglines:

Easy to check on what's new.
I can go to one space and only open blogs that have been updated--this makes blog chekcing much faster--notice I've been around more?
I can check on any computer and don't have to remember a lot of urls.

The CONS of Bloglines (I have not tried other feed readers, so other cats may have suggestions)

Putting everything in one folder, if I don't look at everyone, it's automatically set so that the folder is considered read--even if I have to leave and come back--which means I can miss posts. I can fix this by putting up several folders but am not ready to do this.
Skeezix blog NEVER seems to update
Some days everything seems to update and other days NOTHING--even if I know certain cats, like Kaze and Latte have probably written.
I still have to go to the blog itself to comment.

It's not hard to set up accounts. I found that after I set up the account and started adding blogs, I could add a tool to my browser toolbar and just say subscribe with bloglines. This made adding blogs much faster.

How do I change the Post Date?

2007-07-09T14:22:00.000-07:00

My good frends Yuki and Kimiko ask:

skeezix, peese hep us. sometimes ars mommees can only hep us wif gettin ar posts ready on the weekend but doesnts want to publish them all at once. she says white wednesday shouldnt show up on sunday. how can she change the date (on new blogger) so it will publish on the day she wants iffens tho she makes it up before the publish date? --- yuki & kimiko

That's an eezy one! At the bottum of yer blogging window (above the orange PUBLISH POST buttun), thare's a Post Options link:

Klik it. It will expand an area that inkloods the place ware yoo can modify the date:

Put in the date/time yoo wunt and save it! It's as eezy as that!

How do I do "strike through" text?

2007-06-07T10:47:00.000-07:00

My buds Kimo & Sabi rite:

Dear Skeez -
we was wonderin' how to do "strike throughs" on our text. Da only options we sees available are: bold, italix, color, size.

It's pritty eezy! But yoo'll need to do it under the "Edit HMTL" tab in Blogger (not the "Compose" tab) sinse yoo need to hand-code it.

The tag for a strikethru is <strike> . So yoo put <strike> beefore whut yoo wunt to strike thru and cloze it with </strike>

So to make it look like this: ~~SKEEZIX~~

yer code will look like this:<strike>SKEEZIX</strike>

Is Werd Verification Werth It?

2007-06-06T17:20:00.000-07:00

Perfektly Parker asks ...

"Is there really an advantage to having word verification on your comments section of the blog? I don't have it on my blog, but I notice some kitties do. I don't get spam or anything else without it, and sometimes Mommy has a hard time commenting on kitties blogs for me that do have it 'cause v's and u's look a lot alike and slow her time she has to help me comment. Your wise opinions would be appreciated."

Parker, I've tride it both ways and have not fownd an inkreese in spam comments with werd varryfikayshun off. Frum an end-user's standpoint, I HATE werd varryfikayshun and git really frustraytid win I can't deesifer the letters. Sumtimes it deeters me frum leeving comments. It duzn't reely deeter spammers.

I have all of my blog comments forwerded to my emale adress so I can tell imeediyutly if sumwun has left a spam comment... and then I go rite in and deeleete it. I get spam comments VARY INFREEQWINTLY --- like once evry three or for munths --- so it's definitly not a problim. I wood rekummend that evrywun hoo uses werd varryfikayshun tern it off for a wile and see if yoo encownter any problims. I'm gessing yoo won't. And then we'll all be much happier.

Jeter Harris may wish to way in on this, tho, cuz he has vary fermly-held convikshuns win it comes to werd varryfikayshun!

How to Customize yer Blogger Hedder

2007-06-03T11:12:00.000-07:00

Thare's a reely grate tootorial owt thare on how to kustumize yer blogger hedder and put images in it. The Blogger teem added this feecher a cupple of weeks ago, and blogger Ryanne made a screencast to show evrybuddy how to do it! KLIK HEER to see the screencast.

How do I resize the cowntdown klok?

2007-05-27T10:55:00.000-07:00

My best frend Jeter Harris rites:

deer skeezix,
i reelee like da cowntdown u hav on yer paje fer blogblast fer peece. i would like to put one on mi paje, too. evreetime i put in da code ... it messez up mi paje becuz it'z too big. can u help me wid dis?
thank u.
yerz troolee--jh

Hey, Jete, it's not too hard, yoo just hafta know ware to look. Heer's whut yoo need to do:

Configyer yer cowntdown klok heer: http://www.pyzam.com/toys/48
Klik the "Get the code for my Count Down" buttun.
Copy the code and paste into yer widjit window for yer blog (the HTML/Javascrip one).
Find in the code ware is sez Height="380" Width="280" (see below)
Change the height and width to fit yer sidebar. I used Height="120" Width="210"
Save and chek to see how it looks - fiddle sum more with the height and width if necessary.

In the pikcher beelow, yoo can see ware the height and width appeer in the code:

Help! My Cat started peeing on the bathroom rug

2007-05-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

NOTE: The Cat Blog Help Center only offers advice on teknikul topiks relaytid to blogging. However, as a one-time ixsepshun, We will try to provide help on a cat beehavyer topik. PLEEZE REPLY IN THE COMMENTS FEELD IF YOO HAVE SUGJESCHUNS FOR JEANIE.

Jeanie rites:

I need help with my cat. She is about 2 years old and has a bad problem with peeing on the bathroom rug. She is litter trained and just started about 2 weeks ago with bad habit. We have tried everything, Pet Srpay, Pepper, Bleaching the rug, and washing it. We dont know what else to do. Any Ideas would be nice.Thank You For Your Time

Deer Jeenie,
We feel yer pane. Reely, we do.

Are thare any changes in yer howsehold reesintly that cood be stressing yer cat? Like, sumwun new livving thare, a new cat, construkshun or noise arownd the litterbox area? Offin, a change in the envirmint will cauze stress and pee problims in cats that have bin good with the litterbox until now. For ixampul, win Mr Tasty Face mooved in with the Food Lady, her cat Perl peed all over Mr Tasty Face's ixpensive furrnicher. Not just once, but many many many times.

Has she bin spayed? Unspayed feemales will pee owtside the litter box to let males know thare avaylubul.

If yoo feel yoo've tride evry remedy and yer cat has bin spayed and nuthing has chanjed in yer envirnmint, yoo shood have yer cat ixzamind as soon as possibul by a vet, becuz this is a simptum of sevrul seveere medikul problims, inklooding a yerinary blokkije, a bladder or yerinary trakt infekshun and hormone problims, as well as other medikul reezins. Thare's a good chanse yer cat is in pane and trying to elimate sumware else, sinse she eqwates her litterbox with panefull eliminayshun.

Reemember, peepul arn't smart enuf to unnerstand cat talk, so yer cat is trying to commyunicate with yoo in a diffrint way to tell yoo thare's a problim. She's not trying to be a bad cat --- peeing owtside the litter box is a last reezort to git yoo to understand her problim.

PS: Is yer ferst name "I dreem of"? Cuz I Dreem of Jeenie is one of my all-time faverit teevee shows. I reely loved her kyoot pink owtfit!

UPDATE: Help frum Rulles soon-to-be-mom

I got the following grate emale abowt the peeing problim (Thanks, Rulles' soon-to-be-mom!)

Dear Skeezix, the puter genius,

Jeanie can email me if she has any questions.

We have a 12 year old Russian blue and he started to pee on the blankets on the sofa. He had done this before but the previous owner didn't mention this to us. We didn't want a cat who peed in other places than in his litterbox.

We contacted the vet and he recommended birthcontroll pills to him in order to
supress his hormones and the need to mark his territory. We didn't think peeing was done in order to mark and we didn't want to give him medicine so we started to experiment with the litterbox. Initally we thought that we didn't clean the litterbox often enough, but he peed on the blanket even if the litterbox was newly washed and we had changed all the litter.

We fixed the peeing problem by making an other litterbox beside the ordinary one. We put there a towel which we chanced to a clean one after he has peed on it (he had his own towels). He used the towel litterbox without us showing it to him, he was clever. He used this towel litterbox every time he was upset. He peed on blankets only if the towel already was peed on. He never pooped there, only in his ordinary litterbox.

In this way we also found out what made him upset and we could often avoid those situations or made them less upsetting for him. We always took his own litterboxes (ordinary and softy) with us when we were visiting other places. This worked really well.

It's worth trying the same with Jeanies cat. Is she siamese? They are known to pee on soft places.

Take an empty litterbox to human toilet, near the place where the rug is, and put the rug she likes to pee on in the litterbox. When she pees on the rug, wash it and put it back again when it's dry. You also need something else (some clothing, rugs, towels) during the time the rug is drying. Later when she always pees in the towel litterbox, and not on the new unpeed rug, try to move the litterbox beside her ordinary one.

--- Rulles soon-to-be-mom

What's the setting so that all links open a new window?

2007-05-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

Monica rites:

Dear Skeezix,I read the post about opening a new window from a link. I was wondering if there is an easier way to make all of the links from your blog open to a new window. I thought I saw that before on the blogger settings page, but i couldn't find it today. Do I have to do it separately on each link? Thank you for your help.

Monica, I think the Blogger settings thing yoo saw was probly the setting ware yoo have a new window pop up win sumbuddy kliks the comments link. I am unaware of any way to universally set up yer blog so that every link opens a new window ... yoo have to add target="_blank" to evry link. But I'll look into it for yoo.

How do I add a linked pikcher to my sidebar?

2007-04-29T23:07:00.001-07:00

The Meezer Gang asked...

Skeezix,
How does one put a link to a picture in the sidebar in blogger? I see where you can add a picture and then add a link but not link a picture.
Thanks,
Meezers

If yoo want to link a pikcher and are using the widget interface on Blogger, yoo need to go to yer template, klik "Page Elements" so yer on the widget interface, and klik "Add a Page Element." In the popup, yoo'll selekt the "HTML/Javascript" widget by klikking "Add to Blog" ...
... in the Popup, enter the text for yer hedding, and than paste the HTML for yer linked image, for example:

<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/oreosmith" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Oreo's Store" src="http://www.skeezixthecat.com/images/catbloghelp/oreosStore.jpg"/></a>

Don't fergit to klik the oranje SAVE buttun on yer template page win yer dun to save the changes to yer template.

