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How to Make a Sticky Post in Blogger

9. September 2011

In a previous post, I discussed the concept behind the sticky post and how to create one for a Word press blog: The Sticky Post: What, Why, and How To for WordPress. In this article, I’ll show you two ways to create a sticky post for a Blogger blog, using the Post Options feature and [...]

How To Add a Floating Facebook Twitter Google + Widget to Blogger

24. August 2011

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How To Add a Floating Facebook Twitter Google + Widget to Blogger

Those floating “share” buttons are very attractive and handy– I think they are more conspicuous than the “below signature” share buttons. Here’s what mine looks like. Here’s a very easy method for adding your very own floating share button for Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google +. Firstly, I’m assuming that you already know your way [...]

Blogger Tut: How To Show Sidebar Content Only on Homepage

19. July 2011

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Blogger Tut: How To Show Sidebar Content Only on Homepage

Usually, when you place information or a link or a graphic in your blog’s sidebar, the information appears sitewide; that is, it appears on the blog’s homepage AND on all the single pages and posts. This is a default feature of Blogger blogs. However, you can alter the HTML widget code to make the widget [...]

How to Add a “Tweet This” Button To Your Blogger Posts

5. March 2011

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How to Add a “Tweet This” Button To Your Blogger Posts

I’ve already showed bloggers how to add a Twitter “tweet this” Button to their WordPress blogs. You can also insert the same button to a Blogger blog, too. Before we begin, you should backup your Blogger template. In case anything goes awry, you’ll have a copy of your old template to restore. Also, go to [...]

How to Ban Certain IPs From Your Visiting Your Blogger Blog

29. December 2010

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How to Ban Certain IPs From Your Visiting Your Blogger Blog

Yes, you can ban certain viewers from your Blogger blog by banning their IP addresses. Now unfortunately, Blogger offers no native assistance for its users to ban unwelcome visitors. Your only choice is to ban ALL viewers from your blog, unless pre-approved by you (whitelisting). Unless your blog is a highly personal blog, this move [...]

How to Enable Comments on Blogger Pages

6. July 2010

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Blogger now affords bloggers the ability to incorporate “pages” into their blogs. Pages is a WordPress-type feature that lets you create static or “stand-alone” pages. You can link these special pages (such as your profile, resources, etc) from the home page of your blog. If you look at the header of this blog, you can [...]

How to Auto Publish Your Blogger Blog to Twitter

28. April 2010

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How to Auto Publish Your Blogger Blog to Twitter

Despite the vast intellectual wasteland that is Twitter, there are gems to be discovered from time to time. Twitter is touted as a social networking site, but it has quickly morphed into a business networking site, because it is so popular with businesses (and pro-bloggers) as a way to get word out about their websites [...]

How to Install a Favicon for a Blogger Blog

9. April 2010

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How to Install a Favicon for a Blogger Blog

A “favicon,” or “favorite icon” is a very small, pixelated image used as a shortcut or website icon. Microsoft invented the favicon in 1999, with the browser Internet Explorer 4. The favicon was a tiny icon that helped identify favorites websites in the browser bookmarks. In the same way, you can make your blog memorable [...]

How to Embed a YouTube Video in Blogger

5. April 2010

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My dear blogger friend, Chuck from Secondary Roads, asked me a question: Would you consider a post on embedding YouTube videos in Blogger blogs? Thanks. Thankfully, embedding a video on Blogger is very easy. You need to do a few things to make it look *just right,* however. First, you need to find a video [...]

How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog

14. March 2010

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I’m very, very happy to announce that Blogger has enabled bloggers to back up their Blogger blogs! I’ve been with Blogger for over ten years, and I am very pleased that this feature has been implemented. In the past, bloggers had to sign up with WordPress.com and use that software to force an export from [...]

How To Back Up Your Blogger Template

5. February 2010

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Blogger does not fare well with blog backups. Blogger is a very stable blogging software tool, to be sure, but I am a fiend when it comes to back ups, and Blogger doesn’t give the user any ability to back up your posts. However, you can back up your Blogger template. Your template is in [...]

How to Hide the NavBar in Blogger

31. January 2010

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The Blogger NavBar is a long narrow bar at the top of Blogger blogs. It has its uses (you can sign in to your Blogger account very conveniently), but beyond that, it is wasted space. Blogger hasn’t changed it much in the 10+ years it’s been around…. the NavBar allows you to search for other [...]

Resources for Blogger Users

16. January 2010

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There is absolutely no reason to use one of the ugly (and old) default Blogger templates when beautiful custom templates abound. Some are extremely stylish, and I’m seeing many with elaborate stylizing that mirrors the beauty of WordPress themes. Most Blogger templates are free, and there is a wide variety of templates to choose from. [...]