Adding Picasa Slideshow to your Blogger or webiste

You can embed a Flash slideshow of any web album. It'll be automatically updated when you make changes to your album. Follow these steps to embed a slideshow:

1. On the My Photos page, click your album.
2. Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
3. Click Embed Slideshow.
4. Choose your slideshow settings, such as image size, captions, and autoplay.
5. Once you've chosen your settings, copy the resulting HTML code (Ctrl-C).
6. Paste the HTML in the source code for your site (Ctrl-V).

Google Help

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Adding Picasa photos to Blogger and website

 
Spring has come to Norway!
This photo is added through Picasa 3.

Spring in Norway

When you embed an album in your site, the album cover will display. Viewers who click the cover image will then be taken to view the album in Picasa Web Albums. Follow these steps to embed an album:

1. On the My Photos page, click your album.
2. Click Link to this album on the right-hand side.
3. Copy the HTML (Ctrl-C) in the 'Paste HTML to embed in website' field.
4. Paste the HTML (Ctrl-V) in the source code for your site.

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Using ScribeFire Blog Editor

I am posting this article by using ScribeFire Blog Editor
This Firefox addon let you post from your browser.
I added the above image by using image insert feature in this addon.
You can preview your article in this addon preview without changing the actual blog.

You can add labels and save it as a draft to your blogging platform.
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

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How to Add flash Animated label cloud Blogumus for Blogger

I just got a RSS article called "Tag Clouds - Styling and Adding Sort Options an article" from CSS globe.

But I wanted to add a flash Blogumus tag cloud to my Blogger. Then I found this article "How to Add flash Animated label cloud Blogumus for Blogger"

I just adjusted color, width and height.
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Adding a drop cap to Blogger

Neal Grosskopf wrote an article CSS Drop Caps Without Unnecessary HTML Elements or Classes.

I tried it with my Blogger here and I found a small adjustment to work in Blogger.
What you have to do is create class dropcap and add CSS.

You can see a big N at the beginning of this paragraph.

 .dropcap
 {
 background: #990000;
 border: 4px double #ffcc00;
 color: #ffffff;
 float: left;
 font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
 font-size: 3em;
 font-weight: bold;
 margin: 0 10px 0 0;
 padding: 10px;
 text-transform: uppercase;
 }

And you need to add span with class="dropcap" to the first letter of your paragraph like this.

<span class="dropcap">B</span>BC News.

It becomes like this.
BBC News.


You can add more class like .blue after .dropcap

.blue 
{
 background: #3B7CEF;
}

And add this class to a span tag.

<span class="dropcap blue">C</span>NN News.

CNN News.



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How to add Read More to your Blogger

This is an official article from Blogger.
And I'd like to show how I implemented to this blog.

1. Save a backup copy of your template before you start. Just copy and paste all your code to a text file on your hard drive, so you can replace it in case anything goes wrong.

2. Paste the following code in your header. I add it just before </head> tag.

<style>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> 
   span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
   span.fullpost {display:none;} 
</b:if>
</style>

3. Adding "Read More" Links

Go to Layout and click EditHTML. Add a tick to Expand Widget Templates. Then add the following code to your template, after the <data:post.body/> tag:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'><br />
   <a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more!</a>
</b:if>

You can replace the "Read more!" text with Continue Reading or Read the rest of this entry », etc.

4. Post Modifications

Go to Posting and create a new article. And wrap your article which you want to hide with the following code.

<span class="fullpost">

Your main article here

</span>

That's it folks. Thank you for reading.

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Add your Twitter updates to your Blogger

On the right side, you can see my Twitter updates.
Here is how you can add your Twitter to your Blogger.


1. Login to your Blogger and go to Layout.
2. Click "Add a Gadget" and select HTML/JavaScript. Add the following code.

<div id="twitter_div">
<h2 style="display:none;" class="sidebar-title">Twitter Updates</h2>
<ul id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;" href="http://twitter.com/YOUR-Twitter-NAME">follow me on Twitter</a>
</div>

<script src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/YOUR-Twitter-NAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

3. In the above code, change YOUR-Twitter-NAME to your twitter name. If you want to change the number of updates, change count=10 to any number you wish.

