03 October 2010

B Tube Blogger Template



Here's a new Blogger Template - B Tube Advantage Blogger Template. Great for blogs and websites with many videos. With this template you can create a cool video blog (just choose a niche, use this template and start posting).

Designer Credits: BloggerTheme
Category: Video,Computer/Technology
Properties: 3 Columns

02 October 2010

Add Zoom Effect for images to your Blogger Blog

You may have seen the zoom effect for images on various sites and wordpress blogs. Now you can add 'Zoom Effect for Images' to your Blogger Blog. Follow this simple tutorial to learn how.


Step 1. Go to your dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widget Templates

Step 2. Search for </head>  (type Crtl+F for fast search within the code)

Step 3. Add following code just before </head> tag.

<script src='http://wam8387.110mb.com/FancyZoom.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://wam8387.110mb.com/FancyZoomHTML.js' type='text/javascript'/>

Step 4. Replace <body> with <body onload='setupZoom()'>

Step 5. Save your template.

Step 6. Now that you have added the code for Image Zoom Effect to your template, you must add following code while adding any image to your post.

<a href="Image address"><img src="Image address" width="200" border="0" height="200" /></a>

Just replace "Image Address" with the url of the image you want to add.

Check out the Demo here.

22 September 2010

Top 20 blogger template authors

Top 20 blogger template authors (by number of templates). Check out these websites and find the best Blogger templates!

1. Deluxe Templates
URL: http://www.deluxetemplates.net/
Deluxe Templates has 272 templates.

2. ThemeCraft
URL: http://themecraft.net/
ThemeCraft has 212 templates.

3. BloggerThemes
URL: http://bloggerthemes.net
BloggerThemes has 144 templates.

4. Templates Block
URL: http://www.templatesblock.com/
Templates Block has 134 templates.

5. Anshul
URL: http://www.anshuldudeja.com/
Anshul has 106 templates.

6. Blog and Web
URL: http://blogandweb.com
Blog and Web has 96 templates.

7. Templates Novo Blogger
URL: http://templatesparanovoblogger.blogspot.com/
Templates Novo Blogger has 81 templates.

8. Blogs Made in Spain
URL: http://www.blogsmadeinspain.blogspot.com/
Blogs Made in Spain has 71 templates.

9. Teknomobi
URL: http://www.teknomobi.net/
Teknomobi has 63 templates.

10. SkinCorner
URL: http://skincorner.com/
SkinCorner has 61 templates.

11. Claudia
URL: http://btemplates.com/
Claudia has 58 templates.

12. Ipietoon
URL: http://www.ipietoon.com/
Ipietoon has 51 templates.

13. Falcon Hive
URL: http://www.falconhive.com/
Falcon Hive has 45 templates.

14. Blogger Template Place
URL: http://www.bloggertemplateplace.com/
Blogger Template Place has 43 templates.

15. Blogcrowds
URL: http://www.blogcrowds.com/
Blogcrowds has 39 templates.

16. Noyod
URL: http://www.noyod.com
Noyod has 36 templates.

17. Splashy Templates
URL: http://www.splashytemplates.com/
Splashy Templates has 34 templates.

18. Layout4all
URL: http://layout4all.blogspot.com/
Layout4all has 34 templates.

19. GosuBlogger
URL: http://gosublogger.com
GosuBlogger has 30 templates.

20. Templates-godown
URL: http://template-godown.com/
Templates-godown has 30 templates

21 September 2010

Mash Blogger Template

Here's a new Blogger Template - Mash Blogger Template.



19 September 2010

4 Sharing And Bookmarking Widgets For Blogger

Social bookmarking is now a very important factor when it comes to your blog optimization, because it can give you a lot of back links, and you need to make it easy to your visitors to share and bookmark your blog posts.
So here is the list of the best 4 sharing and bookmarking widgets for blogger users. And there is a description of each one that will tell you the cons and pros for each one.

1. AddtoAny




AddtoAny.com

  • More than 120 bookmarking sites
  • User Can search for a specific service
  • Allow users to send your page for a friend via email.
  • Allow users to bookmark your blog posts into their browser
  • Very Customizable.

2. AddThis






Addthis.com

  • Smartest sharing tool ever.
  • Largest collection of services, and growing. 170+ services
  • Automatically translated in over 50 languages.
  • Customize the colors and menu
  • Track how your users are sharing with analytics.

3. ShareThis









ShareThis.com

  • Only 45 services
  • Customize Able
  • English language only.
  • You can register and import your friends mail addresses to send them news easily.

