tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64384170107583513222020-01-27T18:27:29.718+05:30How to Blog, New Blogger, Blogger, Help, Templates, Adsense, Google. SEO, Social Media Optimization. From your friendly Neighbourhood Blogger Evangelist.Vinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01493566768338287914noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438417010758351322.post-74382706900235823852007-07-01T05:56:00.000+05:302007-07-01T06:44:46.221+05:30

Here is the new header made from Cornershop utilizing rounded corner graphics CSS and HTML. See picture below:You can make your own corners complete with your choice of colors for the background and size. This will give a distinctive header to your blog which will stay in the visitor's memory and hence increase brand recall.............To design your own header visit the Cornershop site and

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A reader wanted to put the timestamp of the post under the date. He was disturbed by the separation between date and time. Usually the timestamp is at the end of the post and the date above the post title. Here is the hack along with a list of all my Blogger Hacks................TIMESTAMP UNDER POST DATELogin to Dashboard and click on Layout. This will bring up the Page Elements subtab under

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Would you like to add a small graphic or icon to your post titles? Some members of Google Groups asked for this feature and here it is......1. CREATE A GRAPHICFirst step is to create a graphic either in an image editor or in an online image generator such as cooltext.com. Save it to your hard disk and upload it to a freehost. Then copy down its link/URL.2. CREATING THE IMAGE CODEThe image code is

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Would you like your blog to show more than one header? Perhaps you want to show off your creativity? Maybe you are bored with having only one header? Here is a solution tried and tested in Firefox browser which can show as many headers as you want simply by hovering the mouse over some buttons..............I found this trick here and adapted it to suit the new layouts template but it can be

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Many bloggers wish to remove the title header on their blogs because it is interfering with their customized headers. Removing the title is not recommended because search engines use it to index your blog but there is a workaround you can employ.........REMOVING THE BLOG TITLELogin to dashboard and click on Layouts for the blog you wish to remove the title of. Click on Edit Html subtab of

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A reader asked to have a three column template with a Table of Contents at the top. So I decided to make it and take you, my dear readers, along with me as I do so. Something like "The Making of a template.....". So here we go.........1. CREATE A BLOGAs I have said previously in Practical Approach to Hacking Templates, it is always best to start of with one of the Blogger Templates. So we

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The Dots Template is the only one of two in the Blogger Collection which does not have a header at the top. It has a header placed at the top of the sidebar. The other one is the Simple II Template which is the last in the choices list. Here I have added a header at the top and removed the original one at the top of the sidebar.......First login to Dashboard and click on Layouts. This will

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Ye Olde Blogger had clickable headers which enabled viewers to return to the main page simply by clicking on the headers on any of the post pages. The New Blogger seems to have done away with this function by substituting navigation links at the bottom of each post. However the clickable header can be implemented in......two different ways in the New Blogger. You can have a title which is

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Expandable Post Summaries is the method by which each blog post consists of a short paragraph of introduction followed by a 'Read More' link. This enables the reader to get a small introduction to each post on the main page. He can then click the Read More link if he gets sufficiently interested........Many bloggers have reported confusion when they tried to follow the instructions on the

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You can put your email link below your posts but it will be picked up by spam bots and then your inbox will soon be full of thousands of spam mails. It will be better to follow this method of putting it.......First you will have to create an image out of your email link. For this go to :Email GeneratorORhttp://services.nexodyne.com/emailFollow the steps to make an image out of your email and

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StumbleUpon is another social bookmarking site which you can add to your post footers......Viewers coming across any of your posts which they feel are good can "Stumble It" by clicking on the Stumble Upon icon in the post footer. Stumble Upon has a great Page Rank so if your site gets a backlink from there it can only benefit it. Besides rather than searching for quality web sites, StumbleUpon

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There are many ways to add translation facilities to your blog. All of these require you to copy and paste code from various sites like Google Translate, World Lingo or Altavista. For the first time here is a widget using which you can add these tools to your blog simply using mouse clicks...........There is no code to be copied and pasted. ADD LANGUAGE TRANSLATION TO YOUR BLOG WITH ONLY TWO

