Friday, January 13, 2012

Export your blog from Weebly to Wordpress

1) download your RSS blog as .xml - if you don't know how to do this, just use the save as function in your browser and name the file export.xml
2) open the file up in notepad and remove the following from the file(use find and replace!)

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and then save your file
3) Open Wordpress and install the RSS importer plugin
4) Open the RSS importer plugin and upload your modified export.xml file (you should find this under tools -> import --> RSS)
5) You will now find that your blog posts have been transferred from Weebly to Wordpress

Unfortunately this process does not include your categories/tags or pictures. To rectify this you'll have to manually edit the posts. However we couldn't find any resource on the web explaining to do this, so hopefully this will be of use to some people.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

How to display amazon associate ads on your blogger site

Despite thinking this would be easy, it turned out to be a bit of a pain! So to make your life easier, here are the definitive steps on how to add an amazon affiliate ad to your blogger blog.

1) Log in to amazon associates website (sign up for an account if you don't have one already)
2) Click on the widgets button
3) Chose Recommended product links Widget (you can use any one you want, but this seems to be the best in our opinion)
4) Chose your product line and keywords or subcategory
5) Select the size you need - for our template we chose 200 x 200
6) Copy the html generated into notepad
7) Go to edit and replace & with & amp; (without the space) and replace all
8) copy the new html and then log into Blogger and edit your template (Design > Edit html)
9) Paste the html onto your template - we recommend putting it here: "div id='sidebar-wrapper'>"

Hopefully this will save you a lot of time. Please let us know if it works!

Friday, January 6, 2012

USB drive not showing all capacity

If you have a USB that's only showing 2GB but should be more, use the steps below to restore it to it's size...

If you can't get the full capacity of your USB drive back with the Lexar tool (I couldn't with a Patriot Memory X-Mini 8GB), you can use DISKPART from Vista/Win7 to do so. Warning: DISKPART is dangerous - do not use if you don't feel comfortable with it! Insert your USB disk, make sure it is recognized by Windows (with the lower capacity), and then do the following:

1) Type "DISKPART" from the Command Prompt (accessible by clicking on Start and then typing "cmd" into the open field); you will then see the following prompt: DISKPART>
2) Type "LIST DISK" to see what number your USB drive is listed as.
3) Type "SELECT DISK 2" (if your USB is disk 2; replace # with your disk #); Diskpart will confirm that "Disk 2 is now the select disk."
4) Type "SELECT PARTITION 1" (this command selects what should be the only partition on your USB drive, the small one that you want to delete to get back the larger, full partition size). Diskpart will confirm with "Partition 1 is now the selected partition."
5) Type "DELETE PARTITION".
6) Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" - " You can type in "LIST PARTITION" to confirm the new, full-size.
7) Type "EXIT" to leave Diskpart. You can now format your USB drive by using the standard Windows formatting process.