Best Blogger Hacks and Tips

Original Photo taken by Mike Smith

I periodically go through my blogs and clean them up by sorting, organizing and adding useful widgets. Sometimes 3rd party hacks can add more functionalities and make the blogging experience a more enjoyable one both for the blogger and the blog visitor. Here are some of the wonderful blog hacks I have found and have been using. I hope you find them just as useful.

Blogger Hacks are templates that allow you to customize your blog to fit your desired blog layout and customize the way you can interact with and provide information to your readers.

Before you make any changes to any html code, I highly recommend that you save your blog template!

- Snow Effect Widget for Blogger
Ever so simple, just go to Blogger Buster and click the Add Snow Effect button. The widget automatically opens for the Layout template and all you have to do is safe it. If you like to see how it works go to my ES Designs blog.
- Remove the Blogger Bar
Go to Layout - View Html
Place this code anywhere between your templates styletags.

#navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }

Save

- Create a Pop-Up Window
Sometimes you might want to show your readers something without opening a new window. I used a pop-up window on my web site, where my external store link opens right within my web site page check it out
Create your own pop-up window here to customize your pop-up window.

- Open a new tag/window
The last thing you want is for one of your blog readers to click on an image and then be taken to another site, not finding their way back to you. To solve this enter target="new" right after
http://.........com" target "new"

Other Useful tips:

- Add Signature
If you like to add a signature at the end of your post, check out this free signature generator here

- Tiny Url
Some url's can be pretty long, especially if you like to use them on Twitter. Shorten your link with Tiny Url

- Three Column Minima Blogger Template http://www.threecolumnblogger.com/2008/09/three-column-minima-layout-version.html
- Google Ranking
After investing time writing interesting articles, snapping great photos, reading up on how to be a better blogger, etc., you should also check your Google ranking

I will be adding more tips over time. If you found a useful hack and like to share it, please leave it in the comment section and I will add it to this post.





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