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BlogJet: why, oh why…

March 28, 2007

BlogJet

Now, I love BlogJet. But why is it that whenever I load it up, it’s always in a small window, no matter what size it was when I closed it last?

And then, when I click to maximise the window, why ON EARTH does it shoot across the screen, and remain small?

It always takes a second click to get the window to a half decent size…

March 28, 2007

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice:

Write something worth reading!
Put it into Word or a similar word processor.
Change your page layout to wide.
Even better, change your page size to eight inches wide and six inches high.
Use a legible font for the body copy. Times is fine, but boring. Don’t use something fancy.
Use a headline font with bravado!
Now, if you have a Mac, just choose, “print to PDF”.
If you don’t have a Mac, go buy one and repeat the previous step, or, if you must, figure out how to do that step with a PC or a Commodore 64 or whatever it is you’re using.
Your eBook is now basic, but done.
If you open it in Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader, but the for sale version) you can add hyperlinks. Recommended.

March 28, 2007

Seth Godin has put a Squidoo lens together on writing ebooks. It contains some excellent advice:

Write something worth reading!
Put it into Word or a similar word processor.
Change your page layout to wide.
Even better, change your page size to eight inches wide and six inches high.
Use a legible font for the body copy. Times is fine, but boring. Don’t use something fancy.
Use a headline font with bravado!
Now, if you have a Mac, just choose, “print to PDF”.
If you don’t have a Mac, go buy one and repeat the previous step, or, if you must, figure out how to do that step with a PC or a Commodore 64 or whatever it is you’re using.
Your eBook is now basic, but done.
If you open it in Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader, but the for sale version) you can add hyperlinks. Recommended.