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How to Make the Blogger Posts Have a Calendar for the Date in

Posted by Budhi Sabtu, 28 Juli 2012 0 comments

It's quite common to see calendar style dates next to some WordPress posts but for the Blogger platform it isn't always an very easy task to add this. But who said you can't do it? You need to look no further than this blog. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a calendar style date for your Blogger posts.

DEMO

How to create calendar style dates in Blogger

Step 1. Go to Settings > Language and Formatting - Date Header Format and change the date format as you can see in my example below (put day first, then the month and finally the year)

Step 2. Then go to Template > Edit HTML

Step 3. Select the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox

Step 4. And search (CTRL + F) the following line:

<h2 class='date-header'><span><data:post.dateHeader/></span></h2>

Step 5. In case you find it twice, then you should replace it twice with this code:

<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate('<data:post.dateHeader/>');</script>
</div>
<b:else/>
<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate('');</script>
</div>

Step 6. Now search for this tag (CTRL + F to find it)

</head>

Step 7. And paste the code from below just ABOVE the </head> tag:

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var DateCalendar;
function changeDate(d){
if (d == "") {
d = DateCalendar;
}
var da = d.split(' ');
day = "<strong class='date_day'>"+da[0]+"</strong>";
month = "<strong class='date_month'>"+da[1].slice(0,3)+"</strong>";
year = "<strong class='date_year'>"+da[2]+"</strong>";
document.write(month+day+year);
DateCalendar = d;
}
//]]>
</script>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>
<style type='text/css'>
/* Calendar style date
----------------------------------------------- */
#Date {
background: transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigWA9eOyaS7N05vCT5cNnZKHx8esJpI7jO4KvBby7auy7E23T7Yjs2ccvb8tmHSsiFqY4c-YL48ANCldhAt0bxwzM6Y0J8RBuZnduz9qyju4XTl8ig-8c2TXKzJET1v2tu0gNw5iE2B93g/s1600/calendar07.png) no-repeat;
display: block;
width:60px;
height:60px;
float: left;
margin: 15px 2px 0 -108px;
padding: 0 0 8px 0px;
border: 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.date_month {
display: block;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-1px;
text-align:center;
color:#ffffff; /* Month's color */
}
.date_day {
display: block;
font-size: 28px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Day's color */
}
.date_year {
display: block;
font-size: 10px;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Year's color */
}
</style>
</b:if>

Before saving your Template, we can make some changes:

To change the calendar style, replace the url in blue with yours;
If the calendar doesn't appear correctly, change -108 with 0;
With green are marked the areas where you can change the color of the dates

Step 8. Now Preview your Template and if everything is ok, click on the Save button. Enjoy!

How to Create Drop Caps (Big First Letters) in Blogger/Blogspot

Posted by Budhi Senin, 04 Juni 2012 4 comments

Here's another way you can customize your Blog. In this case, your Posts and Comment's first letter. The effect is a large first letter stretching down three or four lines with the text wrapped around. The drop cap letter can also use a different font and can be a different color to the rest of the text. You often see this style in newspapers, literature, magazines. In this tutorial i will show you how to apply automatically Magazine text style in Blogger Posts and Comments. So let's start adding it!

-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Posts

-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Comments

Big First Letter for your Blogger / Blogspot Posts

Step 1.

If you are using the old Blogger interface:

Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - Expand Widget Template (make a backup)

If you are using the new Blogger interface:

Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML - Proceed - Expand Widget Template (make a backup)

Step 2. Search (CTRL + F) for this piece of code:

]]></b:skin>

Step 3. Just above it, add the following:

.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}

Customize:

Color - change the color highlighted in blue with the value of your desired color
Size - to change the letter size, increase/decrease the value highlighted in pink.

Step 4. Now search for this code:

<data:post.body/>

Step 5. Then immediately before and after add the red fragments you see in the example below:

<div class='capital'><data:post.body/></div>

Step 6. Save your template.

