Facebook Like Box For Blogger

Facebook Like Button allows you to provide more Sharing Options to your Readers. Your readers can share your posts on Facebook using the Like Button. Have you added the Like button and still not getting any “Likes”? :(. Ok then we will present the Like button in a much better and elegant way. Here is a Screenshot of the Facebook Like Box. Isn’t it lovely and more “Likable” than the default Like Button? The  Facebook Like box also includes a link to  your Facebook Fan Page. This FB Like Box was Designed Styled and coded by Mia of Dezign Matterz .  Thanks to her for designing and styling  this awesome Like Box. How to...

Better YouTube Support in Blogger

Blogger allows you to upload your own videos via the Blogger Post Editor. It also allows you to embed YouTube videos into your posts(by copy pasting the YouTube embed code into your post editor). Now Blogger has made this process even more simpler by providing a better interface for adding YouTube videos. This YouTube integration is available only in the updated Post Editor. So if you are still using the old editor, it’s a good time for an upgrade. This feature is currently available in the draft version of blogger. So, to test this new feature,you should login to your Draft Dashboard(http://draft.blogger.com) instead of the regular one(http://www.blogger.com)...

Better Feed Control on Blogger

Till now Blogger used to have two Feed Control Options, a Short Feed or a Full Feed. The short feed, as the name suggests contains a short version of your post with HTML and images stripped off. The Full Feed contains everything including the images and the HTML. Now Blogger has added a third option which will give you better control over what gets displayed in your Feed. The New “Until Jump Break” option is like the Full Feed but it will strip  off everything after the jump break and it will also include a Read More Hyperlink with the “Post page link text:” which you have given in the Blog Post gadget’s Settings. If you are unaware of...

Decorate your Blog for Christmas

It's Christmas time and here is a Blogger Widget to decorate your blog For Christmas. You can see the demo here in this my blog. The Christmas Bells and the Snow Fall are a part of this Widget. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $("body").append($("<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-www-GzoY6xQwIAE7vhFaoARp1ePM2kjmi_AIFqmgsP4j8u3uFfd4wpJM7G6GTPq7JhabuvvQ3gFopnZQOamdkWQeIgoS4h4REk5GeYwyAqWABNAiO0zXql3ac5mcQgy7_fUCi1I2LOc/s1600/christmas-bells-icon.png' style='position:absolute; top:...

Mobile Templates for Blogger

Blogger has now released mobile templates, which would make your blog look cool on your smartphones.  The mobile templates will reformat your blog for mobile phones. It will even strip down the post content on your home page, so that its more readable and not too lengthy.  This feature is still in draft and so you will have to login to http://draft.blogger.com to enable this new Feature. To Enable this Feature, 1. Login to http://draft.blogger.com 2. Go to Settings > Email & Mobile and Select the  Yes Option. 3. Now if you want to see  a preview of how your blog will look on a mobile,(without actually applying the...

How to post large images in Blogger(Multiple Image Sizes in Blogger)

As you might already know, Blogger is integrated with Picasa and  all the images that you upload to Blogger automatically becomes a part of your Picasa account.Picasa has got 1 GB free Storage.So if your Picasa Account exceeds this 1 GB limit, you wont be able to post more images to your blog.(In that case you will have to buy additional Storage). Each of your Blogs will be having a separate album in your Picasa Account. You can check it out at http://picasaweb.google.com  The visibility of these albums will be set to “Anyone With Link” and hence these albums won’t be publically visible to anyone.If you delete any of these images...

More Fonts on Blogger Template Designer

Some months back, I had posted about how you can add Custom Fonts to Blogger using the Google Fonts API. Now Blogger has integrated all of these Custom Fonts into the Blogger Template Designer. This means that you will be able to use these Custom Fonts without the need for any Template Edits. This should work for all the Templates Designed using the Template Designer. This should also work for those third party templates where the Font variables are properly defined and used. This feature is not yet available in your regular Dashboard. So if you would like to try out these fonts, then you will have to login to Blogger’s Draft Dashboard. ...

Facebook Like/Fan Box For Blogger

This tutorial is for everyone who has already created a Facebook Fan Page. If have not created one, try making one. A Fan Box or Like Box allows your Blog visitors to like your Facebook fan page, without leaving your blog. It can also display faces of the “likers” on your blog. To add the fan box to blogger, follow these steps: 1. Find out your Facebook Fan Page URL. To do that, just visit your Facebook Fan Page, and copy the url in the address bar. In my case it is http://www.facebook.com/bloggerplugins (The url which you see in the address bar when you visit your fan page.) .Copy this url from your address bar. 2. Visit This page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box...

Official Android App for Blogger

Good news for all android Folks!!. Blogger has released an official Android App. Its simple and neat and does the job perfectly.  You can create a post or make drafts from your android device.If you are an android user, try it out by downloading the App from the Android market Features Switch between Google Accounts as in any other Google Android App Publish posts or save drafts Upload photos from your android gallery, or take one on the fly with the mobile camera and post it Share your location and geotag your post.  Share your Gallery images easily to Blogger. ( A blogger option will be added to your Share Menu) View and Edit...

What’s next with Blogger

Blogger was created by Pyra Labs in 1999 and was acquired by Google in 2003. Ever since the acquisition, Google has been improvising and adding new features it. Blogger is changing and its changing real fast. Last year we saw lots of new features being added on to blogger like: 1. The Template Designer – This one is really really cool, and I must say that this is best got from blogger in 2010 2. Web Fonts – Blogger has integrated Google’s Web Fonts into the Blogger Template Designer, which gives the user the option to use these stunning fonts on our blogs without the need to add any CSS or JavaScript Snippets 3. Mobile Templates – This was another...

Follow By Email Gadget for Blogger

Some of you might have already noticed the new “Follow by Email” Gadget on your “Add a Gadget Page”. The gadget is pretty simple and easy to install.   To add this Gadget, Follow these simple steps 1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard, Navigate to Design > Page Elements tab and click on the “Add a Gadget” Link 2.On the next window click on the plus sign, and you will be taken to the gadget options page. 3. Click the save Button and you are done. You are done now!! :) Wasn’t that simple? Some  Insight!! You can track your subscription information from your FeedBurner Panel. Though this gadget has got a simple easy to use interface,...

Blogger Pages are finally out

Blogger has now released the pages feature just like in Wordpress blogs. You can use these pages for about me, contact me etc. The blogger pages are more or less like the blogger posts. But these pages wont appear in the blog archives and the blog feeds. How to create a Blogger Page? 1. Login to your Blogger Account 2. In the posting Tab you will find an Edit Pages option 3.Click on the New Page button and you will get a new page editor(same as the post editor that you normally use) 4.You can make the page, in the same way as you create a post.If you want to enable commenting on the page, then you can do so from the post options 5....

Blogger FTP to Custom Domain Migration

Blogger has officially announced that it would be shutting down the FTP publishing feature on March 26 2010. So the existing FTP publishers are advised to move onto Blogger Custom Domains.If you are not currently using the FTP publishing option, you can just skip this tutorial :) Blogger has already posted about the advantages of custom domains. Where do you currently publish your FTP blogger blog ? 1.If you are publishing at a root level domain or sub-domain, then the things are pretty easy. (eg. www.yourblog.com or blog.yourdomain.com). 2.If you are publishing your blog at some subfolder within your domain or subdomain(www.yourdomain.com/blog),...