Tag: Blogger.com

How To Host Images On Blogger.com

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post i will tell you how you can host your images in Blogger.com. Hosting images on sites like ImageShack, PhotoBucket and etc is never been a good idea as because they have limited bandwidth for each and every image which means when your image been viewed more many times it will auto get removed from that link and instead of your image it will show Bandwidth Exceeded.

But hosting images in Blogger.com is easy and have no bandwidth limit. And it gets hosted in Picasa.
Here’s how you can host images in Blogger.com

1.       Go to Blogger.com
2.       Login with your account (if you don’t have click here to know how to get one)
3.       Go to Dashboard –> Design (on which you want to host) –> Page Elements
4.       Click on Add a Gadget –> Picture
5.       Deselect the Shrink to fit box
6.       Now Choose File button
7.       Navigate and select the image you want to upload
8.        After your image fully gets upload, you will see the preview of that image
9.       Right click on that image and select
i)        Chrome : Open image in a new tab, then copy the URL
ii)       Epic/FireFox : Copy Image Location
iii)     Internet Explorer : Properties (a popup will open) now copy the Address (URL)
iv)     Opera : Open Image
v)      Safari : Copy Image Address

Now copy the link and use it where ever you want

How To Use And Earn From JW Player In Your Blogger.com Blog

[This article was updated on 6th February, 2012]

Few days back one of my reader asked me how I use JW Player in my blog as he also wanted add JW Player to play videos in his blog, then I thought to write an article on it so everyone can learn about it. LongTail Video is a leading company behind the JW Player Continue reading How To Use And Earn From JW Player In Your Blogger.com Blog

How To Use Like Button In Your Blogger.com Blog

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
In this post I will tell you how you can use Facebook Like Button in your Blogger.com blog. Few people asked me how they can use Facebook like button on their blogger blog so here it is. If you don’t have a blog in Blogger then you can create it now.

1.       Go to your Blogger Dashboard –> Design –> Edit HTML –> now tick the Expand Widget Templates for the following blog in which you want to use Facebook Like Button.
2.       Search for the following code (to bring the browser search box press Ctrl + F or F3)
a)       If you want to use it before post and after title
<p class='post-header-line-1'>
b)       If you want to use it after post ends
<data:post.body/>
3.       Now place the following code just after any of the above code
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='"http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=" + data:post.url + "&layout=standard&show_faces=true&action=like&font=arial&colorscheme=light"' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:70px;'/>
</b:if>
a)      Things you might need to change
(1)    layout=standard
You can change standard to button_count if you only want to show the button with no. of likes
(2)    show_faces=true
You can change true to false if you don’t want to show the face
(3)    action=Like
You can change Like to Recommend if you want to show recommend instead of like
(4)    font=arial
You can change arial to
(a)    lucida+grande
(b)   segoe+ui
(c)    tahoma
(d)   trebuchet+ms
(e)   verdana
Use anyone of follow font you like
(5)    colorscheme=light
You can change light to dark depending on your template color
(6)    change the width:450px and height:70px depending on your template
(7)    If you want to show Like Button in home page also then remove the following codes
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
</b:if>
4.       Now click on SAVE TEMPLATE, now check your blog everything is working fine
5.       Now everything is fine now again come to Edit HTML page for the same blog
6.       Now find opening head tag you will get it at the top of the page.
<head>
7.       Paste it just below the head tag
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' property='og:title'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:site_name'/> 
<meta content='Your Profile ID' property='fb:admins'/> 
<meta content='Category of your Blog' property='og:type'/>
i)        Things you need to change
(1)    Your Profile ID change it with your profile ID (If you want then you can remove the Profile ID line)
(2)    Category of your Blog choose the category of your blog from Facebook open graph page to go to Facebook open graph page Click here.
Note:- Before editing your Blogger template take the backup of your template by going to Blogger Dashboard –> Design –> Edit HTML –> now click on Download Full Template for the safe side.

Blogger Now Help In Filtering Comment SPAM

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today Blogger have launched a new feature, which will helps you all in filtering Comment Spam. As many of you must have a blog in Blogger.com, in which you all must gets some Comment Spam. To reduce those spam you might have enabled Comment moderation, Show word verification for comments? or Registered Users.

But now Blogger have bought a new feature by which your blog’s Comment get filtered using Google’s spam filtering technologies in Blogger.com. In Blogger.com you will see a new tab (It is not available to everyone yet but soon it will be) where it’s written Comment.

By going to that tab you will see 3 sub-tabs Published, Awaiting Moderation and Spam. By which you can control all types of comments in your blog.

Published: – In this, you will see all the comments in your blog which are published. You can make them as SPAM, DELETE or REMOVE CONTENT by selecting the comments on which you want take the following action
Awaiting Moderation: – works like Comment moderation
SPAM: – All the filtered spam comments by Blogger and You will go here

You can report issues by Clicking here
And if you need any help you can go to help center.
Let us know what you think about this new Blogger feature.

How to create Blog using Blogger.com

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
In this post I will tell how to create blog using blogger.com which is owned by Google Inc., it’s free, easy to use and for starters this is the best way to start with.

