My New Blog

I have decided to start a second blog. The current blog that you are reading will continue to be my main vehicle in the blogging world. It covers a much wider range of subject matter than my new blog.

My new blog, Libertarian Dad, will be more focused on news and politics. I hope that you will visit it and leave some comments.

Blogging Tip #1-Opening Links in a New Window

I have noticed that on most blogs, whenever the blogger has included a link in their post that if you click that link you are taken to that site and leave the blog you were on.  All of us bloggers that include links because it is relevant to that post, and we think that our readers will find it interesting.  However, I for one would rather have the reader stay on my blog rather than hope they come back.  

If you would prefer to have your readers stay on your site, I have a little tip to make your links accomplish this.   All you have to do after you create your link is alter the HTML code a little bit.  Don't let that scare you.  I am no HTML expert, and it is a fairly simple change to the code to do this.  I use blogger, and I have a "Compose" tab where I write my posts, and and "Edit Html" tab where I edit my links or add my "YouTube" code.  I would assume that other blogging software will also let you do this.  

Let's take a simple link like Google.  The HTML code for this link is:

To adjust the code so that the link opens in a new window, you need to add one little thing to the code: target="_blank".  Your new html code looks like this:

Just adding that little bit of code will now cause your link to open a new window for your reader to stay on your site while reviewing the info at the link you provided.  Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.  If you have any blogging tips, feel free to post them here.