Important! If the above code is not working, add one of following codes from this example:

<p class="capital"><data:post.body/></p>

<span class="capital"><data:post.body/></span>

Big First Letter For Blogger/Blogspot Comments

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger account, then go to Design (Layout) >> Edit HTML >> check the "Expand Widget Templates" box

Step 2. Search (CTRL + F) for this piece of code (if you have already added this code, skip step 2 & 3):

]]></b:skin>

Step 3. Add the following code just above ]]></b:skin>:

.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}

<data:comment.body/>

Step 5. Add the red codes before and after <data:comment.body/> as you can see in my example below:

<p class="capital"><data:comment.body/></p>

Step 6. Save your Template.

That's it! Now you have a cool drop cap first letter on your blog.
If you have any question, leave a comment below!

Numbered comments on threaded comments for Blogger/Blogspot

Posted by Budhi Sabtu, 02 Juni 2012 0 comments

In a past tutorial, I've been talking about how you can add numbered comments to your blogger blog and today we'll learn how we can add numbered comments along with comment bubbles on the threaded comments as well.

What the following CSS trick will do for you:

When the general block of comments is initiating (.comments-content) a counter called countcomments activates and starts with an initial value of 1.
Then, each time the code flow goes through a review of any level, either a principal or a reply comment (.comment-thread li), content will bring us in front (:before) of the body of the comment, the number that is the counter at the time.
Then is incremented in one unit the counter (counter-increment).

See the screenshot:

count comments, comment bubble, forum, blogger

Isn't that great? Well, i'm pretty sure many of you have been waiting for this cool trick. So let's begin applying it for our threaded comments system.

Steps to add bubble comments count

Step 1: Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML (click on Proceed if needed)

...Expand Widget Templates:

Step 2: Search (CTRL + F) for this piece of code:

]]></b:skin>

Step 3: Add the following code just above it:

.comment-thread ol {
counter-reset: countcomments;
}
.comment-thread li:before {
content: counter(countcomments,decimal);
counter-increment: countcomments;
float: right;
z-index: 2;
position:relative;
font-size: 22px;
color: #555555;
padding-left:10px;
padding-top:3px;
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCw9rU7p3v0ZW-HD_fNIoGKAqUiN62B27ZkAGsju2voz16TVpq2FsazUXzzEgrOjymaRUKuUDXt9HtqDBF5Rq-NPKaeZfiVyHFoB7nxHP80BZTq0ayqLj8i6Q3Prr_Lk8dIW_Ifexgqua/s1600/comment+bubble2.png) no-repeat;
margin-top:7px;
margin-left:10px;
width: 50px; /*image-width size*/
height: 48px; /*image-height size*/
}
.comment-thread ol ol {
counter-reset: contrebasse;
}
.comment-thread li li:before {
content: counter(countcomments,decimal) "." counter(contrebasse,lower-latin);
counter-increment: contrebasse;
float: right;
font-size: 18px;
color: #666666;
}

Note:

for no bubble icon, remove the code in red (including the blue code)
to change the comment bubble, replace the code in blue with the URL address of your own icon. If you're not sure what icon you should use, you can find some cool icons in my previous posts (see these tutorials here and here)
to change the position of comments count, increase/decrease the values (3 & 10) from padding-top and padding-left
to change the position of comments bubble/icon, change the values (10 & 7) from margin-left and margin-top

Step 4: Now Save the Template and you're done!

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How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger Blogspot

Posted by Budhi Jumat, 01 Juni 2012 0 comments

email subscription form, blogger blogspot, gadgets

When you are providing useful information in your blog, then many times some readers will need to get the latest updates from your blog. For that purpose, you need an Email Subscription Form in your blog, so that the interested visitors can easily get the latest updates.