What's rong with Blogrolling.com?

2007-04-18T20:26:00.000-07:00

Phoebe asks:

Dear Skeezix,
Do you know why blogrolling isn't working? none of the blogs say which blogs are updated. It's making it hard for me to catch up on my friends. I just wondered if anyone else noticed it. I went to blogrolling website and everything was just normal there.

This happens peeriodikly. I'm pasting in a post frum my 1/03/07 blog, in wich Victor Tabbycat ixplanes part of the problim and how yoo can git yer blog to show as updated:

"This is copied strate frum the Cat Blogosphere, frum advice that my best frend Victor Tabbycat gave on gitting Blogrolling.com to note that yer blog has bin updated. I think they wint on a permunint vakayshun!:
Victor Tabbycat haf sum reely tekneecal advice if u's use Blogroll: Ok, so it's not really news, but if you use Blogrolling fur your linkies an NONE of them say updated, wul, that's happenin to efurryone but the support beans is fast asleep an hidin.
Anyway, there's ONE way to make sure anyone who links to you wif Blogrolling knows you've updated.
1) Go to http://www.blogrolling.com/ping.phtml.
2) Fill out the form.
3) Click Ping (the button, not the kitty at Abby's house)

For asample, I puts "Bonnie Underfoot and Victor Tabbycat" in the first box an "http://2tabbys.blogspot.com/" in the second box. I fink if they don't start fixing Blogrolling or at least talkin to the users who are askin them to fix it, we should all go ofur an HISS at them.

BTW, Blogrolling is run by TuCows an we might haf to hiss at them too. Are cows as vishus as deer? I fink I furgot to mention that if you "ping" blogrolling, you haf to do it EVERY time you post. I sure hope they fix it soon!
Thanks Victor (and the Cat Blogosfeer) for publishing this importint informayshun!Sum of us are lost withowt the pinging becuz it takes so much more time to vizit all the blogs! I uzhully go down my long list and vizit all the updated wuns, but if I don't know hoo has an update, I have to vizit evry singul one... it takes forever, and I can't git to evry wun. So taking the time to ping win Blogrolling's auto-ping is down will
rezult in more vizits to yer blog. Reely! I promiss!"

How to change background colors in your template

2007-04-10T17:21:00.000-07:00

Kaia rites:

I am summoning help, and I think you can help! I am trying to change the background on my blog, and, to no avail, have succeeded. Well, Let me take that back. I succeeded, but it messed everything else up. So, with this effort, I am trying to do two things: 1. change my background, and 2. change the "posting column" background to a solid color because the background is a print. We are not HTML savvy to say the least, but nonetheless we are trying to figure out how to do this. Can you please offer some assistance?

To change fonts and colors, ferst klik the "Layout" link frum yer dashbord (klik to biggify):

Then, klik the "Edit Fonts & Colors" link (1) under the Template tab (klik to biggify):

To change the Page's Backgrownd Color, klik "Page Background Color" in the selekt box (2), then pik a color on the rite by klikking on it (3). Yoo can also enter a hex code in the box to the rite of all the color swatches.

To change the mane kolumn's backgrownd color, klik "Main Background Color" in the selekt box (2) and proseed as above.

Win yer done, klik the oranje "SAVE CHANGES" buttun. If yoo skrew up, klik the bloo "CLEAR EDITS" buttun.

Kaia, it's entirely possibul that yer blog template is not set up this way, so if yoo don't see the same stuff as above, tell me whut yoo do see so I can walk yoo thru it.

To change yer bakgrownd images, follow the instrukshuns heer, and if it duzn't werk, pleeze leeve a deetaled deskripshun of whut yoo did in the comments feeld and we'll look into it for yoo!

How to git a Slide Gestbook

2007-03-19T11:44:00.000-07:00

Reesintly, I put a Flash gestbook on my site. It took abowt 2 minits, and it's vary eezy. It's a widget frum Slide.com, and yoo can kustumize it however yoo wunt: diffrint sizes, diffrint skins, diffrint bakgrownds, etc. (The one downside is that it duzn't come in a size small enuf to fit most sidebars.) I like being abul to see all my best frends faces come up on it!

GO HEER TO GIT ONE.

TIP: For sum reezin, the code that Slide.com provided reezulted in a teevee that was too narrow. So I modifide thare code and changed the width frum 400 to 550, and changed the height frum 400 to 425. Yoo can also try a 426 width and a 320 height. Or play around with other dimenshuns.... too small duzn't werk tho -- I coodn't shrink enuf to fit in my sidebar.

=========================

Kaze asks:

Yes, mine doesn't want to fit in my sidebar...how did you get yours to be at the top of your page?

Yoo'll need to edit yer template. I've provided Blogger instrukshuns beelow:

OLD BLOGGER

For old blogger templates, klik the template tag and paste yer code snippet above this div tag in yer template:

<div id="content">

NEW BLOGGER

Klik yer template tab.
Klik the "Edit HTML" link beelow it.
IMPORTUNT! Chek the "Expand Widget Templates" chekbox at the top rite above ware yoo edit yer template.
Paste yer code above this div tag: <div id="'content-wrapper'">
Klik the orange "Save Template" buttun.

How do I add myusik to my blog?

2007-03-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

The code to add myusik to yer blog is beelow. Yoo'll need to have the mp3 hosted online sumware, and then replace the URL below with the path to yer mp3. In the code beelow, loop is set to false, wich meens it won't play over and over and over agin and drive yer viziters insane. To make it repeet, replace "false" with "true". In the code it's set to play awtomatikly win yer page lodes. If yoo don't wunt it to play awtomatikly, change autostart="true" to autostart="false".

<embed src=http://www.yoursite.com/song.mp3
height="20"
width="145"
autostart="true"
loop="false"
width="0"
height="0" >
</embed>

How do I uplode fotos on blog.com?

2007-03-14T23:21:00.000-07:00

My new best frend Parker asks:

I can't figure out how to put a picture on my post. When I upload them from my computer they go into an album. I signed up with blog.com and my Mommy is getting so frustrated! Please help if you can! Thank-you!

Parker, I understand yer frustrayshun, becuz I coodn't git a foto uploded win I tride -- until I uploded a foto that was alreddy online (for ixzampul, hosted on Photobucket.) Heer are the steps I wint thru:

STEP 1: Klik the foto ikon:

STEP 2: A popup will come up. Klik the "Insert External Image" tab:

STEP 3: Paste the foto's URL in the Image Address box, then klik the insert buttun at the bottum of the skreen:

KLIK HEER for more informayshun on image hosting (since blog.com's hosting duzn't appeer to be werking).

Once yoo've got yer image hosted online sumware, to find out whut its URL is, all yoo need to do is view it, then rite-klik on the foto and select the last opshun -- PROPERTIES --- and then in the box that pops up, the address/URL is displayed abowt 1/3 of the way down. Copy the URL for yer image and paste in into the adress box as deeskribed above.

Heer's ware yer URL is displayd in the Properties box win yoo rite-klik an image:

Parker, I hope that helps. I'm gonna follow up with blog.com to see if I can git the album funkshun to werk rite.

Wordpress blogs and Spam

2007-03-04T09:08:00.000-08:00

I've been noticing that some cats are getting some comment spam. Some of those spam comments are from place selling interesting items. It's easy to go in and delete them. It can get frustrating if for some reason your blog is targeted for lots of this comment spam. Blogger helps because you can insert that little comment verification, however human spam can still get through.

There's also been some targeted hate spam going on in comments of various blogs. I'd like to point out a plugin you can get for your wordpress blog that combats all sorts of spam. Wordpress has many spam plugins. I found a blog using spam karma and I found that particular plugin and so I've used it. I have no real complaints except that from time to time spammers will find away around the filters.

However, it saves me most spam. In the logs I have 84 spam comments and about a dozen approved comments since the last time I checked. I believe that's been about 3 days. Spam Karma automatically captures the IP of your spammer as well as an email address and any other information. You can then either blog the email address (although it's probably fake), the keywords they are using (ie viagra), or you can even block the entire IP. Blocking the IP is dangerous because sometimes people are on a group IP address. However, for a really bad spammer that you can't get rid of any other way, it's a good solution. You can always remove the IP when the spammer moves on.

I still get a little spam, but very little. And if I do, spam karma will help me prevent more from that source in the future. It also gives me tools to work with if I have been targeted for any hate spam coming my way. Worst case scenario, I get a lot of hate spam from one IP. I can block it, but I can also report it to my host and they can block that IP from getting to my site and/or report the spammer to THEIR host.

RSS: A Primer

2007-02-25T23:28:00.000-08:00

RSS meens Really Simple Sindikayshun, and it makes it eezy to share and distribyoot content on the web. I ran acrost a grate blog post the other day that ixplanes it in a much kleerer way than I ever cood. The post is "How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way." See? I knew yoo'd like it. It's geered more toward peepul hoo mite wunt to install RSS reeders, but it will still give yoo a good overvyoo of whut RSS is.

Heer's Wikipeedia's deskripshun of RSS
Heer's how to make an RSS Feed

I will add more later.....

[Wordpress] Backup your Blog!

2007-02-20T16:15:00.000-08:00

We had a terrible scare yesterday, I accidentally deleted our blogs database :O Worse still we didn't have a recent backup. It has taken 24hrs, and we finally have it recovered after many hours of work.

Don't let this happen to you! Back up your precious blogs regularly!

For Wordpress users there is an easy to use plugin that will save a back up of your database for you and save you all the stress (we actually did have it installed..and forgot about it *blush*). Wordpress Database backup

Download the file, and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. You will also need to change the write permission on your wp-content folder. Activate it in your blogs dashboard in the plugin section. Then go to the Manage tab, then Backup. Download the backup to your computer, or have a copy emailed to you.

Perhaps Skeezix can share some info with the Blogger users on how you can backup your blogs too.

How to add Sidebar Content

2007-02-20T10:30:00.000-08:00

My noo best frend Oreo the Cat asks:

I dont get how to post icons to my side bar of my bloggie...like the one for the bloggie party.....where do you post the code for the thing to appear in the sidebar!

