Add Facebook share button with counter

This tutorial will show you how to add a Facebook share button to each blog post in a Blogger blog. The button comes with a counter (optional) that shows a live count of how many times a post has been shared -a way to gauge the post popularity. This button lets people share the containing post without leaving your blog. It will detect the correct post URL regardless of the type of page you are at

Submit site/blog to DMOZ (Open Directory Project)

Today as I was checking my incoming traffic, one link stood out from the rest -it looked like a link from none other than DMOZ. Clicking the link brought me to a DMOZ page. True enough Blogger Sentral is listed in there, to be exact in Computers > Internet > On the Web > Weblogs > FAQs, Help, and Tutorials category. Why am I excited about this DMOZ thing? DMOZ is the directory of Open Directory

Create Dropdown menu for Labels widget

A labels widget displays your posts’ labels and each label is linked to a page containing posts which fall under that label. Usually as your posts increases, so will your labels. If you don’t limit them, sooner or later your labels widget will take over your sidebar! Fortunately you can prevent that from happening by converting the widget into a a dropdown (or is it a pulldown?) menu. Your labels

Automatically add hashtags to your tweets

Hashtags are topics or categories for your tweets. They are in a way similar to (Blogger post) labels, but for Twitter. Hashtags are made up of keywords, preceded by a hash (#) symbol. Adding a hashtag gives your tweet a potential to be picked up by people searching for that particular hashtag. Look at the example below as I hashtagged #blogspot and #tutorials to my tweet. If you were to search

Add retweet button (with counter) to every post

A few days ago I have added a Tweetmeme retweet counter to this blog. I thought I would share the process with you. The button does the same thing a Tweet This or a Google Buzz button does -share you individual posts, but with an obvious difference, it comes with a counter. The counter show a live count of how many times a post has been tweeted. Clicking the button will tweet the containing post

Add banner, Adsense or search box in header

A reader asked me how to add a search box on the right of blog title. I thought I’d share my answer in this post. Actually, you can add anything inside your header -be it an ad banner, a search bar, social media buttons, Adsense ad or just about any widget you can get your hands on. But how? By simply adding a new section in the header. A section functions as widget container and is represented

Add a Facebook Like/Fan box to Blogger

Update Sept. 2010: Facebook replaced the input Facebook Page ID with Facebook Page URL. This tutorial has been revised accordingly. Here is a tutorial on adding a Facebook Like box (formerly a Fan box) to Blogger/blogspot. It’s a good way to promote your Facebook page. A Like box lets your readers: See how many users already Liked your page. Like your Facebook page with just one click, without

5 reasons why you should switch to Windows Live Writer

It wasn’t long after I started blogging I felt the need for an alternative to Blogger default blog editor. I searched and found Scribefire (a Firefox extension) and Qumana. They did the job, yet it was nothing to be excited about. So the search went on, until finally I found THE blog client -Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is packed with features. It makes writing posts so much easier