wayne on November 13, 2008
Using the Blogger interface to pick a new template layout couldn't be any more simple. This page is by far the easiest to understand, and perhaps one you might never look at again after establishing your blog. However, there may come a time when you want to give your blog a new look. On this page you can do just that.
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wayne on November 11, 2008
There will come a time for those that really get into using Blogger that they'll want to modify and manipulate their blogger template to do things a little differently than the standard templates provide by default. Perhaps you want to switch your standard Blogger theme to a custom theme that was built by someone else. Maybe you want to create your own template, or perhaps make some simple changes. In this lesson I'll cover the interface that allows you to do just that.
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wayne on October 21, 2008
Fonts and colors. Aside from graphics, that's all a web site is made up of right? Blogger provides this administration page to give you the ability to make changes to your blogs font styles and colors. It's an easy tool to use, and an easy tool to really make a mess with. In this lesson we'll review the fonts and colors administration page and discover some simple ways to tweak your site to perfection.
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wayne on October 16, 2008
One of the most common blog gadgets found is the blog list, or as it is also known, the blog roll. The blog list gadget found in the Blogger blog system displays a list of links that point to other blogs or web sites. Most bloggers use this gadget to display a list of blogs that they read, but there are so many uses for this simple control. In this post I will review the blog list gadget as well as list some of the uses you might not have considered for this gadget.
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wayne on October 14, 2008
Due to this lesson potentially turning into a novel, I decided to split it into two parts. The first part covered the page elements layout navbar and header sections. In this we'll continue on by taking a look at the Blog Posts, Side Navigation and Footer elements.
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wayne on October 9, 2008
The page elements layout administration page in Blogger allows you to add widgets to your Blogger blog, as well as position them. When you look at this page, you'll see what's known in the IT world as a wire-frame of your site. A wire-frame is nothing more than a generic layout that describes the sections of your site. I might be reasonable safe in saying that if you are reading this, not only do you have a Blogger blog, but you might have also spent quite a bit of time playing around on this particular page.
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wayne on September 26, 2008
The permissions settings tab in the Blogger administrative area allows you to add other authors to post articles to your blog. You can also add another administrator that can do the same things you do as an administrator of your blog. This is a great feature to your blog, and you will want to read this post to understand why that is.
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wayne on September 23, 2008
OpenID provides the ability to create a single username and password, yet use the same credentials at many different sites. Anyone that has been surfing the Internet for any duration of time has surely come upon the issue of remembering a login name and password for many sites. How do you handle that? Enter OpenID, your solution to not having to remember so many credentials, maybe. Read on to learn more.
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wayne on September 17, 2008
Blogger.com's email settings tab allows you, the blog owner, to do something really terrific. With the settings found on this tab, you can post to your blog via email and also have your posts sent to a list of email addresses whenever a new post is posted. This can be beneficial to Blogger.com users in many ways.
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wayne on September 12, 2008
Your site feed settings administration page in Blogger provides you the ability to manage your subscriber feed. It's core to the operation of your blog and allows visitors to receive what you post on your blog in their email inbox, or within a reader such as Google Reader. Providing an easy way to find your feed link and helping your visitors find that link to subscribe to your feed will help to increase the chance they will become regular visitors to your blog. That's what we all want as bloggers isn't it?
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wayne on September 3, 2008
Although there are only two controls found on the Archive Settings administration page, they are very important to your Blogger.com blog. This post will cover the two controls found on this page and describe what they are, and what they do. As well, I'll discuss a little about their impact to your blog.
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wayne on September 1, 2008
Comments are vital to having an interactive blog. Without comments from your visitors, a blog would be nothing more than a web site providing one way communication. In light of that, you could easily use a Blogger.com blog to create a standard web site if you wanted to. In this post, we'll take a look at the commenting features within Blogger and learn a little more about them.
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wayne on August 21, 2008
Blogger.com provides a variety of formatting options for you to use outside of modifying your template. Items such as dates and times, the default language and how many posts display on your homepage are all controlled with the Settings - Formatting admin tab.
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wayne on August 19, 2008
The Publishing Settings tab allows you to define how your blog is accessed. Is it currently accessed by a URL that looks like myblog.blogspot.com? If so, then you are considered a sub-domain of www.blogspot.com. While I'm not terribly sure of the impact, I do know that it isn't the optimal set up. If you want to use your own domain name, this is where you would make those changes.
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wayne on August 6, 2008
The basic settings tab provides you a certain amount of control over your blog. While you may not have full control, there are enough mechanisms put in place to allow you to do everything you might want to. We are going to start by taking a look at each of the setting pages provided to us on the Blogger.com blog system.
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