Guest posting

Today I am guest posting over at Mess For Less!

Be sure to go HERE to see the post, and leave a comment if you like. :)

Yay for my first guest post ever!

Google Reader and the (amazing) next button

Since I haven’t done anything crafty this week (yet!) I figured I would share this with you.. :)

I’m sure most, if not all, of you have heard (and/or) use Google Reader. I was pretty much ecstatic when I found it. It saves me from having to go to every.single.blog I read to see if they had a new post that day..

With that said, Google Reader is just plain awesome by itself.. But you know what makes it even better?? 

The next button!

Now, you’re probably wondering how a simple little button could be so cool.. I’m here to tell you!

The next button is a button that goes on your bookmark bar that allows you to go through the unread items in your reader. Instead of seeing just the plain post in Google Reader, it actually takes you to the blog itself! So you can see the pretty blog headers and layouts.. All of the fun stuff in the sidebars.. AND you can comment without having to click to a different page. :) Love, love, love!

Here’s how you do it..

First, open Google Reader. If you don’t have GR yet, go HERE to sign up.

Now, do you see that little gear looking thing on the right of the page? Click the arrow next to it and a menu will drop down. One of the options is “Reader settings”.. Click that.

 
Now that you are into the Settings, click on the tab named “Goodies”.


Scroll down until you see where it says “Put reader in a bookmark” and drag that first yellow highlighted “Next >”  button just under your address bar.
 

See? There it is! :)

Now you can click it when you want to read some of your fav blogs, but only have a few minutes to spare. :)

So there you have it.. The next button!

Hope everyone is having a great start to their weekend! I will be back soon.♥

Go back up your blog.. Now!

I don’t know about you, but I would have a panic attack if my blog and all of it’s contents were ever deleted. That very thing happened to Kristin of My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia.. Poor thing!! Kristin, if you’re reading this, I hope they get it fixed for you!

Now, there is a way to feel at ease if this should ever happen to you.. Backing up your blog!

Not sure how to do that? I wasn’t either, but Kristin from Simply Klassic Home shows you how, HERE.

It seriously takes 2 minutes to back up your blog.. So easy! Go do it, so this doesn’t happen to you!