Adding background in a blog, that is what we are talking about now. Bored up with the template color and want to add some twist by adding background to a blog then this post is for you.
For adding background in your blog, first you need an background image. Squidfingers is the one with lots of background images. After choosing your background image, you should upload it to the web. I use Google pages for this mostly. Now we found our background image and we uploaded it to the net so what should we do next? Next, shut down your computer. Wait, just kidding. Now search for the following code in your Edit HTMl page of layout section.
body {
background:$bgcolor;
We need to add the url of the background image in the following format:
url(url-of-your-image)
Now put your image url just below the first code and it may look like this:
body {
background:$bgcolor;
url(http://rabinsmith.googlepages.com/pattern_127.gif);
Now replace my url with your own image url. Be sure ; appears at the end of the statement.
Now if you did well then your background must be visible after you save the template and reload your blog.
this was todays post about adding background on your blog. You can also check other blogger hacks like Control number of pages displayed in label page and showing first letter of the post Big.
This post is an expanded post of What to do when you have nothing to post about. Sometimes we don't have topic to blog but we want to give new post to readers everyday. So what should we do at that time? Two options, first go to some other blogs and look for the content that may be USEFUL to your readers and write them in your own words and publish them and another option is write nothing at all. the second idea is harmful and the first one is even more harmful as it may not be whole correct thing. So I have third option, polish your old posts and republish it.
There may be some old good posts that haven't created any buzz they deserved. You can use them in this idea. You can examine why that 'Good' post didn't received good response or why that post was not success though being good? Then you can rewrite that post and publish it. I am sure your post will get the good response it deserved.
This doesn't mean that you can polish anything random and publish it. There are many things that should be considered when you are polishing your old post to make it new. First thing to consider is quality of the post and also should keep in mind if that post is relevant to current time. For example you have a post about Lindsay lohan entering rehab but you cannot publish that post now as it isn't relevant now. If you publish the post irrelevant to the current time, i bet you are going to be screwed. Another thing to keep in mind is the posts fruitfulness to your readers. If the post is not fruitful to your readers then there is no benefit of polishing and publishing it. And yes, the main thing you should keep in your mind is correct all the shortcomings and mistakes of old post when you are polishing it. Just copying your old post from the archive and publishing it will make no difference.
If your new polished post meets all the above criteria then you can publish that post now. Since you are going to publish your unnoticed but good post, it will be real treat for your readers and you too will meet will great response. I too polished my old post What to do when you have nothing to post about, corrected my old mistakes and when i published it, i was happy with the response. So when you have nothing to post about, polish your old post to get a new one.
This question resembles to pain. You want your feed readers knocking on your blog everyday, you want to increase your post each day and you want to get good traffic from search engines. And these things are widely possible if you have many new content. But sometimes brain doesn't supports you to write new post. Actually brain acts dull during exams but sometimes we feel same while writing a post too. So what to do when you have nothing to post about? Hit your head with a hammer so that some idea may pop out? wait, I have got few ideas on it but I am not sure if you will like these ideas. So, read at your own risk.
1.Free articles site: Okay, if your brain is not working then why not to use others brain. There are loads of free articles in loads of free articles site. Just go to some free articles site like goarticles.com or ezinearticles.com and search for the topic that belongs to your niche. Now get the article, copy it and paste it in your blog. Congratulations, it was your new post today. But please don't ask me about the quality of the articles and number of blogs that have published the same article you published. And yeah a little piece of advice, don't use this option so often otherwise you are going to be screwed by your readers.
2. Blast from the past: Actually, this line belongs to John Chow. But who cares? He doesn't have copyright for this line. This is really cool idea when you have nothing to post. Just check your archive, look for one cool OLD blog post which still have some strength and republish it. Now you have a new post and nobody is going to know it. It will be lot good if you update the post like I am doing now (actually, this post is one of my old post which I updated before republishing it). Trust me, this is the best option.
3. Check your favorite blog or site: Oh my gurus have you got anything for me to publish now? Yeah this is the idea. Just knock on some of your favorite site or blog, look at the content you may be interested, write it in your own way and publish it. This way you will get a new post without lots of time consuming research. My post about Add Digg button to your post and create a drop down menu too lies in this category.
4. Promote other bloggers: Okay, you don't like any of the upper options then why not make this world a better place by helping other bloggers like you? Just pop into some blogs that have good content but not much buzz in the blogosphere, give their blog name with a link pointing to their blog in your post and publish the post. And its like total win-win situation as other fellows too will be promoted and if they are happy they can award you with the backlink. I hope you all know the importance of backlink. So why not try this option?
5. Have no Fear, You tube is here: Last option in my lost. When you are sick of all those upper ideas then You tube comes as a rescue. Just go to You tube, check some cool videos and publish it in your blog. But don't forget to add your own view about that video.
Well, this was my today's post and I hope it will help you when you have nothing to post about. But if it doesn't helps, subscribe Me!
