How to Embed a Link in Your Blog -- Point to Your Source

My friend Toni asked me how to isolate a word within in her own blog post and how activate the word as a link to a source on the web.  Have you ever wondered how to embed a link in your blog without sending your reader away from your blog?  Let's say you are writing a blog post about paint websites and you want to link to for example: Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams.


Here are the steps:
While writing (or composing /"editing") your post in Blogger: (Read that underlined part again)
1. Highlight (click and drag over) the text you want to activate. (example:  Highlight the words Benjamin Moore)
2. Select Blogger's Link tool (Look for the underlined word that reads Link)
Tip: If you aren't sure which one is the link tool, let your mouse linger over the editing tools and their names will pop up.)
3.  A white box will pop up asking you to enter the URL
3. Enter the URL (the web address) of the exact page you are pointing your reader. 
4. Click "Test the Link" to see if you have indeed linked to the page you want.
(It's kind of easy, right?)


Yet...I know there are some that get confused and need more explanation. 
So...If you staring at the computer and suddenly aren't sure what to put in the white box...here are your options:
1--If you have the webpage memorized, well then, you are a memorizing genius, and I want to be on your team when we play Trivial Pursuit.
2--If you're a seasoned computer user, you can open up a second tab on your browser, go to the website, surf to the exact spot you want to show your readers, then Copy (by using the keyboard strokes, toggle Ctrl-C)  the web address from the top of the page. Then surf back to the little white box and Paste in the web address in the box (by using the keyboard strokes, toggle Ctrl-P)
3--Or if you are like my mom, you can go to the website, copy it down on pencil and paper and try to squint your eyes and retype it inside the white box and risk messing up a keystroke or more, then express your frustration with technology by calling me when I'm making dinner and telling me that there is something wrong with your computer.  (True story. Happens all the time.)


Enjoy and apply your newly learned blogging skill. 
The best lesson here is that it's important to site your sources and give credit where it's due. 

The View that put a Drapery Crisis into Perspective

The BEST phone call I received in 2010 came via cell the moment I arrived at The Grand Canyon. (Two days prior to Thanksgiving.) A sweet business gal I know called; not knowing I was out of town. She was having drapery issues with a client of hers. And the stress of fitting it all in was a bit too much at that moment. Instantly upon seeing the canyon I knew I could help put the issue into perspective.  My eyes were on the scenery, my ear was on the phone and  I knew with every ounce of my being that the drapery crisis du jour was only "small-blip of a moment" in our lifetime. After giving her my own words of advice, I also quoted a well known industry pal of mine, Scot Robbins. "There's no such thing as a drapery emergency." That statement + that phone call + this view was a great free business lesson for me.  (And my drapery friend, after a much needed break, got it all worked out and got her Thanksgiving dinner finished too.) I hope this view can help someone else too.