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Blogging on QGuide.com is too easy. With our unique funky tools, you'll be able to relive your past holidays or recent vacations and share them with friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.


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Upload your travel photos and videos, share your travel experiences with the world, meet other travellers and have fun along the way.

Write as if you were writing your experiences to a friend, enticing them to visit the place you're visiting or just your local area where you live.

This could be where to go, what to visit, your favourite cafes or restaurants, best beaches, local tips and advice or simply just where to meet the locals

Make it INFORMATIVE & ENJOYABLE!
Make it HUMOROUS & FUN!
Make it PLAYFUL!,
Make it HOT!,
Make it GAY!

Featured Blogs, Reviews & Tips
1. Creating a Travel Blog

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To start blogging, once you've logged in, you simply press create a new blog. Let's give our blog a fun title

Next, we'll add a few keywords that describe the area visited. This is very useful for other travelers to find our blog.



2. Mapping your Travel Blog

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We map each location of our blog to create a map. This is very useful for other members traveling to these destinations.

Here we'll start off by typing the area name, choose from the results or press SEARCH MAP

We can fine tune the address by moving the marker over to the exact location.
and selecting it.

We are also shorten or personalize our address field. This map will then appear on your published blog.



3. Adding Photos to your Travel Blog

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Now we add our photos and videos.

We'll start by uploading photos from our laptop. You can add up to 6 photos at a time up to 4MB each. We'll just add a couple of photos for this demonstration.



4. Adding Videos to your Travel Blog

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Now, we're going to upload a video that we've already uploaded to youtube.

Simply paste the Youtube URL or EMBED code directly into the pop up window

You can do the same for VIMEO videos

Simply copy and paste the VIMEO embed code directly into the pop up window



5. Adding Picasa Photo Album to your Travel Blog

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You can also upload photos directly from your Picasa Web albums in an instant.

Enter your picasa user name to load all your public listed albums.

Choose the Album

And this loads the whole album in one click.



6. Adding Web Pics to your Travel Blog

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Next we'll add a photo from the internet.

We start off by obtaining the photo's URL,

And we copy and paste it directly into the pop up window



7. Adding Photo Captions to your Travel Blog

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Here I'm adding add a photo caption along with some keywords that best describe my photos or sights along the way. This is very useful for keyword searching. I'll finish up by crediting the photographer.



8. Moving & Resizing Photos on your Travel Blog

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QGuide provides you with proprietary built easy to use photo editing tools to let your creativity run wild.

At a click of the mouse, you can move photos around,

Resize them on the fly

OR

Line them up

note the dimension sizes appearing on the top right hand corner of the window as you resize the photo

You can even edit the size manually or revert back to the original size.

If you hold down the shift key both windows and MAC, you can resize the photos to any size or shape to give you travel blog some funky creative touches.



9. Copying & Deleting Photos on your Travel Blog

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You can copy 3 photos at a time from one section of your blog to another with ease.

For windows, hold down the shift key and right or left mouse click.

For the mac, hold down the shift key and mouse click.

To delete photos, simply drag them off your blog either to the right or left



10. Floating Photos on your Travel Blog

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The float button enables you to to swap all the photos around with one click. This looks cool if you have large photos mixed with small ones.



11. Adding Text to your Travel Blog

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Entice your friends to come vist your local area or places you've traveled to in the text section below or above the photos.



12. Adding a Section to your Travel Blog

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Our free forms allow you to add a section with more text and photos by simply pressing the ADD button. You can also delete a section instantly by pressing the delete button.



13. Adding Multiple Places or Multi Routes to your Travel Blog

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If you're going to a few different places in the same day, you can use the multple places feature which allows you to map each place of interest individually.

If you want to write about your whole trip in the same blog you can use the Multipoint feature which allows you to map and date each place of interest individually.

For each point of interest or route, you simply add a section. And map each section

Mapping each blog or place of interest no matter no matter how minor will be of great benefit and help to your fellow traveler.



14. Previewing your Travel Blog

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Here I can click on the first photo to enlarge and then hit the arrow button to see the rest of the photos and videos.

Any photo captions and photographer credits will appear in the green border below the photo.

I can also play my videos or move on to the next photo.

I can have more than one photo pop up by simply pressing each photo instead of the slide show. This means I can also view more than one video at a time.

And I can rearrange my pop up windows around my screen.



15. Instant Translation on your Travel Blog

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To create a truly global experience we've gone one step further

With QGuide, language has no barriers

My blog can be translated

En Espanol

Y tambien con el idioma original.

En Francais, sans probleme

With a one click translate; your blogs are translatable in 51 languages instantly at a click of the mouse,

Now, Non English speakers can write their travel blogs in their own language and easily translate other travel blogs

With QGuide, it's now easy to make friends and exchange travel information from every corner of the world.







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