DTree is a menu that be arranged like a tree. It will be like menu when you open "windows Explorer". It's very usefull if you have many posting (articel) in your blog. It can contain many link in small space. It will be like the below image :
Here's the step by step tutorial to create "DTree Menu" in blogger:
1. Login to Blogger, go to "Layout --> Edit HTML"
2. Put the code below over <head>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="http://kendhin.890m.com/dtree/dtree.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://kendhin.890m.com/dtree/dtree.js"></script>
3. Save your editting.
4. Now edit end copy the below code then put on your sidebar.
<div class="dtree">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
d = new dTree('d');
d.add(0,-1,'My example tree');
d.add(1,0,'Node 1','link.html');
d.add(2,1,'Node 1.1','link.html');
d.add(3,2,'Node 1.1.1','link.html');
d.add(4,3,'Node 1.1.1.1','link.html');
d.add(5,0,'Node 2','link.html');
d.add(6,5,'Node 2.1','link.html');
d.add(7,5,'Node 2.2','link.html');
d.add(8,0,'Node 3','link.html');
d.add(9,0,'Node 5','link.html');
document.write(d);
//-->
</script>
</div>
Change "link.html" with your own link.
The first number must be unique (d.add(1,0,'Node 1','link.html');
The second number is child of the number (look at the color).
You can add the below code to add a new node with your own image
d.add(10,0,'Profile','link.html','','','http://kendhin.890m.com/dtree/trash.gif');
change "http://kendhin.890m.com/dtree/trash.gif" with your own image.
it will be like this :
Create DTree Menu to your Blog
How to Create Search Engine in your Blogger
Now I will show how to create "Search Engine" in your blogger. This Search Engine is use to find articel in your blog, not to find articel at all website in the world. It's very easy, just follow the trick below you will have search engine in your blog. Here's the step:
1. Login to Blogger, Go to "Layout --> Page Elements". Klick "Add a page elements" then chose "HTML/Java Script".
2. Put the code below into "Content" Box
<form action="http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/search" method="get"> <input class="textinput" name="q" size="30" type="text"/> <input value="search" class="buttonsubmit" name="submit" type="submit"/></form>
Change yourblogname with your blog's name. The number "30" is width of your search engine, you can change it for appropriate to your layout.
How to Create Blogroll
As a bloger, we usually added our Friends link on our blog. Day by day and month by month it's number will increased. But if your friends link over than hundredsor or even thousands, it will be a problem, your blog space will full of your friends link list.
Now I will show you how to create a blogroll, a box to place your friends link list. You can fill it with as many as links, and it's size will not get bigger. So it will save space on your blog or sidebar. The box will be like mine.
Here's the code that you should to copy and place on your blog or sidebar ("Add Page Element --> HTML/Java Script").
<div style="border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);
overflow: auto;
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
text-align: center; ">
#link1 <br />
#link2 <br />
#link3 <br />
#link...
</div>
Note:
- Text width: 200px; and height: 300px; is size of the box, you can change it according to your place or sidebar size .
- Change the text "#link1,#link2, #link3 dst" with your friends link list.
How to Promote Your Artwork Online
The Good Stuff! - Tricks of the trade.
Newsgroups. Find topics relating to your works or interests via a search at Deja News - http://www.dejanews.com. Then, go to these Newsgroups and read some of the conversations that are going on. If you feel you could contribute to a conversation, introduce yourself. Your signature file at the end of your e-mail posting will be enough to get traffic to your site without seeming like you're pushy. It's rude to simply butt into a newsgroup and say "Look at my site!". It's like interrupting a conversation. The one place where you're allowed to say "I have artwork for sale" is at alt.art.marketplace.
DON'T SPAM! Newsgroups or e-mail - ever! It's not worth it. Your reputation will be ruined and you can't afford that. You will receive hate mail and e-mail bombs that could erase your hard drive and cause everyone on your server to lose their e-mails! Ultimately, the servers would have to add more connections to deal with all the spam and pass the cost on to all of us. Here is a better way: Newsletters.
Start your own free newsletter by having a SIMPLE sign up form on your site. Explain what they'll get if they sign up. I say they get to see my latest works, discounts on my stuff, and announcements of upcoming works. Mention your newsletter in appropriate newsgroups. Encourage people to join if they want to know what's new. I have about 1000 people who are part of my newsletter. It took about 9 months of promotion to do it. However, now I have a VOLUNTEER CAPTIVE AUDIENCE in which I can "spam" to. These people WANT to know what I have to say cause they asked me for it, therefore they are not offended with my art promotions and sales.
Get a referral program started. I got a great free one from BigNoseBird.com. This simple cgi program allows a visitor to recommend your site or page to several friends via e-mail. Nothing brings in traffic than a good referral.
Start a contest. People LOVE free stuff! Raffle a print or a service. Set up a simple form and post the rules and the deadline. Add if they want to join your free newsletter while they're at it. Offer everyone who wasn't the winner a discount on something in your gallery. That way, everyone's a winner. Add your contest to http://www.onlinesweeps.com. Watch your traffic skyrocket!
Check out Virtual Promote! I found lots of great tip, tools and tutorials there on web site promotion.
Down the road. - When you have some cash.
Place some paid advertisements in traditional magazines and newspapers. Choose a magazine that is into your genre. I place ads in fantasy and wildlife magazines because that's what I paint. Cost for advertisements can range from a $12.00 classified to thousands of dollars for a one or two page ad.
Find a web site that is related to your artwork and gets LOTS of traffic. Ask them if they would accept your banner on their main page if you paid them a monthly fee. I got one site to do this for me by just giving them a print! I get tons of traffic this way.
Use a great on-line promotion company called The Internet Marketing Center. I recommend the site highly! Lots of great tips and tricks!
