Showing posts with label blogging tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging tips. Show all posts

How to Switch Back To Blogger Profile Instead of Google+

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, March 23, 2013


By connecting your blog to google+, you may have access to instant sharing after publish your posts, verified authorship and much more benefits. but if you still don't want to migrate to google+ and accidently you've migrated then here is a trick to switch back to your blogger profile.
Follow the Steps
# 1. Open your blogger blog  dashboard, now at the right corner of your dashboard, you may see setting icon[Gear Icon]
# 2. Click on that icon and a menu will toggle right there
# 3. Click on Revert to Blogger Profile,
# 4. You're Done, your changes will be saved automatically.
# 5. If you still haven't get, then see in picture below.,
Switching Back to Blogger Profile



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Custom Permalink For Blogger Posts

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, March 16, 2013

Permalink are being calculating automatically, But when post title is too long then link exceed max limit and are being cut., So better option is you create custom permalink with your blogger posts,
If Post title is too long you can give permalink with shorten texts.
How to Do ?
Here is a step-by-step tutorial to let you understand how to give custom permalink to your blogger posts.
Post Settings
# When you started writing post, there will be post settings on your right, there will be a option named PERMALINK.
# Click on it
# Now choose custom Permalink
# Enter link name in box and click done.
# Here is an image showing how to set up custom permalink for blogger posts.
Setting Up Custom Permalink

# Now you're done adding link, Click publish when you want to publish the post.
Ask in Comment, If Any Query...
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How to change the favicon of the blog

Posted by Unknown on Sunday, February 24, 2013


You might seen different favicon(image / icon / logo) on the top-left side of blog's title.
How to add this to your blog?
# Go to your blogger dashboard.
# Navigate to Layout.
# And you'll see Favicon option in your  layout's top-left side.
Click to Zoom

# Now click on Edit[Shown in Image].
# Then a Pop-Up will open, Here you can choose favicon.
Click to Zoom or Enlarge

# Click on Browse and select your favicon.
# It's height and width must have same value.
# And then save it.
It will may take a day to apply it thus wait for only a day.
Still Not Working ?
Add non-spammy comment or send us at Wishbox.
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Customized Author's Comment in Blogger

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, February 23, 2013

You might have seen that when there are too many comments in a article, You can easily find out which comment is by admin due to different design of admin's / author's comment.

How it will look like,
Click To Zoom / Enlarge

What will you have to do ?
You can do this with the help of CSS3, Here is a step by step tutorial, Follow the tutorial and get your comment customized!

Live Demo

You can see Live demo in this blog's comments, This blog has customized style for author comments.

Start Editing
# Open Blogger Dashboard
# Navigate to Template
# Backup Your Template
# Click Edit Html
# Search For  ".comments .comments-content .icon.blog-author"
# Now Delete this Line and also delete its within brackets contents(Whole Css for selected text), it will be in { } brackets.
# Now copy below css in that place where you deleted that code,

.comments .comments-content .icon.blog-author
{
position: absolute;
height: 30px;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: -10px;
background: rgba(246, 29, 255, 0.3);
}

# Save Template
Change Color ?
Now you're done editing with your comments, You can choose many colors but, it's better to choose light color because dark color will reduce opacity of text.
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6 Useful CSS3 Properties For CSS Beginners

Posted by Unknown on Monday, February 18, 2013


1. @import
@import property is very useful to call external css in your style sheet, When your stylesheet contains fonts or you can link external stylesheet, then you can try @import instead of using link tag. You can link stylesheet and fonts by using this property as shown in snippet below!

@import url(http://linktoastylesheetorwebfont);
/* The more css goes here...*/
2. cursor
"cursor" is a property for giving style to cursor (default,pointer,help,wait,etc...), This property can be given inside stylesheets. you can give property as shown below.

h1
{
cursor:default; /* all h1 elements will have default cursor instead it has text. */
}
p
{
cursor:pointer; /* all p(paragraph) elements will have hand pointer cursor instead it has text in it. */
}
em
{
cursor:wait; /* all em elements will have loading cursor. */
}
a
{
cursor:help; /* all a(link) elements will have help arrow cursor. */
}

Visulisation Matters [ See Live Demo Of Cursors Below ]
Default Cursor [Hover Here]
Pointer (Hand)
Help
Loading... Wait...

So you can use this property to change cursor in every element's style. It might useful while using a link named Help for help cursor...,
Or loading text with wait cursor., Let's check out another property.
3. Font-Family
Have you heard about this, this is property for integrating webfonts in your css stylesheet, More about How to Use Custom Fonts ? ,
let's get brief knowledge about its syntax,

.class
{
font-family:'Font Name',Category;
}
To know about how font categorized , Read Finding and Using custom fonts, And take a look at another useful property.
4. Overflow
You've a box with its width 200px but if text is constant (without line breaks
) then text will rander outside the box, For defining what will happen to overflowed items (eg. image, text, etc...) "OVERFLOW" property is useful.