To add email or Feed Subscription Form to your blogger blog (blogspot) is very easy.
Just follow the next steps:

1. Log in to Blogger, then go to Layout > click on "Add a Gadget" link:

2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and click on the "HTML/JavaScript" gadget:

3. Paste the following code inside the empty box:

<style>
.hl-email{
background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdnDmEP4I_TBFq9E1NYr_cTLZYxLNTxYfflbU3BenP1A8-CNdMnn0rC8M7Y_1_pXw0PYtPf4eaPINalC8cb1oW1PhFo0tWcq3_koOkantRM16GGkG-iSNpUkOZ8XL8xHRJOue2fCDtPBI/s1600/mail.png) no-repeat 0px 12px ;
width:300px;
padding:10px 0 0 55px;
float:left;
font-size:1.4em;
font-weight:bold;
margin:0 0 10px 0;
color:#686B6C;
}
.hl-emailsubmit{
background:#9B9895;
cursor:pointer;
color:#fff;
border:none;
padding:3px;
text-shadow:0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
-moz-border-radius:6px;
-webkit-border-radius:6px;
border-radius:6px;
font:12px sans-serif;
}
.hl-emailsubmit:hover{
background:#E98313;
}
.textarea{
padding:2px;
margin:6px 2px 6px 2px;
background:#f9f9f9;
border:1px solid #ccc;
resize:none;
box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
-moz-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
-webkit-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); font-size:13px;
width:130px;
color:#666;}
</style>
<div class="hl-email">
Subscribe via Email <form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" id="feedform" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
<input gtbfieldid="3" class="textarea" name="email" onblur="if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Enter email address here";}" onfocus="if (this.value == "Enter email address here") {this.value = "";}" value="Enter email address here" type="text" />
<input type="hidden" value="helplogger" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
<input class="hl-emailsubmit" value="Submit" type="submit" />
</form>
</div>

Settings

Replace the url address in green to change the email icon
Increase/Decrease the 130 width value for a wider text area
Replace http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger with your Feedburner Email Feed link. You can get it by visiting your feedburner account then navigate to Publicize and then to Email Subscriptions.
Replace helplogger with your feed title. It appears at the end of your feed link. In my case it is http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger

4. Now Save your widget and check your blog. Enjoy!

Add Floating Social Media Sharing Buttons To Blogger

Posted by Budhi Kamis, 31 Mei 2012 20 comments

The Floating Social Media Sharing is a very popular widget on all the top blogs, being a very good way to increase the number of times your posts get shared on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. It has some of the following functions: Facebook Like, StumbleUpon, Twitter Share, Digg This, Google+ and RSS Feed Icon and each of them comes with a live counter. You can add more sharing buttons or social bookmarking icons later if you wish.

How to add the scrolling social bookmarking bar

Go to Layout
Click on Add A Gadget link
From the pop-up window, scroll down and select HTML/Javascript
Copy the code below and paste it inside the empty box.
Save the gadget.

The code to copy-paste (updated!):

<style type="text/css"> #pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:5%; margin-left:-721px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;} #pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;} .fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;} .fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;/*bs-fsmsb*/-webkit-border-radius:3px;} .FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;} </style> <div id='pageshare' title="Get this from Helpblogger.com">
<div style="margin-left:8px;"><div class='sbutton' id='like' style='margin: 5px 0 0 5px;'><script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'></script><fb:like layout='box_count' show_faces='false'></fb:like> </div></div>
<br /><div class='sbutton'><a class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical' data-via='Helplogger' expr:data-counturl='data:blog.url' href='http://twitter.com/share' rel='nofollow'>Tweet</a><script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; type='text/javascript'></script>
<br /><div class='sbutton' id='su'> <script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'> <script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script> <a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a> </div> <div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone></div><br/><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/helplogger' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Subscribe To Our Rss Feed'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mb15nK-L5fH0sUzDF0CS0oAUBwbVOlSSuyEZThchYdeU9npypy0WQzNjZ7I2pKd-Ig2T1V8EsO6Wk1fW6ZfpxbyirfPquJ7oyegA7tbjzkn0BzNL8-l4_J8Alw2L_24FmCKDPcinE29X/s1600/icon_rss_reader.png'/></a><div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;">Get <a style="color: #3399BB;" href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/">widget</a></div> </div> </div>

