04 October 2011

Blogger Store Blogger Templates

12:48 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  2 comments
Blogger Store its a free premium Blogger theme, its a real store for Blogger which accept payment through Paypal. If you sell things on your blog, u must try this one.

Features: 3 columns, left and right sidebar, widgets ready, social icons, pages enabled, search box. 

03 October 2011

10 Most Important Blogger Gadgets

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Blogger is a great free blogging platform because it offers a wide selection of really useful gadgets for bloggers to use on their blogs. With these gadgets you can improve your blog, make your blog more user friendly, easier to browse and more attractive to visitors and future readers. Blogger gadgets will bring your blog to a whole new level and improve your blogging experience.

When you create a new Blogger blog you already have some basic gadgets installed on your new blog. These gadgets are Archives, Followers Box and Author Profile. Surely nice and cool feature for your new Blogger blog. But there are plenty more great Blogger gadgets that are more useful than these three gadgets installed by default on all Blogger blogs. And in this article I want to present to you my list of 10 Most Important Blogger Gadgets that every owner of a Blogger blog should use and install.

1. Google AdSense
2. Popular Post
3. HTML/Javascript
4. Amazon Associates
5. Pages
6. Subscription Links
7. AddThis Sharing Gadget
8.  Search Box
9. Support my Blog
10. Picture

I hope you will try some of these gadgets on your own blogs and see how they perform for you. If you want to find a lot more Blogger gadgets and widgets go to Blogger Gadgets Archive in your Blogger dashboard.

02 October 2011

Free Premium Blogger Templates

12:21 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
There are many awesome sites that offer great free templates for Blogger and you can easily modify these free themes to make your blog looks wonderful and easy to read. But some bloggers and webmasters prefer Premium Blogger Templates because premium templates offer more functions, better layouts and are maybe better optimized for search engines and readers. Premium templates are surely better for those who are serious about blogging and want to make some real money with their Blogger blogs without spending hours modifying the code of Blogger theme.

There are several cool sites that offer free and paid Premium Blogger templates. With these templates you'll give your blog a brand new and a professional view and surely make your visitors happy :) Below is a list of sites that offer free and paid premium Blogger templates. Check out these sites, find you favorite premium theme and download it to use t on your Blogger blog.

Get Free Premium Blogger Templates


01 October 2011

Angry Birds Blogger Template

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Do you like Angry Birds? Here is a very cool Angry Birds Blogger Template that you can use for your Blogger blog. Great for gaming and marketing blog.



Angry Birds Blogger Template is a free blogger template with 2 columns and sidebar on the right, 3 footer columns, slider menu, red header with angry bird image, suitable for personal blog and professional blog. Great for gaming and marketing blogs.

Check out Blogger Dynamic Views

7:52 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
Blogger has introduced five dynamic views for all Blogger blogs. You can change your template to one of these cool dynamic views in your Design area in Blogger. Below is a quick video presentation of this feature.

These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, to deliver a host of benefits to you and your readers.

New features are coming to Highway to Blogger!

4:59 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
Hello Blogger fans and followers of this blog.

This blog has not been updated for a long time and I know that this is now really cool :) And therefore I am making some changes to this blog and I promise that I will pay more attention to it in the future. This blog still gets many visits every day and it actually generate some revenue so it will be a really wise decision to update this blog more often, add new cool features and pay more attention to it. I can increase my earnings and you can get more awesome and helpful articles that will surely help you with your Blogger experience.

I changed the template back to the default Blogger template because I'm working on my own template that will be published on this blog sometime today. I will add some cool features, sharing plugins and I will publish some very interesting and helpful articles that I've written for this blog and are waiting on my desktop.

I hope you will like the new layout of this blog and you'll follow this blog in the future :)

Regards,
T.H. from Highway to Blogger

03 October 2010

B Tube Blogger Template

7:46 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  1 comment


DEMO ***** DOWNLOAD


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

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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

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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

12:58 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
Here's a new Blogger Template - Mash Blogger Template.



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19 September 2010

4 Sharing And Bookmarking Widgets For Blogger

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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

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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

6:12 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
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

5:05 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
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.



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16 September 2010

10 Facebook Widgets and Tools for Your Blog

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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

6:25 PM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments

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;
  6. 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; 
  7. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.

    8.
    &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;
  8. 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

2:15 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments



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

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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

7:27 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments

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.

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10 Ways to make your Blog more Attractive to Advertisers

3:55 AM  Tilen Hrovatic  No comments
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.

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