Advice about Starting & Promoting a Fashion Blog - See Post #1 for Thread Rules

[EnVogueLove]

Try the following code in a HTML/JavaScript gadget. Fill in with your email address and a link to the image you want people to click to send you mail. I adjusted this code a bit, from another code I've been using, let me know if for any reason it doesn't work.



Though, may I kindly advise, if you use this, still list your email address beneath the image, because when using this code, the email address will only open in a program like Outlook, and for anyone who doesn't use/have a desktop email program, they may have a hard time obtaining your email address. By making it visible, as well, it gives the option of people the option of copying and pasting the address into whatever email server they use.

Or instead of an image, you can make it a text link with your email address (which is what I do), gives the option of either a quick click, or copy + paste.

I don't want that my e-mail is visible. Is there any way to not be open with Outlook?
I have Outlook on my laptop and I never used that..so I am guessing other people don't use that too. Most people have msn accounts.

 

[Susanna-Cole]

I don't want that my e-mail is visible. Is there any way to not be open with Outlook?
I have Outlook on my laptop and I never used that..so I am guessing other people don't use that too. Most people have msn accounts.

I don't think so. It will open in a desktop email program only, I believe, there's no other way to code it, but I could be wrong.

I can understand not wanting your email visible, though if it's coded, do note that anyone with a bit of know-how, can source the page, and see your email in the code, anyhow, I think it takes much more advanced coding to make it completely hidden, not sure. But, if it's spam you're worried about, yes, not having your email address written out anywhere visible should mostly prevent it.

 

[EnVogueLove]

I don't think so. It will open in a desktop email program only, I believe, there's no other way to code it, but I could be wrong.

I can understand not wanting your email visible, though if it's coded, do note that anyone with a bit of know-how, can source the page, and see your email in the code, anyhow, I think it takes much more advanced coding to make it completely hidden, not sure. But, if it's spam you're worried about, yes, not having your email address written out anywhere visible should mostly prevent it.

Ok, then I will do it with the code you gave me. I write my mail here:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0px dotted" alt="Click to email me." src="YourImageURL" /></a

and I put it on my blog and when I click on that it opens with outlook.
The only problem is that on my blog is x where should be that code,I can click on it and it opens normal , but it's still x. Maybe you wrote something wrong in that code.
You can see that here on the right:http://envoguelove.blogspot.com/

P.S. Thank you so much for helping me again

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Ok, then I will do it with the code you gave me. I write my mail here:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0px dotted" alt="Click to email me." src="YourImageURL" /></a>

and I put it on my blog and when I click on that it opens with outlook.
The only problem is that on my blog is x where should be that code,I can click on it and it opens normal , but it's still x. Maybe you wrote something wrong in that code.
You can see that here on the right:http://envoguelove.blogspot.com/

P.S. Thank you so much for helping me again

Did you insert a image URL for the image you're using? You can use any sort of image, perhaps, a mail envelope or similar. Once you've picked out a photo, made any edits you'd like, you can upload it to Photobucket or Imageshack or wherever, and then copy and paste the direct URL in replacement of the text I bolded below in the code. That's why you're seeing a red x, because there's no photo for it to show, at the moment.

You're welcome, by the way!

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0px dotted" alt="Click to email me." src="YourImageURL" /></a>

 

[EnVogueLove]

Did you insert a image URL for the image you're using? You can use any sort of image, perhaps, a mail envelope or similar. Once you've picked out a photo, made any edits you'd like, you can upload it to Photobucket or Imageshack or wherever, and then copy and paste the direct URL in replacement of the text I bolded below in the code. That's why you're seeing a red x, because there's no photo for it to show, at the moment.

You're welcome, by the way!

Thank you You are awesome!

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Thank you You are awesome!

No worries, you are welcome!

 

[farou7a]

okay so my video embed thing still isnt happening (im a mac user btw)

also, was wondering, ow do i make the space a little bigger (where i post pics/my general posts?)
my pics tend to overlap onto the border :S

 

[Erik3002]

Hey guys, sorry to bother you all once again, but I was wondering what your thoughts were on tumblr vs Blogggr, ect? I was advised a little while ago to switch to blogger or wordpress seeing as I was writing more serious articles on Tumblr and I am a bit stuck on what fork in the road I want to take.