Oreo, I'm assooming yer qweschun is abowt New Blogger's widjit interface. (If not, pleeze klarify yer qweschun in the comments feeld of this post.) With noo blogger, altho yoo can modify yer template direktly, whut yer prompted to do by deefawlt is use the widget interface to add and deleete content frum yer template. This reqwires a lot less HTML knowlidge on yer part (although going to modity the HTML in yer template direktly is now more komplikaytid.)

STEP ONE: GO TO THE WIDJIT INTERFACE TO MODIFY YER TEMPLATE. To do this, go to the Template Tab, and klik the Page Elements link:

STEP TWO: CLIK THE "ADD PAGE ELEMENT" LINK. In the template I use, yoo have a choice of placing it in the top grooping in yer sidebar or in the bottum grooping. (I'll show yoo later how to moove it within that grooping.) This will pop-up a window.

STEP THREE: KLIK "ADD TO BLOG" BUTTUN TO CHOOZE TO ADD THE HTML/JAVASCRIPT PAGE ELEMENT. This will pop up a window in wich yoo can enter the code for the link and the image. (For info on how to create the HTML for links and images, KLIK HEER.)

STEP FOUR: RITE YER TITUL AND ENTER THE CODE FOR YER LINKED IMAGE. Yoo can klik the Rich Text link for eezier editing. Save yer changes.

STEP FIVE: DRAG YER BLOK TO WHATEVER POZISHUN YOO LIKE. Back in the widjit template page, yoo can drag yer new element to whatever pozishun yoo like. When yoo mouse over an element, a cross thing will appeer, wich allows yoo to drag and drop yer elements. Once yer done, clik to save and that's it!

How to I git a kustom grafik to show up on the Top 100 Cat Sites?

2007-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:00

Many of us are now listed on the Top 100 Cat Sites Site, and my best frend Jeter Harris was wonderin' how we got owr custom grafiks to display insted of the five star sistem grafiks that show up by defalt.

Heer's an example of a custom and a sistem grafik:

To start, yoo'll need to make a grafik. Heer are the gidelines:

Yoo'll need to have yer image uploded sumware like photobucket or yer catster foto album or sumthing similer.
The image must be 88 pixels wide and 31 pixels tall.
Yer image can be a gif or jpg.

To uplode win yoo ferst join, paste the URL of yer image in the BANNER URL feeld as shone beelow (yoo can klik to biggify):

If yer alreddy a member, click the EDIT INFO link in the top menu, and paste the URL of yer image into the BANNER URL feeld as shone beelow, then enter yer passwerd and klik submit:

That's all thare is to it!

Emale Notifikayshun Services of Blog Updates

2007-02-17T23:39:00.000-08:00

My deer frends Dazey, Jesse & Conner Cloud ask:

Skeezix,

How do we get a box for beans (like our granma) to get an email when we blog?

Thanx
d
j
cc

I've had a box for Blogarithm on my site for sum time. I wasn't shur it was werking, but I reesintly set up a test and was abul to suksessfully git an emale alert win my blog was updated. It's nice becuz it also provides an extrakt of yer post as well as a link to it, and it offers a seemliss way to forward the blog post - not just the kerrunt one, but also many of yer reesint posts. GO HEER to set up a blogarithm notifikayshun.

Win yoo submitted yer qweschun and did sum reeserch, I also fownd Feedwhip.com thru wich yoo can set up up to five alerts for free. It sends all the text frum yer blog entry (but not non-text content), wich is not so good if yoo wunt to git traffik coming to yer blog.

Neether Blogarithm nor Feedwhip send notises rite away, but they go owt the same day yer blog stuff is posted.

Thare's also a service wich will send an IM when a blog is updated. Go heer for deetales... altho yer granma probly isn't on IM...

Anybuddy else got any notfikayshun services they've used suksessfully?

Paying for the Cat Food

2007-02-15T08:41:00.000-08:00

I know that there are a number of folks out there who blog about their cat who need a little extra income. I see a lot of cafepress stores. Did you know you could become a cafepress affiiate? For instance, if you love what the Cat Blogosphere has done, if they are open to affiliates, you can link to their store and if you have a cafepress affiliate number, you can get a few cents for every sale they make if the people click off from your blog.

Another you think you can do is offer adspace on your blog. I believe that google allows google adsense on blogger blogs. It's easy to sign up for and you can display them on your blog. Another company that sells adspace is called adbrite. They set you up with advertisers who pay a certain amount a month to advertise on your site. How much they will pay depends upon the amount of traffic you get that is targeted to the audience that your advertiser wants to target.

Another easy affiliate to work with is Amazon.com. They have amazon shops, like I have at Chey's Place. They also have links that look at what you are writing about and then automatically generate a product that might fit in with your content. There are lots of places that offer affiliate networks and whether you are eligible with a blogspot blog depends upon each companies policies. Many of them do require you to have your own domain name.

This is just a very brief overview of some ways to make a little extra from your blog. There are many different blogs out there that are just devoted to different ways to make money from your blog, so this is far from inclusive. On that I recently heard about was Mike's Money Making Mission. Mike isn't an internet marketer who invested anything in making money from his online activities, so basically all he has done is spent some time. It has some great ideas and for those who have more time than money, it might be an interesting read.

New Blogger: Can't uplode fotos

2007-02-05T20:27:00.000-08:00

My best frends Jake and Bathsheba rite:

Skeezix, our Mom is so upset right now that she's almost ready to make us stop blogging--and we're on the cusp of our 100th post! We were switched to new blogger over the weekend. We don't know if this is related or not, but something is preventing her from being able to post photos--and it's not like Jeter's problem. It's probably an internal computer problem (um, Dad messed around with Mom's computer a day before we were moved to new blogger and he did stuff like remove cookies). When she clicks on the photo icon while making a blog post, NOTHING happens! It used to open directly into "my photos" and everything was simple. Do you have any idea what the problem could be? Help - or we may never blog again! So much for Man Cat Monday for Jake! ~J&B

Taking the path of leest rezistinse, I think win yer dad mest with yer mom's compyooter he mite have installd a pop-up blokker or a noo browzer with a popup blokker. Try this - hold down the Ctrl key wile yoo press the foto ikon. (Sumtimes, like in IE7, this also makes yoo do an addishunul step just beelow the tab area to enabul popups for eech site.)If that duzn't werk (or the uzhual steps yoo take to allow popups duzn't werk), lemme know and the Cat Blog Help Center Staff will do sum more investigayshun to git to the bottum of this!

And BTW, don't let yer dad mess with yer mom's compyooter!!!

My bakgrownd duzn't show up in IE!

2007-02-04T17:55:00.000-08:00

My vary speshul frend, Daisy the Curly Cat, rites:

I added a special Valentine background/wallpaper to my page. It shows up in Firefox, but not if you use IE. I can't figure this one out!

Daisy, it's a qwik fix:

1) In yer style sheet sekshun, go to ware yer body styles are --- the part that looks like this:

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
text-align: center;
color: #555555;
background: #fff2fc top center repeat-y;
font-size: small;
background:url (http://images.bigoo.ws/content/saint_valentine/background/sv_background_0.gif)repeat;
}

and reemove the style that's displayed in green above: background: #fff2fc top center repeat-y;

2) Then, skrole down past ware yer style sheet ends (</style>) -- abowt 6 lines down frum that is yer body tag. It kurrintly looks like this: <body>

Add this: background="http://images.bigoo.ws/content/saint_valentine/background/sv_background_0.gif"
So it looks like this:
<body background="http://images.bigoo.ws/content/saint_valentine/background/sv_background_0.gif">

That shood make it werk in both Firefox and IE!

Daisy asks anuther qweschun:

"I have just one other little question. Do you know how I can remove the little blank space at the very top of my page? It is only about 1/4" high."

Daisy, that's akshully an image wrapping the top of yer mast. To reemoove it, go to the OUTER-WRAPPER style in yer style sheet. It looks like this:

#outer-wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
border: 0;
width: 742px;
text-align: left;
background: #ffffff
url(http://www.blogblog.com/moto_ms/innerwrap.gif) top right repeat-y;
font: normal normal 110% Arial, sans-serif;
}

and reemoove the line (in red above) that deefines the stile for yur wrapper bakgrownd image:

background: #ffffff url(http://www.blogblog.com/moto_ms/innerwrap.gif) top right repeat-y;

so that the outer-wrapper stile now looks like this:

#outer-wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
border: 0;
width: 742px;
text-align: left;
font: normal normal 110% Arial, sans-serif;
}

Thare's still a space between yer header and the top margin, but I can't figyer owt how to make it go away. Reemooving the margin in the body tag didn't werk. But it did point owt a problim in yer HTML, Daisy...

Down by yer body tag, yoo have dooplikit body tags, and one is clozed owt beefore it shood be. It looks like this:

<body>
<div class="navbar
section" id="navbar"><div class="widget Navbar"
id="Navbar1"><iframe id="navbar-iframe" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0"
src="http://www2.blogger.com/navbar.g?blogID=2240334138501910154"
frameborder="0" width="100%" scrolling="no" height="30"></iframe
>< div id="space-for-ie">

<body
background='http://images.bigoo.ws/content/saint_valentine/background/sv_background_0.gif'> </body>

and the parts in red need to be reemooved!

Secret Paws: The Hows and Whens

2007-01-29T17:31:00.000-08:00

The Cats Stephens asked about Secret Paws ... This is the answer that I posted in the comments with more info attached. If anyone knows MORE, please add your information in the comments of this post. DMM

Regarding "Secret Paws" ... You can visit the blog at Secret Paws or check with the organizers of the whole thing Diva Kitty and the Fluffies to find out more about the activity. As far as I know (the Feline Americans and I did this for the first time at Christmas), it occurs three times per year. Sign ups for April happen in March, sign ups for August happen in July, and sign ups for Christmas happen in November. It might be a good idea to visit the Secret Paws site and let Sophia (or Fiona Bun) know that you'd be interested in participating in the next round.

Secret Paws is open to any animal (and even includes some young children). A price limit is posted (usually $7 - $10) and doesn't include the price of packaging or postage. International "paws" are encouraged and there are always a number from Europe and Australia/New Zealand.

To participate, you email your name, your human's name, email address, home address, gender, and type of animal that you are. You can also specify who you'd like to have as your "paw": woofie, feline, bunny, etc. If you have a favorite color, type of treat, or have an allergy, you should specify that, too.

