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Add A Simple Search Box To Blogger Blog 2007-10-15 23:41:00 Having a search engine on your blog is a must have for any blogger. You can find many free 3rd Party Search Engines on the Internet, but these 3rd Party Search Engines usually takes your visitors to their sites. The following are two search boxes you may want to consider having on your blog or website. This small search box is from widgetbox.com. The search box enables your website or blog ...

How To Upload Power Point Slide To Your Blog 2007-10-11 22:18:00 To add powerpoint slide to your blog, convert the slide to a flash file before uploading slide to your blog. You can install a powerpoint-to-flash converter or use any online tool that enables you to convert powerpoint slide to a flash file. To upload your flash: Load the file in flash format to a free host and copy down the url of the uploaded file. Insert the flash file to your blog using the ...

Add Rotating Header Images To New Blogger 2007-10-09 01:21:00 A blog header is the first thing visitors see upon their arrival to a blog. That is the biggest reason your blog header is important, it's right at the top of the page where everybody will see, so you can see why having a good header is important. You can design your own header or use free ready header images available on the Internet if you can't design. Before continuing, backup your template, ...

Add Video To Your Blog 2007-10-05 04:00:00 You've probably seen blog posts that show a video without having to go to the video site. It is really very easy to place videos in your blog posts. Just go to the video site, create an account with them and don't forget to read their copyright policy. Log into your account, I have selected a cartoon from gofish to include in this post. On the video information page, you will see a tool bar below ...

Add Blogger Classic Template To New Blogger Blog 2007-10-02 00:35:00 Are you looking for a nice template for your Blogger blog? You can get free nice 2 and 3 columns templates here. Remember to save your current template in case you want to go back to your original template. To save template, go to Template--> Edit Html, select all the code in the template and paste it into a text editor (notepad). Save text file. Template Before Change Template After Change ...

Blog Pinging 2007-09-28 00:30:00 The blog ping was developed to allow bloggers to inform search engines, directories and feed aggregators that they have published a new post in their blogs. There are many services that can be pinged, Technorati probably being the most famous. Some of the more popular ones are Google Blog Search, My Yahoo, Feedburner. Usually your blogging software can be configured to different services. To ...

Display Recent Comments In New Blogger Blog 2007-09-24 23:16:00 There are a couple of sites in which you can get the recent comments widget. Here are a few of them: Beatuiful Beta JackBookDOTCOM Blogger Buster I got this widget at blogger template, the widget is very easy to install. You can customize this widget to display the recent comments of any blogger blog, the number of comments to display, the author and the comment date, and the size of the comment ...

Tricks To Prevent Email Spamming 2007-09-20 21:49:00 All bloggers would like readers to be able to contact us and the most obvious way is to display our email address on our blogs which will most probably invite spammers to spam us. The most common place to get the email address is from the web pages. If your email address is listed on a web page or blog on the Internet especially in a search engine or directory, spammers will find it. The only ...

Uploading Files To Blogger Blog 2007-09-17 22:15:00 There are times when you want to upload documents such as PDF, Word or Excel for other people to read and Blogger does not allow uploading of files, we will have to upload the file to some other free host and then create a link to it within a post. File formats such as Microsoft Word or Excel, PDF document or other "static" files can be linked using a simple link format such as: ...

How To Create A Simple Header 2007-09-14 00:52:00 There are many free header images on the Internet but if you want to try your hand on designing your own header, you may want to use this tutorial as a guide. In this tutorial we are going to create a simple header for your new blogger blog using AvancePaint. This is a free graphic editor I found at Yes Its Free. You can use other software such as photoshop, grimp, etc to create you header but ...

Add Email Subscription Box To New Blogger Blog 2007-09-10 21:35:00 Email subscriptions enable your readers to receive your posts by email. In order to offer your blog posts by email, you will need to sign up with a feed management service that will manage email subscriptions for you, and will send updates to your subscribers each time you update your blog. I use Feedburner for email subscriptions. Here's how you can set up an email subscription box for your new blogger blog:Sign up with Feedburner if you have not. Once logged in, click on your feed title for your blog, and then the "Publicize" tab. Click the "Email subscriptions" link on the left column. Choose the language you would like to use to publicise your feed. To Insert an email subscription widget into your blog sidebar, choose “Blogger” in the "Use as a widget in..." dropdown box. You will then be directed to your Blogger Dashboard to confirm insertion of this widget. You can also offer email subscriptions from a link rather than a form. Just copy the link code or insert it as widget t ...

How To Display Html Codes On Your Blog 2007-09-06 23:35:00 Sometimes bloggers need to publish some html codes on their blogs. If you just post them directly to the blog, all the tags will be interpreted as codes. For example, the following codes:<p align="justify">Testing only</p>You will only see the phrase "Testing only" when view in a browser. For all the tags to be displayed as text, you will have to change all the "" to this "&gt;". So, the above codes will have to be recoded into the following format for it to be displayed as text.&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Testing only&lt;/p&gt;If you are not sure how to recode it so that it appears as text instead of being interpreted as code or you are just looking for an easy way to do the conversion without having to make the changes manually, here are some tools which can help you to do it automatically:Html EncoderSimply paste your code into the Encode Input Box and click the “Encode Button”, copy and paste the codes from the output box to wherever you want the co ...

Add A Header Image To New Blogger Blog 2007-09-03 23:17:00 This post covers adding a header image for New Blogger blog. Before start, backup your template first. Upload your header image to a free host and copy the url address of the image.Once you have the url of your image, the next step is to add your header image to your template. Go to Dashboard-->Layout, then click Edit link on the header widget, select the radio button for "Image From The Web", provide your image url and click save changes.We are not quite done yet; when you created your blog you gave it a title and a description, these items can be changed under the Settings menu and are automatically added to your header. You may not want these items to appear on top of your newly added header image, most search engines still read them and we will not remove them only to hide them from human eyes. Click Edit link on the header again, under placement, select the radio button for "Instead of title and description". Save and view your header. The title and the description is now under th ...

How To Display Recent Posts In New Blogger Blog 2007-08-30 23:07:00 As A blogger, you may wish to display your most recent posts on your sidebar. You can accomplish this by adding a Feed Page Element to your sidebar. Click Template --> Add a Page Element. Select the Feed Page Element from the "Choose a New Page Element" page, enter your blog’s feed url in the Feed URL text box and click the "CONTINUE" button.Enter the title for the Feed Page Element, you may want to name it “Recent Posts”, no. of recent posts you wanted to display, date of post and author’s name. I prefer the default view which displays the item title only.You can also change the Feed Url by clicking the "Change Feed URL" link. You will be directed back to the Feed URL dialog box, change the url to the new feed url.When you are done, save the changes. Go back to the browser, you will see the 5 most recent posts (I selected 5 posts to display) in your sidebar. ...

Create Animating Banner For Your Blog 2007-08-27 23:54:00 Banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a website or blog either above, below or on the sides of a web page’s main content and is linked to the advertiser's own website. In the early days of the Internet, banners were ads with text and graphic images. Today, banners can be ads with text, animated graphics and sound.Look at the banner which was located at the footer of this blog. The site's feed are rotated in the banner, visitors can click on it to subscribe the feed. This banner was created with the Headline Animator feature of Feed Burner. You need to create an account with them which is free in order to use the many features available. Log into your account, click on your feed title then click on the Publicize tab and Headline Animator link on the left column to create an animated banner.Next, select the color, font size and position the title, headlines and date. Click the "Activate" button and you are done.This banner was created with banner templates. Simply ...