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How to setup a FTP blog on blogger

Many of you might have heard of the blogger's ftp publishing feature. There is another feature called custom domain with blog hosted on google servers (we will discuss about this in some later post).
Blogger FTP Publishing with your domain: This lets you to publish blogger posts on your own domain(like yourdomainname.com) instead of the default blogspost domain(yourblog.blogspot.com). This requires you to have a domain name and good web hosting. The blogger post pages,home page and other pages will be published as html files on your hosting account.So this requires you to buy a domain name and a hosting account.Continue Reading

Top Authors Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

Blogger allows multiple users to contribute to a single blog.So some of your blogs may have multiple authors.This widget is for all those blogs which have multiple blog authors.The top authors widget displays the list of top authors together with the number of posts each of the top authors has made.This statistics is based on the latest 5000 posts on the blog.Continue Reading

Print your Blogger Posts by adding a Print Button

A “Print this Post” button would be much useful on blog posts(especially on tutorial and recipe blogs). Before adding the Print this button to your blog, you have to make your blog Printer Friendly. You can do this by adding some CSS to your blogger template. You can decide which parts of your blog page should be printed and which parts shouldn’t be. For example it would be better if your blog’s header , sidebars and comments don't appear in the prints. We can achieve this adding some printer specific CSS. If you want you can check out how this page will look when printed, Click File Menu of your Browser and Click Print Preview. You will notice that the header, footer, sidebars comments and other unimportant text wont appear in the print. I have hidden them all using CSS. Here are the steps to implement the same on your blog.

Reactions on Blogger

Blogger has added a reactions Feature for us. It helps the visitors to react to your blog posts in an interesting way. Blogger has got a default set of reactions(funny, interesting, cool). You can edit them and add your own. If you want to see a preview of how this looks, then go to this post page and mark your reactions :) I you are interested in implementing the reactions feature on your blog, then read on and follow these simple steps.

Increase Width of Blogger Comment Form

Blogger’s Embedded Comment Form comes in a fixed pixel size. So it might look bad in templates which have a wider post area. so how can we make it look better? – Just adjust the Comment form and increase its width.

Yahoo Search Widget Blogger / Blogspot

I have mostly seen google search boxes on most blogs.So i thought of implementing a cute looking yahoo search box widget for blogs.The yahoo search widget can search either your blog alone or the entire web.This is just a simple search widget which will nicely fit into your blogger sidebar..

This search box has the yahoo branding logo inserted within the search box.By default the search widget will search your blog.The user can opt to search the entire web if he wants..Continue Reading

Star Ratings on Blogger

Blogger has added a Star Ratings Feature for us. It helps the visitors to rate your blog posts using 5 stars :). If you want to see a preview of how this looks, then go to this post page and try rating this post. I you are interested in implementing the ratings feature on your blog, then read on and follow these simple steps.