Play Music And Video On Your Blog Using Yahoo Web Player

[Update Feb 2013] Update tutorial to reflect Yahoo!'s upgrade of Yahoo Media Player to Yahoo Web Player.[Update Jul 2013] Unfortunately Yahoo has shutted down Yahoo! WebPlayer, so the service is no longer available. So you want to add music (or video) to your blog? You want it playable right on your blog, yet you don’t want to annoy your readers with an auto-playing, difficult-to-stop audio? Well

Creating Top Commentators widget for Blogger

Update 24 Dec 2009: I’ve just realized that the Blogger emits the maximum of only 200 comments per feed, even when I specified 1000 comments (using max-results=1000 query parameter). It wasn’t so when I wrote this tutorial back in June. Anyway I’ve got the pipe fixed. For readers who cloned my pipe, please re-clone. And for those who use my pipe as it is, you don’t have to do anything. The

How to change blog (columns) width

Wish you could widen the sidebar to make way for your newly acquired widget, or increase the post area width so you can reduce the post area height, or wonder if you could use the empty spaces on the left and right sides of your blog? Well, stop asking and start reading, because I am going to make your wishes come true -by showing you how to change the width of your blog columns. This tutorial

How to verify your blog in just two clicks

Update Oct. 22 2009: As of now, due to changes to the verification system in Webmaster Tools, the method explained below no longer works. You can read the announcement in Google Webmaster Central Blog. So now, to verify a Blogger blog, we have to use the conventional verification meta tag method, just like everyone else :(. To enable you to access all the features Google Webmaster Tools has

50+ Free “Tweet This” buttons

Due to the popularity of Adding a “Tweet this” button into blog post post, I thought it would be better if I provide the links to some of free Tweet This buttons, so you don't have to go far to find buttons for the project. It turns out, Tweet this buttons are more difficult to find than Follow me buttons or logo. Anyway here they are: This set of buttons is made by assbach

Showing only post titles on archive and label pages

When your contents grow, your index (multi-post) pages become bigger. This translates to longer loading time, and long loading time is of course no good to your blog because it sends your visitors away. One way to remedy this is by loading and showing only post titles on these pages. This will help speed up the loading time. It also make it easier for your visitors to browse your contents. This

How to remove or restore Blogger navbar

If you are using Blogger default template, you may notice the dark blue bar on top of your blog, that’s the navigation bar or navbar in short. Actually it’s pretty useful, you can use it to sign in to your blogger account, to create a new post, share and customize your blog. You can also search for blogs, and flag or follow the blog you are viewing. Why do people want to remove or hide it then

How to highlight author comments in Blogger

Highlighting author comments help readers differentiate them from readers’ comments. This is especially useful, for example, when a reader come back to check on a reply to his/her question. Highlighting your reply/answer, will make it easier to spot. Remember, making things easier for your readers is a good thing. And in line with that statement, if you are using Blogger/blogspot, I’m going to