As you will have noticed, the blog looks very different all of a sudden. You'll notice little changes occurring over the next few weeks as I continously tweak it. It was this blog, designed by Doug Cloud, that made me think: "How nice it would be to have a unique and beautiful looking blog".
Vaheguroo-willing, everyday sikhee will soon have a very distinct and personalised look which I think will be positive regarding it's long-term objective - to attract new readers like you...and keep them visiting regularly.
This means I will be posting only a few short items for the next fas re-designing the site will involve more research and some programming. It's a steep learning-curve but the creative side of me is looking forward to it. Once this is done, I'll get back to the usual pattern of posting.
For those who wish to find-out more re: blogger-blog desiging, Doug has written a really good series of tutorials and more importantly, provided enough links within them to get you up to speed with the background-knowledge needed.
Ps - Have a Happy New Year; may Vaheguroo bring us closer to Him each and every day of it.
( ( ( :- ) >>> Atma Singh
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Saturday, 27 December 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Follow this Blog, without the hassle
Photo Credit: koka_sextonNo - you don't need to be a geek to read this
The ‘Subscribe in a reader' link at the top right of this Blog is seriously useful. An RSS Reader is a software tool which allows you to save a lot of time and hassle if you follow blogs, or browse other types of sites, which are regularly updated e.g. news sites. Have you really got time to visit tonnes of sites to see if they’ve been updated or not? Yes? – well then, you’re a student.
No? – then join the RSS revolution.
Right - this is where it could get heavy because RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, has a habit of not actually sounding really simple. If you do like reading techie stuff (geek!), here’s a good summary re: RSS. Put simply however, by subscribing to 'RSS feeds' instead of physically visiting sites such as this blog, you 'automatically pull’ any newly updated content on those sites, and can then access this content in a convenient manner.
Think of a paper-boy delivering the newspaper to you so you don't have to visit the newsagent, think of an octopus whose tentacles constantly stretch and grab here and there, think of a rainbow...erm, anyway, here are some of the ways you could, for instance, follow this very blog via RSS:
- Click the ‘Subscribe in a reader' link and select ‘View Feed XML’. You will now get to view new content directly via the ‘feeds’ icon which is conveniently located in the favourites folder of Internet Explorer. Nice.
- The above method is very neat and tidy if you’ve got direct access to your desktop PC or laptop when you want to view content, but what if you wish to access content on the go, or on someone else’s machine? Click the aforementioned link and select one of the web-based Readers instead, such as the popular Bloglines or Google Reader. Now you can log-in to your RSS reader anywhere, any time, whatever machine you're on.
- What if you’ve got a Windows-Mobile based Pocket PC (yes, I don’t care about those outsiders who use Palms, or I-Phones or other such contraptions – do your own homework! Lol) and want to view this blog in your browser, but optimised visually and structurally? Download and install a free Windows-Mobile based RSS Reader such as Viigo and simply add my blog’s RSS URL Channel: http://everydaysikhee.blogspot.com/atom.xml – done! Now this blog will be nicely optimised on your PDA/Smartphone, with lots of handy localised software options, and you can read it anywhere, at any time.
Think of a paper-boy delivering the newspaper to you so you don't have to visit the newsagent, think of an octopus whose tentacles constantly stretch and grab here and there, think of a rainbow...erm, anyway, here are some of the ways you could, for instance, follow this very blog via RSS:
- Click the ‘Subscribe in a reader' link and select ‘View Feed XML’. You will now get to view new content directly via the ‘feeds’ icon which is conveniently located in the favourites folder of Internet Explorer. Nice.
- The above method is very neat and tidy if you’ve got direct access to your desktop PC or laptop when you want to view content, but what if you wish to access content on the go, or on someone else’s machine? Click the aforementioned link and select one of the web-based Readers instead, such as the popular Bloglines or Google Reader. Now you can log-in to your RSS reader anywhere, any time, whatever machine you're on.
- What if you’ve got a Windows-Mobile based Pocket PC (yes, I don’t care about those outsiders who use Palms, or I-Phones or other such contraptions – do your own homework! Lol) and want to view this blog in your browser, but optimised visually and structurally? Download and install a free Windows-Mobile based RSS Reader such as Viigo and simply add my blog’s RSS URL Channel: http://everydaysikhee.blogspot.com/atom.xml – done! Now this blog will be nicely optimised on your PDA/Smartphone, with lots of handy localised software options, and you can read it anywhere, at any time.
Right, that’s enough blog publicity generation for one day. I’m going to have my cake and milk, then off to bed!
((((Subliminal message - You must click the 'subscribe to this feed' link right below this line, ...I command you...mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-haa!!!)))
( ( ( :-) >>> Atma Singh
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