HOW TO BRIGHTEN UP YOUR BLOG

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How To Brighten Up Your Blog 

by Angela Lansbury

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First a photo. Then colour.

Colour

The lines above are full stops in red, then blue, the letter o in bold, double quotation marks in green and circumflex above the six in purple. Now I've gone into purple type by mistake but never mind, because it shows me and you the effect.

My headline is in the font Arial which I find easier to read, especially in bold, because I stare at the screen all day wearing trifocal lenses for distance, computer distance and reading. Ask me for a photo I type this into a box and my words appear black on white. Sometimes a site turns them into white on black. Or white on grey. Some sites change colours with alternating posts to make it easier for the reader to read and find their way about. Occasionally I receive or send a message and it goes out in HTML. For anybody who does not understand HTML (hyper text mark up language), it means that instead of having Italics, it contains a symbolic bracket around the word with the instruction to print in Italics. Imagine that instead of inserting a full stop it puts the words insert full stop.

SMILEYS & SYMBOLS

A friend sends me emails with smileys, thumbs up when he agrees or wants to encourage me, and bats. It took me a while to realise that it meant he thinks my argument is bats!

He says the symbols are in Hotmail. I've tried to copy the symbols from his email to here but it doesn't work. 

 SPELLCHECK An icon below the blog box is for spellcheck. Why is it that everybody doing a blog can do a spellcheck, but people who put up profiles and send emails can't do a spellcheck? Are Bloggers brighter people? Higher IQ? More literate? More technically savvy? More concerned about appearance? Is it that Bloggers devote more time and attention to what they write?

Or is it just easier to find the spellchecker on this site? Here it's the little ABC sign with the tick.

 COPYRIGHT PHOTOS I see people have loaded up photos of their favourite film stars. Some of these may be copyright, for example anything used to sell a branded product, such as a cartoon or kiddie toy. But mostly famous people want the publicity of having their faces shown. 

 DECORATIVE BORDERS I reckon I can create a word document with borders and others fonts and load them up. 

 ITALICS, SIZE & COLOUR I look for icons for italics, size and colour. Let's try to write I LOVE YOU in Italics large red. I LOVE YOU When I edit I see brackets and colour red and size three and a backslash and the word colour in brackets but what I see when I update the post is what you see which is the word in Italics in red. COLOURS - HELP WANTED I tried putting the help wanted sign in purple but it does not show up on grey. Learn something every day. I'll end with thanks in a colour which some sites which list colours call teal. Here you look for the Letter T and the symbol of a box of mosaic colours.

I'm going to update this as I learn more.

Please send me suggestions about how we can all brighten up our sites. Thanks!

About the author

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 

She  has several blogs and writes daily on at least two of the following:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

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