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Buzz: Clean up your CSS – it’s just a cut-and-paste job really!

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I came across this interesting website that encourages visitors to clean up their CSS. The website tells the story of how it came about, nothing exceptional there.

Anway, in their words, “CleanCSS is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise.”

css clean

Anyway, you open your blog, find your Style Sheet for the theme you are using, copy the text and paste it into the block on the left on their website. You’ll find your CSS code in the Theme Editor under ‘Presentation’.

As a precaution, save the original file in a text file, so you can paste it back should things go wrong (and they do! So be warned!).

Anyway, I took the original code for the MistyLook Theme, and pasted it in, chose the options on the right, and voila…. This is what I got!

code output

OK. Now, I’m going to try the new CSS in just a moment! I’ll post a screen shot. I don’t know if the result will speed up the website any, as it only saved a little over 2K. Last time I checked an average page on this blog was clocking in at a little over 750KB. Mmm.. I chose some options that made it a little less readable for humans than normal… Still, we’ll see. OK. It looks fine. I’ll monitor it over the next few days. But like I said, make sure you have a backup just in case things go wrong!

Warning: Any changes that you can’t undo are your own responsibility! If you’re not sure of modifying your blog, then you shouldn’t. If you decide to go ahead, back up everything at least ONCE, and preferably several times, so you can have something that works!

Needing PR? A quick program to gain 100 links…!

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In the next week or so, I’m going to be exploring some ways to gain a quick burst in linking activity, hopefully to gain a bit of an increase in PR ranking (whenever that may happen).

I’ll be writing over 7 articles on ideas for linking that need not be difficult or require a lot of time, but which should result in some good PR links to your blog.

1. Reviews

2. Link Competitions

3. Articles

4. Free offers in return for links?

5. Link trains

What other ways have you found to increase links to your site? I’ve tried some directories but I don’t figure on much PR or traffic from them. I myself never use directories anymore. There seems little point when you are looking for information, not necessarily a specific site.

Comment your ideas, and I’ll add them to the list above, BEFORE Monday 10th September.

Blogging Network: It happened by accident!

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It looks like my WordPress network is now growing. I thought I would have just two blogs… in reality, it’s much more like 6.  And so, presenting Kenneth’s Blogging Network (part 1!).

Obblogatory Actually, this is the one that started it all. It used to be hosted right here. But then the topics expanded, and the focus became much less Investing and much more general blogging. Oddly, it had a PR5! Now, I’m struggling along with a PR3! Oh, well. I didn’t know what a PR5 was worth then. Posting schedule is approximately 2-4 a week!

HKJTEFL Perhaps this is my latest experiment as I focus on EFL, which is my area of expertise. It’s called EFL in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan (hence the name). But there aren’t many posts, and I’m not happy with the theme yet, either. I used to have another ESL blog, so I uploaded the posts from there, but I’ve only posted a few so far. Posting schedule is about 1-2 a week.

Nozkidz.com is the website that is co-blogged by three (or four!?) writers, mostly teachers from our school. We upload stuff including videos, audio, lots of pictures of student work, and a wide range of other stuff about our language school. It varies from one or two posts a week, to one or two posts a day. It’s not very well marketed yet, either.

So, including this one, that makes four blogs! There are also a bunch of other sites I administer on more or less a regular basis. Geez… I really got to focus more!