To customize your blog yo will need to find certain codes from your template to replace it, add new code or to verify. But be sure to back up your template first before you find and change any code. Finding any code is very easy in blogger. Just follow the simple steps below to find a code.

How to find code in blogger

1 Go to blogger.com
2. Go to Template>Edit HTML
3. Press CTRL+F and type/paste the code your looking for
4. The code will be highlighted on the screen

Thngs to remember when choosing a blogger templete

In the crowd of thousands of free blogger template you should always choose the "right" template for your blog. If you are a serious blogger or have a good mission for your blog you should definitely take this seriously. Even though they shouldn't, they will judge you by the looks of the blog right after the article. You can find lots of different customized paid and free blogger template over the internet. And here are some good tips you should remember when getting a template for your blog or customizing it.

1. Choose your type

The first thing is to match with the work your doing. If you  have a blog about dead people and mystery it will not be great choice if you use a super colorful template. Think about your blog as a reader and the environment they need for to enjoy the article you write. 

2. Number of columns

This can be define as one of #1 's sub category. Where you should know about your blog. Don't get any ads ready blog if you are new blogger or don't have much experience with html. Think about what your visitor will do and how fast and easily they can do it. Think about this and get a template.

3. Know your rights

Although you can find billions of free template you should know how much free is it. Most of them allow you to use it with link back others might give it for free or not allow for certain use. To avoid future problems read and see the rights of you to use the template. 

4. Color Counts

If you don't have enough knowledge about html editing you should choose your color that matches your requirement and content. 

5. Size and neatness

Choose your size of the blog where the actual content will appear. Using too many types of "cool stuff" might not be goof for your visitor and the speed of your blog. If the blog is too laggy people won't be interested in going to see anything extra you offer.

6. Your reader's have diabetics

Adding plugins, wages, script are good to make your blog "cooler" but you should remember that your readers have diabetics if you give them too much sugar they will most likely die! Keep it balanced.

Remember if you are expecting visitor it's not you who will need the information, your reader will. So do whatever it takes to give them the simplest interface and user-friendly fast blog.


I wrote this post originally on my other blog pretty long ago, I think it still worth some value.

Using Free Image

There are many needs of digital images online. It is And there are billions of images out there you can just copy paste and use it to your blog. For bloggers it is very important to have a good image with each post and most of them Google search it and use it to their blog. It might be a great high quality image but most likely your now hosting a copyrighted material. If you want to hide from all the penalties you also Google search for free images which gives you few billion result of site that will provide you "free" images, which aren't actually as free as you think it is.

Google is the world

What Google search does is to view all the indexed images over internet and there are no way to know if it is actually copyrighted or not. If claim the copyright for a copyrighted image, either the copyrighter or your host can take down your site. If you think you are lucky, you will already be penalize on traffic by your search engine.

How about royalty free?

Royalty free is a system where there is a copyright holder and they allow you to use their images with out royalty fee. With of course limitation. It can mean you have to pay the creator one time fee, or creator will limit you to certain size, length and where and how you can use the image. So don't go crazy with royalty free stuff. There is a copyright holder who can take action against you for going over limitation.

The free photo sites then?

Definitely not. Every free image distribution sites has certain limit. Some makes you link to their site (takes your juice), some wants a limited time royalty. Some are just scam and list of images from Google. Some sites says their photos are public domain (see below for more info), while they get the images from user upload where anyone can upload a copyrighted photo isn't a good place to find your photo either. Of course there are actual free images that you can use for your site out there, but since most of them are not actually what you need don't take the chance.

Public Domain?

Yes you are allowed to use public domain image freely in your site or blog. Public domain images are images that doesn't have any copyright holders. It's in a position that it is unable to restore the copyright claim for the photo. Thus you can use the image for almost anything without royalties or permissions. But you can not claim copyright for the image. Unfortunately not every site that says to have public domain photos are public domain, so be careful using one. Public domain is the best choice if you are looking for free images.