Customization:

Vertical alignment - Change the value of bottom in code line 3. The code positions the button relative to the bottom of your browser window. To fix the distance even when window is resized, specify the value in px (pixels) instead of %.
Horizontal alignment - Change the value in red of margin-left. Negative value pushes the button to the left of the main blog column, positive value pushes it to the right. Increase or decrease the value based on your needs.
Twitter setting - Replace Helplogger with your Twitter username
Replacing and removing buttons - You can replace existing buttons with your own. Each button is represented by this code: <div class='sbutton'> BUTTON CODE HERE </div>
RSS Feed - Change the text in blue with the url address of your RSS feed.

Enjoy :)

Create A Rollover Image Effect (change image on mouseover)

Posted by Budhi 0 comments

The Rollover effect is one in which an image web object changes (swaps itself) on mouse over to another web object (called rollovers) and reverts back to the original image on mouse out. Rollover images are preloaded into the page when it is loading, this ensures that the rollovers are displayed quickly. The onMouseOver and onMouseOut attributes of the link tag are used to make this functional.

Demo: Place your mouse over the image below to see its rollover effect

Making Rollover Effect Image

You have the following code:

<a href="URL ADDRESS"><img src="URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE" onmouseover="this.src='URL OF THE SECOND IMAGE GOES HERE'" onmouseout="this.src='URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE'" /></a>

Change the colored texts as it follows:

1. URL ADDRESS

This is the address where somebody will be sent when clicks on the image.
Example, my blog address: http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com

2. URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE

Replace the orange text (two times) with the URL address of the image which will appear before you hover over it.

3. URL OF THE SECOND IMAGE GOES HERE
Replace the text in blue with the url of the image that will appear when the cursor hovers over it.

Now you can paste your image inside a blog gadget, going to Layout > click on Add a Gadget link (right side) > Select HTML/JavaScript from the pop-up window, then add it to your sidebar.

You can also add it inside your post by going to New Post > Switch to HTML tab and then paste the code in the empty box.

That's it. Enjoy ;)

Add Facemoods Emoticons To Your Blogger Comments

Posted by Budhi Sabtu, 12 Mei 2012 0 comments

Here are some amazingly funny emoticons compatible with your Blogger comments - also with threaded commenting system! If you want to know how to add them, just follow the next steps:

DEMO

Step 1.

Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML - Proceed

...and select Expand Widget Template (don't forget to make a backup)

Step 2. Search (using CTRL + F) for this code:

For previous commenting system:

<h4 id='comment-post-message'><data:postCommentMsg/></h4>

For threaded comments:

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

Step 3. Add the below code just above it

(for threaded comments, add the code after):

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div style=' width: 450px; text-align: left; border: 1px dashed #0084ce; background: transparent; padding: 10px; color:#000000; font-weight:bold; '>
<img border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rFmZerZrqMPI_YCyjHgMP3kxii3WdMaI26UZs8J4zJU2lwgh-5iQD55OLvrVeZ-DcSp6IdRxWWejxYLe1zeZgLFLqdrgACEOKzIaEjYX0gD87A1f0LcZ33GbFWcpzxU5hHbjHSmdnjCK/s1600/helplogger.blogspot.com(1).gif'/> :a
 
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</div></b:if>

Step 4. Now search for this piece of code:

</body>

Step 5. And add the following code immediately above it:

For previous commenting system:

<script type='text/javascript' src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/facemood emoticons.js"/>

For threaded comments:

<script type='text/javascript' src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/facemood emoticons threaded.js"/>

Step 6. Save the Template. Now, enjoy your comments!

How to Change Default Anonymous Avatar in Blogger Comments

Posted by Budhi Minggu, 06 Mei 2012 1 comment

In the last tutorial, I wrote about how you can change avatars size in blogger comments and in this simple tutorial, I will show you how to change or customize default avatar of anonymous commenters or Blogger users with no picture added on their profiles. After Blogger announced new feature of threaded comment, we can still customize it by adding a jQuery plugin to our template and replacing the default anonymous avatar found at this

URL http://img1.blogblog.com/img/anon36.png
and the one for blogger users http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b36-rounded.png

...with our own.