You can also choose to have a Shelter Pet as your Secret Paw or you can make a contribution of a gift card or some yarn so that Diva Kitty and the Fluffies' mama can make crocheted blankies for them.

After the registration process closes, you'll receive an email with your "paw," his/her preferences, and where to mail the Secret Paws package. When you receive your package of gifts, you open it in front of your humans so that they can take photos for you to post on your blog.

Since there are six of us, we divided ourselves into two groups of three and selected two kitties as our recipients (Maximus and Lucinda). We, in turn, got two Secret Paws presents (from Darling Millie and from Victor Tabbycat & Bonnie Underfoot).

We made sure that we mailed our presents by December 15th so that they'd arrive in time for Christmas. We're not sure if there's a specific time that they have to be mailed in April and August, but we'd assume that the presents should arrive before April 30th and August 31st.

Secret Paws is a lot of fun. It builds community in the blogosphere and also gets more traffic to your blog. Efurrybody should join! We're gonna (and so is Shadow Saluki and our cousins Suzanne and Ben). You can see our Secret Paws photos on our blog: DaisyMae Maus and the Feline Americans.

I hope that this helps and that you'll consider participating in March/April!
DMM
Cat Blog Help Center technician

Blogger is forsing me to konvert to new Blogger!

2007-01-29T11:35:00.000-08:00

This last week, a lot of us hoo've bin on old Blogger have bin forst to konvert to New Blogger withowt having the option of going in and saving owr existing templates in case sumthing got skrewd up in the konverzhun. This made a lot of us nervus.

Having no other choice, I switched over (I save my templates evry kuppul of weeks, so I wuzn't sooper nervus, just a littul nervus). My blog was swicht over with no problims or chanjes. The only diffrinse is that now I can add labels (YAY!).

However, my blog didn't git the new wijit innerface, so I suspekt I mite have to chooze a noo templit or sumthing to git this new teknolojy.

Pleeze share yer ixpeerienses and any problims yoo enkownterd in the comments feeld...!

How do I link to Oreo's Store?

2007-01-27T23:37:00.000-08:00

Munchkin, Missy and Monte rite:

Skeezix, I want to add the link to oreo's new shop to my sidebar. Could you please help me with it?

This is exactly the same as linking a badge (see the post beelow), only the URL will point to Oreo's store (http://www.cafepress.com/oreosmith).

To get the path pointing to Oreo's store grafik, rite klik on the grafik yoo wunt to use. (I used the ferst one on yer Jan 26th post.) In the menu that pops up, selekt "Properties" wich is at the vary bottum. Then, in the Properties dialog box, the 3rd provides the adress of ware the grafik is. Selekt the hole URL http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/345/1325/320/383425/1.jpg

Now, just paste it into yer sidebar ware yoo wunt it to appeer! If yer on the new blogger, yoo'll need to add a page element, and chooze the "HTML/Javascript" widget:

And IN EDIT HTML MODE (not rich text mode) paste the code into the form and save.

If yer on the Old Blogger and/or do not have the widget interface, paste the following code into yer template in the sidebar sekshun ware yoo wunt it to appeer:

<center><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/oreosmith" target="_blank"><img alt="Oreo's Store" src="http://www.skeezixthecat.com/images/catbloghelp/oreosStore.jpg" border="0" /></a></center>

NOTE: Munchkin, Missy and Monte reported having a problim ware the code above still did not werk. So, I did sum testing. Thare appeers to be a blogger bug in the widget wich skrews up the code once it is saved --- win I re-opened the widget, the code was much diffrint and all shifted arownd frum whut I pasted in. So I repasted new code, and I used a diffrint image lokayshun, and evenchully it werked and the code was saved in the korrekt format. I did not encownter any problims pasting into a template direktly. Yoo can see an ixzampul on Rocky's Blog.

How do I get a badge up on my blog?

2007-01-25T17:56:00.000-08:00

My best frend, Jeter Harris, rites:

deer skeezix ... (or anycat on da help teem)
i am tryin an tryin to put da badge dat lux gave me fer da honorabul menshun on mi blog. i copied it an put it on mi catster paje so i would hav a code ... but no matter wut i do ... i can't figyer owt how to put it on mi blog. i am a old blogger, btw.
pleez help me.
thank u.
yerz troolee--jh

Jeter, klik heer for yer code. Yoo'll just copy and paste it into the area of yer template ware yoo wunt the badge to appeer. (For thoze of yoo in noo blogger with the widget-based template, use the HTML/Javascript widget box.)

Basikly, yoo need to create 2 links: an image link (so they'll see yer image) and the link to the six werd story blog. The image link will be in the middle, with yer link tag contayning the URL yer linking to at the beginning and a clozing link tag (</a>) at the end:

<a href="http://sixwordcatstory.blogspot.com/2007/01/six-word-contest-entry.html"><img src="http://files.dogster.com./pix/cats/02/214902/214902_1169678480.jpg" border="0" > </a>

Yoo'll find more info on the HTML yoo'll use HEER and HEER.

How do I add + and - sines next to blogrolls to expand/close?

2007-01-24T16:35:00.000-08:00

My best frend Lux asks:

I've been having trouble trying to set up other blogrolls on my blog, i.e., PhotoHunters blogroll + Wordless Wednesday. I'm using the New Blogger, and what I'd like is to have those + and - signs next to the blogrolls like I've seen on other sites. Can anybody help me?

If yoo'll go to http://www.skeezixthecat.com/bloghelp/expandMenu.html, I've provided two examples, and snippets of the code yoo'll need to implement eech.

The example shows the blogrolls for WW and Photo Hunters, but yoo can substitute or add new blogrolls eezily by replacing thoze blogroll scripts with the blogrolls (or list of links) yoo wunt to display.

How to Add Video to Yer Blog

2007-01-24T11:31:00.000-08:00

Icon Baxter-Bentley asks:

"How about how to add a video to your WordPress blog? I need help with video, but if I figure it owt myself, I'll be sure to post abowt how I did it."

Good qweschun, IBB! This anser mite need addishunul explanayshun frum the WordPress gurus on staff, but I'll walk yoo thru the eeziest way to git a video up on yer blog, and that's by posting it direktly from YouTube.com.

After yoo've uploded yer video to youtube, click yer video's thumnale in yer thumnale list (yoo can klik any of theeze screenshots to biggify):

This takes yoo to the page for that video. Click the Post Video link in the box beelow yer moovey:

Yoo mite git a Post to Blog box. If yoo do, klik the Edit Blog Settings link:

On the Blog Settings page, klik the Add a Blog/Site buttun:

And on the Add a Blog/Site skreen

Selekt yer service (in yer case, eether WordPress or WordPress Slef-Hosted frum the dropdown;
Enter yer username and passwerd for yer blog;
If yer on WordPress Self-Hosted, yoo'll also need to provide yer API URL and API Key.
Klik Add Blog buttun.

(I don't know abowt the WordPress API stuff, so maybe Chey or sumbuddy cood provide more info on how to find that.)

Once yoo've added yer blog, yer set. Go bak to the skreen yer moovey is on, and after klikking the Post Video link, yoo'll be prompted to chooze the blog, add a title and text. Win yoo klik the Post to Blog buttun, it will automatikly send the videeyo to yer blog! It will take a cuppul of minits to show up.

But yer not dun, yet!

For sum blogs, the deefawlt width of the videeyos is too wide -- cauzing the sidebar to be pusht down to the bottum of the page. But it's an eezy fix. Go to yer blog once the video has bin posted, and in EDIT HTML mode, change the height and width attribyoots (they uzhully appeeer twice). I change them to a width of 300 and a height of 247. That's arbitrary -- yoo can change to whutever dimenshuns fit yer blog the best!

My Comments are being overtaken by Mr Anonymus!

2007-01-22T23:51:00.000-08:00

Owr best frends Rosie and Cheeto rite:

I switched ovur to the new blogger and almost all of my comments show up as anonomous. We don't know who this anonomous guy is but he's hawging our cat
friends comments. What do we do!?!

This is a tuff one. Sumtimes, win thare are problims with Blogger's comments, it becomes impossibul to sine in and leeve a comment unless yoo do so anonnymussly. This is maybe whut happend on yer blog. This was a BIG problim win noo Blogger came owt. Mao had that problim for a wile win he swicht over frum old Blogger to noo Blogger... with him, only noo Blogger users cood log in to leeve comments on his blog, so evrybuddy else had to leeve comments as anonnymuss. After a wile, it started werking okay agin.

We did a cuppul of tests tonite, and it seemed like we cood leeve comments on yer blog withowt a problem using both new Blogger and old Blogger signons, so I think we wood rekummend that yoo wate and see whut happens over the next cuppul of daze. If yoo still have the problem, yoo can change yer comments settings so that only rejisterd uzers can leeve comments --- but this leeves all non-Blogger cats unable to leeve comments at all, so it's kind of a last reezort...

If yoo hit the Settings tab, then klik the Comments link, yoo can change yer comments settings. In this case, yoo wunt to change it from "Anyone" to "Only Registered Users" (see below):

This will make it impossible for anywun to leeve comments anonymussly --- but it also meens that only users with Blogger IDs can leeve comments.

The staff of the Cat Blog Help Center will kontinyoo to moniter the sichyooayshun and see if we can find owt more info on why this is occurring!

Permalinks

2007-01-22T12:54:00.000-08:00

When yoo leeve a link to yer blog in a Mr Linkie's box or in comments on a Thursday Thirteen or similer meme, do yoo leeve a link to yer blog, or do yoo leeve a link to the spesifik post? If yer leeving a link that just goze to yer blog (i.e. http://myblog.blogspot.com), yer doing a desservise to the blog commyunity. Yoo shood link to the spesifik post so that win sumwun is klikking on the link weeks later, they see the appropreeyut blog entry rather than the top of yer blog (wich can be frustrayting). The link to a spesifik post is called a permalink.

Heer's the deffynishun of "permalink" frum Wikipedia:

A permalink is a URL that points to a specific blogging entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, its use avoids link rot. Most modern weblogging and content-syndication software systems, including Wordpress, Movable Type, LiveJournal, RapidWeaver, Pivot and Blogger, support such links. Other types of websites use permalinks, too, but the term itself is most common within the blogosphere.