How Overflow is used [Syntax] ?

.class
{
width:200px;
overflow:auto;
}


Other Overflow Values
auto - manage automatic with scroll bar.
hidden - overflowed content will not shown it will hide itself.
visible - overflowed content will be visible but without scrolling.
scroll - scrollbar is shown at overflow, it turns active.
5. float
Float property is useful property to set element where they float either left or right.
float:left or float:right is right syntax for giving value to element.
6. text-align
Text align property sets the alignment for text inside given class elements.
Syntax
.class
{
text-align:center; /* the text will be on center */
}

Another possible values of text align
center - Text will aligned center.
left - Text will be on left.
right - Text will be on right.
justify - Text will be justified.
CSS Basics
Grab Css Basics Here,
Adding External CSS Code to Blogger Blog
Arrow with Pure CSS
Sticky post-it Notes with Pure CSS
Responsive Menu CSS3
CSS3 Vertical Menu Animated!
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Adding External CSS Code to Blogger Blog

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, February 16, 2013

As shown in image you can add css above ]]></b:skin> in blogger templates.
# Open blogger dashboard.
# Navigate to template,
# Click on html And find

]]></b:skin>..,


Add CSS code above that code...,
You're done...
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Must have widgets for your blogger blog

Posted by Unknown on Sunday, February 10, 2013


Blogger have many widgets its own but some are also from third party, But here is an list of some widgets from blogger and non-blogger owned widgets that should be on your blog for spicing up your blog, Many blogs have widgets that are toOoOoO lazy to load..., visitors hate that type of widgets,
So let's start with some essential widgets...,
Search Box
Search box widget is really essential to let everyone find some on your blog what they're looking for...,
Google custom search provides search result in your blog, so you can put google custom search box in your blogger blog as a widget, or inside a menu(Right Float Search Bar).
Social Information Box
Are you on facebook ?, Are you on Google ?, Are you on twitter ? then why shy to say infront of visitors, Go and link your social account in your blog, Make your blog available on social media(If You're Opting Out..),Like Box,twitter tweets are available to easily embed in your blog.
Popular Post Widget
Popular Post widget is a widget available by blogger to use within your blog directly with thumbnails,links and etc.., It is really cool widget that displays your popular post based on views of the post in selected timeframe in widget.
You Might Also Like Widget (Related /Featured Post)
Related post widget is really nice widget to show related post with every post footer, this widget may increase visitors visiting post related to each post currently read by visitor. This widget is really nice and easy to install it on blogger,Related Post Widget.
Menu / Navigation
What does your blog have, show off in your menu, categories, labels and pages(About page And Contact Page),This menu will be helpful for visitors to find what they're looking for...
Followers Gadget
Followers gadget is being less popular as blogger blogs are being connected to google+, but still its really cool feature known as GFC(Google Friend Connect). This widget make your blog feed available for readers who join your blog.
Subscribe By Email
Make your post feed available for email subscription for visitors, It may increase your reader and visitors.
Missing ?
If you find this post has missing some widgets then Drop your review in WishBox.
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Create Simple Recent Comment Widget

Posted by Unknown on Sunday, January 20, 2013

This is how it Looks
You can create Recent Comment Widget with easy simple steps,

How does it look like ?
To make this,
Follow these Steps,

First,
go to,
Blogger Dashboard >> Layout,

Then Click on add a widget And Add feed Widget (Look in Image below)

Now in box , widget will ask to enter feed url,
Now add this url into that
http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
Replace highlited text with your blog url
Now Click Continue,
You can choose,
Name, Comments you want to show and Modification (Show date, Comment Author etc...)
Now SAVE the widget,
You're Done,
take that widget on layout where you want to show widget,
And save template,
Ask us in comment, if problem persists!!!!!!!!!!
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Finding and Using Custom Font

Posted by Unknown on Friday, January 18, 2013

Using CSS and javascript you can give custom font type to element which you want, In our blog our post title has custom font and such like you can give your blog a custom font, The thing to be care while using is just do not use too much fonts on a single page, it will slowdown your page loading,

Intro

This text has a stalement Font.

This text has a merienda Font.

This text has a arizonia Font.

How To use Custom Font?
There are many steps for using font-families(custom font) in Your blog/website.
Here we will let you learn the use of custom font using CSS and javascript,
Suppose,
An element has a paragraph and have some text in it,

<p> Hello , Sample text of your paragraph.</p>

Now we will write a small CSS for this element,

/* Custom Font For Paragraph Starts */

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Denk+One);

p
{
font-family:'Denk One',sans-serif;
font-size:26px;
font-weight:600;
}
/* Custom Font For Paragraph Ends */

Copy above CSS and paste in blogger template.(Above ]]></b:skin> in blogger template > EDIT HTML)
Now understanding the element,

You used Denk one font here but you are not forced to use only this font,
You can choose any font which placed over web,
Google has many fonts for uses for developers,
Explore this dirextory and find suitable Font for your Blog,
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