4. Share The Love




AllBlogTools.com
  • 18 services
  • JQuery Expanding system

Facebook 2.0 – Blogger Template

Facebook 2.0 as the name suggests is a facebook styled Blogger template. The template has a clean 2 columned design with search box | link lists | and more…



Designer Credits: TemplatesBlock
Category: Business/e-commerce,Computer/Technology
Properties: 2 Columns, Fixed Width, Left Sidebar

LIVE DEMO & DOWNLOAD THIS TEMPLATE

17 September 2010

New template and fancy new look! ProPress Blogger Template

Highway to Blogger has a new look. I download this fancy and professional template from TheBlogTemplates and I like it very much. It is well designed, easy to use and what is the most important thing to me, it has a professional look!

This is the ProPress Blogger Template designed by TheBlogTemplates. ProPress features a popping navigation menu in the header as well a 3 column footer.




Blog Platform: Blogger
Designed by: TheBlogTemplates
Features: 2 Columns, Blue, Fixed Width, Right Sidebar

LIVE DEMO / DOWNLOAD THIS TEMPLATE

24 Sites That Pay You to Blog

Writing paid post is perhaps one of the best ways to earn some revenue from blogging. The way pay post works hasn’t changed much; after reaching mutual agreement with advertisers, you write about them and they pay you. And if there is a 3rd party involved, they take cut. Most middle man company provides marketplace for advertisers to look for publishers, vice versa.

If you firmly believe that writing pay post is one good way to revenue from your blog, here’s a list of 24 web services that pay you to write for them. This list will be updated periodically, so if you have a paid post service I’ve missed out I’d like to add them to the list. Necessary credits will be given.



16 September 2010

10 Facebook Widgets and Tools for Your Blog

Facebook is the largest social networking site with more than 400 million active users and is growing larger daily! Make sure to use these Facebook widgets to connect with your large Facebook audience through your blog or website. You can use these tools to easily share certain profile information, websites, blogs, and businesses with the Facebook community.



Personal Profile Widgets

Profile Badge
Create a Facebook profile badge to share selected profile information on your website. A profile badge will allow your users to easily connect with you and add you as a friend.

Photo Badge
This photo badge allows you to share your Facebook photos on websites and blogs. Choose from a vertical, horizontal, or two-column layout and also choose the number of photos to be displayed.

Fan Badge
Display your Facebook fan pages for all to see.

Website or Business Widgets

Share Button
A powerful facebook widget which allows your visitors to share your content on Facebook!

Fan Box
Lets your users easily become a fan of your site and also allows them to view your Facebook page stream.

Page Badge
Lets you share your Facebook page (one that you have created) information on your website.

Twitter Link
Connect your Facebook page with Twitter. Whenever you update your Facebook fan page your twitter followers will be updated as well with a tweet.

Developers Widgets

Publishing to Facebook
This allows your users to publish their content and activity to Facebook.

Comments Box
Lets your users comment on your website content with their Facebook account.

Live Stream
Lets Facebook users to post and share content in real-time.

15 September 2010

Related Posts Widget for Blogger


This is a wonderful hack for displaying links to related posts beneath each of your blog posts. The related articles are chosen from other posts in that same category/label/tag. With this hack many of your readers will remain on your site for longer periods of time when they see related posts of interest. It also boost your traffic adn popularity!





Steps for Installation:

  1. Go to Layout &gt;Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
  2. Back up your existing Template before making any changes!
  3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
  4. Search for the &lt;/head&gt; tag. (Ctrl+F is very helpful)
  5. Add the following code just before the &lt;/head&gt; tag.
  6. &lt;style&gt; #related-posts { float : left; width : 540px; margin-top:20px; margin-left : 5px; margin-bottom:20px; font : 11px Verdana; margin-bottom:10px; } #related-posts .widget { list-style-type : none; margin : 5px 0 5px 0; padding : 0; } #related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 { font-size : 20px; font-weight : normal; margin : 5px 7px 0; padding : 0 0 5px; } #related-posts a { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts a:hover { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts ul { border : medium none; margin : 10px; padding : 0; } #related-posts ul li { display : block; background : url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSJN71uNIWLrqp5cYyA-wiQ2hhaJd7TR5aXEZi4pawWPSkcpCyAdMbT1OeczqmlWReOaNyDiNQ0FF6YrbnodO2Sr9x2bPqlDuL5HZGDiZa9mNZPffooulUFNOvDcBiP745nvBjgUGelw/") no-repeat 0 0; margin : 0; padding-top : 0; padding-right : 0; padding-bottom : 1px; padding-left : 21px; margin-bottom : 5px; line-height : 2em; border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;script src='http://theblogtemplates.com/scripts/Related_posts_hack.js' type='text/javascript'/&gt;
  7. Now search for &lt;data:post.body/&gt;. In some of the templates this code may look like this
    &lt;div class='post-body&gt;
    or
      &lt;data:post.body/&gt; 
  8. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.