So where can I find public domain images?

There are lots of public domain image search out there. Here you can find a Wikipedia's big list of sites for your need.

10 Best Free Blogger Templates You Should Check

Blogger is best platform for newbies. most of them confused which one theme to choose? Now don't confuse because Today We decided to present some of best free blogger templates. All of below are free and premium looking. We had added some of demo, download button with some description too. Hope you will enjoy them
See Also:

Mainstream

DEMO | Download

Android Mania Blogger Template

Demo | Download

Libera Blogger Template

Demo | Download

Community

DEMO | Download

Grade Blogger Template

Another free 3 column magazine style blogger template with 2 sidebars, featured Section, fixed width, slider and and a handy top navigation bar.
















Demo | Download

Instinct Blogger Template

Elegant magazine style blogger template with 1 Sidebar, 2 Column, 4 Column footer, featured section, header banner, slider, tabbed widget and easy top navigation menu.

Demo | Download

Dreamy

DEMO | Download

Nyke - Magazine Blogger Template

The Featured Slider, Image Slideshow has a very unique rounded bottom and a number of coll transitions between images.The template has a two column layout with right sidebar.

DEMO | Download

ProPress -Premium Looking Free Blogger Template

Conventy – Free Blogger Template

Hope you will be enjoy these great collections.

About the Author
Ammar is the a 16 Years old blogger. He loves to write about Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. He blogs at AllBloggingTips where he share Blogging Tips and Free Themes

Simple CSS menu with hover effect

If you don't like the classic blogger menus you can choose to use simple and cool menu with a hoover effect. The menu will show text and a link to your pages. It is very simple easy and will fit for most of the blogs. So let's get started with this.

First we have to add the CSS. 

• Go to Blogger Dashboard>Design> Edit HTML

• Backup your template 

• Press CTRL+F and find ]]> and paste the following code above it.

    ul#navlist {

        display: inline;

        list-style: none;

    }

    ul#navlist li {

        float: left;

        width: 60px;

        height:60px;

    }

    ul#navlist li a {

        width: 50px;

        height:50px;

        padding:5px;

        display:block;

    color:#fff;

        text-decoration: none;

        font-size:7pt;

        font-family:arial;

        line-height:50px;

        text-align:center;

    border-right:1px solid #fff;

        border-left:1px solid #fff;

        border-top: 5px solid #fff;

        border-bottom: 5px solid #fff;

        background: #003663;

    }

    ul#navlist li a:hover {

        border-top: 5px solid #004a80;

        border-bottom: 5px solid #004a80;

        background:#004a80;

        font-size:9pt;

        font-weight:bold;

    }

Once you have done that save your template.
Now, click on the button below and select your blog and add the code

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

" />

Go to Blogger>Design>Page Element and edit "Custom Menu" and do the following changes

• Change "one" "two"  "three" and so on with the text you want to show up inside the menu
• You can delete a line
• to
if you don't need them all

• Change "#" without quote to the link corresponding to the text you choose for the menu

Optional:

• You can drag the box inside the page element to choose where you want the menu to show up.

• You can change it's color by customizing the CSS by changing the value of color hex #XXXXX

Credit:
The credit for the codes goes to CSSHowto.com
                                                                                                        

How to find nofollow links

The attribution rel="nofollow" is a important factor to keep your site safe from Google's black list. Do follows are also extremely important for the free flow of page rank flow for building traffic for new blogger. I have already discussed this topic and usage no follow on another article "What is nofollow and how should you use it?" You can also read a very good article by Pradosh about the importance of do follow comments here. Well let's get to the point. I will show you a common way which you can use to find nofollow links from all the blogs and app for popular browsers that will simply highlight the nofollow links.

Chrome App

1. Go to the app page and install it
2. Look at the top right for the new icon and click on it
3. Look all the way down and check the box for "Show Nofollow"
4. You will see a pink border around nofollow links now

Firefox Add on

1. Go to this add on page (credit: @Pradosh)
2. Click on "add to Firefox"
3. Let it download and install it, you will have to restart your browser
4. Right click on the browser and choose "NofolowDofollow"
5. The links will be highlighted and a red highlight means nofollow

Manual Action!