 

[sedirea]

Yeah if you are writing a lot I would advise to go to Blogger as well. Tumblr is more of an image or quote sharing websites. You'd probably do a lot better with an actual blog.

 

[Susanna-Cole]

okay so my video embed thing still isnt happening (im a mac user btw)

also, was wondering, ow do i make the space a little bigger (where i post pics/my general posts?)
my pics tend to overlap onto the border :S

There's two ways you can do this, either simply choose a larger template for your blog, or edit your existing template codes. I learned the latter, only last night.

If you're using Blogger, and want to edit the codes, to get a custom width, the following should do the trick.

Open up your template (Design > Edit HTML). Before you begin, I'd recommend saving a copy of the existing template, in case something goes wrong, later on.

Find the section of coding for the wrappers. Easiest way is to click, Edit > Find (using your internet browser), and type in "outer-wrapper", which should bring you to the beginning of the codes you'll want to edit it.

The outer-wrapper is the overall width of your blog. The main-wrapper is the width of your posts, and the sidebar-wrapper, is of course, your sidebar.

Some say, with their template, that the width is in pixels, mine is in percentages though, and I don't seem to have a width listed for the outer-wrapper.

Code should look something like the following, I bolded the width line, where you can edit the percentage or pixels. Use the Preview button to see how your changes look, until you have it the way you like, then click Save Template.

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

#main-wrapper {
margin-$startSide: 2%;
width: 73%;
float: $startSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
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 {
margin-$endSide: 2%;
width: 20%;
float: $endSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
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 */
}

A note, I've been told that in same codes, your main and sidebar wrapper widths should not exceed the outer-wrapper's width when combined. Seeing as the outer wrapper width isn't listed in the above coding, I proceeded regardless. If you can see your outer-wrapper width though, you might want to consider this.

Hope this helps! Let me know if any of it doesn't make sense or you're still confused!

 

[EnVogueLove]

I have a question...I am on blogspot and on blogspot you can see how many people from different countries were on your blog. So are my visits counting or no?

 

[Deborah]

They might be, I use blogpatrol to check my stats and it was counting me as a visitor until I banned my IP address from results.

 

[YSMR]

I was wondering if any of you guys is familiar with google pagerank, I had a pagerank of 2 for my blog and all of a sudden I have 0 even though I’m putting more attention to it.
Also if I search for keywords lets say similar to my title or content it does not show up and I have to add my blogs name for it to appear in the search results.
I publish in blogspot so maybe they changed something?

 

[Marjon]

I have a question...I am on blogspot and on blogspot you can see how many people from different countries were on your blog. So are my visits counting or no?

(My blogspot is in dutch so I'm not sure about my translated tabs..)

Click on the tab Statics and then on the link on the right 'don't count your own pageviews' and then click the box. Save and done.
Below that you see a worldmap. You can see where your visitors are from.

 

[farou7a]

Go to the video's YouTube page that you want on your blog, and click the <Embed> button, on the right below the view count, copy the code given. Then go to your post on Blogspot, switch to Edit HTML tab and paste the code. You can then click Preview, or go to the Compose tab to see how it looks. Let me know if you have any trouble with it!

P.S. If you're interested in changing the size of the video on your blog, let me know, as some like to do that as well, especially if they want to put a video in a sidebar, etc...

when i click on embed, it says, Embedding disabled by request

 

[Susanna-Cole]

when i click on embed, it says, Embedding disabled by request

Oh, unfortunately if the embedding has been disabled there's not much one can do. (Supposedly, there have been rumored hacks to bypass the embedding disabled setting, I wouldn't recommend going that route though). What video was it that you wanted to embed? You can check to see if there's another copy of it on YouTube that you could embed, or check sites like Vimeo, or you could do a Google videos search for it, as Google video pulls its results from many sites.

 

[farou7a]

^ ill PM u the deets

 

[kikiss]

wekilledcouture
Pretty cool blog you have...But how can I see older posts ?

 

[Katnani]

My font is not working anymore... And the html are all right... Any ideas? Blogspot's problem?

 

[wekilledcouture]

Pretty cool blog you have...But how can I see older posts ?

oh thank you!
Older posts are under the "archive" which is at the bottom of the page. or by searching tags