How do yoo know whut the permalink is? I'll provide the info heer for Blogger, and deepend on others to provide instrukshuns for the other blog platforms...

The qwikest and eeziest is to go to yer blog and look in yer sidebar for the area ware yer preeviyus posts are listed. Klik on any link (or rite-klik and vyoo properties) to take yoo to the URL for that post. Heer are 2 ixzampuls of arkived posts lists:

Or, yoo can go to ware yer list of posts is (under "Edit Posts") and klik the vyoo link wich is in the frunt of evry post titul. It looks sumthing like this:

Just klik the View link and grab the URL frum the adress bar, or rite-klik the View link and View Properties to see the link.

If yoo git in the habit of leeving permalinks insted of just the general adress for yer blog, yoo'll grately improove the ixpeeriense for the cats hoo are klikking on links!

Popping up a noo window

2007-01-20T16:20:00.000-08:00

Tooday we'll lern abowt target="_blank".

Altho we all have lots of links on owr blogs, we reely don't wunt owr reeders to LEEVE owr blogs. That's ware it comes in handy to be abul to pop open a new window for links that are owtside yer website. That way, yer reeders can go to the owtside links, but still eezily reetern to reeding yer blog win thare dun.

To make yer link pop up in a noo window insted of staying in the existing window, add target="_blank" to yer link, so that yer link looks like this:

If yoo use blogrolling.com, yoo can add the target="_blank" in the edit form. In the target feeld, tipe _blank. Eezy, huh?

The windows that pop up from the target="_blank" attribyoot are not uzhully blokt by popup blokkers.

Help! My sidebar has shifted to the bottom of the page!

2007-01-19T08:35:00.000-08:00

Brandi rites:

Dear Skeezix,We have had a real problem for several days, and mama can't figure it out. First, we are on old Blogger. Now the problem: the posts have eatten space on our blog, and the sidebar has fallen way below, so you have to scroll way down to see anything on the side bar (including your CatBlog HelpCenter). We want them side by side! Please remember, mama isn't all that computer smart with codes and stuff.Help!!

Thanks!brandi

Good qweschun, Brandi! This one's eezy! Go to yer "BRRRRRRRRRRR..." post and edit the title to reemoove abowt haff of the "R"s. Republish and yoo shood be fine.

When yer sidebar no longer appeers beeside yer mane kolum, it's almost always becuz sumthing in one of the kolums has made the kolums too wide to sit side-by-side. Whut happends is that the width of yer blog is spesifide in the layout. Let's say it's 800 pixels, and the mane kolum is 600 pixels and the sidebar is 200 pixels. If yoo put in a grafik that's 300 pixels wide in the sidebar, it forses the sidebar to be 300 pixels wide. Now it won't fit within the spesifide bowndaries of 800 pixels for the width of the hole blog, so it shifts the overflow downward and the sidebar appeers at the bottom.

Think of it as trying to sqweeze into pants that are too small (good post-Krissmiss analojey, rite?) If yer a size 12 and yer trying to sqweeze into size 10 pants, yoo mite be able to get them on and zip them up if yoo don't try to do sumthing silly like breethe, but what mite happen is that a roll of flab mite spill over the top of yer wasteband.... it's gotta go sumware! (Not that anything like this has ever happend to the Food Lady, I'm just givving an exzampul. So don't rat me owt for blabbing, Mao!) If yoo try to sqweeze sumthing too wide into the sidebar, it won't fit, and the sidebar will shift to an area ware it will fit --- underneeth yer mane kontent area.

The reezin that yer "Brrrrrrrr...." post is kawzing a problim is that strings of letters withowt spaces will display in HTML withowt a line brake, so the extra Rs are forsing the sidebar to stretch beyond the width it's suppost to be. If yoo wunt it to fit korrektly, either deeleete sum Rs or add a space in the middle of the Rs so it rapps.

HTH!

Polls!

2007-01-18T16:36:00.000-08:00

Polls are a grate way to make yer site more inneraktive. Withowt knowing a lik of code, yoo can ask intristing qweschuns of yer viziters. Everybuddy likes to give thare opinyun on stuff! And many are free.

My faverit is vizu.com. They allow yoo to insert pickchers and it's a pritty slik interface that's eezy to customize. Heer are three popyooler blog pole providers:

Word Verification: Settings for Comments

2007-01-15T16:19:00.000-08:00

This is just a personal preference on my part ...

Blogger Users:
I have noticed that cats (and others) who have disabled the "word verification" function in their comments settings tend to get more comments.

Personally, I prefer NOT to have to type the colored string of letters before I can post my comment. I understand that the "word verification" feature is supposed to keep the riff-raff from leaving a plethora of long-winded and profanity-strewn comments, but considering the fact that we ... the blog authors ... can just delete the unwanted comments, what's the point of forcing legitimate commentors from typing that pain-in-the-neck string before posting their thoughts?

If you have a similar mindset to mine, you can find the disable button by choosing "customize" from your dashboard, finding the "settings" tab, choosing the "comments" link, and then choosing to disable word verification. You might find that your comment numbers increase because visitors can just dialog and dash ...
DMM

Squidoo: Another Way to Advertise

2007-01-14T10:21:00.000-08:00

While catster is a social site, Squidoo is more of an advertising site. It can be social, if you visit other people's lens.

Squidoo is a site where you can create a page on your favorite topic, such as, umm.. YOU. I made one on me. People from squidoo can come visit it and then perhaps come visit your blog. You can earn some pennies if people click on links on your page and you can even choose to give them to certain charities. We've requested that they add Best Friends, but they haven't done that yet, but we requested just back in December. We got a very nice prompt response.

Creating a lens or page on yourself at Squidoo allows you to tell more people about you. This is especially important if you have things on a blog that you want to sell, like cafepress products. The more people who see them the more you will sell. Also, because you can make some money if people click on your amazon or cafepress links right at Squidoo, you can make money there too! We made .35 cents last month! We made .35 cents for Ecotrust and .16 for the Humane Society. Okay so we aren't getting rich, but .35 cents is .35 cents and I didn't see the Human Society rejecting their .16 cents!

If you just want more links to your blog, this can help too. You will get more visits if you participate in lens groups. We have one for cat bloggers if you want to join. If you blog isn't listed--and we got tired--you can always let me know on Squidoo that you'd like to be added. And if you have your blog listed in the cat bloggers group, let us know if you'd like us to promote one of your cafe press products too!

It's interesting to wander around there and see what people have come up with.

Change or Delete Blogrolling.com Links

2007-01-14T00:20:00.000-08:00

Here's how yoo can change or delete linkies on yore blogroll at blogrolling.com.

(Note: These instrukshuns are only fur yoo if yoo has yore own blogroll at blogrolling.com. If you's using Skeezix's blogrolling.com code or sumcat else's, yoo gots to email them to ask them to change anyfing on their blogroll.)

Go to www.blogrolling.com

Click Login (under Navigation on the left side) and it takes yoo to a login page.

Enter yore email yoo signed up wif, and yore password, and click the box that says Login.

That'll bring yoo to a page that looks somefin like this:

Look under the name of yore blogroll (I named this wun Blogging Cats) and find Edit/Delete Links.

Click Edit/Delete Links and a list of all the links on yore blogroll will appeer!

They's all on one page listed in alfabetikal order by what they linkies are named.

Yoo can click the furst letter of the name of the linky in the bar at the top of yore blogroll there, or yoo can scroll to go down the page and find the linky yoo wants to change or delete.

Note: This can bee tricky. Fur instance, sumcat haf my bloggy I share wif my sisfurs n brofur listed under House of the (Mostly) Black Cats and sumcats haf it under Boni Maroni and sumcats haf it under Sanjee. So if yoo can't find the linky under one name, yoo might hafta scroll down the list if yoo can't reemember how it's named in the blogroll or check yore bloggy to see how yoo named it.

Once yoo haf found the linky yoo wants to change or delete, choose the thing yoo wants to do next to tools: Edit / Move / Delete

Delete a Link

Fur instance if yoo has two linkies to the same cat by mistake like shown heer, or if somecat doesn't haf a blog no more. Reemember tho, yoo can't undelete a linky! You has to add it all ofur again like noo if you wants it back!

To delete the linky, you click delete next to the linky yoo wants to delete.

Then yoo gets a screen like this:

If yoo deffinitely wants to delete it furever, Click Yes, dump it.

And it'll take yoo back to yore list of linkies in case yoo wants to delete or edit more linkies.

Change a Link

To edit or change the linky, like if yoo wants it to haf a noo name or if yore furriend mooves their bloggy to a new place, click edit and yoo'll git a screen like this:

Then yoo can change the Title or the URL (web address) n stuff by clicking in the box where the stuff is yoo want to change and typing in the noo stuff. (Yoo can also change the advanced options stuff at the bottom if yoo knows what to do there.)

And when yoo've changed the stuff you want, yoo click Save Link there at the bottom. That takes yoo back to yore list of linkies so yoo can edit or delete more linkies if yoo wants, or yoo can go somewhere else on the inner net now.

Hope dat helps!
Purrrrrrrs,
Sanjee

Catster!

2007-01-13T18:48:00.000-08:00

Catster is sort of a "MySpace" for cats (thare's a similer one for dawgs called Dogster). But Catster is WAY better than MySpace becuz:

It's all cats, all the time.
Yoo don't git emales frum collije gerls with webcams
Lots of grate groops and forums to partisipate in
Yoo can meet lots of grate noo frends!
If yoo wunt to join FOS, yoo need to join Catster.

Joining Catster is free. Yes, that's rite, it's free. But yoo mite wunt to save yer allowinse and get a Catster-Plus membership wich lets yoo store a bunch more fotos and give rozettes and stuff like that.

On yer profile, yoo can put videeyos and fotos, and keep a diary, and lots of neet stuff. Even if yoo don't have a blog, this gives yoo whut's called an "online presinse". It's grate. Yoo shood try it!

>> Go to Catster

How to set up separate profile piks for multiple blog contributors

2007-01-12T21:08:00.000-08:00

My best frend Mattingly asks:

I've had this question for a time and had trouble finding the answer. It didn't get easier with the new blogger either. If there is more than one contributor to a blog, is there a way to have both pictures along with profiles show up in the profile box? Or do we just need to add our own pictures, text, and link to the profile? We appreciate any help! I'm going to make my blog a joint blog with Harlie.

