Monday, 31 August 2009

Limiting the number of posts in labels page

If you have lots of posts it helps if you can limit the number of posts appearing in a page. It will reduce the page load time and requires less scrolling by your readers. In Blogger, you can limit the number of posts appearing on the home page, but you cannot do so on the labels page. In this short tutorial I will show you how to put a limit to the number of posts appearing in labels page.

Sunday, 23 August 2009

5 ways How to back up a Blogger blog

Backing up your blog contents is very very important. Why? Because your Blogger/blogspot blog can be running smoothly today and yet it also can all of a sudden disappear, without warning. It happened before and will happen again in the future. Playing by the rules doesn’t make you immune either because mistakes do happen. So be prepared, and if you haven’t yet backed up your blog, then do it now.

Monday, 17 August 2009

Removing stubborn animated gif header image

As you may know Blogger blog header image can be uploaded or removed via Header gadget in Page Elements. All good and dandy, until you want to remove or replace the header image -because you can’t. If you use animated gif, and uploaded it using “From your computer” option, you probably won’t be able to remove it. This is maybe because Picasa Web Albums (Blogger image host) doesn’t support

Monday, 10 August 2009

Followers gadget wrong display

In Blogger Help Forum, a number of times I encountered questions regarding problems with Followers gadget profile display. Here are two examples: I have added an image to my profile, it shows up on the dashboard, however when I check on blogs that I'm following, no photo is shown. My Follower name is wrong! On the blogs I follow, my real name is listed, instead of my Blogger

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Free Blogger templates with glider/slider

Here is a list of free beautiful feature-rich Blogger templates that come complete with a glider, slider, carousel or something of similar effect. This type of templates is becoming more common nowadays. The features use JavaScripts, so if you were to use these templates, you need to upload the script files to a web host. The scripts are usually bundled together with the template downloads.

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

How to make a “Grab this” linkback button

Wondering how to make a “Link back to us” a.k.a “Grab this” button widget just like the live example below? Whereby readers would copy and paste the code in the textbox to display your button/badge on their blog? It’s easy, you can do it in just two steps.

Sunday, 2 August 2009

How to show Twitter updates on Blogger

Previous I explained how to tweet blog posts into Twitter in Adding a “Tweet this” button into blog posts. Well this time it’s kind of the other way around. We are going to make a widget that pulls your Twitter updates and embeds them on your blog. The content of the widget will be automatically updated every time you make a status update on Twitter.
new TWTR.Widget({
version: 2,
type: '