PROTECT YOUR IMAGES FROM COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS!
Buy attractive and professional business cards and brochures with your web site address printed on them.
My last piece of advice is stick with your promotions for a long time. Don't just give up if one thing doesn't work. Change your strategy and try again. Surfers see web pages come and go and they don't take someone seriously unless you've been around for a long time. Stick with it, even through periods of no sales and low traffic. You must decide now to be in it for the long haul or you will fail. There is no overnight success and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You'll have to work hard and be thick skinned.
How to Promote Your Artwork Online
Well, I was determined to find out how this crazy Net thing worked. I learned all on my own with minimal investment on how to be seen from California, USA to Tokyo, Japan. Here's your opportunity to pick my brain and learn all of my secrets!
This is not for the web newbie. This is if you already have a web site going and you the need traffic!
Let's Get Started!
Web Page Basics - A list of do's and don'ts.
DO organize your site into separate categories. Have a list of navigation links on EVERY page. DO NOT cram all your paintings onto one loooong page. People will not wait for it to download. Separate your images into appropriate categories. Place all your awards on one page, your links and banners on another, your bio on another, your web rings on another, etc.
DO tell your visitors who you are, what you are about, what your page is about and what you want. Be clear, concise and to the point. Spell check everything. Have friends and family test it out and look it over for broken images or misspellings. Ask them if they felt anything was confusing to them. Just because you know what you mean, doesn't mean everyone else does. Finally, run your pages through the great free services at Web Site Garage!
5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website's Legibility
1. Format your text using CSS.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the way to go - use one style sheet and control how text looks on your entire site. Make a change to the style sheet and your whole site is updated. It makes life a lot simpler.2. Make the font size big enough to read.
Consider your target audience. Even if they are a group of teenage girls looking for new shoes, it's never a good idea to use tiny type. It doesn't have to be enormous, but up to a point, larger type is better. 12-pt Verdana is better than 8-pt Verdana.3. Make the text contrast with its background.
The more contrast, the better. Black-on-white or white-on-black are examples of the highest contrast you can get. Use colors if you like, but if you squint at the page and your text basically vanishes, there's not enough contrast.4. Give the lines room to breathe.
Don't stack lines on top of each other. Use the line-spacing directive in CSS and give it some space; I'll often set line-spacing to 140% of the height of a typical line.5. Break text up into chunks.
No matter how good a writer you are, people don't want to read endless pages of text. Break it up by using headlines that reflect the subject of the paragraph(s) to follow so people can scan down to the parts that really interest them, or use bulleted lists to change the pace of the writing and slow down the scanning.And finally (not one of the 5 Easy Ways to Improve Legibility but still quite important) check your spelling. Nothing irritates me more on a web page than spelling errors - it simply makes you look like you don't care enough to get it right. Use that ubiquitous spellcheck tool.
Making your website's content more legible is easy. It doesn't take a lot of time, mainly common sense. The payoff will be text that's more readable, customers that stick around long enough to get your message, and improved credibility with your visitors.
Copyright 2006, Debbie Campbell
Your Choice of Web Site Color
Many web designers overlook the importance of color when designing a web site. Color should be one of your first concerns when it comes time to start your web site design. If you don't pay close attention to the colors you chose, your site you will end up either plain and boring or so chaotic it's hard to look at. The color you use should only be chosen after careful consideration.
Unfortunately web browsers can only see 256 colors. Even that number is hindered because all browsers don't share the same 256-color pallet. Currently web browsers only share 216 common colors. When designing key elements in your web site you should stay within the 216-color pallet.
If you go outside the 216 color pallet you start to use colors that do not exist within that browser. The browser has to mix the colors that do not exist. In order for the browser to display the color, it needs to take tiny dots from the colors native to that browser to come up with an approximate color. This is known as dithering. Some displays will distort the tiny dots to the point where the image is so speckled that it does not appear to be a solid color. This makes text very hard to read if it is placed over the dithered color. You should always use a browser safe color when using solid color as a design element. Some of the browser safe colors should be used with caution though.
Most of the eye operations are muscular and just like all other muscles it tires out. I will illustrate with an example. (This is a test I learned about 7 years ago and is very effective to get the point across). This is a simple test that should take only 45 seconds. If you do this short test, you will be better able to understand what I'm about to say. Go to this page and then come back. http://www.designmore.com/ctesta.htm
What did you see when you looked at the white box? Did you see a bluish green color? (If not go back and do the test over). No this is not a trick or hallucination. There is a simple explanation. Without getting too technical, I'll tell you what just happened.
In the back of your eye there is a thin layer of tissue that contains millions of tiny light-sensing nerve cells called rods and cones. Cones respond to specific wavelengths of light. Your eye is filled with color decoding cones. When you looked at the red box the cones that detect the red wavelength become tired and fatigued. When this happens the opposite cones in your eye start to kick in. Hence the bluish green color you saw. Now that you know there is a scientific reason behind eye fatigue you should apply it to your web site.
I'm sure you have you noticed that caution signs are usually yellow. Pure yellow strains your eye more than any other color because of that, it is the first color your eye will fix on. Using these colors (I still advise you to use it sparingly) for banners and advertisements will receive more attention from the viewer's eye. Once the visitor comes to your site there is really no reason you should irritate the visitor with bright colors. You have done a good job if they are viewing your site.
You should use yellow and red colors sparingly in your web site itself. Only use them in areas where you want the visitor to focus on. Do not make large parts of your web site with bright color. It might get your visitors attention but they will either consciously or subconsciously notice their eyes getting fatigued. This will make them not want to look at your web site for long periods of time. There are enough reasons why a visitor would leave your web site. You don't need to add to that list by using irritating color.
