CSS Tips and Tricks for Blogger.

Here are some tips and tricks for Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) in your blog.......In old Blogger the css section is enclosed between tags. In new Blogger the css follows the same rules except that it is enclosed between and tags. For more details on how the template is structured see Parts of the Template. These are called as embedded style sheets since

Friend Connect OpenSocial Gadget.

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Pinging Simplified.

Pinging is a process of attracting the search engines for indexing your blogs....A Blog is a special type of website which has dynamic content constantly being updated as opposed to a static website. A static website's content does not renew itself constantly. Hence it is difficult to attract the search engines repeatedly to index the site. It may take upto two months for a static website to

Google Docs & Spreadsheets in your Blog.

Google Docs and Spreadsheets can be embedded in your Blog. To do this.........go to http://docs.google.com/ and login with your GMail Account. You will see the Welcome Screen where click on New Spreadsheet. In the next page Click on Continue button in Get Started with Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This will lead you to the spreadsheet page where you create your spreadsheet. After creating the

Timeline in Blogger Beta.

A Timeline of your posts can be added to your beta blog. This shows the titles and links of all your posts against a horizontal scroll of dates published.........This is an intresting way to display all the links to your posts so that your viewers get a visual impression of how prolific you have been in posting to your blog.To do this you will have to get code from http://www.mytimelines.net/.

YouTube, Flickr in Blogger Beta.

YouTube videos and Flickr photos can be put inside your beta blog.........YouTube is a free video hosting and online video streaming service that allows users to view and share videos that have been uploaded by the members. Membership is free but there is a ten minute length limit on the video length. You cannot download the videos but you can view them in your browser. You can embed these

Technorati in Blogger Beta.

Technorati is the search engine for blogs and hence no blogger can afford to go without it in his/her blog................Google is the generalized search engine for the web. Technorati is a search engine which is specialized for blogs. Blogs in contrast to other web sites have ever changing content and Technorati focuses on them by searching them for keywords. Each blog is indexed and

Align Blog to Left.

You can push your whole blog body to the left in two steps.........First backup your template. Go to edit Html subtab of Template tab and click on Download Full Template link. Save the XML file to your PC with an appropriate name.Next scroll down in Edit Template text box till you come to :Content----------------------------------------------- */#outer-wrapper { padding-left: 200px;

Add a Recent Posts List after Every Post.

Add a Recent Posts List after every post in your blog so that any reader reading a single post can see at the end of the post this list and then if interested may go there..........To put a Recent Posts List in the sidebar see List Previous Posts.To do this we will use your blog's feed to put a list of recent posts at the bottom of every post. First we will have to turn on the blog feed. For

Presentation in your Blog.

You can put a presentation in your blog..........To do this go to spresent.com and create a presentation online. The interface is fairly intuitive with a toolbar and File menu at the top and a insert Object tab at the side. See image below (Click it to enlarge it). The files made are stored free at the spresent server.After making the presentation and saving it click on Publish----->Embed/HTML

Backup your Blog.

Backup your Beta blog regularly to your PC so as to be prepared for any emergency.....In Classic Blogger you could use WinHttrack utility from httrack.com to backup your blog. However in beta blogger the present version of this software takes a long time.Hence to backup beta blogs you can use Scrapbook extension of the Firefox browser. You will need Firefox Browser for this. Download it from

Britney Spears, Shakira, Sony Music Videos in Blogs.

Do you want Britney Spears, Shakira, Jessica Simpson Sony Music Videos in your blog.......To see the above player in action go to my blog Sony Music Video.You will first need to create a Brightcove account here. After sending them the url of your blog and other particulars your request is approved and sent back. Click on the link in the return email to get the Javascript code for the player.Go to

Google Video Search in Blogs.

By putting Google Video Search in your blog you can enable your reader to search for videos without leaving your blog. He/She can view the videos in your blog and even upload their videos from your blog. Click below picture to enlarge it.Above is a video of an octopus playing on my blog at Google Search Map site.In your blog you will need a space for the Video Search Control. I have chosen the

Reuters Video News in your Blog.

Reuters Video News can now be made available to beta blog readers.......Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms.

Video on Beta Blogger

To see a video tutorial on beta blogger...........This video shows how to rearrange Page Elements, customize blog colors and fonts and how to add rss feed content from another blog.You can also view it here :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A43AaMse2-MTechnorati Tags:utube, video