Step 1.

Go to Dashboard - Template - click on the Edit HTML button and then Proceed

...then select Expand Widget Template (don't forget to make a backup)

Step 2. Find (CTRL + F) this code in your template:

</body>

Step 3. Add the following code just above it:

<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js'/>
<script>
$("img[src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/anon36.png']")
.attr('src', 'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGBElG5IBdUia2e3rHBo_Pu1KU7FKYgUYVpUNrXDCX3jlsEczZJbxnIFkKpDHst1qlJUQrrMi2Sy5eCtmtRqlHQ5ciZNj-na5V7-pvI0b33VBc9WEthTNjTD9USDUkqBmp_g9pParY3HA/s1600/default_avatar.gif')
.ssyby('blank')
</script>
<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js'/>
<script>
$("img[src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b36-rounded.png']")
.attr('src', 'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLF6vh-Uc6mwoPz8hep_DBboUPG9pVf2uBCKRn9xCrwK81Vv2AUqGDcJuOKwoH_yQeAHXIWamoCDLsyTS0u-HFA-04wHjabT-GjRSQ6Cf8p-p73QQYAtMa0a2PspkxuUwNznG06H0ZZ2A/s1600/blogger-user.png')
.ssyby('blank')
</script>

Step 4. Save the Template

How to change avatar:

For Anonymous users: Replace the code in red with the url address of your image
For Blogger users: Replace the URL in blue with your own.

You can choose one from these below (copy the url address):

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGBElG5IBdUia2e3rHBo_Pu1KU7FKYgUYVpUNrXDCX3jlsEczZJbxnIFkKpDHst1qlJUQrrMi2Sy5eCtmtRqlHQ5ciZNj-na5V7-pvI0b33VBc9WEthTNjTD9USDUkqBmp_g9pParY3HA/s200/default_avatar.gif

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswtANJ5rwtc_8wDvWXAwFn58qhtdphMmZrlw1nULk_EsFGCL20Q0Zo51prWoiw5m4ROvHGLUnb3hi-UPr700IuhVDT9ZkT3OKJUp_K1-_F92zqYcQ1dayREwxEBwvEIQ4ZGGcKmRAYhM/s1600/facebook.gif

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4R-peS0-tGpc2GNJAPlZU6QaN3sBg32gQCFaqYdasMUEeekVjsLTeKKdHD_IwlagKsmWTXLroGJwkr8-9DV_A3ueu1dqRb0Zg1E6OSt36KDK3-q9yq-mYGroUTleoaO9PB84CoMdtSO0/s1600/anonymous3.png

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQTdt_HSAJ4duIGa9TZx0h8J4fJw1b2IOfO8_rlw6x0kto7P-3ZHxxsulgbh5NDlfkMEzBhF9YaQvmrg7l_ltw9CabqCULDMqz6AekAJJjf0mEOPeqUIKfqxU65PN4I7_ntyryO3fuROl/s1600/blogger-user.png

That's it!
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How To Change Avatar Size In Blogger Comments

Posted by Budhi Sabtu, 05 Mei 2012 0 comments

This simple trick will help you to modify the avatars size in Blogger comments. For changing the style and size of avatars, we have to add some CSS codes in our Blogger template. So, let's begin:

Step 1.

