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GeoGebra Advanced Tutorial 10 – Embedding GeoGebra Applets in a WordPress blog

July 16, 2011 GB Blogging Tutorial, GeoGebra, Software Tutorials

Micky Bullock has written a tutorial on how to embed a GeoGebra applet on WordPress blogs using iframe in the Secret Garden of Maths, so it is pointless for me to repeat the tutorial. Below, however, are some of the problems I encountered when I followed the tutorial and the solutions I did to display the applet. It is likely that you will encounter the same problem, so you may want to bookmark this post.

Commonly Encountered Problems

Problem 1: Applet does not display.
Solution: Update Java Runtime Environment.

Problem 2: Scrollbars appears on my applet.
Solution: Do one or more of the following:
a.) Be sure that your applet is smaller than the frame where you will place the applet.
b.) Set the table margin to 0 (see Figure below) in the HTML code. You can edit it using a text editor such as Notepad++.

c.) Be sure that in your iframe code, the width of your iframe is greater than the width of your applet. This is the same with the height. If scrollbar still appears, try to increase iframe width or height.

Problem 3: The text Created with GeoGebra appears at the bottom of my applet.
Solution: Using Notepadd++ or any text editor, delete the text containing the Created with GeoGebra at the bottom of the HTML code.

If you encounter other problems and found a solution, please feel free to comment below.

Note: Again, this is only for hosted WordPress blogs, and this method does not work in WordPress.com blogs as of yet.

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101 Blog Tips 4: Blog posts tips

July 7, 2011 GB Blog Tips

This is the fourth part of 101 Ways to promote your blog for free series. In this post, we are going to discuss what blog post or individual article tips.

Blog Posts Tips

⁵¹Publish at least 5 articles a week. Although 5 posts seems a lot, but if you want to increase your readers rapidly, post as many articles as you can.
⁵²Break Long Posts. Do not write long articles. If possible, divide your post into several parts. ⁵³A series of posts is a great way to make your readers come back from time to time.
⁵⁴Use pictures (stunning pictures would be a plus) whenever possible. Have you tried reading a long article without a photo or drawing? I bet that most readers wouldn’t want to read such articles. As the saying says, a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures give colors to your post and will tend to attract readers.
⁵⁵Add Share and RSS buttons on each post. ⁵⁶I strongly recommend Addthis because it supports more than 300 social media sites. Adding a share button in each article will definitely increase your post. Imagine 30 Tweets where each tweet is send to 300 people. That’s 9000 potential readers!
⁵⁷Add ‘Related Articles.’ Readers that are interested in a particular post will be very likely interested related articles. Suggestive links such as related posts are very effective in increasing your page views.
⁵⁸Use LinkWithin. I have used LinkWithin for about three months and I am very much satisfied with it. In fact, it drives most traffic to my blog.
⁵⁹Link to your previous posts. If you see a word in your blog is related to your post, always link it. Again, the more links you have, the better.
⁶⁰Vary your media. Aside from pictures, there are also a lot of multimedia that you can embed to you posts. You can embed Youtube videos, Slideshare presentations, Scribd documents, Flash and Java animations, and many more.