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Add A Stylish News Slider/Scroller to Blogger: How To

September 10, 2011

I’ve been receiving few emails from Shoutmeloud readers, as well as those from my very own blog, who wanted a news slider/scroller widget on their blogger templates. So, I’ve designed a simple and stylish news reader that shall slide vertically using Dojo JavaScript. These sliders are more often used on sidebars to display tweets, recent comments, related/popular articles and other text related news. So, if you still don’t have an idea about the same, then ...

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BlogSpot iPhone App Review : It Sucks!

September 9, 2011

When ever we talk about popular Blogging apps on iPhone I always miss seeing one for BlogSpot bloggers. Though we have BlogPress app for iPhone which is a paid app and most likely I would pass it on and prefer working on my laptop. Now here is some treat for our BlogSpot blog readers, Google has released official BlogSpot iPhone App which is free and would let you quickly publish blog post while you are ...

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How to add Sticky Bar similar to Shoutmeloud on BlogSpot & WordPress?

August 31, 2011

I’ve been receiving quite a lot of emails wherein people asked for the codes that is used to run the sticky bar on Shoutmeloud. If you are wondering what a sticky bar is, then scroll to the top of this page and look out for a red bar with blinking text. That’s called a sticky bar which is used to display useful information to the user – widely used to display the most popular article ...

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How to Style BlockQuote With CSS for BlogSpot and WordPress

August 23, 2011

As the title of the article suggests, we’ll be using :before and :after attributes in defining our CSS. However, the actual credit goes to the “content” property which helps us to achieve cool effects via CSS. So, in this article, I’ll illustrate the basic usage of content property to add stylish block quotes using CSS. In other words, you’ll be able to add a block quote that appears to have an image but does not. ...

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How To Add a Forum To Your Blogspot Blog?

August 21, 2011

To better interact and connect with the readers on your blog, it’s always good to have a forum running on your blog. It provides a path for the readers to interact between themselves, thereby, we actually build a community of bloggers. Sounds good. Isn’t it? But, how do I do this, that too on Blogger? Well, it’s pretty simple! In this article, I’ll guide you to embed a free forum on your blogger/blogspot blog. You ...

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How to Add Facebook Comments to BlogSpot Blogs

August 15, 2011

BlogSpotr and Facebook are two most widely used free service. Blogger provides you an opportunity to publish your content and earn from it and Facebook on the other hand helps you to stay connected to your friends 24*7. If you are a BlogSpot user then you must be outraged by its comment system, so am I. Recently I came across Facebook Comment Plugin and found it really amazing and tried to integrate it with my ...

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[BlogSpot SEO] Simple Script to Optimize Your Blog for SEO

August 5, 2011

This post is rather intended to blogs run on blogger than to ones on WP because WP users have the platform to make their blog SEO optimized whereas those on blogger do not. They need to manually add alt & title tags to their images and specify a rel=”nofollow” & target=”_blank” for external links that they use in their post editor. Specially it’s a wise advice to keep your external links (Non useful) nofollow and ...

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