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How To Publish WordPress Posts From Microsoft Word 2013‏?

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WordPress is a very powerful publishing platform, and a very popular one too since more than 45% of blogs are hosted on WordPress. Its major selling point has to be its powerful functionality coupled with an intuitive and user-friend user interface. But if I were to pick out one flaw in WordPress, it would have to be the droll post editor combined with a slow UI that makes editing and saving posts a headache. But what if you could write your blog posts into a powerful word processing software such as Microsoft Word? As it turns out, you can! In this post, we'll show you how to create and publish a blog post directly from MS Word 2013!</div>
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One of the biggest problems bloggers face is the lack word-processing capabilities in most (in fact, all) publishing platforms. Platforms like Blogger, WordPress etc provide a spell checker at most, but nothing that would check punctuation, grammar, and sentence coherence. This is where MS Word comes in, because it it excellent in doing those things. And the new line of MS Office 2013 products are quite smart as well, and they continue to amaze me. So what better word processor to use than MS Word 2013?</div>
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<b style="text-align: start;">Step 1: Create new Blog Post</b><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div>
First of all, open MS Word 2013, and create a new Blog Post from the document templates given in the <b>File >> New</b> section.</div>
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Now, click on the Create button on the window that appears next.</div>
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You will now see a windows that says <b>Register a Blog Account</b>. Click on the <b>Register Now</b>button, and then select the Blog platform. For the purpose of this tutorial, we're going with WordPress, but feel free to go with another platform if needed.</div>
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Click on the Next button to proceed. </div>
<br style="text-align: start;" /><b style="text-align: start;">Step 3: Register new account</b><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div>
Now, enter the WordPress blog URL you want to post to, and enter your login credentials (username and password).</div>
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<br style="text-align: start;" /><b style="text-align: start;">Step 4: Create and publish!</b><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div>
Now, you will see a word editor. Write your blog post in it, and then click on the Publish button on the top left under the Blog Post tab. This should publish the post on your blog. If you'd rather save it as draft first, then pull the drop-down menu, and click on <b>Publish as Draft</b>.</div>
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Once it has saved, you should see your blog post in your blog post editor.</div>
<br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Simple, right?</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><div>
It is. And a great way to keep your spellings and grammar in check too. I often use this method of posting, and I would encourage you to do the same as well. And if you run into any problems, be sure to ask a question in the comments section below. Cheers :)</div>
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What Is The Best Way To Mobile Optimize Your Site?

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The concept of searching for content online using mobile devices is steadily on the rise, primarily due to the vast plethora of mobile devices and tablets now readily available in the market. They really seem to be advancing the cause, and more and more people are buying and using them. So how are these evolving trends changing things, and how does it effect you as a website owner? Previously, we have looked at various ways to optimize your sites for mobile devices. And there are more than one way to handle this problem. So what solution is the best for delivering content to mobile devices?</div>
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There are more than one ways to serve mobile content to your users, and they fall broadly into three basic categories; Responsive Web Design (obvious!), dynamic content serving, and creating the mobile version of a site.</div>
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Probably the most popular mobile optimization technique used today. Responsive Web Design (RWD) involves designing content that automatically resizes and rearranges itself to fit the screen size and resolution of any mobile device. Since the content itself is redirecting, there's no need to create custom redirects to other mobile pages, or changing the on-page content itself.</div>
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For the user, this means a smooth user journey, and for a content manager, it means content only needs to be updated once. From a developer viewpoint, RWD may require rebuilding your site framework with flexible templates, grids, style sheets and JavaScript but with very rewarding results. Personally, this is my favourite mobile optimization technique, and one of the easiest there is.</div>
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This technique is somewhat similar to RWD, but very different at the same time. While RWD detects screen size and resizes the content, dynamic content serving detects the user-agent at the server-end, and then presents a custom page on the same URL. The custom page is dynamically generated.</div>
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Although this technique is hard to implement and requires a lot more maintenance, it is the most powerful method for serving mobile content to users, and experts recommend it for experienced webmasters.</div>
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The final implementation you might want to consider is creating a separate mobile site, where smartphone users will be directed to a mobile-optimized version of your site. This implementation allows you fully customise your content for a mobile audience, since it’s often an independently hosted solution. Similar to creating dynamic serving content, this means you need to make separate updates for content or styling pieces to ensure a smooth user experience.</div>
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Facebook is a perfect example of this solution. You have Facebook desktop version, and then you have Facebook mobile version. If Facebook had just used RWD to deliver mobile content, then low-end devices would have a lot of trouble keeping up with all the Facebook features such as Apps, Games, Chat, Instant notifications, and more. But with dynamic content serving and separate mobile site, Facebook has made sure that mobile users don't access features not suited/compatible for them.</div>
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That was all about methods to implement mobile optimization. So tell us, what do you think is the best method for delivering mobile content?</div>
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Move your blog from LiveJournal To Blogger

