Most bloggers follow the common advice and use their free domain name when they choose their website host. Once you’ve realized that your domain registrar and website host need to be separate, you might have some questions about moving your domain name to a new domain registrar. How do you transfer domain registration?…
Best domain registrar review and guide – domains and hosts part 2/6
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.If you want to have a website with your own domain name, you’ll need to “buy” the domain – register it for a year or more. How do you find the best domain registrar?
How do you choose the best domain registrar?
Because I wanted to have separate domain registrars and website hosts, I wanted to move my domains to a new domain registrar. But when I started looking for instructions for how to move them, I found that all the help articles come from domain registrars or hosting companies themselves, and their instructions are specific to them. In addition, I had trouble finding good information about what to look for in a domain registrar.
In my last post, I discussed why you want your domain registrar to be different from my web host.
After researching domain registrars I finally decided on Google Domains. In this post, I’ll go over why I chose them.…
What’s a domain registrar? – domains and hosts part 1/6
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Just after my domains auto-renewed last year – at DOUBLE their original rate – I started coming across information about all the reasons it’s a good idea to have your domain registration with a different company than your website host. I’ve wanted to move my domain registration ever since.
Wait a minute, you might be thinking. I got my domain (for free) when I started my website. What do you mean there’s two of these things? Isn’t my host my domain registrar the same thing? How could I have two of them? And just what is the difference between domain registration and website hosting?…
Facebook Image Blog Post Test
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…The Best Social Media Image Size
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is is a template to help create the best social media image, the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site. My goal is a single image that will work on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
Keeping in mind the optimal image sizes for 3 social media sharing sites: Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 12
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is test 12 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. (Well, actually it’s about trials 12-15. I got tired of making so many posts and actually made several temporary posts and used many variations of the image below where I moved the face around.)
I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are really low or high in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are really low or high in the photo?…
Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 11
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is test 11 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are higher in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are higher in the photo?…
Social Media Sharing Image Composition Test 10
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is test 10 of trying to find the best social media sharing image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
I need to test what happens if the eyes or face are further down in the photo. What kind of faces are recognized and what happens when the faces are lower in the photo?…
Social Media Image Composition Test 9
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is test 9 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
So far, I’ve found that with longer images, in a 1:2 ration, Facebook has smart cropping to a landscape image that centers on eyes. Twitter always takes a square image from the center of the longer image, no matter what is in the image.
However, …
Social Media Image Composition Test 8
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.This is test 8 of trying to find the best social media image size and composition that will work for more than one social media site, a single image that will work for social sharing images on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
This is the second test to see how photos without faces affect where Facebook and Twitter crop images that are not their optimal orientation. Is it possible to create an image that will work for Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter sharing?
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