Many people have signed up to join the ring since I opened it back up, so as you can imagine I am very busy with ring administration.

When many new bloggers join at the same time, I usually get a flood of questions in my email about technical issues. While I could probably fix everyone's problems by slogging through their sorce code, I do not have time. I try to be helpful when I have time to help, but right now I don't.

There are *many* resources besides me for help with html and blogging platforms. I do have a faq on this website which you should check *before* you email me or anyone else for help. And then there are html tutorials. Here are a few:

• Webmonkey's HTML Tutorial
• HTML Goodies - The Basics
• DevX - HTML Basics

And there are *many* more out there.

There is also a Yahoo Group for Knitting Bloggers called knitblogs. I'm sure that if you post a question there, someone will be able to point you in the right direction.

If you have any other resources for new bloggers, please put them in the comments. I will post them to this blog next Monday.

Have a great weekend and Happy Knitting!

Comments

[Lydia]

For me, the best tool was to look at blogs that I really liked (or really didn't like) and look at the source code. I could then see what was happening and play with it on my own.

Here are links that I found useful; most of these aren't strictly html, but I've found all of them useful for my blog.

HTML:
http://annamation.ca/annaknits/freeblogstuff.php Anna talks about percentage bars, marquees, and photo hosting.

http://www.indigirl.com/knit_tracker/ A different kind of project tracker.

Blogs:
http://www.ibloggers.net/forum/ This is geared towards (as the name would suggest) users of iBlog, the software that I use on one of my blogs. The people there, however, often talk about html things that can apply to any blog. Similarly, http://www.ibloggers.net/C179279332/E419950350/index.html is a list of other services (tagboards, online indicators, etc.) aimed at iblog users, but it's the best collection I've seen so far.

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=752&topic=22 This is a list of some common html codes, aimed at Blogger users, but useful to others as well.

Color:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html Hexadecimal color codes for all sorts of variations.

http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html Color wheel so you can figure out harmonious (or extremely unharmonious) colors.

[Julie]

Thanks Lydia!

[froggy]

Wow, thanks!!!!

[jennifer]

Granted that it's good there are so many people knitting and blogging, but I hope our blog makes it in under the 500 limit by the time we've posted a month! =:-O