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Chocolate Pipe Dream, your chocolate dream
Chocolate Pipe Dream is a site that provides delicious aromatic Belgian Chocolate Fountains Hire throughout Essex and the South East of England. Whether it’s a luxurious Belgian milk Chocolate Fountain for your Wedding in Essex or a 50″ White Belgian Chocolate Fountain for your corporate event in London.
If you are looking to impress, want all your guests to have fun, what better way to get the conversation going than by hiring a Chocolate Fountain from Chocolate Pipe Dream. All their Chocolate Fountain Hire Packages include a fully trained operator, dipping foods, delicious Belgian Chocolate of your choice, skewers, napkins and an illuminated perspex table surround which creates extra wow factor.
Chocolate Pipe Dream also have one of the largest Chocolate Fountains standing at 50″ tall, you will see from all our different Chocolate Fountain Hire Packages that we have many different options to cater for large or small events.
Some Firefox 3 add-ons
After the recent release of Firefox 3, there are a lot of voices who are saying that there aren’t too many add-ons for this version. Well, i’ve found a lot of them, but i made a small list with one of the most important add-ons.
Photo by Sparrow*
1. Firebug - Allows you complete control over site’s CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Some additional plugins for Firebug is YSlow (for measuring site performance) and Rainbow (JavaScript code highlighting).
2. SearchStatus - Allows easy access to valuable site information like Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank
3. Foxmarks - Service that allows Bookmark synchronization. Meaning where ever I go, I can have my firefox bookmarks with me. I use this plugin for almost 1 year and i never had problems with my bookmarks. Slow and easy to use.
4. Google Global - Allows me to search Google as if I were in different countries.
5. Google Notebook - You can put down some thaughts, notes and excerpts while browsing.
6. IE Tab - Gives you the possibility to view the site in Internet Explorer.
7. Screen grab! - Saves a web page or a portion of it as an image.
8. Weave - It’s almost the same as Foxmarks (3) . It can save bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies and filled form data - practically everything you might need.
9. SEO for Firefox - gets SEO related information for sites (like nofollow tags and search result links).
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5 Blogging mistakes you should avoid
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Weston H. Agor
We should all accept the fact the we made and we will continue to make mistakes, even if we don’t want to. The best way to avoid doing mistakes is to learn from the ones that we’ve already made, and to know more about the decision we are going to take tomorrow. As a blogger there are a lot of mistakes which can waste valuable time and resources, so learning from them in order to avoid them is a must.
Here are the 5 tips to avoid in order to avoid making mistakes :
1. Do not take breaks from blogging!
Sometimes, when i’m too tired, all that i have in mind is a short holiday. Well, i’ve noticed that not publishing blog posts for several days in a row is not the way to go. So, everytime you need to recharge your batteries, don’t hessitate to use the timestamp features and to write a few blog posts before you leave.
Choosing a blog name
Choosing a name for your blog is something you should consider carefully, because the right name can make the difference between a successful blog and an unsuccessful one. I have to admit that choosing a blog name might not be as important as naming your firstborn child but as we all know, the name is almost everything.
How to choose a blog name ?
First of all, there are some key elements you should keep in mind when you make the decision of choosing a blog name. I’m talking about the : branding, name length, topic relation, catchy and the last but not the least, search engines. Before choosing a blog name you should answer this questions :
- What is the topic of your blog ?
- What are your goals ?
- What tone will it be written in ?
- What kind of style will it represent?
- Who is it written for ? (audience)
Well, you’ve got the point. There are a few rules you should remember when you choose a blog name :
1. The name should reflect and describe your blog.
People usually are looking at the name of a blog and they can figure what the blog is about before having the chance to actually read it. A blog title should not be the owner’s name and the word blog. Do you know why ? Because a blog should have a name related to the topic and because it will be easier for visitors to remember the name of a blog if the subject or topic of the blog is in the name or title of the blog.
