Blogger “read more” without the bug

This hack was written before the introduction of Blogger jump-break (read more) feature. Blogger jump-break doesn’t have this bug. As you may notice many blogs use “read more” (a.k.a. expandable post) thingy on their homepages. For readers who are unfamiliar with this feature, what a read more function does is when you are at the homepage (or any index page), only post snippets are displayed,

Create printer friendly blog pages

You’ve probably seen this “Print this article” feature numerous times, on news websites, those free articles websites and even cooking/recipes websites. When you click the printer button or link, the print output would most likely be of a printer friendly version. This printer friendly thing, what is it anyway? Well it is a trimmed down version of your web page –usually excluding the

Adding a floating “back to top” button

Back to Top button or link is a link that sends your viewer to the top of page once clicked. This will help your readers navigate better, especially so if you have long pages. This link is usually located at the bottom of page or in the footer area. What I am going explain in this article is slightly different. The function is the same yet the location of the link/button is different. As the

Using image as background

Using image as a background can be implemented easily using CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). In Blogger CSS can be accessed by going to Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML tab. CSS is the area between in the template code. (Update: If you are applying the background to a template made by Blogger Template Designer, use this method instead: How to use your own background

How to backup a Blogger template

Why do I need to backup my blog template? you may ask. Because sometimes unexpected things happen, i.e. you accidentally mess up your layout. If you have the backup layout stored in your PC, then reverting to the original is easy. Less headache for you. You want to backup your template every time you want to tinker with the code. Better yet always keep a latest version of your template stored in

Google’s six principles of competition and openness

I stumbled upon a post on Google Public Policy Blog, posted a few days ago. The post is regarding Google’s approach to to competition. I thought I share it with you. As Google has grown, the company has naturally faced more scrutiny about our business principles and practices. We believe that Google promotes competition and openness online, but we haven't always done a good job telling

Adding a simple image caption

A dragonfly in my backyard Having trouble adding image captions to your photos? I know I do, especially if you are using Blogger post editor. I’ve switch to Windows Live Writer, yet still it doesn’t get any better in this department. (with WLW I can do it though, with the right plug-in of course). Look at the picture, it does come with a caption. Okay, I’

10 tips for improving Google search results

There are times, even on Google, when you just can’t find what you are searching for. The search results just doesn’t come out “right”, what you want just wasn’t there. How you wish you could do something extra…to get better search result. Well today must be your lucky day, because I’m going to tell you that extra something, 10 tips for better Google searching. Hopefully these tips will give

A better way to add meta tags to Blogger

One way to improve your blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is to add in description and keywords meta tags. They are placed inside the head section of your blog template HTML. In description meta tag you put a description of your blog, telling what your blog is about. In keyword meta tag you put in key words relevant to your blog content. Duplicate meta descriptions There is a problem though