Table of Contents with Preview for Blogger.

A Table of Contents is essential for each blog so that readers can look at the post titles and decide which post to visit. The Blog Archives widget can be configured to show all post titles but it has the dates also cluttering up the view. Then there are the arrows collapsing past months so that all post titles are not seen at once.Classic templates have a Previous Posts section which shows only

The Minimalist Minima Photoblog Template.

The Minima Template or Layout is used whenever you want to customize your blog any which way you want. There are no graphics used in the template as are used in the Rounders template. The Rounders and other templates with graphics are more difficult to customize as the images have to be resized to the new dimension.Here I have attempted to simplify the Minima template further by making it a

Easy Blog Backup for Bloggers!

Blog Backup has always been a bit of a problem for bloggers ever since the advent of the New Blogger. In Classic Blogger it was easy by using the Httrack utility from httrack.com.In the new Blogger data was separated from template/layouts. XML was introduced. Hence one could backup blog by saving each post via browser or by using feeds. Now with Blogger introducing import-export facilty backup

Making the COMMENTS Link more User Friendly.

The "0 comments" link at the bottom of the blog posts can hardly be called intuitive. Viewers fail to understand it's significance. That is why on this blog I have customized it to make it more viewer friendly.If there are no comments on the post this is what appears "Be the first to leave a comment!". If only one visitor commented on the post viewers see "1 VIEWER CLICKED HERE TO COMMENT ON THIS

How to Recover Deleted Blogs?

BLOGGER UPDATE 28 MARCH 2009Now Deleted blogs appear on Dashboard with option to Undelete them.Due to a change in Blogger policy last year deleted blogs could only be reclaimed by the owner/account which deleted them. Now login to your Dashboard at Blogger.com and you will see the blogs you deleted on Dashboard with a link to Undelete them. DO NOT DELETE A BLOG TO RECLAIM IN ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Quick Quiz for Bloggers.

Here is a quick quiz to find out more about common blogger queries. Enjoy!Blogger Quiz

List all the posts in alphabetical order in Blogger.

PROBLEM : How can you list all the posts in your blog in alphabetical order?SOLUTION :................We will use Yahoo Pipes to solve this problem as we did in How to Display Combined Labels in Blogger?GET BLOG FEEDFirst we get the blog feed URL. In this case we will use :http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/atom.xmlThen to include all posts we add this parameter to the above feed url :?