No this is not a blogger hack nor it is a blogging trick. Its just a simple blogging tip for those who are still creating tables to put their HTML codes inside their blog post as blogger doesn't directly accept HTML codes inside post area.. This was the same thing i was doing before few days but now I shouldn't have to spend my time creating tables but still i post HTML code inside my post. And this post explains how.
Some people may love to put their HTML code inside the table in their post. But i hate it and there is no second answer. So today i am giving the easiest tip which lets you to keep code easily inside your blog post. Quick Escape tool helps you do it. It changes the raw HTML to escaped HTML which is easily accepted by blogger and which can be kept in the post easily. This Quick Escape tool is really cool as it is less time consuming and easy to use also. So if you too want to get rid of creating boxes to put HTML codes inside the blogger post then Quick Escape tool is the Quick remedy for you.
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I am sure you have seen lots of blog with a donation link on their sidebar. You may have wondered about keeping it in your blog. Well, i have wondered and tried it hard but finally i got it now. Here's how to put Paypal donation widget in your blog. But don't go further this line if you don't have a Paypal id. Just go on and sign up here!
It is so easy to keep this widget. Just cody the code below and change some values.
Change Blog Title to your own blogs Title and change Your Paypal email to your own paypal email.
<!-- The-Online-Quest Pay Pal Donation Form Code Start -->
<center>
<table width="143" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 5px;">
<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><b>Please Donate To My Blog</b>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="145">
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/row/cgi-bin/webscr" name="_xclick" method="post">
<input value="Thanks for Your Donations - Blog Title" name="item_name" type="hidden"/>
<input value="Your paypal email" name="business" type="hidden"/>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
<input value="_xclick" name="cmd" type="hidden"/>
<!-- input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1.00" -->
<b>Amount</b> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <select name="Amount" size="1">
<option selected value="1.00"/>1.00
<option value="2.00"/>2.00
<option value="3.00"/>3.00
<option value="4.00"/>4.00
<option value="5.00"/>5.00
<option value="10.00"/>10.00
<option value="15.00"/>15.00
<option value="20.00"/>20.00
<option value="25.00"/>25.00
<option value="30.00"/>30.00
<option value="35.00"/>35.00
<option value="40.00"/>40.00
<option value="45.00"/>45.00
<option value="50.00"/>50.00
<option value="100.00"/>100.00
<option value="200.00"/>200.00
<option value="300.00"/>300.00
<option value="400.00"/>400.00
<option value="500.00"/>500.00
<option value="1000.00"/>1000.00
</select>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b>Currency</b> <select name="currency_code" size="1">
<option value="AUD"/>Australian Dollar
<option selected value="USD"/>USD
<option value="GBP"/>British Pound
<option value="CAD"/>Canadian Dollars
<option value="CZK"/>Czech Koruna
<option value="DKK"/>Danish Kroner
<option value="EUR"/>EUR
<option value="HKD"/>Hong Kong Dollars
<option value="HUF"/>Hungarian Forint
<option value="JPY"/>Japanese YEN
<option value="NZD"/>New Zealand Dollars
<option value="NOK"/>Norwegian Kroner
<option value="PLN"/>Polisg Zlotych
<option value="SGD"/>Singapore Dollars
<option value="SEK"/>Swedish Kronor
<option value="CHF"/>Swiss Francs
</select>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center">
<input border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!" width="60" src="http://www.blogpulp.com/imagehost/images/5971708800.gif" name="submit" height="30" type="image"/>
</p>
</p></p></form>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="right"><b><font face="Arial" size="1">
<a href="http://djyano.blogspot.com/2008/04/put-paypal-donation-code-to-your.html" target="_blank"> The-Online-Quest</a>
<a href="http://bloganol.blogspot.com/2008/05/add-paypal-donation-widget-on-your-blog.html">
Bloganol</a></font></b>
</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
<!-- End of The-Online-Quest Pay Pal Donation Form Code -->
<center>
<a href="http://thirdworldchaos.blogspot.com/2008/05/add-paypal-donation-widget-in-your-blog.html">
Add this Box to my Blog</a></center>
To keep this in sidebar, just change the few codes as suggested then click on add a new page element and in the HTML/JAVASCRIPT section as this code and you are done.
This was my post and hope you liked it. So why don't you be the FIRST one to donate me.
Here is a new blogging trick and i swear that this is not my original post. The man behind this post is the same man behind Dynamicdrive. So if you got any problem with this script or it didn't worked for you then i am sorry, talk to Dynamicdrive first. He he, i am safe. Oh, we were talking about snow. So in todays blogging trick, we will create cool snow on our blog background. But i think firstly you want to check this demo.
This snow stuff works on the blog with dark background. So , i hope now that you have already seen the demo and i think some of you are even wishing to try adding snow on your blog. So here is the code to add snow in your blog's background.
