The Office - An American Workplace

The HTML can be customized in Blogger to allow for different width body and side-bar.

For the Template that I used "minima by Douglas Bowman" (the first in the templates to chose from as of now), the variables to change are the 'width' for both main-wrapper and sidebar-wrapper:

#main-wrapper {
width: 510px;
float: $startSide;
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 */
}

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 120px;
float: $endSide;
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 */
}

I adjusted mine so that a video from Amazon can fit in the main body and a tall, skinny ad can fit in the right side bar.

View the blog: The Office - An American Workplace.

Blogger Data API

Developer's Guide: Protocol

Google has an API for Blogger. This will make it easier to mass produce blogs, and, thus, make it easier for spammers to create many entries. I wonder what the limitations and terms & conditions for use of Blogger are... Is it against the T&C to post blogs selling products? What is considered an actual entry versus spam?

Developer's Guide

Design Patterns

Newest blog:

Design Patterns

Learn to Blog

It is easy to blog! For those who are not familiar, learn by reading some of these books:

PageRank

I found this interesting little widget that calculates PageRank on the fly. It say's this page is zero right now, but I look forward to seeing it expand. Here is the widget:



PageRank is calculated on the number of incoming links to your site. A site that has high PageRank can raise other web pages PageRank much more than a site with low PageRank.

PageRank is often referred to as PR in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

I know that the PageRank calculator offered by BlogFlux is a great example of "Link Bait". People will add the calculator to their site which links back to the BlogFlux website and raises the BlogFlux PR.

Bloggers Competing With the Press

Random thoughts about the Kindle - the press always controlled what people read about. Some publishers in the past could write books, but that was not accessible to many people. Blogs allow the average person to publish their content to the world. It is easy and free. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can become a "publisher" or blogger. This does compete with the publishing giants. Instead of a reader spending their time at US News, they may be spending their time reading blogs published by some average Joe!

Random Thoughts - From Around the World!

Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts is a web site located at http://randomthoughts.club/ where people can express their random thoughts. It is a micro-blog where users can share their thoughts with other people from around the world.

Strategy

The strategy behind this web site is to make content that is user generated. Each entered random thought generates a new web page. The search engines can crawl the website and find each page and all of the content on the page. The comments are typically relevant to the original post and generate more content. The website encourages linking back to the website from other web sites. There is a link to get the HTML to link back to the site and there is a link to automatically create a blog with a link back to the site.

Applications

Random Thoughts is also an application on some of the popular social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Here is a list of all the Random Thoughts Applications:

Facebook - add the Random Thoughts Facebook Application to your Facebook profile. click here >>>





MySpace - add the Random Thoughts MySpace Application to your MySpace profile. click here >>>





Google - add the Random Thoughts Google Gadget to your iGoogle home page. click here >>>





Bebo - add the Random Thoughts Bebo Application to your Bebo profile. click here >>>





hi5 - add the Random Thoughts hi5 Application to your hi5 profile. click here >>>





WidgetBox - add the Random Thoughts WidgetBox Application to your social networking profile. click here >>>





Link Here (HTML) - Copy and paste this code into your website's HTML source:

<a href="http://randomthoughts.club">Random Thoughts</a>

Link Here (BBCODE) - Copy and paste this code into your forum signature:

[url=http://randomthoughts.club/]Random Thoughts[/url]

Blogger - Copy and paste this code into your blog at Blogger (sample). You can also paste this code in any web page where you have access to the HTML:

<div><a href="http://randomthoughts.club">Random Thoughts</a></div>

<iframe src="http://www.randomthoughts.club/" width="450" height="500" scrolling="no" frameborder=0 align="center"></iframe>

URL - Copy and paste this URL to give to your friends or put into your profile:

http://randomthoughts.club

Web - visit the Random Thoughts web page. click here >>>





Bookmark - CTL+D





RSS Feeds - Subscribe to the Random Thoughts on your RSS Reader. click here >>>





RSS Feeds on Blogger - Show the most recently added items on your Blogger blog. Follow these instructions: (opens in new window). Use this RSS feed URL on your blog:

http://randomthoughts.club/rss_recent.php?lim=true

Viral

The website, in general, was built to be viral. Most all the user's actions will result in the application spreading further into the web. The theory behind this is that it will help the website grow.

User Experience

The website was built with user experience in mind. It is easy to use and the user is free to browse and use all the features on the website without having to log-in or provide their e-mail address.

The Chat Room Blogger Application!

Wow! This is actually an amazing idea! I was going to do something similar to this on my Chizat website, but never got around to it. This is a nice blogger application!


Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!