10 Tools You Should Have While Doing Your Blog
Most of the time when writing your blog, you will find out that other and tedious daunting task will be the little detail e.g. making the post read right, the markup, the position of your picture and make everything look right than to actually get your thoughts down. Here I put a ran down of 10 thing that will help you to finish the job.
10. AutoCopy – Make the copy/paste disappear
It’s time to forget the Control/Command+C, then Control/Command+V.. AutoCopy, a free Firefox extension will automatically adds whatever text you’ve highlighted in your browser to the clipboard, then pastes it when you middle-click anywhere in Firefox.
I found it been very helpful since while doing my post I involved a lot of copy and paste. It will not take so much effort to learn also since everything is very straight forward and the instruction also very clear.
9. CoLT – Making link copying and their title a breeze.
In normal way to copy a link and their title, you have to first copy the URL of the link, paste it in the right spot, then head back, copy the title of the linked page (being careful not to click!), then paste it inside the link tags. Not anymore with Copy Link Text Firefox extension, on the other hand, have magic right-click options that make grabbing the URL, the text, or both parts of a link dead simple. Give your right-click a rest and get back to adding context. I use the extension a lot while preparing for this post and those link you see here all were done using this extension.
8. Reusable templates for posts and images on the fly
Much of our post, very similar in term of formatting (for example a certain-size picture up top, photo dumps, or similar repetitions). Wired had come with a guide to automating Photoshop actions. For advance blogger and hand-coding HTML inclined, I think creating a templates out of your common formats (tables, unordered lists, picture posts) and plug them into a text-substitution app (see below for links and ideas) will prove to be very useful and time saving. In short, why re-invent the wheel? Just grab a free template for Blogger, WordPress, or one of 40 general CSS templates for use on any site. If you like some more why not point your browser to Gina’s roundup of seven different free HTML templates.
7. Jott – post to your blog from your mobile
A free voicemail-to-text service Jott can help you nail down post material while you’re on the go with a phone call, but you can also use the service directly with a number of blogging platforms, including Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and WordPress. This also work If you’re hosting your own blog, thus getting your thoughts up online even while you’re miles from your keyboard.
6. Automate repetitive code with text replacement
This application is for advance user who like to look under the hood and manually embedded a Flickr photo, created a custom headline or signature template, or searched out previously-used code to copy and paste within your posts. If you’re in this group then you need to add a text replacement app to your blogging tools. Either one them—Texter for Windows, TextExpander for Mac OS X, or Snippits for Linux—can help you quickly paste and preventing you from making a common typos and misspellings. If you just want to speed up your HTML coding, you should try Adam’s Markup automation script. The application was build as a stand-alone, blog-focused precursor to Texter.
5. Google Alert – Get topic-based post ideas sent to your inbox every day
What to know what make the news in your industries? Then you should try Google Alerts that will brings your post material to you. Use the same kind of advanced search operators used on Google’s, the service will search site to laser-focus on a particular kind of web site, blog post, news story, or group post you’re looking for. You then decide if you want it to be sent as fast as Google’s servers find it, or in a daily or weekly email digest. Using Alerts will make you exposes to a wider array of information as compared to RSS feeds. Therefore making it’s an easy way to keep your eyes on the web without really being at the search box all day.
4. Spend less time resizing images and more time on your post
I like to use picture in my post and as my thumbnail. Every time I had to make to size for every picture. One for the post and one as thumbnail. I believe picture add personality touch to any post but finding the perfect image to illustrate my post—and then making it fit right—usually take more time than the post itself. I am not committed to to Photoshop but moderately used its open-source alternative, GIMP. If you like me, the free online image editing site Picnik should do the trick, both for its right-click Firefox extension and its integration with Flickr. For some of us, if you’ve got a whole set of pictures to post up, you should try the Windows-only ImageResizer, or for Picasa.
3. Forget the notebook, keep your post ideas synchronized with Foxmarks
Ideas for a great posting can be found at all hours of the day, but you’re not always ready to write your next post. If you don’t want to loose that website in your bookmark jungle then use the Foxmarks bookmark synchronize, and your bookmarks toolbar becomes a universal idea space where you can drag-and-drop your links onto. For those who likes more control over their backed-up bookmarks, you can synchronize with their own server, and rolled it into a portable Firefox to help you get blogging done with just a thumb drive and some spare time.
2. Tumblr – Minimum writing required
Tumblr had come up with a web application called tumblelog— which intended to makes posting your thoughts, IM chats, videos, photos, and other favorite media tidbits a lot less intimidating than the wide-open HTML spaces of WordPress, Movable Type, and other platforms (which are still great for longer, text-and-links posts). The real time-saver is Tumblr’s bookmarklet will capture and prepare a new post into as simple as a one-click.
1. Track all your bookmark, email and posts with Gmail
I like Gmail not just because of the generous e-mail space but also it make it’s easier for me to throw the emails that inspire you to get blogging with your other links, as they have short, human-readable permalinks that you can easily drag into a bookmark folder. If your blog inspires some kind of feedback, you can keep it separated and organized from your day-to-day mail using filters and persistent searches.
What sites, tools, or tricks your use for making your posting routine a fun, efficient hobby? Let’s hear about your tools in the comments.
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