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LiveJournal is a great free resource for people who want to keep a log 
or a diary of sorts of theirs online, or share their life experiences 
with their friends and family. It allows people to make posts, and then 
cross-post and share on their social media profiles. Hence, these 
journals have all the markings of a blog. But for people who started off
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We recently published a post about transferring your blog from WordPress to Blogger.
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And now, back to the topic at hand.In this post, we will walk you 
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Transferring from LiveJournal to Blogger </div>
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First of all, visit this link (<a href="https://livejournal2blogger.appspot.com/" target="_blank">liveJournal2Blogger</a>),
 and log into your LiveJournal account using the form given on the page.
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export your content. So you need a third-party app to do it for you. And
 this app does just that for you.</div>
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You will be prompted to save a file on your computer. This is your 
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Now you have the exported file, all you need to do is import this file into Blogger. Log into, or sign up for a <a href="http://blogger.com/" target="_blank">Blogger</a> account, From there, either Create a new blog, or click on an existing blog where you want to publish your LiveJournal content.</div>
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Once you're logged into a blog's dashboard, Click on the <b>Settings </b>at the bottom of the left side-bar. From the options that pop out, click on <b>Others</b>. Then, on the right, you'll see an option to <b>Import Blog</b>.</div>
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Now, all you need to do is browse to the file you downloaded, and upload
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As with the WordPress to Blogger, this conversion has a limitation of 
file sizes for up to 1 MB. But LiveJournal blogs are pretty small, so 
you shouldn't have much of a problem exporting your posts and comments. 
That's all there is to the conversion. You might also like to know about
 Blogger2WordPress.</div>
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Creating Customized HTML Text Area Boxes

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inside fully customized text areas that made the post looked clean and 
neat. Text boxes are good only if there length and height is well 
controlled and today with this tutorial we will learn several ways of 
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How to Customize the Text Area Box? </div>
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To do this follow the steps below,<br />
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<li>Go to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">Blogger</a> > Layout > Edit HTML </li>
<li>Search for </b:skin> </li>
<li>And just above it paste the code below, </li>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-image: url(https://sites.google.com/site/0323books0321/coding2.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 45px;">
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<span class="fullpost">.hb-textarea {        </span><br />
<span class="fullpost">padding:0;         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost">margin:0;         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><b>background: #fff;</b>         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: green;"><b>width:400px;            </b></span></span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: green;"><b>height:40px; </b></span>        </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: blue;"><b>color:#666;</b></span>         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: purple;"><b>font:12px arial;</b></span>         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: #0080c0;"><b>border:1px dotted #289728;</b></span> } <br />
      .hb-textarea:hover {        </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><b>color:#289728;</b>         </span><br />
<span class="fullpost"><span style="color: #0080ff;"><b>border:2px solid #666; </b></span>        </span><br />
<span class="fullpost">}  </span></blockquote>
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<span class="fullpost">   4.  Finally save your template!</span><br />
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How to show the Stylized Text Area Effect inside Blogger Posts? </div>
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<span class="fullpost">To display this customized text area you only need to add the following code in the Edit HTML section of your Blogger Editor,</span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-image: url(https://sites.google.com/site/0323books0321/coding2.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(102, 102, 102) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 45px;">
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<span class="fullpost"><textarea class="hb-textarea" readonly="readonly"><b>WRITE-TEXT-HERE</b></textarea></span></blockquote>
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<span class="fullpost">Simply replace <b>WRITE-TEXT-HERE</b> with your text that you want to appear inside a box.</span><br />
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How to Customize The CSS of The Text Box? </div>
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If you wish to change the font, color or in 
short the entire look of the text box then you just need to edit the 
following areas in the CSS code above,<br />
    <strong>background: #fff; –> This Changes background color of the text area</strong>       <br /><span style="color: green;"><strong>width:400px; –> This changes width size of box</strong></span><span style="color: green;"><strong>          <br />height:40px;  -> This changes box height</strong></span>       <br /><span style="color: blue;"><strong>color:#666;</strong></span>  -> This changes font color inside text box       <br /><span style="color: purple;"><strong>font:12px arial;</strong></span> –> This changes font size and font family respectively       <br /><span style="color: #0080c0;"><strong>border:1px dotted #289728;</strong></span>
 } –> This changes the border size, style (i.e dotted, solid, dashed)
 and color. Editing it will change the look of the border/outline across
 the text <br />
    .hb-textarea:hover {      <br /><strong>color:#289728; –> This changes font color on mouse hover</strong>       <br /><span style="color: #0080ff;"><strong>border:2px solid #666;  -> This changes border size, style and color on mouse hover</strong></span><br />
    <span style="color: #2c2725;">Now
 Simply edit the above codes as guided and create a perfectly suiting 
Text box for your beloved blogs. I hope it will be as interesting for 
most of you as it seems :> Do not hesitate to ask for any help if 
needed!</span><br />
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