Styling individual page tabs on Blogger

Changing the appearance of page tabs on Blogger is relatively easy. It can be done via template designer’s built-in menus or using custom CSS. However, the changes will be applied to all tabs. What if you want to style each tab individually? Let’s say you want to use a different font or color on just a single tab, or add a different background image to each tab, or perhaps you fancy

How to restart your blog after a long break

This is a guest post by Samantha Gray. So you decided to go on a hiatus from blogging. It happens all the time: a college student blogger decides to call it quits to focus on their studies; a struggling pro blogger decides to suspend activity because they aren’t getting enough return on their hard work; the list goes on. Heck, maybe you were just sick of blogging altogether and decided that it

How To Create An Effective Action Plan For Your Blog

This is a guest post by Daniel. With a proper plan of action, it’s not possible to satisfactorily achieve your goals. You may achieve some goals in the long term without a plan but most of it will be through fluke. Planning is at the core of any blog. Having a good plan means you’ll know what to do to get to your goals, without floundering or wasting time. Write Down Your Blog’s Goals Why did

Disable right click context menu on images

Disabling right click or context menu is one of the more popular ways to prevent images from being stolen from a blog. While it is effective to some extent in deterring casual image theft, it also frustrates honest readers by denying them access to many useful functions associated the right click such as going Back, page Reload, Bookmark and Open Link In New Window. The better way would be to

How Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Comments Killed Your Blog

This is a guest post by by Jennifer James, APR. So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing. -- Brenda Ueland, If You Want To Write, 1938 We've all done it. Blogged the mind-boggling life experience. Tweeted the terrifically funny. Posted the undeniably profound. And,

Vote for us at Digi WWWOW Awards

Dearest readers, we’re very excited to report that Blogger Sentral has been nominated for two awards at the DiGi WWWOW Awards. We are competing in these categories - Lowyat.net Fave Tech Head (currently 4th) and Google Most Inspiring Internet for Good (currently 10th). We are hoping you might be willing to spare a minute and cast a couple of votes for us. We could really use the the publicity

Why Would Facebook Buy Instagram for $1 Billion?

This is a guest post by Adam Marshall. Instagram is presently one of the most popular social networking photo-sharing platforms that allows people to add stylish and cool filters to their photos and publish them for display to a large network of people. On their site, Instagram is introduced as follows: It's a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos with friends and family. Snap a

Take Your Blog Worldwide with International SEO

This is a guest post by Tom Mcloughlin. Most bloggers don’t focus their work time on SEO activities, preferring to produce quality content and let the rankings come along with that. Undoubtedly that is the right approach as, with so many blogs out there, if your material isn’t of a high standard then readers won’t hang around for long. Focusing too much on SEO can deter readers who will quickly