I'm gonna go owt on a limm heer becuz between me and my big bruther Mao and Rocky, the blog setups are diffrint. But take for ixzample this blog. We have many kontribyooters. This was set up under Rocky's blog (since he was on the new blogger), and he invited new kontribyooters, hoo all have thare own logins and profiles. So theeze instrukshuns are for NEW BLOGGER.

I rekummend yoo set up a blog and invite Harlie as a kontribyooter, that way yoo can eech have yer own profile.

To invite a new contribyooter to a blog yoo've set up:

From yer dashbord, klik the Settings link (top left beneeth the dashbord hedding) for yer blog.
Klik the "Permissions" link under the tabs at the top - it's the far rite link.
Klik the bloo Add Authors button
In the "Invite more people to write to your blog" box, enter the adress of the cat yoo wunt to invite.
Klik the orange INVITE buttun.

Once Harlie is invited, she'll git an emale and be promptid to set up her profile. To add a pikchur, she will:

Go to the dashbord and klik the "Edit Profile" link at the top of the right sidebar.
Skrole down neer the middul of the Profile skreen to the "Photograph" sekshun.
In the feeld next to Photo URL, enter the path of yer profile foto (yoo can't uplode like yoo do frum yer blog posts; it has to be hosted sumware).
Skrole to the bottum of the skreen and klik the orange "Save Profile" buttun.

That way, yoo two can both kontribyoot to the same blog, but under seprit identiteez.

(I'm werking on gitting skreenshots for this one!)

Now I have to reeserch wether yoo can do that with the old Blogger!

What is a style sheet?

2007-01-12T20:18:00.000-08:00

My best frends Dazey, Jesse & Conner Cloud ask:

In reference to removing the blogger bar at the top, what xactly is the "style sheet"?Skeezix, we and the Mom that Lives here Looked but didn't figure it out. Is it the template? Can you clarify?? Thanx Skeezix, we luvs this cat help blog!

That's a vary good qweschun!

I'll deskribe ware the stylesheets are in blogger, and sumwun else can chime in with info for Wordpress and others.

The style sheet is the code that appeers in between the HEAD tags of yer template. If yer using the new (beta) Blogger, the ferst part of it looks like this...

---------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Rounders
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
--------------------------------- */

... and continues until yoo see the </head> tag.

In the old blogger, the style sheet falls between the style tags --- starting with <style> and ending with </style> (and the closing style tag is just above the closing head tag).

So, the stylesheet is the part of yer template that deefines the formatting and layowt of all the elements in yer template. Win they occur in yer stylesheet, it enabuls yoo to change, say, yer font color, in one place, and in changes the font colors thruowt yer blog or website. It's vary powerful, but it's also vary mistifying if yer not a tek-hed.

CSS is the abreeviayshun for "Cascading Style Sheets," wich is the term for the languaje of stylesheets.

We will rite fyoocher artikuls on using stylesheets in yer blog. But for now, all yoo need to know is that the stylesheet is the code at the top of yer template that makes yer blog look the way it duz!

MORE INFO:

>> Klik heer to find owt more abowt style sheets.
>> Try CSS yerself (grate tool for playing arownd with the code and see whut it duz.)
>> More on CSS frum Wikipedia

WORDPRESS: Free Themes

2007-01-12T00:22:00.000-08:00

KLIK HEER for a place ware yoo can git neerly one sqwillion Wordpress themes.

How do I put a picture at the top of my blog?

2007-01-11T15:27:00.000-08:00

Victor Tabbycat rites:

Ok, here's one. How can we put a pictor at the top of our blog instead of the boring tidal box? Fanks!

That's a hard qweshchun to answer VT, becuz it depends on what blog platform yer on, and whut template yer using. Whut I can do is show yoo how I made the banner at the top of this blog.

ALWAYS BAK UP YER TEMPLIT BEFORE YOO START MESSIN' WITH IT.

LEVEL OF DIFFIKULTY: Intermeediyut +

Konsepchewully, yer going to make a bakgrownd grafik that the text in yer hedder sits on top of. Yoo don't wunt to make evrything (inklooding the text) a grafik, becuz the serch enjines will have trubble indexing yer blog.

So whut I did wuz change the styles for the hedder-rapper (this is using the New-Blogger platform). It now looks like this:

#header-wrapper {
background:
url("http://www.skeezixthecat.com/images/catbloghelp/banner_cbhc.gif")no-repeat ;
text-align:right;
height: 188px;
repeat: no repeat;
margin:22px 0 0 0;
padding:8px 0 0 0;
color:$titleTextColor;
}

Heer are all the things I did:

Added a bakgrownd image and set it not to repeat.
Spesifide the height of the wrapper, wich is IXZAKTLY the same height as the graphik (188px;). (If yoo don't do this, it gits mest up.)
Changed the text so that it a-lines on the rite, and I diddled with the margins and padding so that the text is a-lined korrektly atop the bakgrownd grafik.

get involed

2007-01-11T06:46:00.000-08:00

Hi all it Lilly Lu and IrisWe want to tell you about some great places to join on line. The first one is caster. You can get your own bage and join groups. Includeing are very own FOS feinds of skeezix. We luff this group!!!!

also there is catnip annoumous Mu shue need this group he has a slight problem wiff the nip

also there is Grorous gingers Mu shue luff this gang he calls them his ginger best freinds

we find by just getting invloed you trafic will go up and you make new freinds.

become Kat of the day

Fun add on extras

2007-01-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

have you even noticed on the side bars or on in the blog pepole have added extra like a pet or a slide show or a clock I am here to tell you about some fun free Html extra You need to know no html just copy and click and go to add HTML and put them in

the frist one is hugs. I luff hugs becuse you can never have enough

Add a litte bling to your blog with glitter graffics

Next you can add a slide show of your self and other cats here or two good programs

The frist is slide.com

the next one is flimloop.com

Have you even noticed in the top left conner of some blogs there is a little cat this is called Neko

You can add a clock to your side bar and ask is it time to eat yet

You can also adopt a pet of your own I adopted Prince Mu shue jr. This is fun becuse you can make him your own by changing the color

BLOGGER: How to ditch the blogger banner at the top of yer blog

2007-01-10T17:07:00.000-08:00

Paste the code below at the bottom of yer stylesheet in yer template, immediutly ABOVE this: < /style >

OLD BLOGGER:

#b-navbar {height:0px;visibility:hidden;display:none}
body {margin-top: 18px !important}

NEW BLOGGER:

#navbar-iframe { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;}

How do I git involved with Thursday Thirteen?

2007-01-10T16:32:00.000-08:00

Thursday Thirteen has hundreds of partisipants acrost the web, so it's a good way to raze the profile of yer blog! It's eezy to start, but thare are sevrul steps to get to the point ware yer listed on thare blogroll. So heer's whut yoo need to do:

PHASE ONE

Start posting Thursday Thirteens. Yer title should be "Thursday Thirteen: Edition 1" --- and change the edition number with each week you post.
In yer post, ferst tell whut the thirteen items are, then list them. Thursday Thirteens can be ANYTHING -- thare's no weekly "theme".
Add a Mr Linkie's Widget at the end in HTML-edit mode. (Klik link for deetales.)
Publish yer post.
Go to ThursdayThirteen.com and add yer post (use a permalink) to the comments feeld of the current week's TT.
Be sure to uncheck the "subscribe to comments" box, or you'll get an email of evry singul comment that's added.
Vizit other Thursday Thirteeners and leeve yer permalink.

PHASE TWO

Evenchully, yoo'll wunt to git yer blog listed in the TT blogroll. However, yoo have to have partisipatid in TTs for a wile (ruffly, I think it's at leest 4 edishuns or more) beefore they'll agree to add yoo (so that they don't git peepul hoo did it for one week, and then never agin.)

So, after yoo've establisht yerself as a reguler contribyooter, heer are the things yoo need to do to git on thare blogroll:

Go to thare blogroll page to see deetales of the following checkpoints:

Add technorati tag with links.
Add "get the code" link back to TT
Add the TT blogroll to yer blog
Add a linked TT logo to yer blog
Submit the form on this page to be considerd for incluzhun in the blogroll.

How many visitors are seeing my site?

2007-01-10T09:22:00.000-08:00

When you start your new blog, a site meter is one of the first things you should plan to add. If you start from the begining you'll know its an accurate number instead of starting your site meter later on.

You'll notice that a lot of bloggers have site meters that track how many visitors they've had. There are lots of free services that you can use but you'll find that most bloggers choose Site Meter . Site Meter is a free service that you can sign up for and choose any number of their badges and they will give you exact instructions on how to post the meter of your choosing on your specific blog.

Having a meter is a fun and easy way to see how many visitors you've had, along with where they are coming from in the world. I've had visitors from all over the world! Site Meter will also send you a weekly e-mail with an update on your stats.

A lot of bloggers will use their visitor numbers as milestones and have contests for hiting a certain milestone in visitors. You can use this as a great technique to generate more loyal readers or just reward the loyal readers you have.

You can even choose to send out reward packages to their milestone visitors. This is always a fun exercise for all involved! You get to pick out cool toys/treats and then you get to see your friends enjoying them on their blogs! I myself had a contest for my 4,000th visitor and I sent out a beautiful bed to one of my very loyal readers. I was thrilled to be able to reward my blogging friend with something that I really enjoy myself.

This tidbit brought to you by: Latte the Meezer

How do I add a background image/wallpaper to my blog?

2007-01-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

Mu shue Pooh King Cat asks...

I luff this blog skeezix fanks we haave some question how do you cange the walper on the back and we tryed to get it from your template but we could not figer out the html. please help ps you should do a fing on how to link in bloger beat uses it so much easer

To add a background image/wallpaper to yer blog, yoo need to add code to the body tag of yer template. The body tag comes rite after the closing head tag. (Yoo won't be doing anything with the head tag, but it mite make it eezier to find yer body tag if yer serching for both.) So yer looking for this:

</head>
<body>

Now, yoo need to add the bakgrownd image to yer body tag so it looks like this:

<body background="http://www.photobucket.com/images/yourImage.gif">

Of korse, yoo'll need to change the image path in the ixzampul above to reeflekt the path to yer bakgrownd image.

