Noreply @ blogger HELP, & how to leave a clickable link in a comment.

Lets talk pet peeves, shall we? 
How frustrating is it, when you go to respond to a comment, you write it up, it's rather long, because you actually had tons to say, and you hit send. Then you realize, all the effort was for nothing, because the dear person has not set up an email in their profile section, so that people can respond to them. 


It's really annoying, and I for one, just say the heck with it, and the dear person, usually never gets a response to their comment, because by this time I am just a little pissed. Not at the dear person, because dear person probably doesn't even have any idea this is happening, but because I just spend time writing up a response, and now I have to go back to my blog, click on the comment, click on their profile, click on their blog, then leave a comment on a post, and PROBABLY have to enter word verification too, which makes it even worse. So basically I tend not to do that, and dear person is left wondering why they never get a response to their awesome comments they leave. Sucks for everyone RIGHT?


Lets get this resolved shall we, it's really easy to do, and I hope you go do it right now, otherwise it may slip your mind again, and you know, again people will get frustrated, and you will wonder why nobody responds to you. 
How to fix the dreaded NOREPLY@BLOGGER problem


STEP ONE:
Get to your DASHBOARD. An easy way to do this from your blog, is clicking on the big B on the top left of the screen. 
STEP TWO:
Click on EDIT PROFILE. Click SHOW MY EMAIL ADDRESS. 
STEP THREE:
Go down a bit further, and enter the email address you want people to reply to. I have a email address set up only for all things blog related. This is where people respond back to me. I urge everyone to set up a blog email address, BUT also to have at least one more email address associated with your account, just in case you get locked out of one. 
STEP FOUR:
Make sure you save your settings. Now sit back, smile, and enjoy, soon enough, you will be getting all kinds of sweet responses to the sweet comments you take the time to leave. HOORAY!!


HOW TO LEAVE A CLICKABLE LINK in the comments.
This is also a pet peeve, although hardly as big as the last one. 


You know when people want you to visit their blog, or a site, or a post, and leave the url. Only you have to copy and paste it, rather than just clicking on it. May not be such a big deal to you, and it's really not that bad, but why not make it clickable especially when it' so easy to do. 


Here's how to do it, using some simple html code.
Use the following code, replacing everything with your information. 


<a href="http://bellabeforeandafter.blogspot.com"> Bella Before and After </a>

Your code will read like this:

Bella Before and After
Easy enough right. Now you have no excuse for not leaving a clickable link.

Oh and as an added bonus, I will tell you how to actually leave the code in your blog post, so it actually reads like code. It took me forever to learn this. Every time I tried leaving the code, so you could see it, it automatically turned into a link, which is what the code is meant to do.

Here is what you need to do to actually leave the code above in a post.

Replace < with this &gt;
Replace > with this &gt;

For a great tutorial on more tips and tricks, including things like this below: go HERE.

Here are some of the codes that will produce characters and symbols:

&raquo;     »      right double angle quotes

&laquo;     «       left double angle quotes

&lt;     <      less than sign

&gt;     >      greater than sign

&bull;     •      bullet

&#9829;     or     &hearts;      ♥      black heart

&#8734;    ∞      infinity symbol

&mdash;    —      long dash

&amp;    &      ampersand

&quot;    "      double quotes

Table of ascii characters and symbols - More HTML codes.

FOR AN EASY WAY TO TRANSLATE YOUR CODE AUTOMATICALLY, JUST ENTER IT IN THIS SIMPLE CODE PROGRAM, ITS VERY EASY.

Hope this was helpful to you. Please let me know if it worked, and if you have any questions. I did a post on how to easily leave comments using copy and paste, and stickies (an online post it). However blogger decided to make make that disappear, when they were having some issues last week. So when I get a chance I will write it up again.