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8 Free Festive Blogger Templates
Blogger As Christmas is less than one week away, many bloggers are searching for festive themed templates to add a little holiday spirit to their blogs. Here are 8 free festive themed templates for the Blogger platform which you can download for free!
Continue readingChange the “Subscribe to posts/comments” link in your Blogger template
Blogger In most Blogger templates, you will see a link beneath the main posts section which says “Subscribe to posts (Atom)” or “Subscribe to post comments (Atom)”, depending on the type of page you are viewing. This basic link is intended to encourage visitors to subscribe to one of your blog’s feeds after reading your blog posts. However, with a little manipulation we can make this link become a much more useful and ...
Continue readingShow Date For All Posts in Blogger
Blogger Most bloggers prefer to display the date a post was published, which is often relevant to the subject matter of the post. Indeed, most blog templates include some elements of CSS styling for the post date (or date heading as it is often known). When using Blogger to publish your blog, the date heading is only displayed for the most recent post of any given day. This means that if you make several posts in a single day, the date heading will only ...
Continue readingPosting to Blogger while on the move!
Blogger Those using Blogger to publish their blogs have several tools at their disposal for publishing posts remotely. This is especially useful for those publishing travel-blogs, photo-blogs, or simply to break news while away from your computer. In this article, I’ll explain several different methods you could use to post to your Blogger blog while you are away from your computer including any caveats and limitations to ensure you choose the ...
Continue readingHow to create Blogger widgets for others to install on their blogs
Blogger Widgets offer interesting and functional ways of adding content to the layout of a Blogger blog. Using the Blogger widget API, many third party providers offer widgets for Blogger users to install in only a few clicks. Such widgets can be used to add content (eg: banners, slideshows, JavaScript functions) to the end-users blog, and also to help promote the sites from which they originated. Feedburner, for example, offers users the ability to ...
Continue readingGet help from Blogger training videos
Blogger Many of you will already realize that Google Blogger has a dedicated channel on YouTube where (official) help videos are uploaded to help you make the most from your Blogger blog. There are currently seven videos to watch, ranging from setting up your first blog to uploading videos and purchasing a custom domain. But did you know there is also a dedicated Blogger video training site? Recognized Expert offer over 7 hours and 100 episodes worth of ...
Continue readingHow to create an “Admin Control Panel” in your Blogger template
Blogger Hiding the Blogger nav-bar is one of the most popular customizations for Blogger blogs. The advantage of this is that your blog design does not immediately appear to be powered by Blogger, and it is very useful for designs where the appearance of the nav-bar distracts from the overall design of the blog. The only downside of removing the nav-bar is that the admin links for “New post”, “Customize” and “Log Out” ...
Continue readingBlogger Label Functions (The Basics)
Blogger When publishing with Blogger, we can categorize our posts using “Labels”. Published posts which have labels attached produce a link to each label in the post-footer section which links to a page displaying all posts categorized under this label. We can also add a “Labels” widget which generates a list of all labels currently in use linking to posts in the appropriate category. Aside from the basic categorization of blog ...
Continue reading5 Related Posts Techniques for Blogger Blogs
Blogger A relatively easy method of increasing page views on your blog is to add a list of related posts below each article. This offers readers a ready-made reading list of other articles on your blog, which are of a similar theme or subject matter. For those using Blogger to publish their blogs, there are a few different methods available to display a list of related posts. These “related posts hacks” return a list of recent articles from ...
Continue readingBreaking the mold: 12 remarkable Blogger designs
Blogger, Design & Coding If I were to approach the subject of designing Blogger templates, many people would moan about the repetitive, boring and dreary styles commonly associated with BlogSpot blogs. It’s time to rethink these assumptions! In recent months, many talented and creative bloggers have created amazing and beautiful designs for their Blogger powered blogs which certainly offer WordPress designers a run for their money! For your visual pleasure, here ...
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