Posts Tagged ‘Blogger’
Blogger.com is now so common, and it is the most utilised blogging platform today.
And when you set up a blog, there you are going to uncover sixteen various default blog site templates to choose from. but the web is littered with hundreds of weblogs that makes use of blogger default templates.
What about these bloggers who want to take advantage of trier weblogs. The good thing is, Blogger permits users to customize the search of their blogs over and above what’s obtainable in their constrained assortment.
Several bloggers may well be amazed to discover out that a customized blogger template can convert your blog from a standard website, to a tremendous expert blog. and you might be astonished as well when you know that it’s too effortless to get a no cost template and set up
it, and here’s how to do it.
you can go for google.com and type “blogger t” and i’m certain that you will find hundreds of templates, but how can you locate the most appropriate template for your weblog?
the best way to discover it is to go to AllBlogTools.com, there you can browse blogger templates by Category, Colour, Layout, Author, Most seen, Greatest rated and ultimately, Most downloaded templates.
As soon as you’ve chosen how you’d like browse the templates, you will be offered a listing of them to glimpse through. Use the numbers at the bottom of the page to navigate by way of the pages of templates. When you uncover one particular you’d like click into it, you’ll find the demo hyperlink. Click the Demo hyperlink to see
the template complete dimensions. What I adore about this internet site is that there are really lovely and properly created blogger templates to download and use for totally free.
As soon as you’ve selected your template, you can click the download hyperlink, all files in Zip format. so you will need to extract the file. the template file contain 4 file, readme.txt , recommendations.txt , much more-templates.html , and template-file.xml
and we’ll use the very last one, template-file.xml
to set up the template please adhere to the next steps
1) Log in to your Blogger account.
2) Click on the “Layout” website link corresponding to the blog site for which you want to set up a new template.
3) From the Layout tab, click on on the “Edit HTML” website link.
4) Click on the “Browse” button at the top rated of the page. Using the browse window, uncover the XML file for your new template. Select the XML file, and click on “Open”. The browse window will shut. Now
click “Upload” to set up your new template, Take pleasure in.
If you have any dilemma with setting up template, you can contact the website admin, and he’ll assist you to remedy it.
Blogs(A.K.A. – Weblogs) are the BIGGEST thing going right now online because of there many uses for both the Web Surfer and the Internet Marketer.
But, you probably already know that so for the purpose of this article I’m not going to talk about ‘Blogs’ in general because I’m sure you’ve read enough about them by now and/or you already have a few kicking around the net.
What I’m going to share with you Right Now is something I discovered while surfing the net researching Tag and Ping tactics and Social Bookmarkleting because I run more then a few blogs online and wanted to find out how I could take advantage of this whole Tag and Ping and Social Bookmarkleting thing with as little effort as possible.
If your new to this whole Tag and Ping game then let me give you a quick summary of what a Tag is and what a Ping is so there’s no confusion as you continue through this article.
Tags – Tags are simply category names and are selected by you using keywords around whatever niche your blogging about and are included within each post you make, that is, if your blog is set up for Tags.
Ping – By Pinging your letting the weblog trackers(like Technorati for example) and the search engines now that your blog has been updated with fresh content and is ready for their spiders to come and crawl your blog for indexing into their databases.
This is where the – Tags – come into play for your blogs posts because as soon as the social bookmarkleting service spiders your blog, it will list your post under that given Tag you chose. So it’s very important you choose your Tags wisely.
Now that you know the basics of the Tag and Ping concept, lets now get into what I discovered so you too can incorporate it into your blogging mix, whether you use WordPress, Blogware or Blogger as your blogging software.
But before I do, lets first talk about what Social Bookmarkleting is for a quick minute.
Social Bookmarkleting, just in case your not quite sure, is simply a collection of your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, photo’s or whatever it is that you find interesting on the web and is saved into your public profile through whatever Social Bookmarkleting service you choose.
Technorati, Digg, del.icio.us, furl are just a few Social Bookmarkleting services available on the web which is why I’m writing this article because I discovered a COOL plugin that you can use on WordPress, Blogware and Blogger blogs that will connect you to over 50+ social bookmarkleting services through one click of your mouse giving your blog audience multiple options to share your blog post or blog with the world which in turn will increase your traffic and popularity of your blog.
Lets face it, adding 50+ social bookmarkleting buttons to your blog would be a VERY tedious endevour so why not take the short cut for a change and install this plugin and let your reader make his or her choice.
To take advantage of this plugin right now go to Socialize-It.com ==> http://www.socialize-it.com
This plugin is absolutely FREE and only takes minutes to install on your blog.
Make sure your choose your Tag wisely as well. I recommend you go to Technorati – http://www.technorati.com – and look at the TOP 100 tags since Technorati is the BIG Daddy in the blogosphere.
(TIP: The bigger and bolder the Tag the more popular the topic is.)
After you’ve done that, start Blogging.
