Saturday, May 15, 2010

Better Blogging :: Add Print Friendly

Want a sure fire way to make sure your readers are happy when they print items from your blog?

Have you ever visited a blog and decide you needed to print the recipe or the excellent lesson they detail for homeschooling? Then, when you go to your printer, you notice it has printed out on gobs of paper - some with only a little bit printed on the paper?

Frustrating, isn't it? Not to even mention how wasteful with paper and ink. I want to share with you a solution I found. Print Friendly.

Printing a Web Page
Step 1. Copy the URL with the permalink to the page of information you would like to print.


Step 2. Paste the copied permalink into the appropriate box on the Print Friendly home page.



I surely didn't want you to have the same frustrations if you decided to print information from my blog, Our Homeschool Home. Therefore, I installed Print Friendly on my blog. Now you can simply click on the Print PDF icon below any of my posts. You can now either save the post as a PDF or send it to a printer without wasting extra pages from your printer.

Bloggers, you can install this functionality very simply on your own blog. The Print Friendly website provides great instructions along with the code to utilize.


What types of information do you save as a PDF or print from websites or blogs?

This post is linked to Works for Me Wednesday.


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