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How To Create Account of Valyou Mobile Wallet

2017-10-31T13:55:00.002+08:00

The Remittance Service we will discuss in this tutorial formally known as Prabhu Bank. Let's me familiarize you with the background the of company, in May 2016, Telenor (Norway Based International Company) acquired Prabhu Money Transfer Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian-based licensed Remittance Service Provider that provides multi-country international remittance services. Telenor Group on Nov 15 2016 change the name of company Prabhu to Valyou, and make the service more convenient to its user by making addition of Mobile Wallet solutions in Malaysia. The registered & verified user of Valyou Mobile App can send money to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippine and India as well as pay bills, mobile top up and share money Valyou to Valyou Wallet user.

In this post we will learn how to Register using Valyou app & how to verify your account to premium by going to the certified agent of Valyou.

Download Valyou App

How To Create Account

Before starting to be sure that you have copy of your Passport (Copy Must Be Clear to ready the required data easily) to scan and upload to the server of Valyou App.

Click on the app icon to start
Click on Register
Check the user agreement icon and click register now
Enter your Identification No. (Passport Number), Mobile No. and click continue
Enter your date of birth given & family name and click continue (same as passport)
Now enter the expiry & issue date of your passport
Select passport in ID type from drop down
Select your nationality from drop down & Click Register

The automated system of Valyou app will sent you an one time password (OTP) which only valid for 2 minutes, enter the password and click submit and again click on register button.

Setup new password and security question (it's mandatory)

Click go to login using password sent to your register mobile number and you have to change it after first time login (it's mandatory to change your password) upon first login
Now login again and set your security question (in my case i will select my high school)
Now login again and click on upgrade (accept the user agreement and click upgrade now
Verify your date of birth, given name and family name and click continue
Verify your passport expiry and issue date, id type, nationality and press register
Press on take photo and capture the clear picture of your passport and upload it to Valyou Server
Great now you have Enhanced Valyou account

How to get premium account

You have to personally go to the any Merchant of Valyou (CICO) to verify your identity to premium account and enable you to make International transaction. You must have the A4 size color copy of passport or original passport to get your account verified by Merchant of Valyou, make sure you must go along with active mobile number which have used to register.

list Of Merchants
Would love to hear your thoughts on this handy service provided by Valyou, Let me know if it lived up to your expectations, If you need help don't hesitate to ask anything in the comment form below or you may contact Valyou Customer Care to get the location of nearest Merchant of Valyou.

WorldRemit Vector Logo

2017-10-23T16:52:00.001+08:00

WorldRemit is an online service that lets people send money to friends and family living abroad, using a computer, smartphone or tablet.
It is a convenient, low-cost alternative to traditional money transfer companies that use high street agents and charge high fees.
Money can be received as a bank deposit, cash pick-up, Mobile Money, or mobile airtime top-up.
WorldRemit’s service is available to senders in 50 countries. We offer transfers to more than 140+ destinations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.

Recently I had a chance to write a tutorial on how to send money from abroad, and for the completion of the tutorial, i need the vector logo of WorldRemit which unable to find online and decided to draw one and share it, download the copy of vector logo from the link below.

Vector logo of the WorldRmit brand designed by Unknown in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and Adobe Illustrator (AI) format. Re-Draw by Ishtiaq Ahmad, the current status of the logo is active, which means the logo is currently in use.

Website:: WorldRemit
Designer:: Unknown
Contributor:: Ishtiaq Ahmad
Vector format:: eps, AI, Cdr
Status:: Active Report
Added on:: Mon, 23/10/2017

The logo design and the artwork you are about to download is the intellectual property of the copyright and/or trademark holder and is offered to you as a convenience for lawful use with proper permission from the copyright and/or trademark holder only. You hereby agree that you agree to the Terms of Use and that the artwork you download will be used for non-commercial use without infringing on the rights of the copyright and/or trademark holder and in compliance with the DMCA act of 1998.

Download

WordRemit: Send Money From Malaysia To Worldwide

2017-10-21T14:42:00.001+08:00

Sending money from overseas was not easy as we have today. Since 2013 I’m living overseas & found some great experience with some of the remittance companies as well as with money transfer agents. I also found that most of the people working overseas are facing trouble to send money to their home country due to the less knowledge of online banking and the user interfaces developed by the Remittance Service Provider. I had experience of sending money from Malaysia to Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh and would be happy to share with the readers of Spicy Blogging.

I will sort the tutorials by the best exchange rate remittance companies and in this first tutorial, we will take look how to send the money to Pakistan from Malaysia throughout World Remit Money transfer service.

What WorldRemit Really Do?

Authorized & Supportive

WorldRemit's industry-leading technology protects your money and guarantees it arrives safely every time. They are licensed by government regulators around the world so you can be sure they meet the highest possible standards.

7/24 great support, you can call them using Skype free calling to United state feature.
Toll Free (if Skype): +1 888-961-4869

A brief video how it works

Signup for new account

The following information is required to create an account with WorldRemit.

Send from:
First Name:
Last Name: (Please enter your full name as per your driving license or passport)
Email:

After filling all the required fields at the end of the form you will find “got referral code”, Copy & Paste the following code and click submit.
You will get discount as well as a free first transaction by using our Referral Code.

ISHTIAQ17

That’s it.
Now we have to verify the email address which we used to create the account, you will receive an email with a verification link, you have to click on that link to activate your account.

How to send money

Now log into your account & select the recipient country i.e Pakistan and click get started.
You will be promoted to select the available partner in your recipient country

In my case, I will choose the Bank-Deposit (money will be transferred to personal accounts at all major banks within 2 working days and instantly into Mobile Account). Please note that WorlRemit will not transfer to business accounts.

Follow the steps below to generate the summary of your transaction.

Select Send To (i.e. Pakistan)
Select Service (i.e. Bank Deposit)
Select send > Currency > amount (system will generate the summary of your transaction and at the bottom of summary exchange rate)

Now click on send & you will get something like this:

You must have the following account to fill up the form:

You must have IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
BIC (or Swift Code) BIC or Swift Code Generator
First Name, Last Name (must be matched with account holder name), address, phone and email of the recipient.

The information about recipient can be found the chequebook or you may get from the copy of bank statement. use the tools below to generate IBAN (International Bank Account number) and Swift Code.

Generate IBAN Generate Swift Code (BIC)

When you have all the required information just fill up the form and click next to add payment method

We have to enter the following detail to pay using Debit or Credit Card issued by any bank in Malaysia or all over the world. (Note: Make sure your card is activated for online purchase and overseas transaction)

Debit/Credit Card
Click next
Enter 16 digits of your Debit/Credit Card
Date of Expiry
CVC/CVV/CID
Finally, click on pay.
Enter the OTP Code

That’s it. Done…!!

Watch video guide urdu (hindi) Version

Here is a useful article on Wikihow.com to stay safe while using Debit Card online.
Need further help please let me know and more stuff on the way, keep visiting for future updates and more useful stuff in regards of international remittance.

Check Malaysia's General Work Permit Status

2017-08-29T13:53:00.000+08:00

Since from last 4 years I’m living in Malaysia, I have something about immigration visa permit procedure and normally it’s very difficult to know without hiring an agent/consultant. In this tutorial, I gonna share some useful stuff which will help the foreigners living in Malaysia.
The common question everyone will ask how to check Permit Status Online. In past Malaysian immigration do provide a service to check the Permit Status using Passport number of foreigner worker but in 2014 while they were updating the system they stop the service to check permit status through Passport number.

Nowadays if someone wishes to check the status of their work permit they must have “Application Number (Nombor Permohonan), Employer Identification Number (No. Kad Pengenalan Majikan) and last but not least Company Registration Number (No. Pendaftaran Syarikat)” Formally known as ROC Number in Peninsular Malaysia. I will also share the way how to find out the ROC to check your permit/employment pass status.
To do so, we must have the Company Name which you can find on your sticker (PLKS) you have placed on your Passport or if you don’t have the passport you may have I-Kad, you can grab it from your I-Kad or in most cases from your permit copy provided by employer or sub-agent.
So now if you got the name of your company, let’s start to check the status. Keep note that in this tutorial we will only learn how to check the status general work permit, which is issued under these 5 approved sectors.

Construction, Manufacturing, Plantation, Agriculture and Service Sector

Checkout video guide as well

About MyData-SSM:

MYDATA was founded in 2016 to provide users with a single, direct electronic access point to the official company registration offices in Malaysia. We have been appointed by the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) - Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) as its Technology and Service Provider for the SSM MYDATA Services. MYDATA is a legitimate and legal source of information on companies and businesses incorporated and registered in Malaysia.

Getting Your Company ROC Number By Using Your Company Name

Go to the following website

http://www.mydata-ssm.com.my

Write your company in the search box and you will get the result something like this:

In the row of Number is your company ROC number (There are chances to have the duplicate company registered under the same name but ROC can’t be same. Make sure by checking the company on your Sticker (PLKS), & also make sure that your company is Enterprise or Private Limited (SDN BHD).

Now we have the ROC Number Let’s Proceed To Next Step

Go to the following link of Immigration e-services.

https://eservices.imi.gov.my/myimms/PRAStatus?type=36&lang=en

The page should look something like this (if it’s not same let us know we will update the screen shot)

Now just put your ROC number into the input (No. Pendaftaran Syarikat or Company Registration Number) & click on search button & system will the table of result just below the input section. That’s it..!!

Note that there may be more than one row/page of results (If your company hired more than 20 foreigner workers, you can use navigation button at the right bottom corner of the table to navigate your status.

Conclusion

The purpose of the tutorial is to just give awareness to foreigners living in Malaysia and it will help you to stay safe from lies of your legal or non-legal agent.
All the web pages and logos used in this tutorial and property of the respective owner any illegal of the service may cause legal action. Peace & Blessing Bodies…!! :)

Fabulous Social Sharing Plugin With Materialize Framework

2017-06-17T17:11:00.000+08:00

There are lot of social sharing plugins already shared on the web, i have seen social sharing buttons while i was reading article on Google's website Think With Google, i was really inspired with functionality of that plugin. Since i'm not frontend developer, i have found a great framework materialize to develop that social sharing button as i seen on Google's Website. The Looks great on desktop as well as a pretty good use on smartphones.

Check out the demo below pen on codepen.

See the Pen Fab Social Share Button by Mohammad Ishtiaq (@Mybloggertricks) on CodePen.

I will show the basic work of the plugin you have to put it to work at your own :)

Note that you have to import jQuery before importing materialize.js! Generally it is good option to import javascript files at the end of the body to reduce page load time.

1. The Basic HTML Markup something like this.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

<link href='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.98.2/css/materialize.min.css" media="screen,projection"/>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.98.2/js/materialize.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2. The HTML markup FAB Sharing Buttons would be something like this:

<div class="fixed-action-btn click-to-toggle">
<a class="btn-floating btn-large cyan">
<i class="fa fa-share-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#" class="btn-floating white"><i style="color: red;" class="fa fa-facebook" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>

<li><a href="" class="btn-floating white"><i style="color: red;" class="fa fa-twitter" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="btn-floating white"><i style="color: red;" class="fa fa-pinterest" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</a></li>
<li><a href="#"class="btn-floating white"><i style="color: red;" class="fa fa-google-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></li>

</ul>
</div>

You can customize the look and feel of the buttons by playing with CSS , In case of any error during installation (in the code above) of the script or having trouble while editing, please don't hesitate to let us know, we will do the job free (it will just cost you one smile for us). Peace and blessing bodies..!!

