0 How to Styling the blog date header

A reader asked: " I really want to make a different date header!" Well this can be done via editing the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) in the template. Note that before making changes to the template best to first backup the blog template (Dashboard > Design (previously called LAYOUT) > Edit HTML >Download Full Template). Now in the template editor, look for h2.date-header (use ctrl+F) which may be like the following: h2.date-header { margin:1.5em 0 .5em; } You can ten add in specifications for fonts and colors, example: h2.date-header { margin:1.5em 0 .5em; font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-style:italic; font-size:125% color:red; } or...

0 Make Money By Forex Trading

Forex (foreign exchange market) is the world largest financial market which exchange 4 trillion dollars per day. The New York Stock Exchange only exchange a volume of $153 billion a day. That means this is a huge financial market and this is actually a interbank network. With the advancement of the technology the currency trading has become more and more popular topic throughout the world. Now people can trade currencies even by staying at their homes by spending few hours on internet. The concept of currency trading as follows. In Forex market you will exchange currency as pairs (EUR/USD). You buy or sell currency as pairs. Then you...

0 How to Get Approved For Google Adsense Fast

Earning good amount of wealth every blogger surfer think but it can be true if they invest their little time their mind and really want to make money so expose their quality to Adsense team so they must get approval through Adsense.Real Names and information.As the blogger goes for apply to the adsense it ask for registration so i suggest you must fill up your real information like your name your real information address and ph.no etc.  Apply One timeIf you have applied for adsens must be remember never applied again till you get the reply mail from adsense if your blogger select than you will get a confirmation mail otherwise...

0 Simple adjustable way to hide Navbar

An email from a blogger regarding his problem with hiding the navbar caused me to revisit the hiding the navbar issue plus recheck the Blogger TOS (Terms of Service) plus discovered a very simple way to hide the navbar which I tested at A-Z Products and adapted from Disable/hide navbar. In order to hide the Blogger navbar, all you have to do is to sign into Blogger dashboard, click LAYOUT then EDIT HTML to open the template editor. Look for the body section in the stylesheet which in the standard Blogger Minima template is as follows: background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size:...

0 Blogging tip - search definition (general)

I plan this to be a series of tips and tricks for blogging in general, not only related to Blogger.com platform, but applicable for any blogging software including Wordpress, Live Journal, Jomlah, etc. I will start off by one simple little search engine trick I often use. Frequently, I like to define some word before writing about something related to that word. What I will do is just to type the word "define" before the word in a search engine. For example, I want to publish a post about diabetes. Searching for [define diabetes]. Further, you can use different search engines depending on what kind of results you want. If you use Google.com,...

0 Cannot add gadgets with template designer? - solution

A blogger who was unable to add gadgets when in design (clicking on "add gadgets" takes me the blogger back to my dashboard page). Also, if he try from layouts, thru new template designer, all options are deactivated. The blogger solved his problem quite simply in the end: (1) adopted new template, and (2), changed to mozilla firefox browser... "add gadgets" got enabled again... Well if you have a similar problem, perhaps his experience can help you solve the prob...

1 How to get comment and post notification email sent to all team member

In Blogger, there is provision for email to be sent to you whenever someone leaves a comment on your blog. To set this, in the Dashboard, go to SETTINGS > COMMENTS and fill in the email address at the box for COMMENT NOTIFICATION ADDRESS. There is also a provision for an email to be sent whenever a post is published. Go to SETTINGS > EMAIL and fill in the email address at the box for BLOGSEND ADDRESS. However, only 1 email address can be filled in for either post or comment, so if you have a team blog, and each team member want to be notified, you have a problem. Here is a workaround. Set up a Yahoo group specially for the blog....

0 Creating categories step-by-step

1. Create a del.icio.us account (see Introduction to del.icio.us). Even if you already have an existing del.icio.us account, creat another one specially for setting up the categories. For the user name, I would suggest using part of the blog's url or title. For example, the user name I selected for doing the categories for this blog is bloggertricks. 2. If you are using FireFox (highly recommended), install the del.icio.us extension with the "My del.icio.us" and "Tag this" buttons (see screen shot below: Click the "Install extension now" button and follow the instruction. This will install 2 buttons into the toolbar. 3. Click the "My...

0 How to Add content via the template

Content can be added to the blog in 4 ways - via the settings (sign into Dashboard, select blog, click SETTINGS > BASIC, then fill in the box for the TITLE and DESCRIPTION), editing the profile, posting, and via adding stuff to the template. In this post we will deal with the fourth one. What kind of stuff can be added via the template? Text, hyperlinks, images, HTML and javascripts for advertisements, hits counter, guest book, etc. The screenshots above show text added, but adding other stuff should be no problem. In which part of the template you place the stuff will depend on which part of the web page you want the stuff...

0 How to copy features from websites you like

You may come across websites or blogs you like, and you will like to have some of the features you see there. What do you do? Well, the idea is to look at the source codes of the website. At the menu bar, click View > Page Source (FireFox) or View > Source (Internet Explorer) and a window will open with the source codes of the site you admire. For example, I came across a website which has a CATEGORIES section in its sidebar at I want to be a millionaire. and in the source codes I look for the text Millionaire Categories. The checking turns up this block of codes: Click on the screenshot to enlarge it This revealed that the site...

