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Flickr Resources - from Dave Jakes

 

Free Online File Hosting

Looking for a place to store files for your blog (assignments in PDF format, MP3's of practice tracks, etc.)? 

 

A free FileDen account offers:

• Hotlinking for all allowed file extensions, including videos and music files!
• 1GB of personal storage space.
• A 50mb maximum file size limit
• 5GB of monthly bandwidth

When registering, be sure to "Pass" on the multiple advertisement pages after you enter your registration information.  Then log in and upload whatever files you need.  After uploading each file, it generates the URL of the file so you can link to it in your blog.  (As a side note, I was trying to use MediaMax, but could never get it to recognize my file uploads...plus, while FileDen offers less overall storage than MediaMax, the monthly bandwidth is much better.  If you need better storage and/or bandwidth, you can upgrade to a paid account.)

 

Enjoy!

 

FileDen

 

Diasbling the NavBar in Blogger

• Log into your blog
• Click on 'Template'
• Click on 'Edit HTML'
• You will see a bunch of HTML code.  Start to scroll down and you will see a boxed description of the template you're using.  It will look something like this:

 

-----------------------------------------------

Blogger Template Style

Name:     ;lasdkfja dal;sdkfjasd

Designer: xxxx

URL:      www.hflkasdjfhasdkljhf.com

Date:     26 Feb 2020

Updated by: ;alksdfj asdl;fkja

----------------------------------------------- */

 

• Right after this text, copy and paste the following:

 

#navbar-iframe {

   height: 0px;

   visibility: hidden;

   display: none;

}

 

• Select 'Save Template' and you should be set!

 

Opening Links In A New Window From Your Blog

It should be noted that while I was looking for the answer to this question I read a lot of opinions from bloggers that said opening another window is actually frustrating to blog readers, not helpful.  Others contend that it IS indeed helpful, especially if you want users to be able to continue to see your blog while visiting other sites.  Anyway...

 

I found this on the following blog: http://stubborn-fanatic.blogspot.com/2006/09/linklists-do-not-open-in-new-window-and.html 

 

Relevant text is copied below:

Just a quick update. I found that links added via the link list feature do not open in a new window. This might take away traffic from your blog. The solution to this is however, very simple. Open up you template's HTML code in expanded widgets format. Copy the entire code into notepad or some text editor and search for a particular link list using its title. (In my case the title is "friends on www")

Scroll to the line which reads a expr:href="data:link.target' blah blah blah... and append target='_blank' over there, as shown in the example below. As this piece of code is in a loop (b:loop) you need to type it only once and there you are. So go ahead and make the modification.

 

<b:widget id='LinkList2' locked='false' title='friends on www' type='LinkList'>

<b:includable id='main'>

 

<b:if cond='data:title'><h2><data:title/></h2></b:if>

<div class='widget-content'>

<ul>

<div id='link'>

<b:loop values='data:links' var='link'>

<li><a expr:href='data:link.target' target='_blank'><data:link.name/></a>

</li>

</b:loop>

</div>

</ul>

 

 

 

 I stumbled on this cool Firefox plug in. It's called ScribeFire. Its a little icon that sits at the bottom of your firefox window. When you see something that you like, or that you would like to blog about, you click the icon and a mini text editor pops up. You can drag text from whatever web page you are browsing or add pictures or what ever. When you are done you hit publish and it automatically sends it to your blog.

 

http://www.scribefire.com/

Chris

 

 

A helpful article on why your music program needs a website. Very useful for your rationale to present to administration.  Link is below:

 

out(2).pdf

 

"Why Your Music Program Needs a Web Site" by David R. Marowitz

from Teaching Music Journal, October 2006

 

 

 

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