Adding a Twitter “Tweet this” button to blog posts

Adding a “Tweet this” button will enable your readers to share your articles with other Twitter users. This will help promote your blog and possibly increase your Twitter followers. The button we are making will appear at the footer area of each post. Update Nov. 2010 Twitter has come up with its official Tweet button. Visit Add Twitter tweet button to Blogger posts for a step by step

Making a tag cloud, easily

Update (August 2009) Blogger has finally added a Cloud option in their Labels gadget. To add a Label cloud, just select Cloud option (instead of List) in Configure Labels window. With this new Labels widget you can also choose to show all or only selected labels. ------------------------------------------------------------- I just finished installing tag / label cloud on the right sidebar.

Yahoo! or rather Ya..who?

Yahoo Inc. to cut jobs again after first quarter revenue fell by 13 percent. SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. will lay off nearly 700 workers after getting off to a bumpy start under a tough-talking new boss who has promised to engineer a long-awaited turnaround at one of the Internet's best-known franchises. Neither the lackluster first-quarter results nor the job cuts announced

Best Free Blogger Template Sites

Last week I wrote about how to change blogger template and how to prevent you from losing your existing widgets when changing template. I thought you might want to know where can you get free blogger templates, so this time I’m going to list out the top free blogger templates provider sites: BTemplates This site cater just for Blogger templates. Huge selection of free templates,

Submitting Blogger sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools

What is a site map? Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. Why do you need to submit a sitemap? Sitemaps allow you to inform search engines about pages on your blogs that are available for crawling. This allows search engines

How to show code in blog post using Syntax Highlighter

Web browsers are smart, you give them codes, they render them into images and display on the monitor. That’s good, but what if all you want to do is just to display the codes in your post, as it is. There are quite a few solutions available on the internet, but what I am going to show you is think among the better ones. (Note: Before we proceed, if you plan to use this only occasionally, then

Removing dead (broken) links from Google search results

I occasionally do a site search for Blogger Sentral to check whether my new entries are properly indexed by Google. How do I do a site search? Easy, you can do it too, just type this in Google search box.site:yourblogurl Google will search your blog and then display all your blog or site indexed pages. Last week I noticed a two dead/broken links showed up in the search results page. They are

Keeping your widgets when changing Blogger template

Update Feb 2010: Good news, Blogger has come up with an option to keep your existing widgets during template change. I guess you won’t be needing this tutorial anymore…oh well. Usually there is one problem with regard to changing Blogger template to a third party template –some of the existing widgets / gadgets will be deleted by Blogger upon saving of the new template. Now if you spent much time

How to change blogger template

So you got tired with the look of your blog, or you think the template you chose when setting up your blog was a mistake in the first place? You tried to change the template with what Blogger provides but the choices is too limited. What to do? What to do? You change it to a third party template, that’s what you do. You come to the right place, because I’m going to tell you how to do it.

Turn Out Mag & Schemer Mag Blogger templates (with auto post summary)

I always search for ways to improve Blogger Sentral, to make it more visitors and search engine friendly. If you and the search bots are happy with my blog, then I’m happy. One of the things I did was adding a Read-more a.k.a expandable post function. It works fine, but there is one problem–every time I write a new post, I have to insert some codes into the post, otherwise it won’t work. Well,

Using bullets in a list

You see the picture of bullets on the left? Those are not the bullets I'll be blogging about this time, well maybe next time hehe. This time I'm going to write about the bullet as in bulleted list. Yeah, bulleted list bullets can attract people's attention too, but not as deadly. Posts that contain bulleted lists in your posts will definitely help you get the message across to your readers more

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is the new Prime Minister of Malaysia

As of today Malaysia has got a new Prime Minister. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took his oath of office as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur at 10 am. He replaces Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who was in service for 6 years. If you would like to read more on this, please go to Malaysia Newsroom. It features

Make A Link Opens In A New Window or Tab

We sometimes put links in our posts. And naturally our visitor will click on those links. By default when a link is clicked it will open in the same window. If your blog is like mine where visitors only come in once in a blue moon ha-ha, keeping them in your blog once they come in is crucial. We wouldn't want them visitors disappear from our blog through outbound links, now would we? But don’t