Thursday, January 10, 2008
Step 8 - Adding Third Party Applications
Approximate time: 15 - 60 minutes
The final step before submitting your e-portfolio to your instructor is to add some third party applications to your blog. This integration to other applications like site visitor counters, guest books, polls, tagboards, quizzes, stock charts, weather reports, etc. in most cases only requires knowing how to cut and paste code! You don't need to understand the code, you just need to paste to your blog.
Here is a good source for third party applications you can add to your e-portfolio.
Blogger list of add-ins.
A few other ones you might want to try:
Amazon Associates program (create banner ads with your favorite books and get commissions when you sell the books, don't worry about the fulfillment... Amazon takes care of that)
PayPal (process credit cards through your site... start selling some of your great work!)
If you add PayPal to your site, you can also refer other people to become PayPal merchants through their "affiliate program" by putting up an ad like this one (you sign up for a Pay Pal account and they will give you custom code to paste into your website). You receive 0.5% of the new merchants e-commerce revenues up to a maximum of $1500 Canadian.
CafePress (sell personalized items like mugs, T-shirts, etc.)
With Cafe Press, you could add an ad like the one below to your website... if a visitor clicks on the ad and ends up buying something from Cafe Press, you get a percentage of the sales revenue...
FeedBlitz -- free service that enables visitors to "sign-up" for your e-portfolio by putting in their email address. Whenever you publish a new posting, the subscriber receives an email with the posting and link to your site. This information push based approach makes it convenient for people interested in keeping up with the latest on your e-portfolio to stay informed without having to frequently check back.
-- new content --
Here are some instructions for integrating FeedBlitz to your e-portfolio blog.
You can also add some of the Google services on your website and earn referal revenue (see examples on left sidebar).
It's easy to integrate the applications. The first step is to go the website of the third party application... in most cases you will need to register and then the site will provide you with some html code.
You then go to your Blogger template tab and click on the "Add a page element link". From here, one of the options is titled HTML / Javascript and followed by "Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog".
Simply click the Add to Blog button and from within the dialogue box that opens, paste the code you copied from the third party application website.
The final step before submitting your e-portfolio to your instructor is to add some third party applications to your blog. This integration to other applications like site visitor counters, guest books, polls, tagboards, quizzes, stock charts, weather reports, etc. in most cases only requires knowing how to cut and paste code! You don't need to understand the code, you just need to paste to your blog.
Here is a good source for third party applications you can add to your e-portfolio.
Blogger list of add-ins.
A few other ones you might want to try:
Amazon Associates program (create banner ads with your favorite books and get commissions when you sell the books, don't worry about the fulfillment... Amazon takes care of that)
PayPal (process credit cards through your site... start selling some of your great work!)
If you add PayPal to your site, you can also refer other people to become PayPal merchants through their "affiliate program" by putting up an ad like this one (you sign up for a Pay Pal account and they will give you custom code to paste into your website). You receive 0.5% of the new merchants e-commerce revenues up to a maximum of $1500 Canadian.
CafePress (sell personalized items like mugs, T-shirts, etc.)
With Cafe Press, you could add an ad like the one below to your website... if a visitor clicks on the ad and ends up buying something from Cafe Press, you get a percentage of the sales revenue...
FeedBlitz -- free service that enables visitors to "sign-up" for your e-portfolio by putting in their email address. Whenever you publish a new posting, the subscriber receives an email with the posting and link to your site. This information push based approach makes it convenient for people interested in keeping up with the latest on your e-portfolio to stay informed without having to frequently check back.
-- new content --
Here are some instructions for integrating FeedBlitz to your e-portfolio blog.
You can also add some of the Google services on your website and earn referal revenue (see examples on left sidebar).
It's easy to integrate the applications. The first step is to go the website of the third party application... in most cases you will need to register and then the site will provide you with some html code.
You then go to your Blogger template tab and click on the "Add a page element link". From here, one of the options is titled HTML / Javascript and followed by "Add third-party functionality or other code to your blog".
Simply click the Add to Blog button and from within the dialogue box that opens, paste the code you copied from the third party application website.
# posted by Cyri @ 2:50 PM 
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