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Ted’s Tool TimeTed VinkeFirst8
5 First8 Blog Writing Tips
February 2016
Ok, you already have GREAT content and a TARGET audience...
NumbersTitles and headings
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# 1 Attractive Headings & Formatting
Image: http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/lecture-intro/
QuestionsTitles and headings
How to mock configuration in a Grails unit- or integration test?
How to Use iCloud on Your iPhone 5 - For Dummies
How to solve Eclipse error cannot install breakpoint due to missing line number attributes
Headlines and sub-headlines
Titles and headings
Bullets, quotes,
numbers etcFormatting
# 2 Great Visuals
Image: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Aaru-s-Awakening-Review-PC-474977-4.jpg
One image
First image is used for the newsletter
Featured image
Featured image need to be set explicitly in current theme for blog overview
Always set Featured Image.Place same or other image in article.
Responsive Images in Wordpress 4.4WordPress automatically creates several sizes of each image uploaded to the media library. By including the available sizes of an image into a srcset attribute, browsers can now choose to download the most appropriate size and ignore the others—potentially saving bandwidth and speeding up page load times in the process.Source: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/10/responsive-images-in-wordpress-4-4/
Just insert an image full-width
# 3 Code Snippets
Image: http://aaronbartholomew.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/clean-code.jpg
<code>Inline code between <code>
1. Find candidates e.g.
“tasks”
<code>Inline code between <code>
2. Select the correct piece
<code>Inline code between <code>
3. Add the code style
(menu of Alt-Shift-X)
<code>Inline code between <code>
4. Done. Possibly repeat.
Now we have some inline code, for single statements...
...but we also have complete code listings.
Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Insert codeCode listing with Crayon
1. We want to insert code
here
Insert codeCode listing with Crayon
2. Use the <> button
Insert codeCode listing with Crayon
3. Paste or type code
Insert codeCode listing with Crayon
4. Select the language e.g. Java or XHTML
Insert codeCode listing with Crayon
5. Code has been inserted
Default detection not always works
Using “Default” Explicitly set to “XHTML”
Vertical code is more mobile-friendly
Avoid scrolling onsmall viewports
We can have Crayon word-wrap a block of code
Prefer reformattingvertically yourself
# 4 Relate With BusinessImage: http://tlists.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/business-plan-images.jpg
Link to servicesRelate with business
# 5 Exposure!
VoxxedSubmit an article
VoxxedSubmit an article
Further reading
• 5 Tips for Writing Blogs About Technical or Complex Topics
• How to Write Headlines That Make People AND Google Read Onward
• How to write technical blog?
• 93.700.00 other hits for https://www.google.nl/search?q=writing+a+technical+blog
• WordPress.org
• Crayon Syntax Highlighter (WordPress)
• Crayon Syntax Highlighter (GitHub)
• Responsive Images in WordPress 4.4
• Responsive Images in Practice (Eric, Portis, A List Apart)
No, thank you.