To do so you need to sign up/sign in to blogger.com
1.       For Sign Up users.
To sign up click here or go to blogger.com then click on CREAT A BLOG (for those who are already using any Google service they can sign in directly, no sign up required to sing in got to step : 2.).
i)        Then fill the form accordingly and click on CONTINUE.

ii)       Now you will see they asked you to fill another form where you will be asked to type related to your blog you want to start.
(1)    In 1st box type the name of your blog.
(2)    In 2nd box type the subdomain (subdomain is the address of your blog by which your visitors will visit your blog) you want. Before going to next step check that your subdomain is available or not by clicking on Check Availability.
(3)    In 3rd box fill the word verification.
(4)    Then click on CONTINUE.

iii)     Now choose the template (template is how your blog will look) you want for your blog. Then click on CONTINUE. (You can customize or change it any time you want just by going to Dashboard -> Design -> Template Designer, Click here to know how it works.)

iv)     Now you will see few options

(1)    Start posting now
By clicking this you can start your posting, what you want to post on your blog.
(2)    Customize how your blog looks
By clicking this you can change your template looks there you will get lots of choose by which you can customize your template (your blog looks) to know how it works Click here.
(3)    START BLOGGING
By clicking this you can start your posting, what you want to post on your blog.
(4)    Advanced Setup Options
(a)    Set Up a Custom Domain
Custom domain is your own domain (for e.g.:  example.com or blog.example.com) where you can “buy a new domain” or “use your existing domain”.
(i)      To buy new custom domain
1.       To buy Click on Set Up Custom Domain or Go to: – Dashboard -> Settings -> Publishing -> there you will see written Switch to: • Custom Domain, click on Custom Domain.
2.       Now chose the domain name you want. And fill the word verification box.
3.       Now click on CHECK AVAILABILITY.
4.       You will see a Google page where it will be written example.com is available or example.com is already registered (If it’s already registered then chose the other domain). Then click on Continue to registration.
5.       Now fill the form accordingly and don’t forget to read and tick the GoDaddy.com Universal Terms of Service and Google Apps Standard Edition Agreement. If you don’t agree with their Agreement then you can’t have a custom domain from them.
6.       Now click on I accept. Proceed to Google Checkout » (click only if you accept the Agreement).

7.       Now you will see the Google checkout page where they will ask you to add Credit Card details (before giving the credit card details please check it that the link should be something like this {https://checkout.google.com/view/buy ?o=shoppingcart&shoppingcart;=xxxxx} )
They will ask Credit Card details if you have “never added it before” or “it got expired”.
8.       Now go through the following steps as they tell and read everything carefully.
9.       Best of luck.
(ii)    To use your existing domain
1.       To use your existing domain you need to create or change your existing CNAME record.
2.       Click here to see the details how you can make or change it.
3.       After doing setting the CNAME record, Click on Set Up Custom Domain or Go to: – Dashboard -> Settings -> Publishing
There you will see its written Switch to: • Custom Domain, click on Custom Domain -> then there you will see its written Already own a domain? Switch to advanced settings, click on Switch to advanced settings.
4.       In 1st box type the name of your existing domain (example.com or blog.example.com).
5.       In 2nd option select the Yes or No as per your suitability (No is recommended).
6.       In 3rd box fill the word verification.
7.       Now click on SAVE SETTINGS.
8.       Within few minutes your blog will appear in your own costume domain.
(b)   Import Blog Tool
Import blog help in importing your old blogger blog posts in to your new blogger blog. Here are the steps how to do it:-
(i)      1st go to the blogger dashboard were you have your old blog which you want to move to the new one.
(ii)    Then go to the settings of the following blog (the old one which you want to movie to new).
(iii)   There you will see its written Export blog click on there.
(iv)  Now you will redirect to a page where you can see its written DOWNLOAD BOLG click on it (now you will get an .XML file which will get downloaded after clicking on DOWNLOAD BOLG).
(v)    After saving that file in to your computer go to the blogger dashboard where you have your new blog, now go the settings of that new blog there you will see its written Import blog click on it.
(vi)  Now there you can see you have an file upload option now locate and select that .XML file (which you have downloaded from your old blog) then fill the verification box, now if you want to directly publish all your old post then tick the Automatically publish all imported posts, and if you don’t want to publish it directly just want to save it in your post draft then uncheck it.
(vii) Now click on IMPORT BLOG.
(viii) Now all your blog’s posts, comments and static pages are imported to your new blog.
2.       For Sign In users.
To sign in go to Blogger.com give your ID and Password.
ii)       After signing in Click here or go to Blogger Dashboard, there you will see its written Create a Blog click on there.


iii)     Now you will see they have asked you to fill the form to relate to you blog details.
Go to Step:  1. > ii) > (1) and follow everything till Step: 1. > iv) > (4) > (b) > (viii)
Tips:
1. While posting don’t switch to HTML to Compose if you are creating through HTML. And if
you are creating through Compose then don’t switch to Compose to HTML. You can use PREVIEW button (to view how it’s looking in your blog before posting) at the bottom beside PUBLISH button.
2. Always take a backup of your template before doing any change in your template, do any customizations in template or do any kind of changes in HTML of your blog template. To take backup your template go to Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML there you will see its written Download Full Template click on it you will get an .XML file save it (that’s the backup file of your template). And also copy the entire HTML Gadget/text Gadget in a note pad of your computer. To copy the Gadget go to Dashboard > Design from there you can copy the Gadget content and also add some Gadget to your blog.

Google Added New Web Analytics To Blogger In draft

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today I am going to tell you about Blogger added new feature called Stats on Blogger in draft (draft.blogger.com). Many of you are using Google analytics or other third party services to track your blog traffic Continue reading Google Added New Web Analytics To Blogger In draft