  9. &lt;b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'&gt; &lt;div id="related-posts"&gt; &lt;font face='Arial' size='3'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related Posts : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color='#FFFFFF'&gt;&lt;b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'&gt;&lt;data:label.name/&gt;&lt;b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &amp;quot;true&amp;quot;'&gt;,&lt;/b:if&gt;&lt;b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &amp;quot;item&amp;quot;'&gt; &lt;script expr:src='&amp;quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&amp;quot; + data:label.name + &amp;quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;amp;max-results=5&amp;quot;' type='text/javascript'/&gt;&lt;/b:if&gt;&lt;/b:loop&gt; &lt;/font&gt; &lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt; removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels(); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b:if&gt;
  10. Now Save your Template and you're done!
Customization

  • In order to change the number of maximum related posts being displayed for each label, search for the code below (within the code given in step 7) and change the number "5" to any desired number.
  • max-results=5

Snap Shots for your blog




Snap Shots
See a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

13 September 2010

How to put Documents in Blogger Post

If you have a office document in your PC and want to put / add / place in your blogger / blogspot post, now you can.

Follow steps
1. Create a account at Scribd

2. Upload your document [ Supported: Microsoft Office / PDF / Open Office / Text ]

3. Choose file / document from your PC and click UPLOAD button.

4. Describe Your Documents - You can add categories / description / make it private, click Save Changes.

5. Share Your Documents [this is important] - Scroll window down and find Embed Code click Copy button.

6. Now log in Blogger Dashboard > New Post > in Post body/content [edit HTML mode] paste code.

7. That's it.

[ Supported File Types: doc, docx, ppt, pptx, pps xls, xlsx, pdf, ps, odt, odp, sxw, sxi, txt, rtf ]

12 September 2010

Article Submitter


Submit your website to 4500+ directories, 500+ article directories and 200 feed sites!

One of the best programs for driving traffic to your blog adn save your time for blog promotion!
This is the official description of Article Submitter from their website. Read this description below and download demo! Try it, it's really easy and very effective!

Article Submitter

◊ Do you spend all of your time going to article directories to submit your content? Are you frustrated by sites rejecting your content because it's not formatted using their specific, confusing rules? Article Submitter could be the solution you need.

◊ Save time by submitting properly formatted content to over 500 article directories using Article Submitter. Our tool offers semi-automatic submission to the most current list of article directories, allowing you focus on writing content, not submitting it.

◊ One of the best ways to market your website is to write articles and submit them to various websites and article directories. These articles can bring a lot of traffic to your website, if written in an informative or entertaining manner. The article submission process (posting your articles to article directories) is definitely a laborious and time consuming task. Article Submitter simplifies the article submission process to save you time.

10 Ways to make your Blog more Attractive to Advertisers

This post comes from Chad Randall, the Director of Sales for b5media and the author of AdvertiseSpace. Chad has been working in the online advertising industry for over 6 years now, and has personally sold more than $5,000,000 in online ads. I figured he’d be a good person to ask about how to make your blog attractive to advertisers.

01 September 2010

Sharing Buttons on Blogger

Blogger has been adding new features to improve the looks and usability of the blogs. Blogger is now testing out a new Social Sharing icon set consisting of Email, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook and Google buzz buttons. The widget looks simple and elegant with some cool mouse over effects. These Sharing buttons are now available in your regular dashboard. If you need to take a peek at these new sharing icons, then take a look at the bottom of this post (and try sharing it). :)

You are still reading. So i guess that you are really interested in adding these Sharing buttons on your Blogger Blog.

Don’t wait. Just follow these simple steps

31 August 2010

Add Tweet Box to Blogger

Tweet Box is AnyWhere Application, which allows you to add a 140 chart Tweet Box onto your blog. This is truly a great tool to add to your Blogger blog and let your visitors to share your posts and links. You'll get more traffic and you will increase the popularity of your blog. Not to mention increasing the income from advertising.

Put this widget to your Blogger blog and expand your blogging network to Twitter to receive more traffic and spread the word about your blog on Twitter!

30 August 2010

Travelling Logbook Blogger Template

Coder ThemeCraft
Designer EZ WPthemes
Features: 2 Columns, Left Sidebars , Orange, Brown

DEMO PREVIEW

DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

22 August 2010

LinkWithin Widget (Related posts) for Blogger/Wordpres/Typepad.

Bloggers and readers always like related posts of articles they like. With this information and widget, our blog becomes more interesting and informational. And that way, we inrease the popularity of our blog and we can drive more traffic to it. Kaj pa če bi obstajala funkcija oz. widget, ki bi te objave poiskal samodejno ter jih predstavil s sliko? Seveda, to bi bilo super. In na srečo tak widget tudi obstaja. It's called LinkWithin. It work on many blogging services, such as Blogger, Wordpres, TypePad and some others. All you have to do is add this widget to your blog. It's free and easy to install. I wrote quick and simple guide how to do this!