<script type="text/javascript" src="snow.js">
/***********************************************
* Snow Effect without images-by Kurt Grigg at http://www.btinternet.com/~kurt.grigg/javascript
* Script featured and available at Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
* Please keep this notice intact
***********************************************/
</script>
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Have you seen something so cool in my sidebar now? Yeah i am talking about the sidebar that expands when it is clicked. It is one of the coolest thing i did in my blog after making peek-a-boo post. Look now fellas! My post as well as sidebar both are expandable. So if you too are interested to keep the expandable sidebar in your blog or just want to check how it looks then read more.
This hack(should we call it hack) is not mine. rather this hack comes from the person who said he spent two days to create the code. Hallelujah! He deserves it. So the man behind is of site Flooble! Flooble is the site that contains Blogger scripts, Blogger hacks and lot more. If you are interested to learn blogger hacks , do yourself a favor, Check the Fooble site.
Oh, we were on sidebar expand. Okay so i am not giving any codes here and i am directing this to Foobls site. So click here to know the way of getting expandable sidebar. If this hacks works on you then don't forget to leave me a comment so that i can add you in my blogroll.
1...2...3....and congratulations, now you have your own contact from. Its true! Today i am going to tell you fellas an easiest way to insert a contact form in your blog that looks so cool and so clean. It's not one of those messy Contact me pages rather this is cool and good looking. Now don't be amazed if more and more people started to contact you because this form is so eye candy. Jokes apart, click on read more to know How!
This form is brought to us by kontactr and it is FREE! Yeah it's free and its easy to install. Just sign up answering few very simple questions and you are done. And the best thing is you don't have to be feared of spam as they have tight security, as they say. So if you want to know more than refer to their FAQ page. And if you want to see how the form looks start by Contacting me!
Clueless on the title? Or just want to know what does it means? Okay, if you want to see the demo Just go and hold a mouse on any image of this blog. Cant find any image? how about the title image of the blog? Did you see anything? Yeah right the images are tweaking. How can we do that? Click Read more to know the most simplest way to make your image tweak on mouse over.
It's so simple yet so nice. Just a little code on the Template and Voila! Okay, just copy the code below and paste it in the head section of your template. Now you are done, congratulations!
img:hover {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
left: 1px;
}
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Blogger University: The coolest blogspot template and some of the best hacks in the blogosphere, welcome to Blogger university! This blog written by annie is a must see blog if you are really willing to change your ASS looking blog. Check it.
Beautiful beta Blogger: Hans really deserves the hallejulah for the hacks and the widget he has provided in his Beautiful beta blog. this guy not only creates widget rather he modifies the widget of other people too to give the best outcome.
Tips for new bloggers: This too is the blog to be checked out. Though the templete of the blog doesnot seems cool but you will be amazed by the hacks or tricks you can find here. Covers all the part of the blog from head to the tail.
Hackosphere: This is the blog to look into. the templete called NEO used in this blog is really cool and the post are coolest itself. Ramani scores here and scores in the big way. dad of the blog hackers, at least for me.
These were the coolest Blogspot blogs about blogging i found and also learnt a lot from them. so if you are an old newbie(?) like me in blogging then check these blogs. More blogs will be updated soon.
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Ah hah! This is in fact an 'Ah hah' that you can now make Google your Slave!Whaaattt? No i am not talking about making Google CEO to wash your underwear. Now we can add Google custom search engine in our blog which can be used by our visitors to search the content of our blog. Wow Google is doing work for us, isn't it our slave now?
So fellas, its so easy and simple to add Google custom search engine in our blog. We can add it with co-up now with custom search engine. You can customize it the way you want and also order it to search only your site or the sites you specify(Don't forget to keep my site too in the list please). And lastly place it in your sidebar and be boss of the Google......................exactly.
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You must have seen label clouds(if not used) in many blogs and you may have been fascinated by it. And i hope you too have used some part of your worthless brain thinking about the ways to get it to your blog too(You have, if you are good blogger!). So what do you think about them? If you think yourself a dedicated blogger but wondering what may be this label cloud then pleaasse Shave Your Arse and look at the right side of my blog.
I hope now you have seen the label cloud and might be wondering how can you too use it in your blog. I have good solution for you. Phydeaux3 has given really easy and interesting way to add Label cloud in blogger. If you too want to learn it then you can go to phydeaux3's blog and look for the post called Create Label cloud in blogger.
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Tired of all the hard and useless ways to remove the blogger navbar? I know you are! I was also tired of searching for the easiest way to remove blogger navbar from my minima template but all the posts i read were confusing and hard(for me, at least). So now i am giving you the easiest way to remove the Blogger navbar from your blog. So here comes the idea!
-Login to blogger.
-On your template go to Layout and then go to Edit HTML from your template tab.Hey are you seeing your blog's HTML now on the screen?
Now paste the CSS CODE as follows!
<b:skin><
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