Out of the box, the LinkedIn and Facebook share buttons simply don’t align.  They look like this:

I solved this for http://www.easynda.com using tips from http://neilgoodman.net/2012/01/14/making-social-buttons-line-up-in-a-row-in-css/ and some refinements.

I started by trying to use margins or padding in CSS to adjust the position of the social buttons, but that didn’t work. Each button has slightly different margins and padding, which meant my adjustments never worked right and didn’t look the same across browsers.

What’s needed is to be able to accommodate the variation between buttons and to get them to  Continue reading →

Goal:  A blog on my domain with my own website’s chrome.  Blogging technology (database, editing tools) and a presentation layer that will look just like by website.  Like an iFrame within mysite.com/blog.

Exist?

Blogging has become one easy thing to do.  The number of services that will take your text, and for free post it to their own URL are too many to track.

But what about adding blog functionality to your business website?  WordPress.org makes that possible; HOWEVER, it comes at the price of administrative overhead.  And the site admin has to integrate social connectors, metrics, tracking, etc. etc. manually.  That’s a lot of overhead.

Which leads one to the path of hosted blog services which range from $12.50 – $20/mo.  Not too bad considering WP.com charges similar prices for their mid-tier service (dubbed Premium) at $99 plus $13 if you bring your own domain.

The hitch to WP.com?  No HTML.  Blogs MUST use one of WP.com’s preordained templates.  For that $99, one can modify the CSS – colors and shapes.

So the adventure begins as we search for a template (called Themes) that can be modified with CSS and integrated into EasyNDA.com