Pet Sale Avenue

2007-01-09T14:58:00.000-08:00

If yoo have a blog, yoo shood submit yer URL to Pet Sale Avenue. They have a bunch of cat and dawg blogs on thare site, and eech munth they feecher a blog: any munth it cood be yers! KLIK HEER to submit yer blog. Thare cat blog page is heer.

Mr Linkey's Widgets

2007-01-08T23:54:00.000-08:00

Yoo may have notist that thare is a form at the bottum of sum Thursday Thirteen posts (also on the Cat Blogosphere) that allow yoo (if yer partisipayting) to qwikly add yer site to the list. It looks like this:

IT IS GRATE! As they say on TeeVee, yoo just "set it and ferget it!" It helps evrywun vizit lots of other similar memes qwikly, and keeps yoo frum having to chek yer comments and add the links. Best of all, it's FREE FREE FREE!

To git this form, go to blenza.com. The basik linkies are free, and custum linkies cost yoo a small amownt ($5/yr for a silver membership; $10/yr for a gold membership). If yoo have the basik free membership, yoo can only have one form aktive at a time, so win yoo put a new form in yer blog for the currint week, the preevius week's link form will no longer werk. (Not a huge deel, but sumthing yoo shood know!) If yoo pay the $5, yoo can have as many aktive at one time as yoo like, and yoo can kustumize them for anything yoo like (like "Wite Rat Wenzday" or "Spicy Vixin Sunday").

Mister Linkey's Magical Widgets creates custom code for the following platforms:

Blogger (both new and klassik)
Square Space
TypePad
Blog-City
TextPattern
LiveJournal
Wordpress.com and Wordpress installed
Moveable Type
HTML only

[Wordpress]Finding and Installing Themes

2007-01-08T18:43:00.000-08:00

One of the great things about using your own installation of Wordpress is how much you can easily customise it. There are 1000's of free themes available for download to give your blog an instant new look. (Uploading new themes is not available to those using wordpress.com)

A great places to start is the Wordpress theme viewer, over 1100 themes that you can browse, try out and download.

Once you have found and downloaded your chosen theme to your computer and unzipped it, you will need to upload it to your blog. Using you FTP program, find your wp -content folder, then the Theme folder. Here is where you want to upload the entire theme folder (which will usually be the same name as that of your theme)

Once uploaded, you will need to activate your newly uploaded theme. In your Wordpress Dashboard go to the presentation tab. Here you will find a list of the themes you have available for use. Simply click the screen shot of the theme you want, and your done. You can now admire your spiffy new blog :)

How do I create links in post comments?

2007-01-08T12:23:00.000-08:00

George, Tipper, Max and Misty ask:

OK, we have a question. Lots of times when someone leaves a comment, they "highlight" a few words and link them back to something. Either another cats blog, or a previous post in their own blog. How is that done? We read Bloggers "help" on the subject, which was of course, no help at all! We know how to do it on our postings, but not how to do it on comments.

Win yer leeving Blogger comments, yoo need to use reel HTML to create yer links. Heer's how to do it:

Let's say yoo wunt to link to blogger.com, and yoo wunt the link text to say "Heer's a link to blogger.com."

1) Yoo need to put stuff at the frunt of yer link AND at the bak of yer link.

a) Start with <a href=" in frunt of yer link.
b) Tipe yer link with the http stuff in frunt, like this: http://www.blogger.com
c) Add a "> after yer link.

This will give yoo: <a href="http://www.blogger.com">

2) Tipe yer link text. This is the hilited text the user will klik on to go to the place yoo linked to. For example: "Heer's a link to blogger.com." So, adding that, yoo now have:

<a href="http://www.blogger.com">Heer's a link to blogger.com

3) YER NOT DONE YET!!! Yoo have to add a clozing tag -- otherwize, evrything after yer link will be linked, text, too. So yoo have to tell it to stop linking by adding a </a> tag.

So yer final link (the stuff yoo tipe in to make the link) will look like this:
<a href="http://www.blogger.com">Heer's a link to blogger.com</a>

NOTE: The comments feeld only supports vary vary basik HTML formatting and links, like making yer text bold or slanty (I think that's called italiks).

>> For more HTML stuff, reed Kaze's post on the subjekt.

Chey takes on Blogger Vs. Wordpress

2007-01-08T00:31:00.000-08:00

Blogger is a great free blog program. Lots of other cats use it. If you have a blogger account, you have no problem commenting on other people's blogs (usually). If you don't happen to have a blogger (now google) account, sometimes you just can't comment.

However, sometimes blogger just gets too frustrating. You have a few choices.

You can get a free blog somewhere else, like at wordpress.com. There are a number of other services that offer free blogs as well. Yahoo has a blog service. Several photo places have services that are geared towards photo blogging. If you surf around online you'll find a number of smaller places offering free blogs as well.

You can also buy your own domain name and get your own blog. Blogger now allows you to do this, but the most popular free blogging platform that can be installed on your own domain is wordpress. We used b2evolution for awhile and played with typepad but much prefer the ease with which wordpress can personalized. If there's something you want to have your blog do, chances are someone has written a plugin to make wordpress do it. You just need to find it and install it.

If you want to look over the features of wordpress, you can do so at wordpress.org. Notice this is a different address than their free blog host, which is wordpress.com. Hosting with wordpress for free limits what you can do with their platform. If you really want to get the features that wordpress offers, it's worth it to buy your own domain name and find some low cost hosting and install wordpress yourself. Doing this does require some understanding of uploading files and possibly even some html knowledge, so it's not as user friendly and quick to set up as blogger. However, if you are willing to take the plunge, you'll never be tied to dread pirate blogger again.

In summary:

Blogger offers FREE hosting. You don't have to know anything to get started blogging. You'll have a blogger account so you can comment on anyone's site.
Wordpress on the wordpress site offers FREE hosting. You don't have to know anything to get started but it is limited on personalization.
Wordpress on your own site has costs involved in purchasing a domain name and hosting. It requires that you know a little something about website maintance or are willing to learn. However, it is relatively trouble free and allows you to personalize your site as much as you like.

How can I change the order of my Blogger posts?

2007-01-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

Have yoo ever wunderd how to change the order of yer Blogger posts? Posts are orderd kronolojikly, so the most reesint ones apeer at the top. Yoo can change the order of yer posts by changing the date/time --- for ixzampul, if yoo wanted a post to apeer AFTER a post that was publisht at 10am on December 6th, yoo wood need to change its date/time to, say, 9:59am on December 6th.

The place ware yoo change the date in kinda hiddin, tho -- sorta like yer faverite toy under the refrijerator. So heer's how yoo find it:

1) KLIK "POST OPTIONS" IN THE LOWER LEFT KORNER OF THE POST WINDOW:2) CHANGE THE DATE AND TIME IN THE LOWER RITE (under "Post time and Date"):

Where do all my visitors come frum?

2007-01-07T21:50:00.000-08:00

Ever wunderd ware all yer blog vizitors come frum? Unless yer blog is hosted on yer own site, (ware yoo can find owt frum yer server logs), yoo mite not ever know!

Sum of yoo may have notist the map grafik on my site and others. It's free, and yoo can git it frum ClustrMaps by klikking heer. They'll give yoo a snippit of code yoo can put on yer blog. It takes a day or 2 to start trakking... and then yoo'll git a grafikul map of the lokayshun of yer blog viziters. It duzn't give like, adresses or anything, so yer not breeching anywun's privasy, but yoo can see which states and countreez yer viziters are frum!

Free Image Hosts

2007-01-07T03:01:00.000-08:00

Do you need a place to store and host the photos and other images that you want to put on your blog? Here are some of the most frequently used free image hosts, and any limitations on them.

Photobucket - You can store both images and video clips here. Free accounts have a 1GB and 10,000 image storage limit, and a 10GB monthly bandwidth limit.

ImageShack - You can store an unlimited number of images. Each image you upload must be less than 1.5 megabytes in size.

Picasa - Google's image hosting service. They also have image management software that works very well. Free accounts have a file storage limit of 250MB. If you have a Blogger blog, Picasa allows you to add a photo to your blog very easily, but clicking on the "Blog This" button.

Flickr - Flickr is a photo storage site as well as a community site where people share photos. With a free Flickr account, you can you can upload 100MB worth of photos each calendar month (5MB per photo) but you can only see your 200 most recent images. Your old photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos. If you have blogged a photo and it no longer appears in your list, it will still appear on your blog, and the photo's Flickr page will still work just fine.

These are the most common image hosting sites. You can check out a list of other image hosting sites here.

How to create a FAV icon

2007-01-06T22:10:00.000-08:00

What IS a fav icon? It's a littul (16X16 pixel) pikchur that showz up to the left of the URL in the adress bar win yoo go to a site that has a fav icon set up. Fav icons help yer site stand owt among a longs list of Favorites or Bookmarks. Pritty neet, huh? Heer are sum tootorials on how to do it:

WORDPRESS: How to uplode pikchurs

2007-01-05T15:21:00.000-08:00

DKF has a tutorial on how to uplode pikchurs to Wordpress heer.

A few tips on Html from Kaze

2007-01-05T09:08:00.000-08:00

HTML is the most basic "language" that the web is written in. For instance, if you right click on this page, go to "view source" you will see what this page looks like in its text format. Obviously, this is way over most kitties (and human heads) so certainly don't try to figure it out, just look at it because it is nothing to be scared of. Not like a vacuum which you should be scared of!

Most kitties never need to deal with html because Blog sites are very user friendly. However there are a few quick things it doesn't hurt to understand and you may find useful in the future!

There are certain things all HTML documents use to start and end. For instance, they all start with <html> and end with </html>. Anything with the carrot brackets is called a "tag". Every start tag "< >" needs an end tag "</ >". A lot of times html will get all messed up because you forget to close a tag, "always remember to close your tags!!" says the Lap Lady (her professor yelled about that a lot in college).

A few tags that you may find a use for in your Blog posting and surfing:

Say you want to post a link to something, either while posting a comment on a blog OR when posting a link to site on your own blog. It is simple, I promise!! If a frootbat can do it, so can you.

