If your designing a theme with a dedicated column to the date stamp, you can take back some of that space under it and add a unique pop to your design.

In the image to the right the date column is a span and the content of the article is in a div to the right of it. Because of the way it is layed out, using a span and then floating the content next to it, you have the ability to float things outside of the content and under the…

A pull quote is a quoted snippet from an associated article that is used to highlight a bit of the post. Pull quotes are the most effective element for adding improved scanability to your text, and by extension the perception of your sites usefulness.

Here’s the basics. First, create a new class in your themes style sheet, call it .quote. This is the base of how your pull quotes will be formatted and positioned. Specify whether you want it to float to the left or right, what margins you like, and…

In recent months, Blogger have added quite a few new features to the system: scheduled posts, Google Gadget integration and a dynamic blogroll are among the freshest and best upcoming features for this popular blogging platform.

So if you use Blogger to publish your blog, how can you keep updated with the latest news and discover new features as soon as they become available?

In this post, I’ll tell you about the sites I use and subscribe to in order to receive updates and news about Google blogger.

Official Blogger/Google resources

Blogger in Draft

Blogger…

If your blog has well-written and informative articles, like any good blog should, you should probably have a well-formatted print stylesheet declared. Just like your regular “screen” CSS controls how your webpage looks in a browser, the “print” stylesheet controls how your webpage prints on a printer.

First things first, you need to declare the stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />

Alternatively, you can pack all your “media styles” into one stylesheet, which is efficient as it reduces the number of server calls your page needs to make. Within a single CSS…

If you Google “stop image theft“, you will get some results of some really bad, non-effective ways of preventing image theft. Things like “disabling right-click” with JavaScript. Crippling usability is never good, especially when it will barely even slow down someone determined to steal your image. This is kind of like strip searching kindergardeners because one of them brought a knife to school once.

There are two different types of “theft” of images. One type is direct “hotlinking” of the image. That is, displaying the image on a third party website…