4. Add the following CSS to your Blogger CSS and tweak it according to your taste.

/* Twitter */
#twitter_update_list li {
background-color: #EFF4FF;
text-indent: 0;
margin-bottom: 5px;
border: 1px solid #B5BDCF;
}
#twitter_update_list li span{
}

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How to add jQuery Plugin: Scroll to Top to Blogger

After reading an article "jQuery Plugin: Scroll to Top" by Craig Wilson a couple of weeks ago, here is how to add it to your Blogger.

There is a similar code by David Walsh here. But I am using a code by Craig.

You can see the action in this page. You just need to scroll down a bit and you will see a ^Scrol to Top box on the right bottom. By clicking it you go to the top of the page.

1. Add the following HTML before your </body> tag.

<a href="#" id="toTop">^ Scroll to Top</a>

2. Add the following CSS code in your Blogger CSS code.

/* to top */
#toTop { width:100px;background:#F4FFBF;border:1px solid #ccc;text-align:center;padding:5px;position:fixed;bottom:10px;right:10px;cursor:pointer;color:#666;text-decoration:none; }

3. Add the following jQuery codes just before </body> tag.

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
/*-----------------------
* jQuery Plugin: Scroll to Top
* by Craig Wilson, Ph.Creative (http://www.ph-creative.com)
* 
* Copyright (c) 2009 Ph.Creative Ltd.
* Description: Adds an unobtrusive "Scroll to Top" link to your page with smooth scrolling.
* For usage instructions and version updates to go http://blog.ph-creative.com/post/jquery-plugin-scroll-to-top.aspx
* 
* Version: 1.0, 12/03/2009
-----------------------*/

$(function(){$.fn.scrollToTop=function(){$(this).hide().removeAttr("href");if($(window).scrollTop()!="0"){$(this).fadeIn("slow")}var scrollDiv=$(this);$(window).scroll(function(){if($(window).scrollTop()=="0"){$(scrollDiv).fadeOut("slow")}else{$(scrollDiv).fadeIn("slow")}});$(this).click(function(){$("html, body").animate({scrollTop:0},"slow")})}});

  $(function() {
                $("#toTop").scrollToTop();
            });
        </script>

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Blogger tips

You can find many great tips for Blogger users in blogspottutorial.com
On the right column there is Blogging tutorial For Beginner.

I used the following tips for this blog.
How to add related post widget
Add search engine to your blog

Another helpful tips for Blogger users is Amanda Fazani's website Bloggerbuster.
You can download a free PDF book to improve your Blogger design.
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Adding Tweet Button to your Blogger and Website

After reading an article by Woork, I added Tweet this to my bloggers. The article was simple but I thought I could add a little bit more details here.

Open your blogger and go to Layout.
Click Edit HTML then tick a box next to Expand Widget Templates.
Then find a line

<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1">

Then after this line add the following line.

<div class="tweetmeme">
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';
</script>
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
</div>

Then add CSS just before the line.

]]></b:skin>

I add the following css to mine.

tweetmeme {
    width: 70px;
    height: 75px;
    float: left;
}

For your normal website, you can use the following code where you want to add Tweetmeme.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>

You can find an Official documentation.

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Add sharethis widget to your Blogger, WP or website

I just added sharethis to this blog and other my websites.
You go to sharethis.com and create your account by clicking For Publishers.
After logged in, go to Get the Button to create a new button. You can choose your platform and modify the button appearance. You can create codes by selecting 'Share This Button for other websites' under 'Pick your platform drop-down'.
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Adding search to Blogger or website

I was working on my other Blogger website today.
If you are using Blogger you can add it by using "Add a Gadget".
But I didn't want to use a Gadget, because I wanted to add a search function in a horizontal navigation.

If you want to add it to your website with using HTML, you can find the details in Google custom search.

So I added search function with the following code to my Blogger site.

 <form expr:action='data:blog.homePageUrl + "/search"' id='search_form' method='get'>           
 <input id='searchinput' name='q' size='22' tabindex='2' type='text' value=''/> 
 <input id='searchbutton' name='submit' tabindex='5' type='submit' value='Search'/> 
</form> 

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Add Disqus comment system to your blogger

I just added Disqus to Blogger . Disqus is a comment management. You can manage all your comments in different websites. Great thing is it's free. It is very easy to implement to any platform and very powerful. If you are tired of Blogger comment system I strongly recommend to use Disqus.
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