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Showing posts with label tricks. Show all posts

Create a Forum in your Blog

        When you get bored with commenting and replays, you may think about forums where your Readers can ask questions ad your reader can itself replye for others query,,but the limit of Blogger makes you so sad.
But i can help you to setup a good forum to you in your blog.
Remember No chatbox or shoutbox can't made a service like a forum.

If you want a ful featured forum with free cost, Google Groups lets you setup a forum as easily as you can setup a blog.
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Create social network in your blog





             How about creating a social network just like Facebook,orkut where your friends and users can be talk , share , chat and more within minutes ? I am not kidding .Ning helps you to create social network where your users can sign Up and Login and add friends , just like you do in social networks.

Then How it connects with your Blog . You can connect your blog using iframe.

  • Create a Page in Blogger

  • Make your Post editor in "Edit Html" mode from compose Mode.

  • Now add the below code into post editor.



  • Replace the website with your ning URL and add into your page and Publish.

Gadgets can't save with blank title

   My Blogging  friends complained that they can't save without giving a title for Gadgets .Actually you can't save or re-edit your gadgets without giving title.

When you try to save , you would get a error message " Required field must not be Blank " .

I have got a trick for escape from this.

You just Add    in the place of Title and save.This give you a non-title gadget.

How to Change order of blog post

To some one , someposts are very important which they posted years back,and wish to come back the post into to top of the archive.Actually is it possible to bring the old post into to top of blog post?Yes.It is very simple to do.Just follow me friends,


  • Go to Dashboard,Edit Post,Click on "Edit Post" .

  • At the Bottom of your Post editor, Click on "Post Options" as shown in the image.

  • In some Editor,

















  • Now change the Post Date into current date to bring your old post into top.

  • Save the Post.  Finished.!!!









Add Google Buzz This Button to Blogger Blog Posts











A happy news for all Google Buzz users ,Now onwards Google Buzz can be share with your visitors through your blog with more smartly.No risk is taken by you.You can Buzz as usual in gmail,This buzz will appear on your blog.Quite easy ,right  ?The following step will help you.



Follow the Steps :



  • After entering the dashboard page , click Layout. Please saw the picture :



  • Then click on Edit HTML tab. Please saw the picture :






  • Please mark the little box beside Expand Widget Templates. Wait for a moment.






  • Now Find this Code:



        




  • Paste the Below code just after the above code 






Buzz It








          NOTE: By default, the alignment of these buttons is kept to "Right", you may change it to "Left" too. To change the position of the button, change the value -45 pixels (in margin-top:-42px;).








  • Finish.Now enjoy Buzzing on your Blog











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


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.

Change order of Archive posts

When you post anything to your blog, your Old posts got back in Archive ,no ?

Yes. But some posts might be important in content, and you might think them to appear at the top in archive. 

Now you have the option to bring back your older posts to the hompage whenever you want.
This is especially useful in seasonal events, when a post written in the past must be present on the homepage. But publishing a new post with the same content will cause content-duplication problems, so you can simply edit your previous post to change the publishing date and bring it back to the top.
So to do this, 




  • open the post-editor and click on Post Options link present in the bottom of the page. 

  • Now Set date and time to present or any future date.







  • Finally save the post and your work is done (You can of course undo the changes, to send the post back to its original place).



Note: URL Doesn't Changes.URL keep the same as Old

Redirect from one blog to another



Suppose, i have two blogs with not bad amount of  visitors ,But i can't manage them, so i would like to make it out one.So i need a redirection purpose.That means if any one enter into my old blog, he will automatically redirect into my new blog :) how is it ?



So, how to do this?

     If you are using a NEW BLOGGER TEMPLATE, do this:-

1. Go to  blogger dashboard.

2.Click on the layout link> Edit html

3.Copy the below html code and Paste it anywhere between the head tags.[look at the below screenshot]









Don't forget to replace the newblogaddress in the code with your destination url(address)



4.SAVE THE CHANGES.



             If you are user of  CLASSIC BLOGGER TEMPLATE,Just follow this:-

1. Go to  blogger dashboard

2. Click on the template link next to your blog name.

3. Copy the below code and paste it below the head tag as shown in the below screenshot







Don't forget to replace the newblogaddress in the code with your destination url(address)



4. Save Changes.

Buy aStorage space for blog





What would you do  if your Blog space exceed from the limit ?

Create another blog?

But,its quite difficult to manage those two blogs,

But now Blogger.com comes with its solution.



Now more, you can buy Free space for your blog.

There are many plans for you,You can choose any one of them that suites you.

Visit here to buy the space:   https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage

Receive voice messages via Your Blog




      Crazy with voice messaged!! ? You can receive voice messages from your blog readers by placing a GrandCentral WebCall button directly on your blog.
When people click the button, GrandCentral will call them and connect the call to your GrandCentral number. You can configure your settings to send your calls directly to your phone, or straight to voicemail. You can also post the voice messages you get directly on your blog.
To set up a GrandCentral WebCall button, first you'll need to create a free GrandCentral account.
Once you've signed up for GrandCentral, just follow these steps:
  1. Log in to GrandCentral and go to the Settings tab.
  2. Click the WebCall Button link.
  3. Click Select next to your favorite button.
  4. Click the Post link below your button. Copy the code provided, you'll need to add it to your blog's template later. Be sure to use one of the smaller buttons, as larger buttons might not fit in your blog's sidebar.
  5. Sign in to Blogger and go to the Templates tab.
  6. Click Add a Page Element and select 'HTML/Javascript' as the type.
  7. Paste the code provided by GrandCentral and click Save Changes.
Your WebCall button is now set up. You can customize specific settings, greetings, and different RingShares by logging in to your GrandCentral account.



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Make a homepage to your blog

           Are you ever thought about a sticky home page for your blog. ?Most of us are not ever think about a sticky homepage for our Blog.It makes our Blog more stable and gives  beautiful atmosphere like other paid websites . It is so simple to do a home page for your blog ,where other websites provides large steps for it.

It needs only three steps :

There can be valid reasons when you wish to make a post which sticks on the home page of your blog. Follow the steps below:
1) Go To “Edit Posts” imagefor the post that you want to make sticky.
2) Click on “Post Options”. You will see options as shown in this screenshot.
3) Change the “Post date” to any future date.
4) You are done.
After making a post sticky if you try installing Windows Live Writer. You would get the following error.
The style template used for editing your weblog posts could not be downloaded.You will be able to post to this Weblog, but the editor will not use your blog’s style.
While configuring your blog, WLW makes a temporary post on your blog. Now since you have made one of the posts sticky. WLW would not be able to find the temporary post it has posted and hence will throw the error shown above.
A simple solution is:
  1. Either configure WLW before making your post sticky. OR
  2. Change the date of your sticky post to current date and time. Configure WLW. Change the date again to future.


Remove Navbar

Are you bored with Blogger navbar which contain search blog, share, flag blog, create blog and sign in ?
To remove this banner/navbar,Follow either the written steps nor video Tutorial.
Step :

  • Log in to blogger
  • On your Dashboard
  • Select Layout. This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog's HTML.
  • Paste the CSS definition in the top of the template code:

...
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Rounders
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL:      www.stopdesign.com
Date:     27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */
#navbar-iframe {
   display: none !important;
}
/* Variable definitions
  ====================
   <Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Main Background Color"
             type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
   <Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color" type="color"
             default="#333" value="#333333">
   ...

Remove the code to show it again.

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