First of all, make sure you are in "Edit Html" mode when on your own blog. If you are posting in a comments section, that is automatically in Html mode. Say you want to post a link to this site, simply type :

<a href="http://catbloghelp.blogspot.com/">Link to Cat Blog Help</a>

Here is what will be displayed:
Link to Cat Blog Help

You will notice that instead of displaying the entire link address, it just dislpays the words I wanted Link to Cat Blog Help. I did this by placing the words I wanted displayed after the opening tag, in the space between > <. Then I was sure to close the tag ;). To make text bold or underlined, or strike out......

<B>Bold</B>
Display: bold

<U>Underline</U>
Display: Underline

<STRIKE>Strike me out</STRIKE>
Display: ~~Strike me out~~

To post a picture

<IMG SRC="http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/SnapLatteChase/Octsignature_small.jpg">

Display:

I hope these basic Html topics will help you in the future. There are tons of helpful sites on the web that will tell you tags you may want to use. Also, its important to remember that Html is the BASIC language used on the web and there are many many other much more intricate languages that makes sites "pretty" and more interesting. Only use these Html tags when you are in the "Edit Html" tag of your post or when posting comments on other cats (or critters or even human) blogs just to be safe!

HTML: To add to what Kaze said:

2007-01-05T08:41:00.000-08:00

You can also learn a lot of html tags by putting "html tags" in your search window of Google and running through samples that "techies" have put up on the web.

You can learn to change fonts, colors, and sizes using [font] and [/font] ... note that I'm not using the <> symbols because I don't want to screw up this post.

You can learn to make scrolling marquees and blinking stuff, too. Sometimes it's just fun to use the file menu to open a new window and then use the window with the html code tags as a cheat sheet to fiddle with your blog entries. -- That's what I did to learn code since my mom didn't know diddly-squat about html.
DMM

Weekend Cat Blogging

2007-01-03T17:01:00.000-08:00

Offin referd to as WCB, Weekend Cat Blogging is a digest of all that's going on in cat blogging on a givin weekend. It mooves arownd, so it can be hard to figyur owt hoo is hosting it eech week.

WHAT YOO DO
Yoo go to the host blog and in the comments feeld, give a sinopsis of whut's on yer blog that weekend, along with a permalink to that post. For ixzampul, I mite say:

This weekend, I'm aksepting entreez for my "Gess my 1000th post" kontest. Link: http://www.skeezixthecat.com/scratchingpost/.

Then, the cat hoo is hosting WCB will put the info in the WCB post.

2007 WCB Schedule

January 13-14: Sher at What Did You Eat

January 20-21: Here at the Cat Blogosphere

January 27-28: Kate, Bustopher and Harmon at Kate in the Kitchen

February 3-4: Rosa at Rosa’s Yummy Yums

February 10-11: Amar and Luna at CatSynth

February 17-18: — Two Volunteers, Sorting It out now! hehehe

February 24-25: Kate, Bustopher and Harmon at Kate in the Kitchen

March 3-4: ??? You ???

March 10-11: Sher at What Did You Eat

March 17-18 - St Patrick’s Day Weekend: ??? You ???

March 24-25: ??? You ???

March 31-April 1: ??? You ???

To volunteer to host WCB email Sanjee and let her know.

Top 100 Cat Sites

2007-01-03T16:39:00.000-08:00

If yoo've bin arownd the cat blogs, yer probly familyer with this buttun:

It's a site that lists a few hundred cat sites, and traks yer traffik. The most popyuler blogs have higher rankings. I can ashur yoo, yoo don't git a prize or anything win yoo git to the top. But it IS fun to watch yer blog rize in the rankings, and it helps izpoze yer blog to other catbloggers.

TO SINE UP:
Go to http://www.top100catsites.com/index.php?a=join and follow the instrukshuns to join!

Add grafik preeviews to yer links!

2007-01-03T14:39:00.003-08:00

On some blogs, yoo may have notist a grafikul preeview of a site win yoo mouse over a link. This is free funkshunality offerd by snap.com. GO HEER FOR YER FREE DOWNLODE and instrukshuns. It's vary vary eezy to install, and it werks grate!

Memes

2007-01-03T10:53:00.000-08:00

For purposes of catblogging, memes are units of cultural informayshun spred virally thruowt the blogosfeer. Most of the time it involves multipul bloggers hoo post informayshun on a theeme on the same day. A web forms, wherein bloggers can hop frum meme to meme and see how others interpritid the theeme. Ixzampuls of memes are:

MONDAY:

Meezer Monday: fotos of Simeeze cats
Midnite Monday: fotos of blak cats
Moovey Monday: uzhully, funny cat videeyos (most offin frum youtube.com)

TUESDAY:

Tuesday Toesday: fotos of cats toze
Tummy Tuesday: fotos of cat tummies
Tabby Tuesday: fotos of tabbies
Tuxie Tuesday: fotos of tuxedo cats
Tortie Tuesday: fotos of tortoiseshell cats

WEDNESDAY:

Widebody Wednesday: fotos of fat cats
White Wednesday: fotos of wite cats
Wacky Wednesday: fotos of silliness and funny ixpresshuns

THURSDAY:

Thursday Thirteen: a 13-item list on any theme yoo like. For ixzampul: 13 things I ate yesterday; My 13 faverite toys; 13 things nobuddy noze abowt me. Thursday 13 is a huge meme, and if yoo are a regyuler, yoo can be added to thare blogroll. See www.thursdaythirteen.com for deetales.

FRIDAY:

Frootbat Friday: fotos of big-eared cats
Formerly Ferul Friday: former street cats

SUNDAY:

Spotty Sunday: show us yer spots!

HOW TO PARTISIPATE:

Post yer foto on the approprieeyut day.
Paste links to other cats partisipating in the same meme (if yoo know hoo they are)
Go to the CatBlogosfeer and post yer link
Sit bak and watch the traffik pore into yer site!

It's highly rekummended that yoo post regulerly to git the most traffik possibul. Add auto-linkies if yoo can, and go to the Cat Blogosfeer to post yer link.

>> REED WIKIPEDIA'S DEFINISHUN OF MEMES

How do I get my pikchur to show up win I leeve comments?

2007-01-03T09:50:00.000-08:00

This is a hard qweschun to answer becuz thare are many fakters that come into play.... whut tipe of blog yer leeving comments on, whut version of blogger yer on, how yoo sined in to leeve comments. But heer is sum informayshun that mite help:

If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo haven't got a blogger akkownt, yer foto won't show up.
If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yoo were not sined in win yoo left comments, yer foto won't show up.
If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yoo haven't put a foto in yer profile, yer foto won't show up.
If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yer sined in a "anonymus" yer foto won't show up.

So, let's assoom yoo have a blogger akkownt, but yoo haven't put a foto in yer profile. Heer's whut yoo do:

1) Go to yer blogger dashbord.

2) Clik the edit profile link:

(Clik to biggify)

3) And on yer profile page, skrole down to the PHOTOGRAPH sekshun:

(Clik to biggify)

4) And then put in the path ware yer foto is ON THE WEB. This meens the foto has to be online sumware* --- yoo can't just point to ware it is on yer compyooter and uplode:

(Clik to biggify)

5) Then, just skrole to the bottum of the screen and klik the orange "Save Profile" buttun!

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* If yer foto is online sumware, rite-klik the foto, and in the box that comes up, selekt "Properties" at the bottum. In the properties box, look at whut's next to "Address (URL)" --- this is the "path" to yer image. Using the tag format beelow, paste this path into an image tag as beelow (replacing the path between the quotes in the tag beelow with yer path), and put that into the form box on the profile page to point to yer foto:

<IMG SRC="http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/yerfoto.jpg">

How do I get that long list of blogs to show up on my sidebar?

2007-01-02T23:23:00.000-08:00

Sanjee's note: FYI, Yoo can't use the javascript for blogrolling.com on wordpress.com blogs. They don't allow anny javascript for security reasins. Purrrrrs, Sanjee

That list of links is referd to as a blogroll. Go to blogrolling.com to set up yer own kustum list, or go to http://www.skeezixthecat.com/bloghelp/blogroll.html to get the snippet for Skeezix's List of Links. Copy and paste that snippet into yer sidebar.

The advantage to using blogroll (vs. hand-coding yer list) is that it can be set to sort the list in whutever order yoo like (alpha, ascending width, descending width, etc.) and the blogs yoo list automatikly ping blogrolling.com win they are updated*. If the blog has bin updated reesintly, it will display "new post" (or any other text yoo designate) next to it ... wich is vary handy win viziting other blogs. Also, if yoo have multiple blogs, yoo only need to update the list in one place if yoo use blogrolling.com.

Junior asks...

Hey Skeezix and all the helpers,I have started having Meowm do the ping thing....so that others know when I have blogged....but how does Meowm make my blog show when others have pinged? Thanks tons for your help!

Ferst, let me explane pinging. If yoo go to Blogroll and manyully ping yer blog so that it shoze up as being updated, whutever blog yoo enter in the form will show up as being updated (don't put in a non-updated blog). In yer blogroll preferinses for yer own blogroll list, yoo can indicate whut yoo want prepended or appended to links so yoo know they've bin updated -- uzhully, yoo put "updated" or "new post" or sumthing like that. It takes a cuppul of minits after yoo fill owt the form, and then yer blog will show up as updated in all of the blogrolling.com lists in wich it appeers.

If yoo've manully pinged and yer blog is not showing as updated in other link lists, it's probably becuz thare not using blogrolling.com to make thare blogroll. Why not shoot them an emale and sugjest that they set up thare list on blogrolling.com?

Cats, Goats, Quotes rites:

I've been adding the blogroll to my sidebar, but, as I've seen in other blogs, there are no 'updates' or 'new posts' so far. Am I leaving something out? Thanks...You have been so helpful in many ways!!

I chekt bak on yer blog and I see thare showing up now. They will not show up rite away -- after yoo've created yer blogroll, the updates will only display win blogs are updated on a "going forwerd" basis. So always give it a day or so for updates to start displaying.

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* Ixsept win this feechur is broken, in wich case yoo can manully ping by going to http://www.blogrolling.com/ping.phtml