Embedding objects in Blogsome

April 14, 2008

Ever needed to post some YouTube videos or perhaps an IMEEM playlist in your Blogsome account? The problem is, you just can’t do it, for the reason that Blogsome unintentionally do not allow embedding of objects in your posts. Actually, this problem is not due to Blogsome’s restrictions. It just so happened that the WordPress Editor used as a plugin does not support embedding of objects. Which means, the editor would only allow tags which are recognized by it. In order to eliminate unintentional restrictions, all you have to do is to Deactivate your Blogsome account’s WYSIWYG Editor Plugin. It’s just that, you won’t be able to type your post the way to do it before. But since I’m here to guide you all the way how to do it much more effectively, here’s how:

  1. First, with your WYSIWYG Editor still Activated (FYI: WYSIWYG Editor is activated by default), encode first everything you needed to appear in the post. I’m talking about the content of the post, so if ever you won’t need any text to appear in your article, then you can skip this step. After typing the necessary contents, then save your post as draft.
  2. In your Blogsome admin, go to Plugins, then choose to Deactivate WSYI-Wordpress plugin.
  3. Go back to your saved draft. As you notice, you won’t be able to edit your post the way you usually do it. If you are not familiar with HTML codes, then you only have to insert the code of your Embedded Object (code provided by YouTube or IMEEM), at the end of the post. By doing so, this would prevent mixing up the codes. But if you’re a bit knowledgable with HTML, then you can choose to insert in anywhere as long as you know what you are doing.
  4. Now press Publish then presto! Your object will already appear by next time you view your post.
  5. Finally, if you need to bring back your old editor, then just go to Plugins again, then activate WYSI-Wordpress plugin.
Did it help? Anyway, if you have questions or comments, just leave it right here. Thanks! And by the way, here’s a YouTube video my brother just posted, it’s about the ducks he fooled when we were in the province. emoticon





Regards,
Ronald Borla 

Words with style

April 8, 2008

When we’re blogging, it doesn’t mean we just have to simply express what we feel or what we need to let our readers perceive. Since our blog posts would sometimes need to contain a definite substance, then we may make use of words which are rather deep and sensible, and which are just about of the same definition as the simplest words you knew. emoticon

That’s right! The solution is working on with synonymous words. In short, we look for synonyms through a reference called Thesaurus. Like for instance, notice the following statements:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, it didn’t fit. And because of this, I really scolded my dad because the shoes were not able to satisfy me. Dad should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of shoes so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could try them on.

Noticeably, the words used were a bit redundant. In most usual cases, though the readers might be interested on how you started your statement, but they’d definitely end up unimpressedemoticon Now in order to improve this, you just have to eliminate redundancy, or the so-called unwanted repition of words. Use synonyms. You might re-write the paragraph above as:

My dad just bought me a new pair of shoes. When I was about to try them on with my feet, I noticed that they were just too tight. And because of this, I really scolded him because the sneakers were not able to satisfy me. My father should have told me that he was buying me a new pair of those fancy foot wears so that before he’d pay for those, at least I could have checked them out myself.

As part of the "redundancy prevention", you would also have to consider repeating sounds. Rhymes aren’t best for essays especially on posts for your blog. They are just effective on poems or other literary pieces aside from essays. Above I replaced the word "fit" to "tight". Since "fit" sounds alike with "feet". Therefore, the awkwardness of the statement may also be removed. emoticon

For your reference needs especially Thesaurus, I would recommend you this website right in this link » http://thesaurus.reference.com/. Happy posting!

Regards,
Ronald Borla 

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