We hope you have enjoyed the above plugin! If you feel Materialize has helped you out and want to about the framework just visit official website.

Social Icons SVG Stroke Animation On Hover

2017-06-16T17:33:00.001+08:00

SVG Stroke Animation is an easy, lightweight Pure CSS Social sharing plugin with amazing animation effect, surely it will lead your user to stick once.

See the Pen Social Sharing Button by Mohammad Ishtiaq (@Mybloggertricks) on CodePen.

1. Add HTML Markup

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="share"><span>Share : </span>
<a href="#" class="container twitter">
<svg preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 200 200" class="circle">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50"/>
</svg>
<div class="social">
<i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>
</div>
</a>
<a href="#" class="container facebook">
<svg preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 200 200" class="circle">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50"/>
</svg>
<div class="social">
<i class="fa fa-facebook"></i>
</div>
</a>
<a href="#" class="container google">
<svg preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 200 200" class="circle">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50"/>
</svg>
<div class="social">
<i class="fa fa-google-plus"></i>
</div>
</a>
<a href="#" class="container pinterest">
<svg preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 200 200" class="circle">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50"/>
</svg>
<div class="social">
<i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i>
</div>
</a>
<a href="#" class="container linkedin">
<svg preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 200 200" class="circle">
<circle cx="100" cy="100" r="50"/>
</svg>
<div class="social">
<i class="fa fa-linkedin"></i>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>

2. Change the # with your respective social sharing fuctions.

3. CSS is as following:

<style>
<link href='http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>
</style>
#wrapper {
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
height: 100px;
#share {
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
position: relative;
margin:0 auto;
width: 620px;
span {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
float: left;
line-height:100px;
text-align: center;
color:white;
}
}
}
.container {
position: relative;
display:inline-block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
line-height:100px;
text-align:center;
margin:0 auto;

.circle {
fill: none;
stroke: #ffffff;
stroke-width:5px;
stroke-dasharray: 40;
transition: all .2s ease-in-out;
animation: outWaveOut 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards;
}
.social {
color:white;
font-size:1.8em;
position: absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
transition: all .5s ease-in-out;
}

&:hover {
cursor:pointer;
}
}
.twitter:hover {
.circle {
fill:#ffffff;
fill-opacity : 1;
animation: outWaveIn 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards, colorTwitter 1s linear forwards;
}
.social {color:#3aaae1;}
}
.facebook:hover {
.circle {
fill:#ffffff;
fill-opacity :1;
animation: outWaveIn 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards, colorFacebook 1s linear forwards;
}
.social {color:#3b5998;}
}
.google:hover {
.circle {
fill:#ffffff;
fill-opacity : 1;
animation: outWaveIn 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards, colorGoogle 1s linear forwards;
}
.social {color:#dd4b39;}
}
.pinterest:hover {
.circle {
fill:#ffffff;
fill-opacity : 1;
animation: outWaveIn 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards, colorPinterest 1s linear forwards;
}
.social {color:#cb2027;}
}
.linkedin:hover {
.circle {
fill:#ffffff;
fill-opacity : 1;
animation: outWaveIn 1s cubic-bezier(0.42, 0.0, 0.58, 1.0) forwards, colorLinkedin 1s linear forwards;
}
.social {color:#007bb6;}
}
@keyframes colorTwitter {
from {stroke: #ffffff;}
to {stroke:#3aaae1;}
}
@keyframes colorFacebook {
from {stroke: #ffffff;}
to {stroke:#3b5998;}
}
@keyframes colorGoogle {
from {stroke: #ffffff;}
to {stroke:#dd4b39;}
}
@keyframes colorPinterest {
from {stroke: #ffffff;}
to {stroke:#cb2027;}
}
@keyframes colorLinkedin {
from {stroke: #ffffff;}
to {stroke:#007bb6;}
}
@keyframes outWaveIn {
to {
stroke-width:10px;
stroke-dasharray: 400;
}
}
@keyframes outWaveOut {
from {
stroke-width:10px;
stroke-dasharray: 400;
}
to {
stroke: #ffffff;
stroke-width:5px;
stroke-dasharray: 40;
}
}

Got something troubling let us know in the comment box, Peace and blessings till next post.

This awesome SVG Animation plugin is developed by Stephane Lyver. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.

A Great SEO Guide By Template Monster

2017-06-16T11:34:00.003+08:00

Getting SEO guidance is always the harder task for the website owners and bloggers, as Google updating the Search Engine time to time, we have to keep website and blog update accordingly. But there some basic SEO Strategies which remain the same in any case.

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Multi-Purpose: Responsive Blogger Template

2016-10-07T22:14:00.001+08:00

Why Choose Multipurpose Template?

When you set out to grab a Template for your Blogger Blog, or your favorite Theme, you quickly find there are variety for designs available on the web free of cost. Picking which one to use can be a daunting task. There are many things you should think before choosing template. For Example:

Is Template compatible with the blog topic?
Is Template SEO Friendly?
Is Template Have Schema Markup?
Is Template Have Easy Navigation?
Is Template Responsive?
and many other question you will got.

We have designed Multipurpose template keep all the question in mind people often asked for help. Today we're exited to share it, we have tried our best to answer all the . Got Question? Please get in touch! You can send us your questions using our contact form on the blog or send us a tweet or post your feedback on our Facebook page.

Quick Customization

Easily customise to suit your start up blog. Take advantage of large collection of FontAwesome icons to modernize your widget and content.

Modern Design

Multipurpose Template will help your blog stand out in an already saturated market. Common design patterns, allowing for a seamless experience for users.

Responsive Layout

Built using the latest web technologies like html5, css3, FontAwesome, Bootstrap and jQuery, rest assured template will look perfect on every screen size under the web.

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Preview

[update headline="Update"]16-06-2017 Minor Code Improvement and bug fixes[/update] Do share your feedback about this latest development and let me know if you have any queries to ask related to customization. Which one feature of Multipurpose Template impressed you the most and why?

In our next post we will share separate tutorial to customize template navigation, Subscription Widget, Social Sharing and Social Follower widget. Don't forget to share if you like and stay updated by subscribing our news feed or join us on Facebook, Twitter or on Google Plus.

If something's not working, don't hesitate to let us know about the error. we will try to fix that as soon as we can. Peace and blessing :)

Change Blogger Default Navigation To Post Title

2016-10-06T01:40:00.000+08:00

Blogger Navigation by default have 3 buttons newer posts, older posts and home. Today in this tutorial we are going to demonstrate how to arrange blogger navigation after manipulating little bit of Jquery, CSS and Font Awesome, we will explore two different methods for making the navigation more attractive. The trick we are going to show here is not new it first shared by MS-Potilas in 2013 but as i have done research for this hack and finally i come to know that not more hundreds bloggers using the hack or you might say only hundreds of bloggers love this hack.

We called this hack “change older newer links with post title” it will change your default blogger navigation into your post title which is by default “Newer-posts, Older-posts and Home”. and in our second method we will explore how to show image from post as well as snippet of summary.

To apply this hack you have to edit your blog template source code so ensure that you have make backup copy of your template in case of any error.

So let’s start .

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Add Fontawesome into blogger

Goto template>> edit html and search for the following code.

<head>

In the <head> of your template, just after opening head tag add the following piece of code (Stylesheet Link).
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />

Note:- If you already have applied fontawesome in your template then skip the above step and proceed to step below.

Installation Of The Javascript And CSS

The hack require Jquery to work so if you alread have loaded jquery in your template then just remove the jquery link from the code below if not then proceed the code as it is.

Goto template>> edit html and search for the following code.

</head>

paste the following code just before the head tag (the code you have search in the step above)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style type='text/css'>
.oldernewerpost {
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 10px 20px;
    margin: 0px 0px;
    text-align: center;
    width: 300px;
    background: #495061;
    overflow: hidden;
    -webkit-transition-property: background color;
    -webkit-transition-duration: .4s;
    -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
    -moz-transition-property: background color;
    -moz-transition-duration: .4s;
    -moz-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
    -o-transition-property: background color;
    -o-transition-duration: .4s;
    -o-transition-timing-function: ease-out;
    transition-property: background color;
    transition-duration: .4s;
    transition-timing-function: ease-out;
}
.oldernewerright:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    color: #fff;
    content: "
    \f104";
    float: left;
    vertical-align: middle;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: inherit;
}
.oldernewerleft:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    color: #fff;
    content: "
    \f105";
float: right;
    vertical-align: middle;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: inherit;
}
.oldernewerleft {
    float: right;
}
.oldernewerright {
    float: left;
}
.home-link {
    margin-top: 5px;
    display: none;
}
.oldernewerpost:hover {
    background-color: #3D4351;
}
.oldernewerpost a {
    color: #fff;
}
.oldernewerpost a:hover {
    text-decoration: none;
}
.oldernewerpost img {
/* thumbnail properties */
    margin-top: 2px;
    padding: 2px;
    width: 72px;
}
.oldernewerpost .title {
    line-height: 1.1;
    font-size: 15px;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding: 0 5px 5px;
}
.oldernewerpost .summary {
    border-top: 1px dashed #777777;
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #777777;
    color: #404040;
    font-size: 10px;
    line-height: 1;
    padding: 5px;
    text-align: left;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
// Post titles, thumbnails and summaries to Older Post and Newer Post links (without stats skew)
// by MS-potilas 2013. See http://yabtb.blogspot.com/2013/11/add-post-titles-thumbnails-and.html
//<![CDATA[
//
// Configuration:
var maxSummaryLength = 160;
// In these you can use [title], [summary]:
var newerLink = '<div class="oldernewerpost oldernewerleft" title="Next - [title]" onclick="location.href=\'[url]\';"><p style="font-size: 20px; color: #f1f1f1;">Next</p><br/><a href="[url]"><div class="title">[title]</div></a></div>';
var olderLink = '<div class="oldernewerpost oldernewerright" title="Previous - [title]" onclick="location.href=\'[url]\';"><p style="font-size: 20px; color: #f1f1f1;">Previous</p><br/><a href="[url]"><div class="title">[title]</div></a></div>';
// configuration ends
//
function setLink(selector, template, defthumb, entry) {
var date = entry.published.$t.match(/\d+/g);
date = new Date(date[0],date[1]-1,date[2],date[3],date[4],date[5]); // convert iso
var url = $(selector).attr("href");
var summary = $("<p>"+entry.content.$t+"</p>").text();
if(summary.length > maxSummaryLength) {
    summary = summary.substring(0, maxSummaryLength);
    var indexBreak = summary.lastIndexOf(" ");
    summary = summary.substring(0, indexBreak)+"...";
}
var htm = template.replace(/\[title\]/g, entry.title.$t);
htm = htm.replace(/\[url\]/g, url);
$(selector).replaceWith(htm);
}
function setOlderLink(entry) { setLink("a.blog-pager-newer-link", olderLink, defaultOlderImage, entry); }
function setNewerLink(entry) { setLink("a.blog-pager-older-link", newerLink, defaultNewerImage, entry); }
$(window).load(function() {
window.setTimeout(function() {
    var timestamp = $(".published").attr("title");
    if(timestamp && timestamp != "")
      $.getJSON("/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&published-min="+encodeURIComponent(timestamp)+"&max-results=0&callback=?", function(resp) {
        var postindex = parseInt(resp.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t);
        if(postindex > 1)
          $.getJSON("/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index="+(postindex-1)+"&max-results=3&callback=?", function(resp) {
            setNewerLink(resp.feed.entry[0]);
            var postcount = parseInt(resp.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t);
            var startindex = parseInt(resp.feed.openSearch$startIndex.$t);
            if(postcount - startindex > 1) setOlderLink(resp.feed.entry[2]);
          });
        else
          $.getJSON("/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index=2&max-results=1&callback=?", function(resp) { setOlderLink(resp.feed.entry[0]); });
      });
}, 250);
});
//]]>
</script>
</b:if>

That’s it.

