Changing fonts and colours of blog

It is now very easy to change the fonts and colors of various things in your New Blogger blog.No need of Html codes and troubles now , easy with mouse . You don't need to tamper with the template. You can do it direct from the LAYOUT.

• Sign into blogger.com (Dashboard). 


• Click LAYOUT for the relevant blog.


•  Then click the FONTS AND COLORS sub-tab. [See the picture below]:

• If you want to change the font for the Header. Scroll down till you see "Page Header Font". On the right, you will have the radio button to chose the font family and further to the right, you can change the font style to bold or italic. There are also option to change the font size to "bigger" or "smaller"

How To Remove Navbar In Blogger Blogs

In a blog hosted at blogger.com, you would always see a default navbar in the top of the blog page, and it has a search box, flag option etc.

There are a couple reasons why you would like to remove the navbar in your blogger blog -
1. The professionalism of the blog is not maintained. Really, the blog does not look good with the navbar.
2. Sometimes you do nothing wrong, but someone flags your blog through the option in navbar, so you are in risk.

So here is how to remove the navbar in blogger template -

Go to your blog settings > Layout > Edit HTML

Find this -

/* Variable definitions
====================

Above that, paste this -

#navbar-iframe { display: none !important; }

And save the setting. You are done and the navbar is gone! Pretty easy huh!

Add Pages to Blogger like in Wordpress

Many of you might have wanted to use pages for Blogger like in Wordpress.But unfortunately Blogger doesn't provide any thing like Wordpress Pages.But there is still something that can be done.To know what i am talking about,just have a look at my About Page .

To create a Wordpress like page in blogger,we will first create a normal post in blogger.If you don't want this post to be shown in your feed updates,change the date of the post to something very old[may be an year back.See the pic for details] . If you want to prevent users from posting comments on your pages,you can disable commenting on this particular post[see the pic for details]

Now publish your post.We will use this as a pge.You might want to hide the social bookmarking icons and such other stuff from your ‘’pseudo pages’. Actually our bloggertemplate is full of different divisions and we style each of these divisions using CSS.Using CSS rules,it is also possible to hide some of these divisions.So what must we be doing?We need to hide some unwanted divisions on our new pseudo page.

Ok, to Do this find the tag in your template.Just before this,we will add some additional CSS rules to hide those unwanted parts and divisions.We will use the b:if conditions to make the hiding affect our pseudo page only..[so that these rules don't hide these divisions on other pages]

Just before the ,insert the following

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2005/06/about-me.html"'><br /><style><br />.comments-block,.comment-form,.comment-footer,.blog-pager,.feed-links,.comments,.bookmark{display:none;}<br /></style><br /></b:if>
Here i have given some list if divisions which should be hidden.If you need to hide any other divisions you can add this to the list but make sure to separate the different divisions using commas.

Increase alexa Ranking

Alexa Rank is a ranking system of your website which bases its ranking on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. The most important element of any website is content – good quality informative content cannot be beaten when trying to get a good page rank. The more people who visit your website and return or recommend it, the more your traffic will naturally increase.

Below are a few methods that can help to improve your alexa rank :

• Install the Alexa toolbar on your computer and request that anyone who knows you do the same.


• Put an Alexa rank widget on your website. Each click can count as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.


• Write an article or blog on Alexa. Webmasters love searching methods to improve their sites. Webmasters are also very likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed. Each visit will increase your alexa rank.


• Use forums to post messages that include your url. Try and make your post interesting to encourage readers to visit your site.


• Make use of social networking sites. Get your website Dugg and you could increase traffic. Make sure anything that is Dugg is note worthy.

This Very Helpfull article by : By Tamsin Vines

Other Helpful Sources : http://www.doshdosh.com { 20 Ways ]

                          

Use Custom domain name for your Blog

Hope , some times you might be very boring with Long URL of your blog, and likes a short domain.You can easily short this domain by paying some amount to blogger or some private companies who offers domain registration (Godaddy.com).First of all you should have a registered domain . You can also buy one through blogger(Google).

You have to log into the hosting service account which provided you the domain name and create a CNAME (Canonical Name) record for your custom domain.A CNAME, or Canonical Name, record is an entry within the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies where a user can find your web pages, or any other URL. You’ll use this to associate your custom domain with your blog.Note : If you registered your domain name through Google then you don’t need to create a CNAME record for this.

Creating a CNAME record in GoDaddy.com

GoDaddy.com

1. Log into GoDaddy.com account.

2. Open the Domains tab and select My Domain Names and Domain Manager page opens.

3. Select the domain that you want to use with your blog.

4. Click the Total DNS Control And MX Records link which is at the bottom named Total DNS.

5. Click Add New CNAME Record in the box named CNAMES.

6. For the Name, enter only the subdomain of the address you want to use for your blog. If you picked www.mydomain.com as your address, enter www only here.

7. Enter the Host Name as ghs.google.com and specify a TTL or use the default value.

8. Click OK and then again click ok.

For other hosting services follow the below steps…

• Log into the hosting service account and go to Managed DNS section.


• Since CNAME records are special DNS service they may be in sections like DNS Management and Name Server Management.


• Delete existing CNAME records.


• If you chose www.mydomain.com as the address, www is the host name.


• In the value or destination area type ghs.google.com.

Note : Keep in mind that changes to DNS records may take up to 48 hours to take effect.

Update Your Blogger Settings

Everything is over. Now we have to update the Blogger settings.

Go to your Dashboard >> Settings >> Publishing

If you are currently publishing on .blogspot then you will link offering you to switch to custom domain. Go ahead , click it.

Now enter your registered domain name.

Now your .blogspot address(URL) becomes custom domain address.