Soup up your blog

By Joe Dysart

While you’re adding the latest in interactivity to your site, don’t forget to update your company blog with new tools that will give it an edgier look.

Artisteer 2.1

This is a gem of a blog design tool that will enable a nontechnical person to custom design a WordPress blog in an hour or so. Essentially, Artisteer enables you to start with a basic design of a WordPress blog and then tweak it to your heart’s content with an easy-to-use dashboard. There are options to change your WordPress blog’s shape, color, font, columns and margin widths, text size and more.

YouTube

If there’s video on YouTube you’d like to feature in your company blog, the company offers a free YouTube player you can embed in your blog text. For more info, go to YouTube’s how-to video on the quick embed. ”We use video segments on various pages of our website to help better explain our product,” says Sunsetter’s Eilam. “We find video is becoming more and more mainstream on the web. People are looking for it.”

Podcast Embedder

With Propaganda, from Mixmeister Technology, you’ll be able to record, post and promote an audio podcast to your blog with a single program.

Joe Dysart is a speaker on Internet business topics and business consultant based in Manhattan, N.Y.; +1 646 233 4089.