You can customize the look and feel of the buttons by playing with CSS code we have shared above, In case of any error during installation (in the code above) of the script or having trouble while editing, please don't hesitate to let us know, we will do the job free (it will just cost you one smile for us). Hope you like this, Peace and blessing bodies.. ! :)

6 Most Common Blunders While Developing SmartPhone App

2016-02-24T23:21:00.000+08:00

Developing an app requires focusing on several factors such as user-friendly interface, touch-enabled gestures and features that pretty easy to use. But as a novice, we have a tendency to overlook some of the key aspects of app development, which could eventually make the app doom to failure.

In this article, we have shared some common app development mistakes, which must be avoided while developing an app. Without any further ado, let's have a look at them.

1. Compromising on mock-ups and wireframes

Developers often rely on static wireframes, which are not enough for precisely demonstrating the smartphone app functionalities to client. It would be great if you can facilitate your client with working model so they can conveniently visualize the application before beginning development.

This can be done by designing interactive and impressive prototypes while wire-framing, Prototypes is useful to visualize ideas, something that is very important to discuss when you are working in a team. It can be difficult to explain what you have running in mind by just using words, and a visual prototype will help your and your clients to be on the same page before moving forward, avoiding possible misunderstandings in the process.

Include at least two or more cycles of design model in project timeline, to ensure clients satisfaction. Luckily, there is no dearth of designing tools that can help you create prototype (like Frame, Atomic, etc.) and wire-frames (like Sketch.io, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) efficiently.
To showcase complex animations, replace the static images with highly interactive prototypes. This will help you stand up to your clients expectations and leave valuable impression. if you need to make “advanced” animations, then you have choice between a variety of options that have an interface similar to other design tools, such as Pixate (introduce by Google).

2. Forget To Involve A Formal Change Request Process

One must expect a simple to complex change in the application throughout the development process from his clients. If you do not plan any strategy to deal with such changes in between the development, it can dramatically impact the development cost and time.

To proficiently deal with this issue, it is better to create a formal request process to introduce any change to the pre-decided project scope. This will allow you to push back on changes easily and explain upfront that the requisite changes will influence the app development budget and the project deadline.

3. Rely On Wrong Platform

It is essential to brainstorm before beginning the SmartPhone app development process and choose a viable mobile platform. Don't rush into development as soon as you get an application idea. For instance, if your prime goal is to drive profits via simple application monetization and you choose iOS platform while assuming that monetization will be convenient in the Apple App store, wait! You must rethink about it.

There are several mobile platforms, but the Apple iOS and the Google Android are the most popular mobile operating systems that are extolled for their awesome features under the sun. Both platforms have their own pros and cons, you must consider the upsides and downsides of the platform, and your business objectives while making a suitable choice. Some of the essential factors that must be taken care of include target audience base, monetization model, development cost, technical specifications, future prospects and so on.

4. Avoid irrelevant push notifications

No doubt, offering push notifications can amazingly revamp the UX and enhance the app usability. But, at the same time, one can't overlook the fact that not every application demand push notifications. Embedding them where they are not relevant, can annoy the users and hamper the user experience.
Since, making an ideal use of push notifications in an application can improve the retention rates and user engagement, one must plan the “what, when and where” about the notifications beforehand.

5. Asking users to disclose their personal info.

Think of a basic utility application like a calculator. What would be your reaction if a calculator application will ask access to your contact list and emails? I will abandon such application without giving second thought, if you want to ensure successful application, make it certain that your application doesn't ask irrelevant and extraneous permission that have nothing to do or not necessary.

6. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) isn't well defined

It is imperative to define the scope of UAT (User Acceptance Testing) properly in advance to ensure project completion within the scheduled time in an efficient fashion. For this, it is better to involve the app testers and QA (Quality Assurance) team timely in the project. Receiving feed back or in installments could be useful to give better app environment to clients.

Thus, it is advisable to make use of an effective and efficient UAT process by including the bug trackers and testing groups, and scheduling the revision before beginning the testing process. The best bug tracker will be the one that your client will use, it could be a Google Spreadsheet or Github.

Conclusion

One of the best ways to ensure that your app will go viral upon release is to run the beta testing and involve as many people from your target audience, and those involved in the app development process as much as you can. The key of successful development is to deliver an app that can augment the UX and offer a valuable feature to the users while adding value to their lives. The aforementioned are a few of the common mistakes that most of the developers commit during the development. You can learn from others' mistakes and keep these blunders at bay to deliver an incredible user interface.

Author Signature: Addison Cohen is an app developer working with Appsted Ltd. It is the leading app development service provider which delivers the most comprehensive mobile application solutions.

Rules For Designing Great Web Forms

2015-12-19T02:01:00.000+08:00

Forms design something every web designer should be learn the master techniques of forms, because input forms are every where on the web just like search engine input to more complex order forms, for example you have eCommerce website, then you must have forms to collect information about customers just like name, email, mobile number, billing address, payments method and shipping address and so on. it's doesn't matter the principles are same, but problem comes out when most of the professional designer make same mistakes while designing forms, there are some basic things if you follow you will be able to design pretty good and user friendly forms. In this guide we will learn the basics of the designing web forms. Since we are working on a online shopping project, we have found something really interesting to share with you, so that's why we here with the awesome guide on how to design user friendly forms.

If you are running an eCommerce websites you must care about user friendly forms, there are lot of things which you need to care about but we will discuss basics of the forms, which help a user to fill out the form very easy and quickly without any trouble.

We have converted the guide into the following parts

Group the forms in the correct way
Use of the correct input types
Make sure have helper text
Highlight the required inputs
Tell the users about inputs format
Missing or an error feedback
Responsive and mobile friendly inputs

Group the forms input in the correct way

Today as the web designing growing very quickly, There are many different ways to organize the forms but ensure that the basic rules should be followed, first thing you should keep in mind when designing forms, divide the forms in to groups, for example personal information, payment information, and billing fields. Most of the eCommerce website also offer separate billing address so then the sequence will be look like this, Personal Information, Credit Fields, shipping and billing. Let's take a look at the unorganized forms in the image below.

In the example above we have some related fields but the fields are not well organized, it's very hard to scan for a lay man, so we have another example, grab it from image below, the image below will show you the great example of grouped form fields and you will found it very easy to understand.

Now check out the example above, it's the same form but the related inputs are grouped. This is much easier to understand for simple user, even they don't have the how know of online form filling and really makes more sense than the unorganized form, also it's very easy for a lay man to read and fill the the form, it does take more vertically space but having related fields organized is very important part of forms. Note that don't display the inputs or fields that are not really needed. So let's move on our next part of this tutorial, Submit Button (Call to action button).

Submit button (Call to action button) in forms usually the button that will submit that form, either submit simple form or create account whatever is this, the important thing is that need to be standout and describe the purpose of that form. Just take look at example below to understand the how to standout the button. Here is you can see the button is not really clear.

Now take a look at the example below and compare it to button above, you will find it really useful and button is really standout and make really big difference.

As a concept it can help you think about making user friendly forms effectively. The combination of layout, color and overarching principles will help take your designs to the next level, we hope it will help you to learn something useful, With mistakes such as those listed above, you just have to memorize the rules so that when you are about to use them, you’ll catch yourself in the act and know for certain that you’ve written or design the right one.

In our up coming tutorial we will learn about helper text and why should we use helper text. So stay tuned and don't forget to share your feedback, it will help us to improve our content quality. Peace and blessing, Happy Blogging..!!

Introducing the Online HTML Editor For Blogger's

2015-09-15T21:59:00.000+08:00

After the CSS Prettify for CSS, we are now releasing a web editor, which is we called as Online HTML Editor For bloggers, this Online Editor has been made to simplify and enhance your Coding Experience. Built in Tag, brackets and tab handler, and the active line highlight mode lets you focus on your content. it’s not really unique or new editor in world of blogging, but we have tried to create something different we have seen on internet. It’s may not be look professional Editor but we have added some advance functionality as we mostly seen in professional HTML document editors, which we will discuss later. The editor have pretty strong functionality to read the XML (i.e blogger template) document and quickly load the document inside Iframe after pressing the preview button. So let’s see the example below and then we will learn the features of the editor.

Live Preview
First, let's take a look at our simple XML file. Because this is a quick introduction, I'll run through the screen shot a bit quicker way than sharing full code of XML document.

wow..!! It’s look amazing, now try it yourself and leave your feedback in the comments below.

Useful features of the editor

Syntax Highlighter
Syntax Highlighter is a characteristic feature of code editor, which gives the order to change programming language such as JavaScript code into different colors based on language. Spicy Blogging does not have its own syntax highlighting plugin, It uses CodeMirror Syntaxhighlighter to Prettify the HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XML code.
Line Numbering
Line numbers at least is a must in a basic editor, Why? because If you are getting error messages line numbers would let you help where is the error exist and where it's come from.
Bracket And Tag Closer
When typing an html document, Editor will close tags and brackets automatically such as "html" and "{}" using auto bracket and tag closer addons. It's one of the most smart feature for an advance code editor.
Highlighting Active Line
Editor will highlight the current line when user click anywhere in the screen that entire line gets highlighted based on the terms of CSS.
Responsive Design Even Useful On Smart Phones
When we talk about responsive design in terms of web design, it's mean that layout will be re sized based on the view port or in other words users screen resolution. Editor will work like horse on mobile devices and let you help to test and create webpages on small screens.

Why Online HTML Editor

Its just little approach to give our reader a quick and easy tool to test blogger templates, Mostly whenever bloggers need to edit template they use blogger default editor which take less than one minute (depend on your connection speed) to save the template and then they can see the live preview. But by using our online editor the live preview is just away from only one click and your template will be live in the iframe. So I think its enough to tell you why online html editor rather than using an offline editor.

Credits

CodeMirror and it's addons is Open Source components, which released under MIT Lincese. You can find the source code of their open source projects along with license information on the CodeMirror official website. We acknowledge and are grateful to these developers for releasing as open source project.

Need Help

As always, please feel free to leave your comments if you need help, have feedback, ideas to improve the editor, or you simply want to report bug! You can reach us by posting your comments in the form below. We are more than happy to help our readers as much as we can. Peace and blessing :)

Create Awesome Multiple Color Headings Using Lettering-jay-ess

2015-08-24T22:28:00.000+08:00

Can you spot the difference between a blog title and Spicy Blogging title? (if yes:)), this small difference makes a huge difference to force a reader to stay at least few minutes (to some of you), it's actually a quite useful to make an eye-catching blog/webpage. Today we want to show you how to create these types of headings, the current version of the CSS3 doesn't support the complete control over the letters. Few days back i was searching for quick solution to create heading in different colors but unfortunately i have not found any easy and quick solution in CSS3, Except an Jquery plugin which is called "lettering-jay-ess", Plugin assumes basic counting abilities, but it's a very cool and quick way to manipulate every letter with css. We personally found this to be a pretty quick and elegant solution to stylize each letter in different color, animation and even transitions. You can achieve the same effect by breaking your browser if you try to wrap every letter on your page in a span tag, it's sound like headache so don't do that. The plugin has the ability to split words and lines as well.