Go to Dashboard - Template - click on the Edit HTML button - Proceed

...now select Expand Widget Template (I recommend to make a backup first)

Step 2. Find (CTRL + F) this code in your template:

]]></b:skin>

Step 3. Copy and paste one of the following codes just above it:

[Works in Blogger threaded comment system]

.comments .avatar-image-container{
background-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
border:1px solid #ccc;
margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 64px;
max-height: 64px;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container img{
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
max-width: 64px;
height: 64px;
}

[for old blogger commenting system]

.avatar-image-container{
border:1px solid #d6d6d6;
margin-left: -30px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
background:#fff;
height:70px;
min-height: 70px;
width:70px;
min-width:70px;
}
.avatar-image-container img {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmSPsYnyy7Av5HgXGeo43yFWJMtI3QINs74s_Pbzlm9TmVLagFYCoMzz8HKvA1zS3JNTcRHgmlUTfOeYj4Bs2nkABMT9ssAJMcpZB0xekpFlML_pgU9foYaMko8Jct3FEpNAOeHKQqTI/s200/anonymous.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-size: 100%;
width:70px;
min-width:70px;
height:70px;
min-height:70px;
}

Note: If you want bigger/smaller avatars, change the values in red. To change the anonymous avatar, replace the URL address in blue with your own. (works only for previous commenting system)

Step 4. Save the Template.

Now view your blog to see the results. Hope you enjoy!

How to Hide Blogger Sidebar to Display AdSense For Search Results

Posted by Budhi 0 comments

When visitors are searching for content on your blog, you have the following options to display the search results: opening the results in the same window, in a new window or within your own site using an iframe.

But the best option is to display the search results in your own site/blog, mainly because you are not sending people off your blog and when they are taken to a new page of search results, so it could be confusing many times because it doesn't look anything like your site or Google. Therefore, displaying the search results within your site, could look more professional and could also increases your page views and your revenue from the ads on the search page.

A problem that many bloggers are facing is that the page which displays the AdSense for search results must be at least of 800 px wide, so the posting area must be of minimum 800px and there's nothing like that in most of the blogs.

So, what we will do in this tutorial is to set up the search results to be displayed in a static page (none of other posts or pages will be affected) where we'll remove the sidebar, so that we'll have enough space to make the post/page section of 800px wide. Also, we will create a static page specially designed for the search results, then create a new AdSense for search in our AdSense account and finally add a small snippet of code top in your Blogger template to hide the sidebar in that specific page.

Search results span the width of the page with the sidebar hidden:

Display AdSense For Search Results Within Blogger Page

Step 1. Create a new static page on your blog, you can give it the title 'Search Results' but leave the content section empty and then Publish the page.

Step 2. When you publish the page you have the option to add the page to a menu, choose the third option 'No Gadget Link To Pages Manually' click 'Save and Publish'. OR in case this screen will not appear, right click on View Page and select Copy Link Address. We will need this URL of the page when creating the AdSense for search.

Step 3. Go To Your AdSense account, then go to My ads tab, select the Search option and Create a New custom search engine. Follow the steps until you come to the Search results option.

Step 4. Select the 3rd method "on my website using an iframe", then Enter the URL of the page you created into the URL field and continue.

Step 5. Follow the rest of the set up process, at the end you will be given two pieces of code. The first piece of code is for the actual search bar that you can paste into a Html/Javascript gadget in your sidebar or wherever you want it. The second piece of code you must copy and paste into a new HTML/JavaScript gadget and after clicked on Save - drag it above the Blog Posts area

Now that you have your page set up with the search results code and your search bar code in your sidebar, it is time to add a snippet of code to your template to remove the sidebar.

Adding The Code In Blogger To Change the Results Page Layout

Step 1. In Your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template > Edit HTML - then click Proceed

Step 2. Select the "Expand widget templates" box

Step 3. Find (CTRL + F) the following piece of code

]]></b:skin>

Step 4. Just below it, paste this code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "PAGE-URL-HERE"'>
<style>
.main-inner .columns {
padding-left: 0px !important;
padding-right: 0px !important;
}
.main-inner .fauxcolumn-center-outer {
left: 0px !important;
right: 0px !important;
}
.main-inner .fauxcolumn-left-outer, .main-inner .fauxcolumn-right-outer, .main-inner .column-left-outer, .main-inner .column-right-outer {
display: none !important;
}
</style>
</b:if>

Note: Replace PAGE-URL-HERE with the url address of the page where the search results will be displayed (the one you have added at the step 4)

Step 5. Now Save Template and you're done!

