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...
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