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Adding A Chat Box / Shout Box To Blogger

November 25, 2011 By Don Caprio 3 Comments

Adding a chat box or shout box to your blog is just another way to make your blog more social. It makes you connect with your visitors even more and makes your blog engaging. A simple chatbox might make your blog visitor stay longer than normal. A chatbox / shoutbox can also serve as a guestbook where visitors can leave comments and suggestions easily without the need to create a separate page for that. If you have an entertainment blog, then you definitely must have this. Adding a chatbox to blogger is quite easy and you don't need to know much HTML, just a little copy and paste procedure and you're done with it.There are lots of sites around where you can create a chatbox / shoutbox widget … [Read more...]

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New Social Media Buttons For Blogger

November 21, 2011 By Don Caprio 43 Comments

Social networking is an important part of getting traffic that just can't be ignored and making it easier for your visitors to find you on their favorite social networks isn't such a bad idea. Apart from using nice share buttons, bookmarking your site on different social networks also serves as a way to alert your visitors each time you post an update. The icons here are of different sets and you can place them anywhere on your blog, linking them to your facebook, twitter and google plus profile or fan pages. The sets also contain RSS and email icons. You can link the email icon to your contact page or feedburner email subscription link. I only used the most popular social media icons which … [Read more...]

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How To Attach Files For Downloads On Blogspot

November 10, 2011 By Don Caprio 11 Comments

It's not possible to attach files with your blog posts on blogger except you're only dealing with images and videos. Unlike wordpress where you can freely attach files of all formats with your blog posts, you have to find an external file host to do this on blogspot. Maybe you have some games, softwares, zip files or some files in an uncommon format you intend to share with your blog readers, there are still alternative sites to use that provide free space to host these files.There are so many file sharing/hosting sites you can use and these include hotfile, mediafire, rapidshare, megaupload and so on. I do use hotfile because they allow remote uploading. This means uploading files through … [Read more...]

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Using Mobstac With Custom Domain For Blogger Mobile View

November 8, 2011 By Don Caprio 16 Comments

Blogger isn't that tight when it comes to mobile view, we all know that. I've been using blogger default mobile view for quite a couple of months now but I honestly don't like the look that much. I once used mobstac which I wrote about here but ditched it just because I was stuck with an address I didn't like, my blog looked like a mobstac sub-domain on mobile. Anyway, my blog is now mobilized with mobstac and I get to use a sub-domain of doncaprio.com. Cool, huh? Check out http://m.doncaprio.com and see just what I'm talking about.Mobstac is a offers a great services that gives your blog's mobile view some life! Unlike blogger's default mobile template, you can actually edit your … [Read more...]

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Highlighting Blog Author’s Comment In A Diferent Color (For Blogspot)

November 3, 2011 By Don Caprio 12 Comments

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You've probably been to some blogs with blog author's comments highlighted in a color different from other comments. This hack comes with some custom templates but most templates do not have it. Whether you're using one of those blogger classic templates or a custom one, you can have your comment highlighted in a different color as the blog author. You can check my reply on this blog post to see the demo. The steps below outlines exactly how I did it.How To Highlight Author's Comment In A different Color For Blogspot1. Log in to blogger and go to Design > Edit HTML2. Click the box labelled Expand Widget Template3. Press CTRL + F on your keyboard to search for this … [Read more...]

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How To Number Comments On Blogspot

November 3, 2011 By Don Caprio 9 Comments

Replying to unnumbered blog comments can really be confusing especially when you can't refer to comment authors by name. More people choose to reply anonymously and but this gets easier when you can refer to them in your replies by their comment number. This blog hack works perfefectly for me as you can see the numbered comments on this blog, right? Apart from making it easier to reply, adding numbers to your blog comments gives your blog some sort of profesional look you're definitely going to like. It's quite neat, simple and easy to implement only if you follow these steps:1. Log in to your blogger account and go to Design page and click Edit HTML. You should back up your template … [Read more...]

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