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Blogger Google’s Blogger platform offers users complete access to their template code. This enables Blogger users to customize their template in any way they choose, by changing the layout, design or adding extra functionality which is lacking in the default templates. While community support for Blogger is still nowhere near the capacity offered by the WordPress community, there are still many dedicated Blogger enthusiasts tweaking away at the ...
Continue readingBlogger’s latest updates and enhancements
Blogger Over the past few months, Google-owned Blogger has seen more than its fair share of updates and enhancements. From a whole new look to the Blogger dashboard to inline comment forms and star ratings, it seems that Blogger is giving more attention to the needs of its users. On Friday, Blogger users were happy to see yet more updates added to the recent list of enhancements: post “reactions”; Google Gadget integration and a whole new ...
Continue readingAdd Subscriber-Only Content in Blogger
Blogger One sure-fire way to attract new subscribers to your blog is to offer an incentive: a download, PDF or other content which only subscribers can access. Those using WordPress to publish their blogs may be familiar with the RSS Footer plugin. For those using Blogger, it’s even easier to add subscriber-only content by simply changing a few settings in your Blogger dashboard. In this post, I’ll explain how you can add subscriber-only ...
Continue readingBlogger Clamping Down on Malware and Spam
Blogger Last week, Blogger was branded the number one host for malware across the internet in a report by security company, Sophos. Then on Friday, Blogger began a major initiative to identify and lock down potential spam blogs hosted on its’ servers in which many innocent blogs were caught in the crossfire. The result? A damaging blow to Blogger’s reputation as a reliable blog host, and many frustrated users moving their blogs over to ...
Continue readingReplace Date Headings with a Funky Calendar In Blogger
Blogger, Design & Coding Calendar icons replacing date headings are a stylish trend of modern blog design. When I saw this style of date-heading on the Twitter status blog, I decided to find out how this could be adapted for use in Blogger blogs. So in this tutorial, I’ll explain how you can replace your boring date headings in Blogger with a stylish Twitter style calendar format like this: This is a simple customization to make to your Blogger powered blog and ...
Continue readingThe Top 10 Blogger Template Resource Sites
Blogger, Design & Coding These days, Blogger users are spoiled for choice by the variety of free Blogger templates available to them. What’s more, as blog designers push the boundaries of blog design, the quality of templates just gets better and better! Whereas not long ago, Blogger templates seemed to all have the same two column layout with no extra functionality, Blogger template designers now add features like navigation menus; tabbed widgets to include much ...
Continue readingBlogger’s New Features in Detail
Blogger As you may have read in Kevin’s recent post, Blogger is in the process of adding some major new features to the system. Currently available to those logging in through Blogger in Draft, the most prolific features include: A comment form beneath blog posts An import/export feature (which can also be used as a backup system) Star ratings, which readers can use to rate your posts A brand new post editor, with much greater functionality In ...
Continue readingHow to change or remove the “Subscribe to Atom” links in Blogger
Blogger Blogger blogs publish a site feed in Atom format. Atom feeds work in a very similar way to RSS, and there is very little difference for either publishers or those who choose to subscribe. Default Blogger templates (and indeed, many third party templates), each page will feature a link to subscribe to the Atom feed. On the main pages, this will link to the main site feed, whereas on post pages, this will link to the comments feed for a particular ...
Continue readingBlogger’s Dashboard Makeover and other Upcoming Features
Blogger Blogger have been busy working on some new features and updates to the system. Most notably, those logging in to Blogger in Draft (the testing area for new features) will notice a whole new look to the Blogger dashboard: Using this dashboard allows us to see most of the features we need at a glance, including any news of scheduled outages and other service announcements. The two blogs we have posted to most recently have their links displayed ...
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Make Blogger Comments Reader Friendly!
Blogger Blogger’s comment system is quite different to that of other blogging services, and is not so “friendly” to regular readers who may not understand how this system works. When faced with a default comment form, visitors to Blogger blogs may feel rather daunted and unwilling to participate in the conversation. However, there are many settings which Blogger authors can change which makes commenting more enticing for readers who ...
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