iStock Photo Pushes Fashion Photos

iStock photo has really been pushing their 'high fashion' photos lately. Most of the fashion photos feature beautiful landscapes. If you're starting an independent fashion blog, this might be a good place to look for background images.

Encourage More Reading On Your Blog with LinkWithin

Ever wonder how to add related posts with thumbnails at the bottom of blog entires? Here is a quick how to. It takes a minute and is completely free and functional with LinkWithin.  Don't let your older posts go to waste.  :)



All you need to do is:

1. Go to LinkWithin and fill out the 4 fields on their homepage and click Get Widget!
2. Depending on which platform you use there will be a simple set of instructions on how to add the widget into your blog.  Here are the two steps for a Blogger user:

Hit save and you're done.

Creating an iPhone Icon for Your Blog or Website

Sounds like it could be a bit complicated but it's oh-so-easy!  Normally, when you bookmark a site to the desktop of your iPhone the iPhone captures a snapshot of the screen and turns it into an icon.  Depending on what you're posting on your blog that day, the icon can be just a bunch of ugly plain text.  Here's how you pretty your icon up.

Three simple steps:

1. Create your custom icon with 158px by 158px dimensions
2. Upload your image onto your server and copy the image url
3. Put this code in your blog or website right above the < / head >* tag:
    < link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="url of your icon" / >*

Here is HAPPY GO TECHY'S before and after iPhone desktop icon:




* note, you need to take out the spaces in between the text and carrots in the tag.

Simple Text Twitter Badge for your Blogger Blog

I really hate seeing the bulky/cluttery default twitter badges. In my opinion, they look poopy and don't go well with most people's 'look & feel.' Here's how to stream your twitter tweets onto your blogger blog in plain text:

1. Go to http://twitter.com/badges/blogger AND NOT http://twitter.com/goodies
2. Enter the number of tweets you want to appear in your sidebar, and the title of your block and then hit "Insert into your Blog"
3. Save your settings