1. Go to the site and copy the link you want to   check
2. Right click on the page and click on "view source" or similar option
3. CTRL+F and search for the specific term
4. look around the link for the term "nofollow" ; before
5. If you can't find it it is not a nofollow link






Do you have a better way of finding nofollow links or have any questions? Tell us in the comment below.

Create Google Plus page

Google plus is the latest social media by Google. If you know the importance of social media in CEO you should know Google plus is times more significant. Since Google is the main search engine and Google uses the data from your Google plus account it c and share of you and your friends/clients. If you have a blog or small business you should definitely create a Google plus fan page similar to Facebook page. If you can get more + and share of your feed on Google Plus it is very easy to compete with High page rank sites and to focus on specific clients.

How to create Google plus page

1. Go to the following link
2. Choose a category from the left
3. Fill out the information
4.Check Google agreement and Click create

Your done! Now you can switch between your profile and your pages profile as shown in the picture below.

You can visit our Google plus page and circle us to keep up with the latest tricks.

Twitter Follower Box for blogger

Twitter doesn't have any current widget to show off your twitter fans like Facebook like box/ follower box. Well now you can with a customized twitter follower box. You can use this like a normal widget in your blog very much like the Facebook widget. You can follow simple steps to get your twitter follower box below.

                                Click For Live Demo

How to get twitter follower box for blogger

 

1. Go to blogger
2. Click on design>Page element
3. Click add  HTML/JavaScript where you want your widget to be
4. Under Content paste the following code

 

type="text/javascript">fanbox_init("tripsontricks");type="text>

And replace tripsontricks with your twitter username 

5. Hit save and view your blog


If your widget doesn't fit

Click on the widget to edit and CTRL+F to find "height" and change the value to lower and higher as you need. You can do the same with "Height" to fit your need.


Credit
The creator of this widget is Mark Carey. He created the original code for the the twitter follower box. You can go to the link and follow him to get the origin code.

Reasons why I would leave your blog

Photo credit: anitapatterson from morguefile.com

To 'secret' to blogging traffic is to create a environment so that your reader can't leave you. It's better to have 10 returning visitors to your blog than 100 'peace out' visitors. There are some main reason and mistake done by new bloggers that makes most of your visitor to say good-bye. If you want to be a serious blogger you should start thinking about them rather than yourself. Here is my list on why I would leave your site/blog.

 

Unclear content

If you are writing about something you should know what your are writing on, don't act professional on something you don't know. The main element of a blog is it's content. You have to fix this before anything else. Make your content clear, right on point, easily understandable and fresh. And of course original. If your information is wrong or content is unclear it creates a huge negative impression on your reader which is almost impossible to delete with every cool design and offers you have for them. and make him/her click the back button.

Too much eye catching

If you have the right content you should start worry about your template and widget. Eye catching is important but it has to be professional. Some template are very poorly designed and completely unrelated to what readers are reading. Unless it's a personal blog your readers would be happy to hear the loud auto-play of your favorite song. Don't use too much gif/ flashy content, mouse effects or any other funky script that would make you visitors ask-"where's the bathroom?"

Advertising hammer

Well you heard somewhere online that you can also make money by blogging so you signed up for all the advertising sites. Since nobody seems to click on them you put a load of them, some pops up, some starts talking, some jumps on the screen and many other extra ways to earn some extra. If you think that's a right method think why your reader would come to your site, for your content. And if they can't get the information they wouldn't be interested on what is going on around and just click the close button. Limit your ads and if you have right content and template you will start get more clicks on your ad than hammering them on the head before.