The CSS-Tricks has a very good explanation related to our tutorial, for further references in CSS3 don't forget to read article.

CSS-Tricks: A call for nth-everything.

In this part of the tutorial we will create the spicy heading (H1) with CSS3 transitions and transform, you can use these effects even on h2, h3 and so on.

Live Demo
Let’s wrap a header, We have to keep in mind that we want to control the letters from the H1. So we will use the H1 tag (<h1>) as our control element and we give it the class spicy-title. So our HTML Markup will something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8' />
<title>How To Stylize Each Word in Headings.</title>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;'>
</head>

<body>

<header>
<hgroup>
<h1 class='spicy-title'>SpicyBlogging</h1>
</hgroup>
</header>

</body>
</html>

Let’s go on and load lettering Plugin and Jquery in body Section.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8' />
<title>How To Stylize Each Word in Headings.</title>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0;'>
</head>

<body>

<header>
<hgroup>
<h1 class='spicy-title'>SpicyBlogging</h1>
</hgroup>
</header>

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/223738947/JavaScript/Lettering.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#spicy-title').lettering();
});
</script>

</body>
</html>

Include lettering.js and then call the plugin with options.

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#spicy-title').lettering();
});
</script>

How it's Work

Lettering.js is Javascript span tag injector for typography, Plugin will churn out your ".class" and in output it will add classes inside the span with the name char#. In our case plugin churn our .spicy_title and output might be look like this:

<span class='char1'>S</span>
<span class='char2'>p</span>
<span class='char3'>i</span>
<span class='char4'>c</span>
<span class='char5'>y</span>
<span class='char6'></span> /* For space between word */
<span class='char7'>b</span>
<span class='char8'>l</span>
<span class='char9'>o</span>
<span class='char10'>g</span>
<span class='char11'>g</span>
<span class='char12'>i</span>
<span class='char13'>n</span>
<span class='char14'>g</span>

Plugin will generate .char# classes into span tag, then you can easily handle color and other CSS3 effects of every letter of the heading by using CSS and text will remain select-able. So now time to click on next step :).

In this tutorial we will only learn how to control the letters and in the coming tutorials words and then how to control lines, for the advance use of plugin you can read the documentation.

The CSS code for Spicy Blogging are as follow:

spicy-title span{display:inline-block;position:relative;letter-spacing: 1px; transition: all 0.4s ease-out; -moz-transition: all 0.4s ease-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-out; -o-transition: all 0.4s ease-out; text-shadow: rgb(71, 71, 71, 1.0) 1px 3px 1px;}
spicy-title span:hover{top:3px}
spicy-title .char1 {color: #62bd18; font-size: 1.5em; bottom: -3px; transform: rotate (-6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg)}
spicy-title .char2 {color: #8ddd00;}
spicy-title .char3 {color: #ffbb00;}
spicy-title .char4 {color: #ff5300;}
spicy-title .char5 {color: #fc3d31; text-transform:uppercase; top: 3px; left: -2px; transform: rotate (6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(6deg)}
spicy-title .char6 {color: #fff000; font-size: 1.5em; margin-left: 10px; transform: rotate (-6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg)}
spicy-title .char7 {color: #eaa800;}
spicy-title .char8 {color: #dfe000;}
spicy-title .char9 {color: #ff5400; transform: rotate (6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(6deg)}
spicy-title .char10{color: #d56500; transform: rotate (6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(6deg)}
spicy-title .char11{color: #6dae2e;}
spicy-title .char12{color: #f2c700;}
spicy-title .char13{color: #fb8f3d; text-transform:uppercase; top: 3px; left: -2px; transform: rotate (-6deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg)}
spicy-title .char1:hover {color: #62bd18; font-size: 1em; transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}
spicy-title .char6:hover {color: #fff000; font-size: 1em; transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}
spicy-title .char13:hover{color: #fb8f3d; text-transform:none; top: 0px; left: -2px; transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}
spicy-title .char9:hover {transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}
spicy-title .char10:hover{transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}
spicy-title .char5:hover { text-transform:none; top: 0px; transform: rotate (0deg); -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg)}

In our case we have used 13 letters in h1 (without Space), We aren't limited to only 13 here, we can manipulate as many letters (char14, 15,16) as we want. We will share some advance tutorials on lettering plugin, so till then stay updated by subscribing our email news feed or you can also join us on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus.

Suggestions or need help?

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please leave those below in the comment form. I hope this spicy tutorial may help you make better understanding in web designing terms and techniques. Wishing you the best of blogging..! peace and blessing. :)

Subscribe By Email Widget For Blogger (Flat 2.0 Design)

2015-08-14T00:24:00.000+08:00

While selecting the best layout, widgets and editing your blog design, it’s a good idea to pay more attention to what works and what does not, what inspires you and what makes you immediately jump to another blog. Beginners often make a few well-known mistakes in designing layouts that come back and bite them when they least expect.

So based on the above facts we have setup tutorial on CSS3 code snippets of Awesome RSS Email Subscription Box, we will also explain how you can implement it into your own Blogger blog, you can customize the code in the way you want, if you have any suggestions or questions about the tutorial you can share with us in the comments form below, even you need background in another color scheme just let us know, we will design it free for you.

In this part of the tutorial, we’re using Montserrat Font, which is you can get free from Google Font Library or you can change font to any other by changing "font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;".

Live Demo

How to Add It To Blogger Blog

We’re going to add style sheet into our template source code, before making changes please a backup copy of your template then go ahead to edit your template source code.

Go to blogger dashboard > template > edit html
Search for the following code (Need Help?)

]]></b:skin>

Copy the code below and insert it right above the (]]></b:skin>) tag.

.subs_wrap { background-image: url(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mMqrzFoKTiY/VctEnF_nkEI/AAAAAAAAFJY/gD2Oj5TZfgg/s1600/bg.png); position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 320px; height: 232px; text-align: center; z-index: 1; }
.subs_wrap h4 { text-align: center; font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold; color: #FFF; margin: 0 auto; padding: 35px 0 0 0; line-height: 1; }
.subs_wrap p { text-align: center; font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.502); margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; line-height: 2; word-spacing: 0px; }
.email_input { background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255); opacity: 0.2; position: relative; margin: 35px 0 15px 0; width: 150px; height: 30px; padding: 0 10px; color: rgba(255, 255, 255); border: none; border-radius: 15px; z-index: 3; }
.email_input:focus { outline: none; border: 1px solid #ee6e45; opacity: 0.3; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); -moz-box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); }
.button { background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255, 0.015); color: rgb(236, 94, 48); font-family: 'Verdana', sans-serif; position: relative; border: none; width: 170px; height: 30px; z-index: 2; border-radius: 15px; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); -moz-box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); box-shadow: 0px 20px 50px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.078); }

Adding HTML Markup

Go to layout and Click on add a gadget link.
In add a gadget window, select HTML/Javascript.
Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.

<div class="subs_wrap">
<h4>SUBSCRIBE</h4>
<p class="subs_p">Get the top news stories delivered to your Inbox</p>
<form action='http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify' class='emailform' method='post' onsubmit='window.open("http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=spiceblogging", "popupwindow", "scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520");return true' target='popupwindow'>
<input gtbfieldid="10" class="email_input" name="email" value="Enter your email here..." onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter your email here...';}" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Enter your email here...') {this.value = '';}" type="text"/>
<input value="spiceblogging" name="uri" type="hidden" />
<input name='loc' type='hidden' value='en_US'/>
<input class='button' title='signup' type='submit' value='SignUp'/>
</form>
</div>

Save the gadget.
Drag the gadget and reposition it where you want to show.
Click on Save button (top right hand corner). That's It. :)

To add your own image as a background, you first need to upload the image to your blogger account (free image hosting with your blogger account) and then just replace the background-image URL with your won image URL, simple as pie :).

We will keep on sharing such useful resources and widgets to help our readers as much as possible, If you are not satisfied with the design, you can always revamp it according to your blog layout or color scheme or add some twists through CSS3. Need further help or need background image in different color schemes please let us know we will try to upload backgrounds in various color schemes in future as much as we can.

When we do a significant update to the tutorial, we will post a notice on top of the article. So stay Updated for the future updates by subscribing our news feed or you can also join us on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest even Google Plus there is not restriction:).
Stay Blessed and Happy Blogging.

How To Submit Blogger XML Sitemap To Search Console

2015-07-28T00:42:00.000+08:00

We have been asked several times how to submit blogger xml sitemap to Search Console (Google Webmaster tools) so we thought a complete step by step tutorial would be helpful for readers. Submitting xml sitemap is easy as we submit rss sitemap before, recently blogger rollout update to generate xml sitemap automatically. So we don't need to create xml sitemap any more. Before starting tutorial i want to share little bit about the xml and rss sitemap, as Google Webmaster Team write in their official article, They said Using both sitemap XML/RSS in search console will get optimal crawling. XML sitemap will only give information about your website/blog links to search console and RSS/Atom sitemap will tell all about the content updates and will help to index current content in search engine. So Let's start the tutorial and i will try to share video tutorial for freshers as soon as possible.

Before submitting we need to generate a sitemap link, you must verify your xml sitemap link by following steps below, So in the first part we verify our XML sitemap link and in the second part we will submit it to Search Console (Webmaster Tools). You can navigate to your sitemap by adding "/sitemap.xml" to the end of the base URL of your blog. for step by step please follow the steps below.

Copy the link below and change DomainName text with your blog/domain name.

http://www.domainname.com/sitemap.xml

If you are using .blogspot free domain then your sitemap link will look like this:

http://www.domainname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

And paste it into your browser address bar and hit enter

How to Submit it to Search Console (Webmaster Tools)

Note: before submitting xml sitemap please remove all the old rss sitemap from the sitemap list.

Goto Search Console >> Crawl >> Sitemap and click on the add sitemap button at the right top corner.
After click the button a popup window will appear with input
in the input field just type "sitemap.xml" and click submit sitemap button

So that's it, All has been done.

Search Console (Webmaster Tools) will take upto 1 week to recrawl your blog and your blog sitemap will be updated. In our next tutorial we will learn about why should we need to submit RSS sitemap to search console, so till then stay updated by subscribing our email feed or you can also join us on social network, on Facebook, Twitter, pinterest and keep in touch. it's your choice which one is suitable to you. Stay Blessed..!! Happy Blogging.

Stylize Your Popular Posts And Show Random Content On Every Page

2015-07-02T17:33:00.000+08:00

Today we would like to share awesome blogger hacks, that will allows you to stylize your blogger popular gadget. Since there is lot of tutorials also were published on the internet for styling blogger popular post gadget, so today we are not going to repeat them. The gadget is really look great after applying CSS code, but the question is that, it will attract your visitor? If you have always the same content in the same sequence in your popular widget on every page, users will surely ignore it. But if you shuffle the content in the gadget, then content looks fresh on every page refresh, and I could not tell, which one of my most popular posts, i will always say they are all good :-p. In this tutorial we will learn how to stylize popular posts images, title, change images resolution and how to show random post on every page refresh, it's mean whenever user refresh the current page it will show random content, so let's go ahead and follow the steps below, for demo just look at our popular gadget on the sidebar column.
image resize Jquery hack developed by MS-potilas and CSS3 by Spicyblogging.

Note:- ensure that you have installed latest jquery library in your template for showing random post on every page. If Not then please follow the step below and install jquery first:

Adding jquery

Go to blogger dashboard > template > edit html
Search for the following code (Need Help?)