This simple trick allows you not only to hide the sidebar in the search results page, you can, as well, hide it in any page you want... just create your page and follow the same steps. It is also good to hide the sidebar in Privacy Policy Pages, Contact Pages and in all the non-content-based pages with little content or no content at all.

Make sure to check out other interesting AdSense Tutorials.
If you need more help, leave your comments below.

Show Blogger Image only in Homepage and Hide it in Post Page

Posted by Budhi 4 comments

To hide images/pictures from our blogger posts and to make them appear only in homepage, we will have to add just a small piece of CSS code in our template and then use the class "hidepic" each time we want to hide an image.

Just follow the next steps:

Step 1. Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML ( click on Proceed button )

Step 2. Select "Expand Widget Template" (make a backup)

Step 3. Find (CTRL + F) this code in your template:

}]]></b:skin>

Step 4. Copy and paste the following code just below it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "index"'>
<style>
.hidepic{
display: none;
}
</style>
</b:if>

Step 5. Save the Template.

Now everytime you create a post, firstly add the pic you want to hide and then switch to HTML tab where you'll see the HTML code of the image you have added that will look something like this:

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNR9ZQhFF2DEx76VcbY5XGBnKA-wcYfPK6Erhaz_6TzB6vC3iI7FggM8Lrl_TIhSTx_uvFtJe_J2s7sJAEmnS_5w0DUKgqAIcqBNBuKgQ6QCIsBAq7g9_KCQQgqJ7nwLruQ1h8aG4g77s/s1600/fire_bird_by_fhrankee-d32af8v.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNR9ZQhFF2DEx76VcbY5XGBnKA-wcYfPK6Erhaz_6TzB6vC3iI7FggM8Lrl_TIhSTx_uvFtJe_J2s7sJAEmnS_5w0DUKgqAIcqBNBuKgQ6QCIsBAq7g9_KCQQgqJ7nwLruQ1h8aG4g77s/s320/fire_bird_by_fhrankee-d32af8v.png" width="320" /></a></div>

Note: it should be at the exact location where your image has been added
(if the image is at the middle of the text, then the code should be found at the middle)

Step 6. Replace "separator" with "hidepic" - see the screenshot below:

If you need more help, please leave a comment below.

How to Remove Showing Posts With Label in Blogger

Posted by Budhi 0 comments

For any default Blogger layout, the "Showing posts with label" message shows up above the posts whenever you click on a label link. As it's a pretty useless and annoying message, many people like to have it removed. If that is your wish, just follow the tutorial below:

Removing "Showing post with label...show all posts"

Step 1. Go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML (if necessary, click on Proceed button)

Step 2. Click somewhere inside the template code, then search - using CTRL+F - this code:

<b:includable id='status-message'>

After you found it, click on the sideways arrow next to it, to expand the rest of the code.

Screenshot:

Step 3. Below is this code that you need to remove - along with the first one, as well:

     <b:includable id='status-message'>
      <b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
      <div class='status-msg-wrap'>
        <div class='status-msg-body'>
          <data:navMessage/>
        </div>
        <div class='status-msg-border'>
          <div class='status-msg-bg'>
            <div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div style='clear: both;'/>
      </b:if>
    </b:includable>

Screenshot

Step 4. Replace it with this one:

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

Step 5. Save the template. Now view your blog and click on some label....there should be no box anymore.

Google Translate Widget with Flags For Blogger

Posted by Budhi Sabtu, 28 April 2012 0 comments

The Google Translate Widget for Blogger allows the visitors to translate your site or blog in their own language.
This widget also auto-detect your blog language and then translate it to the readers chosen language.

It supports 12 different languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic And Chinese.

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How To Add The Google Translate Widget To Blogger

Step 1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard >> Layout and click on "Add A Gadget" link

Step 2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 3. Paste the code below in the empty box:

Step 4. Now click on Save

google translate, blogger widgets, gadgets for blogspot

And you're done! Enjoy (:

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