Needy baby

"Pay 2 dollars to read the article on secrete to be cool"-sounds great deal right? Here's another one -"Register To view the article" or you can also use "Finish the surveys to see the article"to make your visitor run away. Don't expect too much from visitor, each one will not give you 10,000 dollar for you blog. Since there are billions of article on almost every topic online it's your job to keep your reader to you, they can find billions of the same article online, so if you find one don't ask for too many things right after they enter the door.

Randomness

Unless it's a personal blog, when people looks for a certain information they expect your blog to be on the same topic. Even if the reader finds one of your article helpful he wouldn't come back because he/she doesn't know if your future post will be on the same topic your client need information in or interested. It's important to keep your blog in one certain topic. If you get one visitor for one of the post you will get a returning visitor who will like your future posts. So don't make your blog random because it's only good for stalkers.



I would leave your site/blog for mainly because of these reason. I didn't mention some obvious reasons black hat techniques and spamming, cookies, malware etc. Try avoiding the things I have talked about to gain trust as a new blogger and get you readers to follow your blog. What are some of the reason you would leave a site/blog tell us in the comment below.

Money making tips for new blogger

For blogger who thinks blog = money, you are ...right! You can start earning money from your blog from your very first day. I will talk about one advertising program you can use right now to start earning from your blog. When you have a audience, the main focus for them is your content. And selling sidebar ads can be really hard job for new bloggers. So it is better to start with what your reader will actually care about. Yes, I am trying to to get the point on in-text ads.Today I will show you a affiliate in text program that I have been using from the beginning- Infolinks.

What is Infolink?

Simply Infolinks are in text ads. It behave link normal link from your website and when you mouse hoover it it shows the detail information of the link, if the viewer choose to check the link out and click on it you get paid. As you can see from the picture below

Why Infolinks?

 

• Infolinks doesn't require you to give personal information
• Infolinks doesn't have any minimum requirement- so anyone can join this programm
• Infolinks is highly customizable to match your templete
• Infolinks gives you the 70% of the revenue- the highest on the internet
• Infolinks needs only one minute of your time to set up the ad on your blog
• It also give yo options such as tag clouds, related tag, search wages other than in text ads for you to boost your earnings
• Infolinks payout methods are Paypal, ACH, Bank Wire
• Choose payout method whenever you want
• Infolinks pays you monthly

As the best in-text ad there are many other reasons why you should and can join Infolinks to start earning today. What are you waiting for go register at: http://www.infolinks.com

Blogger's New Threaded Comments Features and How To Enable It?

Recently blogger introduces threaded comments features. Which is a great step forward. All bloggers re bored with old commenting systems. But now you don't need to be worry about reply options etc. First take a look at some features of threaded comments than I will show you how to enable threaded comments option in bloggers

Some Features of Bloggers Threaded comments

• Your readers can now easily interact with more freedom and flexibility while leaving replies or posting comments.
• You don't need to use @etc to reply to comment 

How To Enable Bloggers Threaded comments

You just need to enable two options:

Set FEED to Full

1. Go To Blogger > Settings > Site Feeds
2. Set Allow Blog Feed To Full
3. Hit save
    

Embedded Comments

You must embedded comments below posts as you can see in our blog. The comments are visible just below posts and you don't need to click a link for comments to popup. I am sure most of you are using embedded comments but for those who aren't please do this:

1. Go To Blogger > Settings > comments
2. Choose "Embedded below posts" 
3. Hit Save!

All done! You must see now a reply link below each comment posted. Clicking this link will allow you to reply to a specific comment.  Enjoy this excellent new feature.

About the Author
Ammar is the a 16 Years old blogger. He loves to write about Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. He blogs at AllBloggingTips where he share Blogging Tips and Free Themes

How to customize pictures

We all know the importance of good images in a blog. One good image can turn a article from ok to the best. Sometimes even your best image wants some simple customization to fit your blog. Photo effect such as round corners, reflection, shadow are popular and fastest way to make your photo ready for your blog. Sometimes it is better to remove image border from your blog and choose the photo with right background to give your image more professional look. In this post I will show several websites that allows you to add the effects keeping the quality of your photo intact.Customizing your pictures

Photo Credit: 3rdworldman from morguefile.com

using the method below are faster and easier and completely free without any skill.

