Advanced Stumbling
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[edit] Photoblogging
Realize that the StumbleUpon PhotoBlog It! feature of the StumbleUpon toolbar uses hotlinking. In other words, you rely on someone else to host the image featured on your page. Many hosts object to hotlinking and act to prevent or discourage it.
A convenient alternative is to use an image hosting service such as Imageshack or AllYouCanUpload. Fapomatic is a good one for adult images. When configuring these services, look for bookmarklets and other tools that streamline posting, like ImageShack right-click, a Firefox extension.
Some hosts have come to realise that stumblers are actually looking for interesting websites, so while hotlinking from blogs or other websites hardly ever produces actual visits to the hosting site, quite often a stumbler will use the hot link to visit the hosting site to see what else it has to offer.
[edit] StumbleUpon Add-ons
There are many scripts and tools available to extend the functionality and to fix unwanted behaviour of StumbleUpon. Thlayli was so kind to compile a list; he is one of the contributors to the now extensive list of Add-ons. More at the SU Extensibility group.
For many of these addons, you'll need Firefox and Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension that lets you change the appearance, behaviour and functionality of websites. Some addons will work with Opera or Internet Explorer and Turnabout Advanced.
Note: The StumbleUpon extensions mentioned above have not been endorsed in any way by StumbleUpon.
[edit] CSS
The use of CSS to customise an SU weblog is also possible. Nexus76 has written a StumbleUpon CSS Guide for those interested in modifying their StumbleUpon pages. He also offers the StumbleUpon Auto-Code Creator, for customising individual posts, and SUE, for 'full-page' customisations including multimedia content and CSS themes, that can be seen by other SUE users.
Additional CSS themes for SUE are also available at:
You can also use BosseJ's SU CSS Template Editor to customize individual blog post layouts.
[edit] SlicedThumbs
http://suparse.ning.com/screenshot-of-blog-transformation-example2.png
SlicedThumbs mirrors the content from someone's SU page, so they can style it how they like, and so they can use any HTML. It uses Ning, so users can easily get their own.
[edit] Sticky Comments
If the About section doesn't offer enough space for everything that you'd like visitors to know about you or your stumbling, you could maintain a sticky comment. This is a blog entry that stays at the top. Currently, no sticky comment feature is built-in. To simulate it, you have to move the blog entry to the top after each blogging session. Do that by editing the blog entry and unchecking the 'don't change the date' option. One way to indicate that you'd like built-in support for sticky comments and sticky threads is to add "Sticky Thread" to your Likes.
Sticky Helper 2 is a Greasemonkey userscript automatically that maintains a sticky post. With this script installed, a specified post will always be moved to the top of your blog any time you post something new or edit another post without "don’t change the date" selected. Note: this script is in the beta testing stage. For a more stable solution, see below.
The original Sticky Helper works in both Greasemonkey and Turnabout Advanced. Normally when you edit the post, you must uncheck "Don’t change the date" and then click Submit. With this script installed you only have to click Edit.
[edit] Polls
Thlayli created a way to add polls to your blog.
[edit] Tags and Topics
- Read these Tips From Top Taggers.
- Remember, that everytime you rate a site, a default tag is applied. Due to a possible misclassification of the site, this tag isn't always appropriate. Change it when necessary.
- Refrain from using overly specific tags. Tags should describe more than one site. Example: tagging caranddriver.com with "car-and-driver" is much less helpful (both to you and others) than "car, magazine, reviews" all of which can be used again. Also, the dropdown menu doesn't list tags which have been used only once.
- Visit the Miscatters Anonymous group and the Tagaholics Anonymous group to discuss categorization of stumbles.
[edit] Lesser known StumbleUpon features
- You can subscribe to tags as well, not only to topics. It is done via the 'tag page' (it's also accessible through Preferences → My interests) by choosing a tag and clicking the 'Subscribe' button on the upper right of the tag's page.
[edit] Miscellaneous
[edit] Copyright
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