0 How to Put the archive links into a menu

If you have been blogging over a long period of time, the list in the archives can get pretty long. You can put the links into a menu to make it more compact. It is pretty straight forward to do. All you have to do is to replace the default archive code with another set of code. In your template, look for the default archive code which is shown below: <h2 class="sidebar-title">Archives</h2> <ul class="archive-list"> <BloggerArchives> <li><a href="<$BlogArchiveURL$>"><$BlogArchiveName$></a></li> </BloggerArchives>delete them, and replace it with these codes: <select name="archivemenu"...

0 How to change the width of the content and the sidebar

This is a common request of bloggers using some of Blogger standard templates when they see wide spaces on either side of the main and side column, like what you will see in this blog if viewed with a large screen. This is to take into consideration those with small screens. If you want to see how this page will display in a 800x600 resolution, type or copy-paste this into the address bar: javascript:top.resizeTo(800,600). You will see what others with small screen see, and there are will wide spaces. If you change the width of the content column and sidebar, it will look different to those with different screen resolution. It may involve...

0 How to make permalink more prominent

What is a permalink?If you have enabled POST PAGE, then each individual post of your blog will have an individual post page with its own URL. If you are using the default settings for your blog, you will see at the bottom of every posts a line "Posted by (author) at (time stamp)" as illustrated in the screen capture below: If you let your mouse hover over the time stamp, a pop-up will appear with the text "Permanent Link", and if you click on the time stamp, you will be redirected to the individual page of the post. This is good for your blog as people who want to refer (and link) to this particular post will be able to do so. However,...

0 Blogger (classic template) Expandable Post Summary

What is Expandable Post Summary?You may be in the habit of creating long posts, and your readers have to scroll and scroll to get to the next post in the main or archive section. You don't want that. You want only to have the first few lines of the post visible, followed by a READ MORE hyperlink that takes you to the full post. That is expandable post summary. How to do expandable post summary for BloggerFirst, you have to ensure that you have POST PAGE enabled. Go to SETTINGS > ARCHIVING and make sure that ENABLE POST PAGES? is set to YES. Then paste the following codes into your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet. It will be the section...

0 how to Hide the navbar

Update 24 May 2007: A blog visitor complained that the instruction didn't work for him. This post was written before New Blogger was introduced and perhaps it wouldn't work for New Blogger. If you are using New Blogger template, refer to How to hide navbar for New Blogger Update 24 October 2006. Some people have very stong opinion about the hiding of the navbar as it violate Blogger TOS (Terms of Service). They feel that Blogger is asking very little of bloggers in return for providing this free service. Please read the rest of this post with that in mind. And be reminded that there are advantages of having a navbar at the top of your...

0 Hoe to Take the backup of your blogger's all post

This is for your safe purpose if by mistake or any reason your post goes deleted and there are no option you have so just learn how to take your all posted backup in your computer regularly and restore your post in case your post deleted and you can also transfer your post to another blogger easly with your post backup. Step to take backup your post: 1. Log in your blogger. 2. Click on the Setting and than click on Basic tab. 3. There you will see the three Blog Tools :Import blog - Export blog - Delete blog. 4. Select the Export blog tag for taking backup of your all post.     5. After Clicking Export blog tag...

0 How to Hide Post Date, Time and/or Author

There are some reason for blogger to hide Post date, time and author. May be they want to see their blog looks clear or everything? Now I will show you the trick to "hide your post date, time and or author". The methods are very simple, just find the code that I pointed to you and delete it. You can chose which part want to delete, date only, time only, author only or it all. Ok, if you decided to do it lets begin the hack. 1. Login to blogger the go to "Layout --> Edit HTML" 2. Click on the "Download Full Template" to back up your template first. 3. Check on the "Expand Widget Templates" check box. Hide Post Date find this code and...

0 How to Add A Paypal Donate Button to the Blogger

Adding a Paypal donation button to your blog will give your loyal readers a chance to support 1.First,Log in to your Paypal account. 2.Click on the 'Merchant Services' tab (see at the top of the page). 3.Scroll down the window and you will see an option "Donations" in the right sidebar.Click on it! 4.Now,you will see some options like Donation name/service ,donation id,etc etc... The first field (Donation name/service) is the only thing that is required and all the remaining fields are optional. Enter that first field,choose a button style,scroll down the window and click on "Create a button Now" 5.Now,you will see some html code......

0 How to make Sidebar slide to the bottom of the page

A very common complaint of bloggers is the sidebar, and sometimes the content (main column) of the blog sliding to the bottom of the page. Sometimes this happen in all the browsers, sometime in one browsers and not the others. This happen most frequently in Internet Explorer. I have previously published post about the same problem at Sidebar pushed to the bottom of the page. Here I try to explain further what to do about it. Images and hyperlinksThe most common cause of this problem is having photos or hyperlinks that are too wide/long for the width for the main column or the sidebar. Try saving the post containing the photo or hyperlink...