<head>

and paste the below code just after opening <head>

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

That's it, the first step is completed successfully. if you have already installed jquery just skip above steps.

how to shuffle popular posts content

Go to blogger dashboard > template > edit html
Search for the following code

</body>

and paste the following code just before colsing body tag

<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ // Random order to Popular Posts using jQuery / MS-potilas 2011 // Put this code in a html/javascript gadget or before </body>. // code written by: Ms-politas var ul = $(".popular-posts ul"); var lis = $(".popular-posts ul li"); if(lis.length>1) { for(var i=lis.length-1;i;i--) { // fisher-yates/knuth var j=parseInt(Math.random()*i); lis[j] = lis.splice(i,1,lis[j])[0]; // swap lis[i]&lis[j] } lis.appendTo(ul); } //]]> </script>

That's it you have reach third step of the tutorial go a head to the next step and stylize your popular posts images and title.

Stylize Your Popular Content

Note that if you have already added a custom css code for styling popular posts gadget, remove completely before following the steps below, in case if you are satisfied with your current look just skip the below step and save your current editing by clicking on save button.

Search for the follow code in your template

]]></b:skin>

and paste the following code just above the "]]></b:skin>"
.popular-posts ul li {
font-weight: 700;
list-style: none !important;
margin: 0 0 10px !important;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0 !important;
position: relative;
border: 0;
max-width: 100% !important;
height: 180px;
}
.popular-posts li a {
color: #FFF !important;
}
.popular-posts li a:hover {
color: #fff !important;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.PopularPosts .item-thumbnail {
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 180px;
}
.PopularPosts ul li img {
display: block;
float: right;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 180px;
}
.PopularPosts .item-title {
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
position: absolute;
z-index: 999;
}
.PopularPosts .item-title a {
background: rgba(142, 68, 173, 0.9);
display: block;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: normal;
padding: 15px 10px;
text-transform: capitalize;
}
.popular-posts ul li:before {
background: rgba(142, 68, 173, 0.8);
color: #fff;
content: float: left;
font-size: 25px;
line-height: 2px;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 5px 5px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}

How To Change The Resolution Of Popular Post images

Update:- 2/9/2016

The parameter -c from /s72-c/ has been removed to ensure images are not cropped. The thumbnails will now look as you uploaded rather than cropped:

Search for the follow code in your template

</body>

and paste the following code just above the "</body>"
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var newSize = 400; // this is the new thumbnail size, you can change this
$('.popular-posts .item-thumbnail img').each(function() {
var oldSize = $(this).attr('width');
$(this).attr('width', newSize); $(this).attr('height', newSize);
$(this).attr('src', $(this).attr('src').replace('/s'+oldSize+'-c/', '/s'+newSize+''));
});
//]]>
</script>

Note:-In the code above the variable "var newSize = 400;" which is calling the new size for images. You can increase the image size by changing variable i.e "150, 300, 400, 800 and last dimension is 1600". Note that the code will work If your images are uploaded to picasa.

I hope you enjoyed the above tips and applied successfully on your blog, if in case of any trouble please don't hesitate to ask us anything. Share your thoughts with us or if something missing here please let us know in the comment box below. Peace and Blessing bodies :)

Add CSS3 Animation Effects To Blogger Thumbnails

2015-06-17T02:17:00.001+08:00

Today I'd like to share the process for creating an animated effect for your web elements, which is mostly used in the current web design trend. WOW is a JavaScript plugin that lets you use animate web elements.There are more than 50 different effects: Bounce, animate, flip, pulse etc. Please note that the CSS transforms and animation effect only work in browsers that support them. So, we've come up with this little plugin that will allow some custom styling of the HTML elements, it is easy to apply some simple effects in order to spice up your blog or website design. The plugin is developed by matthieua and CSS Animation created by daneden.

Note: jQuery is used when you want to execute the animation effect, so ensure that you have installed the latest jquery in your template source. So let's get started..!! The plugin and CSS Codes used in the tutorial is by matthieua and daneden. They are licensed under the Attribution-MIT License. For the live demo visit our blog homepage.

Update: Aug-26-2015

Plugin Customization Code Added

Update: Sep-01-2015

Video Tutorial Added

How Setup Jquery and Wow (Animation Effect) Plugin

Go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Template
Click Edit HTML
search for the following code (Need Help?)

</body>

and paste the following code just before closing body tag

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ /*! WOW - v1.1.2 - 2015-08-19 * Copyright (c) 2015 Matthieu Aussaguel; Licensed MIT */(function(){var a,b,c,d,e,f=function(a,b){return function(){return a.apply(b,arguments)}},g=[].indexOf||function(a){for(var b=0,c=this.length;c>b;b++)if(b in this&&this[b]===a)return b;return-1};b=function(){function a(){}return a.prototype.extend=function(a,b){var c,d;for(c in b)d=b[c],null==a[c]&&(a[c]=d);return a},a.prototype.isMobile=function(a){return/Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(a)},a.prototype.createEvent=function(a,b,c,d){var e;return null==b&&(b=!1),null==c&&(c=!1),null==d&&(d=null),null!=document.createEvent?(e=document.createEvent('CustomEvent'),e.initCustomEvent(a,b,c,d)):null!=document.createEventObject?(e=document.createEventObject(),e.eventType=a):e.eventName=a,e},a.prototype.emitEvent=function(a,b){return null!=a.dispatchEvent?a.dispatchEvent(b):b in(null!=a)?a[b]():'on'+b in(null!=a)?a['on'+b]():void 0},a.prototype.addEvent=function(a,b,c){return null!=a.addEventListener?a.addEventListener(b,c,!1):null!=a.attachEvent?a.attachEvent('on'+b,c):a[b]=c},a.prototype.removeEvent=function(a,b,c){return null!=a.removeEventListener?a.removeEventListener(b,c,!1):null!=a.detachEvent?a.detachEvent('on'+b,c):delete a[b]},a.prototype.innerHeight=function(){return'innerHeight'in window?window.innerHeight:document.documentElement.clientHeight},a}(),c=this.WeakMap||this.MozWeakMap||(c=function(){function a(){this.keys=[],this.values=[]}return a.prototype.get=function(a){var b,c,d,e,f;for(f=this.keys,b=d=0,e=f.length;e>d;b=++d)if(c=f[b],c===a)return this.values[b]},a.prototype.set=function(a,b){var c,d,e,f,g;for(g=this.keys,c=e=0,f=g.length;f>e;c=++e)if(d=g[c],d===a)return void(this.values[c]=b);return this.keys.push(a),this.values.push(b)},a}()),a=this.MutationObserver||this.WebkitMutationObserver||this.MozMutationObserver||(a=function(){function a(){'undefined'!=typeof console&&null!==console&&console.warn('MutationObserver is not supported by your browser.'),'undefined'!=typeof console&&null!==console&&console.warn('WOW.js cannot detect dom mutations, please call .sync() after loading new content.')}return a.notSupported=!0,a.prototype.observe=function(){},a}()),d=this.getComputedStyle||function(a){return this.getPropertyValue=function(b){var c;return'float'===b&&(b='styleFloat'),e.test(b)&&b.replace(e,function(a,b){return b.toUpperCase()}),(null!=(c=a.currentStyle)?c[b]:void 0)||null},this},e=/(\-([a-z]){1})/g,this.WOW=function(){function e(a){null==a&&(a={}),this.scrollCallback=f(this.scrollCallback,this),this.scrollHandler=f(this.scrollHandler,this),this.resetAnimation=f(this.resetAnimation,this),this.start=f(this.start,this),this.scrolled=!0,this.config=this.util().extend(a,this.defaults),null!=a.scrollContainer&&(this.config.scrollContainer=document.querySelector(a.scrollContainer)),this.animationNameCache=new c,this.wowEvent=this.util().createEvent(this.config.boxClass)}return e.prototype.defaults={boxClass:'wow',animateClass:'animated',offset:0,mobile:!0,live:!0,callback:null,scrollContainer:null},e.prototype.init=function(){var a;return this.element=window.document.documentElement,'interactive'===(a=document.readyState)||'complete'===a?this.start():this.util().addEvent(document,'DOMContentLoaded',this.start),this.finished=[]},e.prototype.start=function(){var b,c,d,e;if(this.stopped=!1,this.boxes=function(){var a,c,d,e;for(d=this.element.querySelectorAll('.'+this.config.boxClass),e=[],a=0,c=d.length;c>a;a++)b=d[a],e.push(b);return e}.call(this),this.all=function(){var a,c,d,e;for(d=this.boxes,e=[],a=0,c=d.length;c>a;a++)b=d[a],e.push(b);return e}.call(this),this.boxes.length)if(this.disabled())this.resetStyle();else for(e=this.boxes,c=0,d=e.length;d>c;c++)b=e[c],this.applyStyle(b,!0);return this.disabled()||(this.util().addEvent(this.config.scrollContainer||window,'scroll',this.scrollHandler),this.util().addEvent(window,'resize',this.scrollHandler),this.interval=setInterval(this.scrollCallback,50)),this.config.live?new a(function(a){return function(b){var c,d,e,f,g;for(g=[],c=0,d=b.length;d>c;c++)f=b[c],g.push(function(){var a,b,c,d;for(c=f.addedNodes||[],d=[],a=0,b=c.length;b>a;a++)e=c[a],d.push(this.doSync(e));return d}.call(a));return g}}(this)).observe(document.body,{childList:!0,subtree:!0}):void 0},e.prototype.stop=function(){return this.stopped=!0,this.util().removeEvent(this.config.scrollContainer||window,'scroll',this.scrollHandler),this.util().removeEvent(window,'resize',this.scrollHandler),null!=this.interval?clearInterval(this.interval):void 0},e.prototype.sync=function(){return a.notSupported?this.doSync(this.element):void 0},e.prototype.doSync=function(a){var b,c,d,e,f;if(null==a&&(a=this.element),1===a.nodeType){for(a=a.parentNode||a,e=a.querySelectorAll('.'+this.config.boxClass),f=[],c=0,d=e.length;d>c;c++)b=e[c],g.call(this.all,b)<0?(this.boxes.push(b),this.all.push(b),this.stopped||this.disabled()?this.resetStyle():this.applyStyle(b,!0),f.push(this.scrolled=!0)):f.push(void 0);return f}},e.prototype.show=function(a){return this.applyStyle(a),a.className=a.className+' '+this.config.animateClass,null!=this.config.callback&&this.config.callback(a),this.util().emitEvent(a,this.wowEvent),this.util().addEvent(a,'animationend',this.resetAnimation),this.util().addEvent(a,'oanimationend',this.resetAnimation),this.util().addEvent(a,'webkitAnimationEnd',this.resetAnimation),this.util().addEvent(a,'MSAnimationEnd',this.resetAnimation),a},e.prototype.applyStyle=function(a,b){var c,d,e;return d=a.getAttribute('data-wow-duration'),c=a.getAttribute('data-wow-delay'),e=a.getAttribute('data-wow-iteration'),this.animate(function(f){return function(){return f.customStyle(a,b,d,c,e)}}(this))},e.prototype.animate=function(){return'requestAnimationFrame'in window?function(a){return window.requestAnimationFrame(a)}:function(a){return a()}}(),e.prototype.resetStyle=function(){var a,b,c,d,e;for(d=this.boxes,e=[],b=0,c=d.length;c>b;b++)a=d[b],e.push(a.style.visibility='visible');return e},e.prototype.resetAnimation=function(a){var b;return a.type.toLowerCase().indexOf('animationend')>=0?(b=a.target||a.srcElement,b.className=b.className.replace(this.config.animateClass,'').trim()):void 0},e.prototype.customStyle=function(a,b,c,d,e){return b&&this.cacheAnimationName(a),a.style.visibility=b?'hidden':'visible',c&&this.vendorSet(a.style,{animationDuration:c}),d&&this.vendorSet(a.style,{animationDelay:d}),e&&this.vendorSet(a.style,{animationIterationCount:e}),this.vendorSet(a.style,{animationName:b?'none':this.cachedAnimationName(a)}),a},e.prototype.vendors=['moz','webkit'],e.prototype.vendorSet=function(a,b){var c,d,e,f;d=[];for(c in b)e=b[c],a[''+c]=e,d.push(function(){var b,d,g,h;for(g=this.vendors,h=[],b=0,d=g.length;d>b;b++)f=g[b],h.push(a[''+f+c.charAt(0).toUpperCase()+c.substr(1)]=e);return h}.call(this));return d},e.prototype.vendorCSS=function(a,b){var c,e,f,g,h,i;for(h=d(a),g=h.getPropertyCSSValue(b),f=this.vendors,c=0,e=f.length;e>c;c++)i=f[c],g=g||h.getPropertyCSSValue('-'+i+'-'+b);return g},e.prototype.animationName=function(a){var b;try{b=this.vendorCSS(a,'animation-name').cssText}catch(c){b=d(a).getPropertyValue('animation-name')}return'none'===b?'':b},e.prototype.cacheAnimationName=function(a){return this.animationNameCache.set(a,this.animationName(a))},e.prototype.cachedAnimationName=function(a){return this.animationNameCache.get(a)},e.prototype.scrollHandler=function(){return this.scrolled=!0},e.prototype.scrollCallback=function(){var a;return!this.scrolled||(this.scrolled=!1,this.boxes=function(){var b,c,d,e;for(d=this.boxes,e=[],b=0,c=d.length;c>b;b++)a=d[b],a&&(this.isVisible(a)?this.show(a):e.push(a));return e}.call(this),this.boxes.length||this.config.live)?void 0:this.stop()},e.prototype.offsetTop=function(a){for(var b;void 0===a.offsetTop;)a=a.parentNode;for(b=a.offsetTop;a=a.offsetParent;)b+=a.offsetTop;return b},e.prototype.isVisible=function(a){var b,c,d,e,f;return c=a.getAttribute('data-wow-offset')||this.config.offset,f=this.config.scrollContainer&&this.config.scrollContainer.scrollTop||window.pageYOffset,e=f+Math.min(this.element.clientHeight,this.util().innerHeight())-c,d=this.offsetTop(a),b=d+a.clientHeight,e>=d&&b>=f},e.prototype.util=function(){return null!=this._util?this._util:this._util=new b},e.prototype.disabled=function(){return!this.config.mobile&&this.util().isMobile(navigator.userAgent)},e}()}).call(this); //]]> </script>

Call the plugin in your body section (After Dom Loaded)

<script type='text/javascript'>
wow = new WOW( { boxClass: 'wow', // default
animateClass: 'animated', // default
offset: 0, // default
mobile: true, // default

live: true // default } ) wow.init();
</script>

Customize the default setting

BoxClass: Class name that reveals the hidden box when the user scrolls.
AnimateClass: Class name that triggers the CSS animations (’animated’ by default for the animate.css library)
Offset: Define the distance between the bottom of browser viewport and the top of the hidden box. When the user scrolls and reaches this distance the hidden box is revealed.
Mobile: Turn on/off WOW.js on mobile devices.
Live: constantly check for new WOW elements on the page.

Go to Documentation Page

next, locate the following code

*/]]></b:skin>

and paste the below CSS code above the */]]></b:skin>

/*!Animate.css - http://daneden.me/animate Licensed under the MIT license -http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Copyright (c) 2015 Daniel Eden*/ .animated{-webkit-animation-duration:1s;animation-duration:1s;-webkit-animation-fill-mode:both;animation-fill-mode:both}.animated.infinite{-webkit-animation-iteration-count:infinite;animation-iteration-count:infinite}.animated.hinge{-webkit-animation-duration:2s;animation-duration:2s} @-webkit-keyframes bounceInDown{0%,100%,60%,75%,90%{-webkit-transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1);transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1)}0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-3000px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-3000px,0)}60%{opacity:1;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,25px,0);transform:translate3d(0,25px,0)}75%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-10px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-10px,0)}90%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,5px,0);transform:translate3d(0,5px,0)}100%{-webkit-transform:none;transform:none}}@keyframes bounceInDown{0%,100%,60%,75%,90%{-webkit-transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1);transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1)}0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-3000px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,-3000px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-3000px,0)}60%{opacity:1;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,25px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,25px,0);transform:translate3d(0,25px,0)}75%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-10px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,-10px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-10px,0)}90%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,5px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,5px,0);transform:translate3d(0,5px,0)}100%{-webkit-transform:none;-ms-transform:none;transform:none}}.bounceInDown{-webkit-animation-name:bounceInDown;animation-name:bounceInDown} @-webkit-keyframes bounceInUp{0%,100%,60%,75%,90%{-webkit-transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1);transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1)}0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,3000px,0);transform:translate3d(0,3000px,0)}60%{opacity:1;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-20px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-20px,0)}75%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,10px,0);transform:translate3d(0,10px,0)}90%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-5px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-5px,0)}100%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,0,0);transform:translate3d(0,0,0)}}@keyframes bounceInUp{0%,100%,60%,75%,90%{-webkit-transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1);transition-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0.215,.61,.355,1)}0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,3000px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,3000px,0);transform:translate3d(0,3000px,0)}60%{opacity:1;-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-20px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,-20px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-20px,0)}75%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,10px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,10px,0);transform:translate3d(0,10px,0)}90%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,-5px,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,-5px,0);transform:translate3d(0,-5px,0)}100%{-webkit-transform:translate3d(0,0,0);-ms-transform:translate3d(0,0,0);transform:translate3d(0,0,0)}}.bounceInUp{-webkit-animation-name:bounceInUp;animation-name:bounceInUp} @-webkit-keyframes zoomIn{0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:scale3d(.3,.3,.3);transform:scale3d(.3,.3,.3)}50%{opacity:1}}@keyframes zoomIn{0%{opacity:0;-webkit-transform:scale3d(.3,.3,.3);-ms-transform:scale3d(.3,.3,.3);transform:scale3d(.3,.3,.3)}50%{opacity:1}}.zoomIn{-webkit-animation-name:zoomIn;animation-name:zoomIn}

Note:-

CSS3 Animation

All Animation Effects In Action

Finally, search for the following code

imgtag = '<span style="float:left; position:relative;">

and add following code right after opening <span

class="wow zoomIn animated"

your final code should look like this:

imgtag = '<span class="wow zoomIn Animated" style="float:left; position:relative;">

click on save button and you're done..!!

Note:- You can animate any of your HTML element, there is no limit, you can use it twice in your web pages. For example:

<div class="wow bouncedown Animated">
Targeted Content
</div>
<div class="wow bounceup Animated">
Targeted Content
</div>

The first div will bounce from up to down and the second one is the bounce from down to up, it's just a simple example, for more advanced use of animation effect please Read the advance documentation.

Advanced Options

data-wow-duration: Change the animation duration
data-wow-delay: Delay before the animation starts
data-wow-offset: Distance to start the animation (related to the browser bottom)
data-wow-iteration: Number of times the animation is repeated

<span class="wow zoomIn" data-wow-duration="2s" data-wow-delay="5s"/>
<span class="wow zoomIn" data-wow-offset="10" data-wow-iteration="10"/>

I hope you find this useful! Facing trouble? Take a look at video tutorial for further implementation, Again got any question just leave your reply below in the comment box and I will reply you back as soon as time allows me. Don't forget to share and subscribe our news feed for more updated tutorials related to blogger. Happy Blogging...!!!

Jquery: Responsive Flat Accordion Navigation

2015-06-13T00:03:00.002+08:00

The Accordion Menu comes with multi-levels dropdowns and media query ( Responsive ) for decreasing the size on smaller screens. click event will open the Content and will be closed once user again click on the heading, The Accordion drop down, is managed by the easing effect of the javascript library, jQuery and uses icons FontAwesome. Accordion menu allows you multiple Links or panels to be contained within a single div element. if you are using an older version then please before following tutorial remove the complete code of the older version of accordion menu from your template and then follow the steps below.

Live Preview

Accordion Menu Features

Elegant Flat Design.
FontAwesome Icons .
Jquery Slideup Easing Effect.
Standard Expand/Collapse functionality.
Activate/Deactivate on 'click' event.
The Accordion plugin provides support for unlimited number of levels.
The plugin could easily be customized and used with any website.

Note: If you find a bug and ugly look, note device and browser versions and please let me know I will try to fix that.

Setup font-awesome, accordion script and jquery into your blog

Setting up Font Awesome can be as simple as adding two lines of code to your website, or you can be a pro and customize the LESS yourself!

Go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Template
Click Edit HTML
Paste the following code right after opening <head> tag(Need Help?)

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js'> </script>

<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css'/>
<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,400" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Paste the following code right before closing </body> tag(Need Help?)

<script type='text/javascript'>

$(document).ready(function(){

    //ACCORDION BUTTON ACTION
$('div.accordionButton').click(function() {
    //IF THE DIV YOU CLICKED IS ALREADY OPEN, CLOSE AND REMOVE THE OPEN CLASS
    if ($(this).next().hasClass('openDiv')) {
        $('div.accordionContent.openDiv').slideUp('2000');
        $('div.accordionContent.openDiv').removeClass('openDiv');
    }
       //CLOSE ANY OPEN DIVS, OPEN THE CLICKED DIV
    else {
        $('div.accordionContent.openDiv').slideUp('2000');
        $('div.accordionContent.openDiv').removeClass('openDiv');
        $(this).next().slideDown ('1000');
        $(this).next().addClass('openDiv');
    }
});
//HIDE THE DIVS ON PAGE LOAD
$("div.accordionContent").hide();
});

</script>

Note:-if You already using jquery and font-awesome then please skip the jquery and font-awesome link from the below code and then continue the steps below and if you wish to use another font or your template default font then please skip the "lato font" link from the code below.

Adding CSS

Blogger: Go to Template > Edit HTML.
Locate the ]]></b:skin> tag end of the style sheet.
Copy the code below and insert it right above the (]]></b:skin>) tag.
#accor-wrap {
    width: auto;
    font-family: 'lato', sans-serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-left: auto;
}
.accordionButton {
    width: 100%;
    float: left;
    background: #1FDEA0;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #fff;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 10px 10px;
    line-height: 30px;
}
.accordionButton:before {
    font-family: 'FontAwesome';
    content: "\f0a9";
    font-size: 18px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-variant: normal;
    text-transform: none;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
.accordionButton:hover:before {
    font-family: 'FontAwesome';
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-variant: normal;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
    -moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(45deg);
    transform: rotate(45deg);
    -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
    -moz-transition: all .4s ease;
    -o-transition: all .4s ease;
    -ms-transition: all .4s ease;
    transition: all .4s ease;
}
.accordionContent {
    width: 100%;
    float: left;
    background-color: #FFF;
    font-size: 12px;
    display: none;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}
.accordionContent ul {
    float: left;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.accordionContent li {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
    list-style: none;
    list-style-image: none;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.accordionContent li a {
    display: block;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 400;
    overflow: hidden;
    color: #7D7D7D;
    text-decoration: none;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-transform: capitalize;
    padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;
}
.accordionContent li a:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f061";
    margin-right: 3px;
}
.accordionContent li a:hover {
    color: #333;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.accordionContent li:last-child {
    border-bottom: none;
}

Now you are just one step away from success just follow the below step and visit flat accordion menu in action.

Adding HTML Into Blogger Layout

Go to Layout.
Click Add A Gadget.
In Add A Gadget window, select HTML/Javascript.
Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.
Save the gadget.
Drag the gadget and reposition it where you want to show gadget.
Click Save button (top right hand corner).
<div id="accor-wrap">
        <div class="accordionButton">Top Blogger widget 2014 </div>
        <div class="accordionContent">
        <ul>
        <li><a href="#" >Floating Sharing Bar</a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">Facebook Poput Like Box</a></li>
                    </ul>
        </div>
        <div class="accordionButton">Top SEO Articles</div>
        <div class="accordionContent">
        <ul>
        <li ><a href="#">Search Engines That Respect Privacy
by Guest blogger </a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">The SEO Tools That Help Boost Your Sites Traffic </a></li>
                    </ul>
       </div>
        <div class="accordionButton">Top Best Blogger Template </div>
        <div class="accordionContent">
             <ul>
        <li><a href="#" >Blogger Beginner</a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">Premium Blogger Template</a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">Sky Blue Blogger Template</a></li>
                    </ul>
        </div>
        <div class="accordionButton">Top Blogger Resources and Tools</div>
        <div class="accordionContent">
             <ul>
        <li><a href="#" >HTML Econder</a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">HTML Editor</a></li>
                    </ul>

        </div>
        <div class="accordionButton">Flat Blogger Templates</div>
        <div class="accordionContent">
             <ul>
        <li><a href="#" >Flat Mag</a></li>
                    <li> <a href="#">Developer Template</a></li>
                    </ul>

      
    </div>

How To Setup Accordion Menu Links

In the above html code we have created 5 accordion menu.
Replace Highlighted in yellow with the name of the dorpdown title.
Replace Highlighted in Green with your Link anchor text.
Replace hash (#) sign with your article (page) link.

So now you are thinking adding another drop-down into the accordion widget, So then just add the following code after (<!-- Last DropDown –>).

<div class="accordionButton">Flat Blogger Templates</div> <div class="accordionContent"> <ul> <li><a href="#" >Flat Mag</a></li> <li> <a href="#">Developer Template</a></li> </ul> </div>

We hope that you will find this tutorial useful and it will help you to create awesome flat accordion menu. Need further help or have questions? Leave them in comments below and don't forget to share, Soon we will share a free premium template until for stay updated by subscribing our newsletter below for free blogger resources in future. Happy Blogging..!!

4 awesome ways to test cross-browser compatibility on browserstack

2015-06-11T22:26:00.002+08:00

BrowserStack is all you could ever need for your cross-browser testing and is online way to test your web pages on live remote session, your design may be excellent, but if it doesn't render properly on a browser, your audience will have a negative user experience. This directly impacts conversions. According to browserstack report Last month, there were 997,245 browser tests done on BrowserStack, out of which 14.01% were on IE 8.0. Does your website render correctly on it? At BrowserStack, you get instant access to real desktop and mobile browsers for development and testing. Test your public and internal websites in 4 different ways: The website you enter in remote browser is running on a remote computer so there is no doubt the result 100% perfect. Browserstack give us Interactive testing on public and private servers and official mobile emulators. check out the list of 700+ browsers, Apple IOS and android sdk version. You can create URLs, with testing options as parameters, to instantly start a browser on BrowserStack. You can integrate these URLs into your application, bookmark, and share them with others.

The Browserstack Testing Tools

Browserstack Free Trial is limited to 30 minutes of Live sessions, 100 minutes of Automate and 100 Screenshots + Responsive, you can Download and install the Test IE plug-in from Integrations. At BrowserStack, you get instant access to live desktop and mobile browsers on sdk for development and testing.

Test your client and personal websites in 4 different ways:

Live: Interactive testing and debugging of websites and design files. Select operating system from the quick lunch menu located at left side of the browser window and start testing your webpage.
Automate: Run Selenium and JavaScript unit tests on multiple browsers in parallel. Instant access to all browsers, mobile browsers, local server testing, live debugging and support more than 10 languages.
Screenshots: Check web page layouts across multiple browsers at once. Take instant screen across 700+ browsers.
Responsive:Be sure to test your websites on a variety of devices, on browserstack you can View websites on real devices, with actual screen sizes, resolutions and viewports.

How Browserstack works

First thing is register for the service or your log-in using your live, hotmail email address, Once you logged-in, you'll be at the dashboard which offers a quick start dialog, for the first time signup you will be rewarded with free 30 mints live remote session, 100 mints of automated test and 100 screenshots. BrowserStack is a paid service ( not free ) and I think as technology grown up the pricing is very affordable and reasonable for the services you're getting from browserstack.
It's first online service that as a professional developer or company is certainly worth.

I hope the article is very informative, if i have missed anything or you have any idea related to article please let me know and don't forget to subscribe our newsletter for fresh updates. Happy Blogging..!! :)

Should We Create Blog On Multi-topics

2015-06-09T23:11:00.000+08:00

Idea sounds good? A pro blogger can do multiple task, but can a fresh blogger do it? A blog on two different topics is the mostly asked question every blogger who is fresh (first hand) into Blogging. This post is worth exploring for those people who are new into Blogging and doesn’t know what it really means. Blogging is a Long run race so you have to be patient for a day when you become a entrepreneur blogger. We do share vector graphics and windows related stuff on our blog, but our main focused content is which is related to our niche. You can share contents on different topics as long as you can maintain the relationship between the categories you can stick to a single niche. Let me explain some bad things and worth about multiple topic blogs, its just advice you can better if you have ability to do something different then others.

Benefits Of Multiple Categories

Traffic wise it seems best to have one blog with multiple categories. You'll have one site with more content, more cross-over between posts, etc. And it'll be easier for you to manage as you'll only have one dashboard to log into, that is why websites like Wikipedia or Digg rank so well in Google.

The biggest advantage is that you will have a very decent PR (Page Rank) domain, since it will receive the link juice from all the different topics. Another advantage of this approach is the unlimited potential for expansion. Provided your domain is a common one, you will be able to add and remove topics over the time without needing to rework the brand.

A Beloved Statement From a Wordpress user

As someone who posts to seven blogs five days a week, TRUST me when I say it's far easier to manage mentally when you concentrate on just one or two blogs. It's much easier to write and write well when it's a smaller number of sites.

Well ranked blogs on multiple categories.

5 Awesome blogs on Multi-topics
Raja CRN is the Founder of CRN Interactive that offers various useful Digital Resources.

Blogs are often made on topics like Political News and Political Topics, Sports, Web design, Blogging Tips, Technology Gadgets, etc. I’ll recommend you to make a Blog on topic you are expert in.

Disadvantages Of Multiple Categories

The main disadvantage of one blog which is covering multiple topics that, it will require a huge amount of time, energy and money to become successful. Why? Because you would need to shape it as a content web portal,means that you should have a design that supports the portal structure, different categories inside it, and skilled writers to keep each of the category updated daily as trend changed.

There are huge chances of confusing your visitors, Suppose, one day a visitor finds a really interesting post about blogger Search Engine Optimization on your multiple category blog and the another day when the visitor come again might find a latest article on Interior design and when he/she visit your blog after few days, want to check latest update just see different post on another topic. Now either your visitor is very excited with your multiple topic blog or is completely confused to expect anything further. So if the risk works, it is worth it or else you just lose all your effort.

Conclusion

I would like to suggest you choose either of the multiple topic. Think wisely which type of blog model can be best handled by you. If blogging is just your passion then either model should work for you. But if you want to become Entrepreneur , then I will give you friendly advise that concentrate on single topic in the begin, then once you feel that you have full control as financially you can expand your blog categories into multiple Topics.

And that's it! I hope you enjoyed these tips and find it useful!, if you need further help or something missing please let me know and don’t forget to share it with beloved and social friends. Happy Blogging…!!!

Spicy Blogger Template

2015-06-04T00:44:00.000+08:00

In this tutorial we are going to share a free Responsive Blogger Template, we always spend a lot of time to make our resources better for our readers. Spicy Template is highly responsive with all portable devices like mobiles, tablets and Apple Devices.
Spicy Template is so familiar as Spicy Blogging Template and easy to use, you’ll feel like a Professional Blogger after installing. We are hoping that Spicy - responsive blogger template would turn out to be useful for all our readers. It is also optimized for search engines, having a template that is SEO-Optimized is very important, if there is even a small piece of code missing from the template, it will seriously affect your blog’s search engine performance.

Live Preview Download

Template Features

Responsive
User friendly
Faster Loading
Easy to Customize
SEO Optimized
No Footer Credit Needed

Customization

That’s it! Feel free to improve the template in any way you wish and if you have questions, comments or suggestions drop me a line in the comments. Soon i will share video tutorial on how to edit navigation links, social links and footer links from the template code, till then stay updated and take good care of yourselves and your loved ones. Peace and blessings pals! :)

Social Sharing and Follow Floating Widget

2015-05-28T22:57:00.000+08:00

When it comes to social sharing there is no one widget fits all solution. Today We are going to share a floating follow and share widget with plenty of options, sharing links, Following options and email an article to your family or friend. Say by bye to all those ugly sharing widgets that destroyed your site’s appearance and dragged down your webpage speeds and start using the gorgeous Spicy Share & Follow Buttons that look great and the loading speed is extremely fast. Share and follow buttons means that, the people can join your social pages and also can share your article with the use of floating bar. So your blog gets more traffic, and your blog look will be more professional and thus credible.

Social Sharing
Empowering visitors to share is Monarch’s keystone feature. Every website, and even the different pages and areas within those websites, have their own unique sharing needs. This is why we’ve included five distinct sharing locations with individual display settings.

Live Preview

The steps are kept extremely easy to apply. All you need is to copy and paste the long chunk of code we developed and tested all day. Follow these friendly steps:

Setup FontAwesome Into Your Blog

Setting up Font Awesome can be as simple as adding two lines of code to your website, or you can be a pro and customize the LESS yourself!

Go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Template
Click Edit HTML
Search for the following code (Need Help?)

<head>

Just above it paste the following Stylesheet link:

<link href='//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>

Adding CSS

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template
Backup your template
Click Edit HTML
Search for the following code ( Need Help? )

</b:skin>

Just above it paste the following lines:

#floating_bar { background-color: #d2d2d2; border: 1px solid #b1b1b1; position: fixed; padding: 2px 0 3px 0; bottom: 20%; margin-left: -68px; float: left; z-index: 10; } .floating_bar ul { float: right; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .floating_bar li { width: 60px; height: 1.25em; display: block; font-size: 28px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 3px 3px; } .floating_bar li a { color: #fff; margin-left: 0.80em; line-height: 1em; height: 1em; } .fa-facebook { margin-top: 5px; } .fa-twitter { margin-top: 4px; } .fa-linkedin { margin: 3px 0 0 -3px; } .fa-pinterest { margin: 4px 0 0 -3px; } .fa-envelope { margin-top: 3px; } .fa-google-plus { margin-top: 5px; } .fa-plus-square { margin-top: 4px; } .btn-facebook { background-color: #3D5B96; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-google { background-color: #DD3F34; width: 61px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-linkedin { background-color: #1884BB; width: 61px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-twitter { background-color: #3399CC; width: 60px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-pinterest { background-color: #CC1E2D; width: 60px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-mail { background-color: #FFC90E; width: 60px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } .btn-addthis { background-color: #f8694d; width: 60px; color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 2px; } #floating_bar { clear: both; }

Adding HTML Code

Go to Blogger > Template
Backup your template
Click Edit HTML
Search for the following code ( Need Help? )

<b:includable id='post' var='post'>

Just below the above code paste the following lines:

<div class='floating_bar' id='floating_bar'> <ul> <li class='btn-facebook'> <a href='#' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Join Us On Facebook'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'/> </a> </li> <li class='btn-twitter'> <a href='#' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Follow On Twitter'> <i class='fa fa-twitter' style='margin-left: -4px;'/> </a> </li> <li class='btn-google'> <a href='#' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Follow On Google+'> <i class='fa fa-google-plus' style='margin-left: -4px;'/></a> </li> <li class='btn-linkedin '> <a href='#' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Follow On Linkedin'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'/></a> </li> <li class='btn btn-pinterest'> <a href='#' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Follow On Pinterest'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest' style='margin-left: -4px;'/> </a> </li> <li class='btn btn-mail'> <a href='mailto:ishtiaqahmed.sbo@gmail.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Email To Friend'> <i class='fa fa-envelope' style='margin-left: -6px;'/> </a> </li> <li class='btn btn-addthis'><a class='addthis_button_compact'><span><i class='fa fa-plus-square' style='margin-left: -5px;'/></span></a> </li> </ul> <script src='//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js' type='text/javascript'/> <p style='line-height:10px; margin-bottom:8px; font-size:10px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center;'><a href='http://www.spicyblogging.com/2015/05/social-sharing-and-stay-connected-floating-bar.html' rel='nofollow' style='color:#333;'> Get Widget </a></p></div>

Troubleshoot

Just replace # with your social profile links and for the email button replace the ishtiaq.sbo@gmail.com with your email address.
if you feel to adjust widget alignment accordion to your template layout just play with highlighted CSS code in yellow color;
Save your template and you are all done!

Need Help?

You can surely ask for my help which would be no less than a pleasure. Please post any query you may have in the comment box below. Till then take good care of yourselves and your loved ones. Peace and blessings pals! :)

Google Rolled Out Red Carpet For App Owner

2015-05-24T05:01:00.000+08:00

Recently Google Rolled Out Update for search analytics which called Red Carpet, it's specially designed for app owners. What is red carpet update and how it works, in this post i am going to share some hand picked checklist on how red carpet update will work for app owners and how to add your app into webmaster tools. By adding app into search console, you can track your website and android app performance at one place, webmaster tools Search Console with new updated performance report will show you the way of Google understands and treats your app content in search results and this will helps you better understand the number of traffic is being driven to your app through App Indexing.

Go ahead and learn the features of awesome Red Carpet Update.

How to add your app into search console

It’s just simple as like adding a website or blog into webmaster tools, Simply open Search Console, click on add your property and enter your app name: android-app://com.example.
Ensure that you are authorized app owner, and you need to put your Google play account to allow search console catch you as authorized app owner. If you don’t have access to your app in Google Play, you may ask to an app owner to verify the app in search console and next invite you as an author.

Indexing App

The App Indexing provides a way to developers to notify Google about deep links in their native apps. Providing fast and easy access to search console, Associating your website with your app is necessary step for App Indexing to meet with success.

Tracking app content performance in search console

Search Console show you, how your search traffic changes over time, where it’s coming from, and what search queries are most likely to show your app, if there’s any overlapping, this may help you restructure your navigation, or common content links easier to find in app.

The search console report allows you to do filtering your search data, one of the feature that is commonly used are keywords, if search console not showing keywords that you expect, your site might not have enough useful content relevant to those keywords, or may it has been hacked.

Fetch as Google

The Fetch as Google feature in Google Search Console now allows you to fetch your app as Googlebot render app! It is a still available beta/alpha version, if you may have wish to watch live render, how Googlebot treat with your app, you can test your app by following link below.

Fetch as Google For Android

It will also helpful when you compare your app content with your respective website content to debug errors in app, the common errors in apps are mismatch content, that errors are caused by blocked resources within the app. Now fetch as Google allows to users identify errors and may help you resolve these issues easily without headache.

I hope this interesting info will help you to better understanding your app indexing and give you vision to resolve errors in apps related to webmaster tool and don’t forget to subscribe and get fixed updated in your inbox.

Fetch as Google Image by Google Webmaster Tools Team

Rounded Social Icons Set

2015-05-21T00:14:00.001+08:00

Today we are going to share noteworthy set of free icons that would make a great addition to your arsenal and help to grab the user's attention. Icons are a requirement for any web-related project but creating your own custom icons for each project is rarely practical as it's so time-consuming. There is a wide variety of icons: Today you'll find at least a few popular social icons that you can put to good use in your own projects, whether personal or commercial.

Icons pack include the following social icons:

9rules, blogger, blogger2, co.mments, delicious, designfloat, digg, facebook, flicker, flicker2, friend star, furl, google, google2, last.fm, linkedin, mail, mixx, my space, netvibes, newsvine, newsvine2, picasa, pownce, reddit, rss, skype, stumbleupon, technorati, twitter, twitter 2, vimeo, wordpress, yahoo, youtube in new style, pintrest, and many more.

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We hope you will find this freebies useful, in next week we share our next free icons set. Get your fix of freebies by following us using email form below. Happy Blogging..!!

What Should You Need to Know About Blog Design

2015-05-20T00:01:00.000+08:00

Blogger is an very powerful platform to publish your web blog, It's free with subdomain (example.blogspot.com), Blogger design features are really awesome, which you can customize how you prefer, without limits and design your blog your way, and use it to share whatever’s on your mind, Today i want to illustrate some of tips, which can help you to design a professional layout for your blogger blog. Most popular blogs have a number of blog design elements in common, i.e Navigation, Header, Sidebar, Content wrapper and call to action buttons, how can we create effective elements that grab the user’s attention and entice them to read your blog posts? We’ll try to answer these questions in this post by sharing some effective design and layout techniques. So today we’d like to share a couple of tips and effective example with you to get your creative juices flowing. We hope you enjoy them and find them helpful.

Learn about the most important blog design and SEO tips, which your blog must have in order to have a chance to rank well your webpages.

Make Your Blog Logo Impressive

If you want that your blog looks professional then design a cool and eye catching logo for your blog, For making a professional logo I suggest you to use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw any one on which you feel handy. (any version of your interest). You can also use simple or plain text with attractive font style to make your blog Title. Different superb, stylish and state of the art fonts can be chosen free of cost for your blog title from Google Web Font Directory. Here is some of example blog/website logos for inspiration:

Easy Navigation

Make easy to use navigation menu for visitors to find your content quick and easily, Don't hinder their visit by using interstitial ads or splash pages, in other words, don't give them a chance to click away from your blog when they land on it. Navigation menu should be designed to display a complete summary of your whole webpage or blog.

Below we present brilliant navigation ideas — we feature CSS-based design solutions, CSS, JavaScript-based menus. They are user-friendly, creative and perfectly fit to the layout of their websites.

Demi Creative, A Digital Studio Official Website.

Zola’s Vintage is a unique and refreshing shopping destination.

Leading Art-- The hidden correspondence of the arts, the relation between color and sound, between music and painting!

Nordic Ruby -- is organised by Elabs, an agile web development shop based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Web Design Ledger -- is a publication written by web designers for web designers.

45 Royale -- featured in industry-leading publications company.

Header And Footer

Header and footer represent 80% of your blog design, instead of putting just copyright content in footer, you should also use Social Sharing, brand or company Logo, powered by and may also Recent Posts Widgets in your footer section. It will make your footer super cool, when people can't find what they're looking for on your blog, they often scroll to the footer to find blog-wide links such as a contact us, about and site map links and so on. We Suggest to use images as a header and footer background instead of solid attractive background color, which should be match with your blog color scheme.

Ensure that it’s Comfortable For Readers

That’s mean's the fonts you choose should be large enough to be read on high resolution monitors and on smartphone devices, and they should be simple enough to be legible, in other words, don't choose a highly stylized font, we recommend stick with Georgia, Verdana or another Web-friendly font. So that allows every lay man who’s visiting your blog will easily understand the whole content of your page. Only use bold and Italic cases in dire need, different font color may also be applied to the hyper linked text, the underline should only be used for Hyperlinks and the text will only be underlined on mouse over event.

Also, make sure the text on your blog is easy to scan quickly, clean blog design make your blog comfy for your readers to read and browse the blog content as long as they wish.

Right Widgets For Your Blog

Make sure that you choose right sidebar widgets of your blog which is suitable with your niches, but most of people forget a big thing while designing a blog that they apply too many popups and widgets in their blogs, we suggest to those people that don’t do this because readers can only afford a pop up only for 1 time when they visit your blog, but don’t install pop ups that appears every time they clicks on a new page –that behavior will annoy your visitors.
A very huge collection of free plugins are available on internet for blogger but it doesn’t mean that you use all of them in your blog widget section, remember one think, make your blog looking attractive but using simplicity -- remember the saying “keep it simple stupid”.

Use Professional Images On Your Blog

Only plain text content is not good for your blog, in blog posts you should add unique and attractive images, which is a silent description for your content. Images can enhance the look of your blog but only if you use sharp with light weight and close concern with your post. A header can be made more impressive with the use of an image portraying the whole theme of your blog. Header image should be clear enough to read and sharp enough to understand. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw can be used as per your choice and expertly.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Friendly

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plays an important role to words improving the number of visitors on your blog, It is the best and one of the most important part of making webpages and blogging. Every Search engine as has its own SEO System, different search engines have different steps to get maximum optimization.

Having search engine friendly navigation basically means creating a structure that search engines can follow. A major culprit in search engines not being able to find a website is due to the links being images instead of text. So ensure that your links should be in plain text.
There are more than 100 ways to rank a webpage well on internet. In our Future posts we will share some of practical SEO Tutorials on how to create well ranked webpages, so till then stay in touch with us.

A Right Theme For Your Blog

The most perfect thing is design your own template. But if you’re not skilled with template development you can find a great number of free creative template designers, that can help, guide and even give you the whole template only for the cost of a simple link at the bottom of your blog. Some of these creative blogger theme designer can be found on internet.

Successful Way Of Content Writing

Lastly I recommend to be as simple as you can in your writing, your words should be as simple as only a simple man with little knowledge of the topic under discussion would have enough knowledge after reading your article. All of your content should be brief and to the point extra and unnecessary detail should be avoided at any cost. Originality of your content is the most important ingredients of your blog. I know you thinking right know, why I am saying this?

Answer to the above question is that all the above referred details are the key to success in achieving maximum number of visitors at your blog. This is just a humble attempt to contribute a little knowledge, that I have, to all the visitors, but this is not at all, We recommend you to read more about your passion or on the topic of your blog , it will help you to improve your writing skill.

I hope the above tips will help you to make an awesome blog/website, need further help regarding to web design tips please feel free to post any query below in the comment box or use our contact form. Please follow us on Twitter to vote on which tutorial gets published in future, discuss new ideas, get fresh updates and suggest great ideas for our future blog posts. Happy Blogging…!!!