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How to Add Custom Fonts to Blogger

Adding Custom Fonts to Blogger can improve the look and feel of your blog. Before getting into font embedding lets know how this works.

In your templates you can use any font you want, but these would be properly displayed only if the viewer has those fonts installed on his/her System.

Font embedding Techniques allows you to use any font on your Blog and these fonts will be viewable to the viewers even if they don’t have the font installed on their Systems.

Better Post Preview in Blogger

Blogger has now added a better Post Preview and a Preview Button on the Blogger Post Editor . The new Preview button opens up a new window showing a templated preview(the old preview function just showed a miniature preview without the actual templating) of the post that you are currently editing. This will let you see a complete preview of your post page even before hitting the Publish button.

In order to see the Preview Button, you should Edit / Create your post from your

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Enclosure Links in Blogger

"Enclosures" are the bits of info in Atom and RSS feeds that make podcasting possible. With the new enclosure links UI, you can turn your blog into a podcast quite easily.

To turn on enclosure links, just go to Settings > Formatting and set the “Show Link fields” option to “Yes.” and save the settings

This will add the enclosure link fields to your post editor. From there, just paste in the URLs of your recorded media, and your blog will instantly become a podcast.

This is how your post editor look like, after adding the enclosure links

Facebook Like Button For Blogger

This Tutorial will help you in adding a Facebook Like Button For Blogger. Facebook has come up with a new set of Social plugins which enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with just a line of HTML. The Facebook Like Button is One of them. You can see a demo of the like button on this page. The Facebook like button will allow your readers to quickly share your posts with their Facebook Friends. You can also get to know how many people liked your Blog Post .This tutorial will teach you to add a Facebook Like button for Blogger

Remove Blogger Nav bar Completely

Blogger has got a default Navigation Bar. This navigation bar is hidden in most of the third party templates. Instead of hiding the nav bar using CSS, we can completely remove it.

To do that

1. Login to your Blogger account and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML

2. In the Template Code find <body> and just above that add the following Code.

How to remove quick edit and wrench icons on Blogger

You might have seen the Pencil , Screwdriver and Spanner links on blogger. It seems like these icons appear only when you are logged in to your blog. But if you take a look at your Blog's Source From your Browser's View source option, then you will find that there are plenty of quick edit links on your blog even if you are not logged in(Do a Find for blogger.com ). These are the quick edit links and these will be hidden using CSS if you are not logged into your blogger account(but still be present in your blog as hidden links).

What is the use in Removing these Links?

You will be able to reduce the number of external links on your Blog and make it more Search Engine Friendly

Do i loose anything if i remove these Links ?

You will no longer see the Quick Edit pencil or wrench links on your blog . If you want to Edit a Gadget, you will have to go to the Layout > Page Elements Page .

Stumble Upon Count Buttons for Blogger

Like all other Social networks, StumbleUpon has also got some really elegant sharing buttons. StumbleUpon has got 6 different sharing buttons. You can choose any of these six. Integrating this into your blogger blog will require some template Edits.
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