Live Demo of this Widget


16 August 2010

Add Facebook Like button to your Blogger blog

Ever wanted to add Facebook Like or Recommend button to your blog? Now you can do this with folowing four simple steps!

With this button you can let readers and visitors of your to easily share your posts and content with their friends on Facebook. That can really boost your blog traffic and your blog popularity! Because the button is hosted by Facebook it will shows to all visitors, if they're subscribed or not. For the visitors that are signed to Facebook during reading your blog, the button will shows their friends that already liked your posts.

So....let's install this button in 4 simple steps!

15 August 2010

Add ‘Orkut Share’ button to your Blogger blog

Orkut has a new Share application. Ta aplikacija omogoča, da delite svoje blog prispevke s prijatelji in uporabniki na omrežju Orkut. In this post I will explain to you, how to add this cool Orkut Share button to your Blogger blog. Just follow few simple steps!


13 May 2010

The New Blogger Template Designer Tool



I am happy to annouce that Blogger is still advancing and surprising us with new awesome features, people at Blogger.com never stop working on improving our beloved blogging tool.

Between the great new features here's some of the things you are going to be able to do:

* 15 new professional templates to start from (and more on their way)
* Custom blog layouts with one, two and three columns
* Hundreds of professional background images from iStockphoto
* Customizable colors, fonts, and more!
* Fast Loading


Check the full features of the new Blogger Template Designer over at Blogger in Draft.

13 January 2010

How to install a Blogger Template

Follow this Simple Guide to Install your Blogger Template.

1. Click in Download button and save file in PC [hard drive].

2. File that you have downloaded is .ZIP file so need to be extracted. Extract / Unzip it.

3. Log in Blogger dashboard

4. Click Design link in dashboard panel.

5. Now click in Edit HTML link in tab bar.

6. Click Browse button and look for folder that is created after extracted file that you have downloaded.

7. Folder has a XML file and TXT file or Internet shortcut, you select only XML file.

8. Click Upload button.

9. Confirm and Save.

10 January 2010

How to to include FORUM on Blogger Blogs

Tutorial by Ralph Buttigieg

Many people would like to include forums on their blog. Wordpress has several plugins available but its commonly believed that bulletin board type discussions forums can not be integrated into a blogger blog. This is incorrect.

Blogger likes widgets and there are several widget based forums available like Nabble and Bravenet. What is required is to create a space on your blog for the widget to run.

Here's how to do that:

1. Create a static page using Greenlava's instructions:

http://bloggersentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/creating-static-pages-in-blogger.html

The hack on the Blogger Sentral website is by far the best Pages hack for blogger. It hides the sidebars and creates a large post box to drop a widget into.

2. Go to a widget based forum site ( I used www.nabble.com) and setup your forums. Copy the embedded code.

3. Go to Blogger and start a new post. Past code into the HTML box. Then add the static label to convert the post into a page and save.

4. View to make sure it works OK , then link to the page from your home page. Its done! See my website for an example:

http://www.discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/

If you have any question feel free to post a comment.

06 January 2010

How to stop visitors from stealing your blog content

Below is a little trick that will stop your visitors from copying and pasting your blog information. Anyone with experience may know a way around this trick. However it will make it hard enough to discourage them and get them moving on to easier targets.

What to do?

Log in blogger / Dashboard > Layout > Add Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > copy the code below and past in in HTML/JavaScript text box area

<div class="codeview">
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--  &nbsp; 
//Disable right mouse click Script 
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive 
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com  &nbsp; 
var message="Function Disabled!";  &nbsp; 

/////////////////////////////////// 
function clickIE4(){ 
if (event.button==2){ 
alert(message); 
return false; 

}  &nbsp; 
function clickNS4(e){ 
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&amp;&amp;!document.all){ 
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){  alert(message);  return false; 


}  &nbsp; 
if (document.layers){ 
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); 
document.onmousedown=clickNS4; 

else if (document.all&amp;&amp;!document.getElementById){ 
document.onmousedown=clickIE4; 
}  &nbsp; 
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")  &nbsp; 
// -->  
</script></div>

When someone will try to do right click a message will appear “Function disabled” , you can change this message too if you wish.

02 January 2010

Using Title Tags to Improve SEO

Until now, the Title Tags generated for each page of your Blogger blog would display the blog title first, then the name of your post. This wasn't so good for SEO (search engine optimization) as this made keywords from your post titles appear after your blog title.

So if you want to improve SEO that is important for your blog, follow step below.

1. Go to Layout > edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.

2. Search for this tag:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

3. Replace(means remove code above and place code below) this tag with the following:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

4. Save your template.

This work only in XML blogger templates. Also is and a hack for classic bloggers, but as I know noone use classic blogger anymore.