The more posts you make, the more pages you’ll generate with the “Socialize-It” button helping spread the word about your blog and getting your blog added in whatever Social Bookmarkleting service database your blog reader is apart of.
I hope you found this article helpful and take action on what you have just learned.
Good luck!
Template Designer – Design Custom Templates from Blogger
Blogger has been a leader in Blog platforms only because of its innovation and improvements. Giving a head to head combat with wordpress blogger has its if’s and buts. Anyways, kudos to blogger to bring in this application of designing customised templates.
For people to whom action is louder than words, here is a video and for whom words do the talking, please read this article.
Template Designer is the new feature introduced by blogger in Blogger Draft which allows you to design your own blogspot template. This feature is very useful for those people want customized templates without coding and anyone can create amazing looking blogger templates.
There are many options such as choosing the basic template, the layout of the blog, choosing its background, and if you want to make any more modifications in the advanced section. Visit the Layout option in Blogger Draft and click on Template Designer.
Templates:
There are 4 basic templates which have many different designs, with a total of 15 different templates.
Layout:
There are total 8 different layouts that you can choose from. So get a design at one click.
Background:
You can choose a background from images, and create a customized blogger template with a variety of images that you can choose from. Sadly, there is no option to upload your own image.
Advanced:
There is an Advanced option which allows you to change the colour, size of your text, font, links etc. You also have an option to add your own CSS for people who can code.
This is third commodity in a alternation on abacus google adsense to blogger blogspot blog.
in this tutorial you will apprentice ho to add google adsense to the header of your blog.
this tutorial assumes no ability of blogger and provides a walkthrough of the accomplish complex to add google adsense to the header of your blog .
how to add google adsense to the header (Above the title)
if you want to add google adsense to your header for instance above the title you can by adjusting your template to give you the option of adding more than one widget to the header area.
-login to blogger and navigate to layout > edit html .
-back up your template as a precaution by downloading the full template to your computer .
-check the expand widgets template box.
-find the following code, easiest way is to select CTRL+F to bring up the toolbar ,then enter &itdivi
id=’outer-wrapper’>into the find box :
</head>
<body>
<div id=’outer-wrapper’>
<div id=’header-wrapper’>
<b:section class=’header’ id=’header’ maxwidgets=’1′>
<b:widget id=’header1′ locked=’true’ title=’blog how to blog (header) ‘type=’header’>
-replace maxwidgets=’1′ with maxwidgets=’3′
-save to layout page elements and view the new option to add a gadget to the header area .
-click on add a gadget and select google adsense .
-choose the type of ad unit you want,for this example I choose a new linked 728×90 ad unit fromthe dropdown format menu for an ad that would sit above the title .configure colors if necessary.color blending is usually done automaticlly by blogger according to the color schema of your template.
-click save .
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One of the dilemmas I had faced after publishing my blog on Blogger was how to integrate forms? A simple feedback or Contact Us form can go a long way in making your blog more user focused and interactive. I have found to simple methods to overcome this handicap. And yes you don’t need to be a coder to do this!
1. Use Formstack Forms (http://www.formstack.com) to build professional looking online forms:
A simple but very effective solution is offered by www.formstack.com . Formstack allows you to design and build forms online and then allows you to embed forms on any blog or website. The simple drag and drop interface allows you to easily create an HTML form and add any type of form element (e.g. Text fields, email field, file upload). You can manage your field types, add sections, and rearrange your fields. The Process is very simple:
Sign up on Formstack.
Build your forms using the form builder. The interface is intuitive. Use a few minute is get familiar and no harm experimenting.
Assign the email address where you want to send form data. This is important as this is where you will receive the feedbacks.
Select a suitable design template and Save your form.
Generate the code to embed on your Blog. Save the code in a notepad file.
You are pretty much done with Formstack! Now log in to your Blogger account to integrate the code on your Blogger website:
On your blogger add a page using the page widget. . If you don’t have the widget already you can do so my going to Design > Add Widget and Select Pages Widget. The page widget on Blogger allows you to add up to 10 static pages on Blogger.
After added the page widget go to Posting > Edit Pages > Create a new page.
Create a new page with the name “Contact Us” using pages widget
On the page editor click Edit HTML tab.
Paste the embed code generated from Formstack. And Voila! You have a working feedback form on Blogger!
Do a quick preview. You may have to do small adjustments to the form field lengths if there are any overlaps with your Blogger sidebar but that is simple. The Formstack form builder interface is so simple that you can quickly find your way to generate a visually pleasing feedback form.
2. Use feedback tool from getsatisfaction (http://www.getsatisfaction.com)
Get satisfaction is one of the most popular feedback tools on the Internet. Integrating this on blogger requires some careful template code embedding. The Integration process is simple though:
Sign up on getsatisfaction.com.
Generate the code for embedding.
There is not straight forward blogger integration widget here so you will have to go to your blogger template source to integrate the code.
Go to blogger Design > Edit HTML
On template XML source code look for tag.
Paste the get satisfaction embed code just before the and save the template and you have the feedback widget on blogger!