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The standard blog has the header which scrolls upward along with the content and soon disappears from view. It is a rare connoisseur's blog which has a fixed header with the content scrolling upwards into it. This effect has the header always remaining in view thus imprinting itself in the viewer's memory........As an example I have hacked the new layouts of Blogger to reproduce this effect as

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The increasing resolution on Monitors worldwide has led to a greater demand for utilizing the total real estate available on the computer screen. Many bloggers do not like the empty white space on either sides and wish to add a third column.......Many bloggers are reporting that 6% to 9% of their viewers are on 800 x 600 monitors. The latest stats. from here show that in July 2006 there were

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The Post Footer contains many elements like the Posted by line, the timestamp, the labels, comments, backlinks and others which you can customize to your blog........The primary customization canbe made by going to Template------->Page Elements------>Click the Edit link in Blog Posts section-------->In popup window choose which items you would like to appear in the post footer by putting a check

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A Clickable Image Map is a picture with multiple clickable areas. An Image Map in a blog can be used for navigating the site. Each area on the map is linked to a different target or web page or a different section on the same page........Image maps present visual choices and hence are more intuitive for viewers. It must be obvious that the graphic is clickable or else you need to tell the

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You can link your post to another article in the New Blogger. This is done when you are commenting on the other article or your blog post is about the other article......In your blog post you will write about the other article and below the blog post you can show a link to the other article in case the blog reader after reading your post wishes to visit the other article to find out more about

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Do you wish to write an online novel or book? You can customize the new blogger templates so that your blog looks and behaves just like a book.......If you want to see an example of a book in the new blogger posted with this method, check out The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole. (Thanks to Project Gutenberg for the text.) See the screenshot below :The first step is to create a blog

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A Table of Contents can be added to your main Blog Posts column. This Table of Contents will list all your posts titles as links. You can arrange this Table to appear before your Blog Posts or after..............To do this you will first have to add extra Page Elements to your Blog Posts column. Login to Dashboard and click on Layouts of the blog you want to modify. Then click on Edit Html

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Add a Recent Posts List after every post in your blog so that any reader reading a single post can see at the end of the post this list and then if interested may go there..........To put a Recent Posts List in the sidebar see List Previous Posts.To do this we will use your blog's feed to put a list of recent posts at the bottom of every post. First we will have to turn on the blog feed. For

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You can now add a widget to your blog with a button which when clicked adds a button link to your blog from the reader's blog. This is done automatically without the reader having to type in even a line of code.....First create a button by going to http://cooltext.com/Buttons and create a button for your blog. Then upload this button picture to a freehost like Googlepages and copy down the url

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You want your blog to stand out among the millions of blogs in the blogosphere then....you will have to learn how to hack the beta blogger template. Classic Blogger had HTML templates which were easy to hack. You could load them into various WYSIWYG site builders and customize them easily. This is not the case with beta blogger.Beta Blogger Templates are made of XML/XHTML. See What is

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Download Three Column Beta Template with the following features............This template is an original Stretch Denim Beta Blogger Template by Darren Delaye to which I have added a third column. The added features are : Third Column for Advertisements or other Page Elements. Add Page Element to Header Add Page Element to Footer Add Page Element to Posts Column Add upto 4 Page

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To Insert a Banner Link in the Footer you must first...............have a banner ready. You can create your own banner in an image editing program like I have done or go to an online banner generator. To find an online banner generator just type 'free banner generator' in Google's Search Box and hit Enter.Once you have made a banner upload it to a free host like GooglePages. At present

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To Insert a Banner Link to your blog you must first...............have a banner ready. You can create your own banner in an image editing program like I have done or go to an online banner generator. To find an online banner generator just type 'free banner generator' in Google's Search Box and hit Enter.Once you have made a banner upload it to a free host like GooglePages. At present

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