 

 

 

►Crop it with Resizeyourimage.com

Sometimes before you re-size your image might you want to crop it first. Sometimes details can highlight your article better. And this site does a really great job with it. You can Visually choose and crop out the image and still have your original quality.

► Resize it with Resizr.com

Resizing your image is important to focus on the detail or to fit your thumbnail perfectly. It is better to crop your photo your image before you start adding any effect.  From this website you can very easily customize and and choose dimensions and quality of your photo as well as formats.

►Add Shadow effect with Dropshadow.net

After your done with with cropping and resizing you can start adding some cool effect such as shadow for a realistic look. From this site you can do exactly that without having to loose any quality. If your blog doesn't have any borders shadow and reflection effect are a a killer way to make your photo 'awesome' for your blog.

►Add Reflection effect with GenFerateit.net

Adding reflection effect makes your image stand out just like adding shadow. And this website is already popular for several other generator and does a great job on creating customized reflection. You also don't have to loose any image quality. But remember not to to add reflection and shadow on the same image.

Those followings are mainly the most popular and effective effects to make your photo better in minutes. The best thing about those tools are that they are completely free and keep your photo quality intact. Whether you need a photo for a website or to customize your personal photo

fast and free this tool always comes handy.

Share and comment below if you like it and your favorite customizing tool.

What is blogging?

Your blog or web log is your won online space to share your thoughts ideas and information. But if you want to take those ideas and information in a new level so that it finds a fair amount of reader, you should consider following some 'rule' to make your blog stand out. The more professional your blog will look the more chances of you getting more ‘loyal’ readers. I will write a series of short articles on each topics to start your journey on blogging.

Although the first thing that comes in mind for start blogging is to find a good blogging platform, this article will mainly focus on the base idea of blogging. But just to point fingers the best blogging platform right now you can use for free are either Blogger or Wordpress. But the ideas for all platforms are ‘blogging’ that's what actually matters.

Some great articles on pros and cons of blogger platform

*WordPress vs Blogger and their Pro Blogging

*Choose the Right Blogging Platform

*Choosing a blogging platform

►What is Blogging?

Blog is short for web log. It’s you won little space online. You can connect to other people by spreading your thoughts, ideas, experiences, information rumors and pretty much anything you like. It’s your choice what you want to put into your blog and that chooses who you want as your audience. Check out the video for better understanding on 'blogging'. The more you know about your base the better it is for you success later on.

►Do you really want to be a blogger?

Blogging is one thing that if you want to success in, you should never stop writing. The more you blog, you learn about your skills, improvements and also notify bots about the importance of your blog. It is always your choice why you want to blog and how you want to blog. But if you see no point of writing and sharing, blogging just might not be for you. And you must have courage to write regularly. And if you have heard about dream stories to earn thousands of dollar just by writing anything out there-you now know what are scam what are not. Choose first if you actually want to blog or not because it’s a rather difficult (easy) process to create a successful blog. Otherwise it’s just waste of your valuable time.

►Focusing on one topic

Now if you choose to blog, you need a focused an basic idea on what you are going to write about. It can be anything you want but you have to have good passion or experience on it. It can be about gardening, rockets, new technology or anything you are interested in. Even if you like quantum physics and know nothing about it is possible to write and create a successful blog on it but chances are very low. It is important to focus your blog on only one topic. It can be a broad topic but it should flow in one direction in order to keep your reader focused. Writing about random things are not a good way to get a single targeted audience. And your audience wants certain type of news/solution and it is less likely someone will follow your blog for that one post. Thinking about what you-as a audience would like, is the main idea for creating a good content and/or blog.It is very important to write about one topic unless you have a broad audience ready for you.

Follow our blog for next series. Also be sure to leave a comment on what you think about the topics for today.

How to get a custom username for Facebook

If you have a Facebook page you will have some weirdly big URL that you have to use and share. But if it was shorten and custom it would be 10 times better. It's pretty easy step to do so. Follow the step below and it's very easy and fast.

We will be able to change the URL to something like this.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING

Once you change your page username you will never be able to change it back!

STEP 1

GO to https://www.facebook.com/username

STEP 2

Choose the page you want to select below and write your desire username on the right

STEP 3

Click check availability (be sure to read all the tips) and Confirm it. Your done!

NOTES:

If you have already used your old link of your Facebook page don't worry it will go to the same place!

Enjoy!

Remove borders form your blog image

Removing borders from your blog image is easy. You can do this using different ways. The first tutorial is a very simple CSS code that will change the setting for all the images in your blog to no border. 

Before doing any changes it would be best to backup your actual HTML, although it wouldn't be affected much!

►To remove image border from Blogger blog

1. Go to blogger.com 

2. Click design

3. Go to Template Designer

4. Click on Advanced

5. On the right where it says add custom CSS copy and paste this code

img {border: none}

6. Click Apply to Blog

7. Your done!

   

•  To undo the effect follow the same instruction and delete the code and then click apply to blog

• You can use the same trick and add it in the CSS of your blog to make it no border images.

►Custom No border image Tutorial

Sometimes it is useful to use border in some cause. But for the other cause if you don't want to destroy the border from all the images you can custom change the setting for each image.

Use the following code for your blog in HTML section

Hope that help you out. If you have any question, comment or concerns do so in the comment section below.

Where to find free images for your blog?

When you write a quality content you need a quality image. Finding free images for your blog is very important to keep your reader focused and to show you how professional you are. Since images says 1000 words it is always best to find the best images for your blog. You can get high quality images for 1/2 $ for a simple use, but getting the photo for free will save your pocket. Only problems with free photos are that they are not very high quality. So without giving you the list of places where you can find free photos here is one site that will give you high quality images and  copyright free.

►Morgue File

It's the place for dead pictures. That means copyright free high quality thousands of images. You can also search for other paid money using dream time. The best thing about this site is that it allows you to embed your picture right from their site. You can also crop the photo as you like and if you wish to give credit you can also do so using their all ready code. If you are unsure about the license click here to check that out.

Instructions:

1.  Go to www.morguefile.com

2.  Write the keyword for the free photos from upper right corner search box and click search

3.  For further search look for the search box on the upper right and be sure the it says "free photos" next to it

4.  Click on the image you want to use

5.  You will see two links, one is for image url and other is for page url

6.  Click on the image url and copy it to use it from their site, or download it by right click and save and upload it to your blog

7.  If you wish to give them credit from step 5 click on the crop and post

8. Crop as much as you need and click finish

9.  You can also see a code now to embed in your site or use the crop version from their website.

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It's always a good idea to give credit for image if you are not sure to avoid any conflict later on. This website is great because it allows you to use the image link right from their site. If you use blogger or similar site/ host there is a limited amount of MG/GB you can use, so it's always good to use the linking src. If you don't know how to do it, and how you can drive more traffic using the photo you can check out my other tutorial about how to customize your image for blogging to drive more traffic.

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Photo credit: 3rdworldman from morguefile.com

If you have any questions and concerns be sure to leave a comment below.

Health concerns for blogger-Sitting down

For a average computer person, internet might seem like a heave. For the bloggers who sit on their butts to create the good content for it, I don't know what internet is to them. But I know like many others there is a catch. Not the money trap but health concerns I am talking about. Blogging and creating a successful web space is a hard work. You should always know what your doing and do it well organized. Since life is not just about blogging, be sure to think about your heath. since we can't actually run in-front of the computer. Sitting is the main tool (!) here. But when that goes out of numbers you should know the consequences of that doings. Since internet is all about fast and easy, check out the statics and consequences of sitting on your butt in-front of the computer without telling you what you should do.

Via: Medical Billing And Coding