Resources: Paypal for Blog Advertising & Monetizing Payments

Many bloggers and smaller companies deal with Paypal when making payments for advertising or accepting payment from bloggers who want to advertise.  So it is a good idea to set up a Paypal account before you need one--it is free to sign up.

Paypal is a secure online option for making payments with credit cards or

Resources: HTML Marquee Codes ~ Design a Moving Marquee

I am amazed at what can be done with a little HTML code.  If you have ever seen moving text marquees and wondered how they were made I came across a source for HTML Marque Codes.  I am going to try it out here, give a little instruction and give the link for the resource with various codes.

There are several options available

Resources: Random Number Generator for Giveaways

There is a great resource for bloggers to use to choose a winner from the many entries in a blog giveaway.  It is found at Random.org.  You simply enter the numbers of posts from 1 to how ever many you had and click generate and it chooses a random number.  Beats writing hundreds of numbers on little slips of

Blogging Resources: Blog Link Up List

Since we discussed in Blogging 201:  Lesson #5 Utilizing Linkies for Blog Exposure I thought I would start a resource page of a link of linkies you can use.  This will be a continual work in progress and hopefully will soon be full of places for you to link up to.  If you host a weekly linky or know of one please leave the URL in a comment so I can check it

Blogging 201 ~ Lesson #5: Utilizing Linkies for Blog Exposure -- Yours and Readers'

As FrugalMom shared in Blogging 201: Lesson #3:  Becoming a Blogger Friendly Blog & Blogger, linkies play a vital part in the blogging community.  They offer the blogger an opportunity to share what they have posted at their own blog as well as an opportunity to let their readers share

Blogging Resources: HTML Border Code

Borders can come in handy in blogging either in posts or used on your home page in lots of different ways.  I do not know much about HTML code so I am always going and looking for easy ways to do what I want.  I came across this site offering HTML Border Code in a variety of styles.  You just have to copy the code and paste it where you want it.  This is another great Blogging Resource.

Here is an example of one of the codes: