Tips 4 Blogspot

TypoXP : XML Template for Blogger

2007-06-12T18:07:00.001-05:00

When it comes to free blog templates, I tend to yawn. Doesn't matter if it is a template for Blogger or a WordPress theme. They mostly are rehashed base versions and if you seen one ... you seen them all.Every now and then, however, a template does catch my eye. Not so much the look of it, but the ingenuity I can see beneath it all. Such is the case for Ustadz's WordPress theme knock-off of

What is on your Blogger Wish List?

2007-06-10T05:42:00.000-05:00

If you could improve Blogger in any one area, what would it be? I have a few ideas on that subject and it appears that Blogger does also. The Blogger Wish List page asks us to vote on a feature suggestion. How they came up with the six suggestions on this list, I do not know. But I have seen some of them harped about in zillions of comments spread across many posts.Of the six suggestions, I

New Custom Search Engine for Blogspot Hacks, Tips & Templates

2007-06-08T12:03:00.001-05:00

I am announcing a custom Blogspot Search Engine designed to provide you with the most relevant results for Blogspot tips, hacks, templates, tutorials and much more. The Search Engine folds the contents of 30+ popular hack and template sites in with natural Google results. The outcome produces one of the easiest methods for finding the answers that you need quickly.Refinement labels are added to

Clarification of NoFollow Hacks on this blog

2007-06-07T19:47:00.000-05:00

A recent discussion in the No To Nofollow community at Bumpzee raised concerns over the hacks presented here on this blog. I hope that this post will clear some of air on what the hacks are capable of -- and what they are not.1. There are no hacks to effectively remove Nofollow from Classic Blogger templates that are hosted at Blogspot. And there never will be, it is impossible.2. The hack for

Remove NoFollow from Classic FTP Blogger

2007-06-03T13:45:00.000-05:00

Blogger Style: Classic FTP BloggerWorking with: Edit HtmlBlogger by default, and other blogging software such as WordPress, automatically adds the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content. User generated content is defined as comments or external sources such as linkbacks and trackbacks.I support the people of the blogging community who have chosen to remove

Leveraging Conditional Tags in Blogger Templates

2007-05-28T11:40:00.000-05:00

Blogger Style:Classic TemplatesWorking with:Edit HtmlIf you have worked with Blogger templates for any length of time, then you are aware of what a Tag is and how it can insert information into your Blog at the exact location where the Tag appears. There are Tags for just about everything you can think of -- but what if you do not want certain types of information to appear on your Post Item page

SpotBack - Rating Widget for Blogger

2007-05-25T13:12:00.000-05:00

Blogger Style:New LayoutsClassic TemplatesWorking with:Edit HtmlWidgetsRating widgets allow your readers to interact with your blog and provide you, the writer, with feedback on what they deem your articles to be worth. There are an abundancy of rating widget services on the Internet and typically are of the vanilla "five star" variety.Enter Spotback's Rate Everything widget which brings not only

Processing Classic FTP Blogger pages as PHP

2007-05-23T13:42:00.000-05:00

Applies to: Classic Templates (FTP Published Only)Working with: Edit Template HtmlAs already mentioned, this applies to Blogger owners who publish their pages via FTP to their own website. If your pages are hosted at Blogspot.com for any flavor of Blogger, this will not work.Why process Html pages as PHP?PHP is a scripting language that will allow you to do many amazing things to your page that

Adding pseudo Categories to your Blogger sidebar (New Layouts)

2007-05-18T15:15:00.000-05:00

Applies to: New LayoutsWorking with: Page ElementsNote: I will be following up with a version for Classic Templates shortly.Labels are great for identifying what your posts are about. They are to posts, as META keywords are to web pages. As such, they tend to get to a point of overflow if we are not consistent with are spelling or we use them in a spammy manner.Don't get me wrong, labels have a

Removing NoFollow from Blogger styled layouts

2007-05-17T02:45:00.000-05:00

Blogger by default, and other blogging software such as WordPress, automatically adds the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content. User generated content is defined as comments or external sources such as linkbacks and trackbacks.I support the people of the blogging community who have chosen to remove NoFollow for blog comments and linkbacks/trackbacks. If you

Introducing WebStraction's Tips 4 BlogSpot

2007-05-16T14:55:00.000-05:00

I have seen numerous tip sites on the Internet for Blogger, some of which are pretty bad. There are a few pearls in there however. Inevitably though, they all have one thing in common -- they deal with the new and improved Blogger which is now hosted on Blogspot.comHaving my original Blogger account self-hosted for my WebDev Blog at WebStractions (eg: the old Classic style) a lot of the tips I