Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Windows Live Essentials 2011

We're talking about a great program: Windows Live Essentials 2011. If you're a blogger, you know that this is a must-have program. With Windows Liver Writer 2011 you can use it to write articles, posts, adjust the layout with a variety of stunning photo effects, and even you can directly use emoticons feature because it is there. All have been provided with complete, so you will gain great experience in blogging.

live writer 2011

It's time to get rid of Windows Live Writer 2009 because today has been present in 2011 a stable version. This version is better and have more features so feel like using Microsoft Word 2007.

These are features that have been completed on the Windows Live Essentials 2001:

  • Windows Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • Movie Maker
  • Mail
  • Windows Live Writer
  • Family Safety
  • Windows Live Mesh
  • Messenger Companion
  • Bing Bar
  • Outlook Connector Pack
  • Microsoft Silverlight

Click here to download the offline version of the installer : Download offline version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 [Size ~ 156MB]

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Display photo on your blog comments

I'm sure you often see the photo of someone who gave comments on a blog. Actually, it is easy to display the photo in our comments. Here I will show you the way that I think is the easiest and quick process. The steps are as follows:

  • Sign in and register at http://en.gravatar.com
  • Select |Sign Up|
  • Enter your email address, click | Sign Up | and wait until there is verification email in your email inbox.
  • Open email from the gravatar, then click the URL verification.
  • A new tab will be opened, then you are prompted to enter your nickname and password.
  • Gravatar default settings are usually still a gravatar standard (gravatar icon).

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  • To replace gravatar icon into photo or image, go to |My Account| then click |Add an image| and your photo will be uploaded.
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  • After that, you can crop your photos or images as you wish.
  • Click |Finish|.

    Easy isn’t it? From now, your photos will appear on your every comment on any blog.
    Hopefully useful.

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    How to add Popular Post widget

    If you want to display a list of your most widely read articles by visitors, you can use a widget that has been provided by Blogger. Actually, this widget is quite old, but probably many blogger do not know yet.

    You can’t find this feature through the usually dashboard. So you have to go here http://draft.blogger.com. After that, go to | Design | Page Elements | and click | Add a Gadget link |. There are two types of widgets in there. One is used to display your most popular articles, other used to display total pageview.

    populer post

    You just adjust and select the parameters that have been provided :)

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    How to place ads below the post

    In order to more easily see by your visitors, ads code should be placed under the posts. This is more effective to increase the number of ads clicks.

    The steps are as follows:

    1. Please Encode your ads script first. You can use the Centricle tool to do so. Paste your ads script in the box provided, and press the Encode button.
    2. After that, log into Blogger. Click | Layout | Edit HTML |
    3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates"
    4. Find this code <data:post.body/>. Use Ctrl + F or F3 for faster
    5. Place the ad code that has been encoded under this code <data:post.body/>
    6. Click | Preview | to ensure there is no script error.
    7. If everything is OK just click | Save Template |
    8. Done :)
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    How to create Related Post on blogger

    At this time I will show you how to create a related post. This method is very useful to increase page views since the end of the article will be displayed titles of the articles are linked, so that visitors interested in opening our other articles.

    Simply, do something like this:

    1. Open your Blogger account
    2. Open | Edit HTML | then give a checklist on | Expand Widget Templates |
    3. Before making changes to the code, you should do a backup first with a click on the | Download Full Template | and save.
    4. In the area of the template code find this code <data:post.body/>. Use Ctrl + F or F3 for faster.
    5. Copy the code below and paste it right below the code <data:post.body/>

      <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><div class='similiar'> <div class='widget-content'> <h3>Related Posts by Categories</h3> <div id='data2007'/><br/><br/><div id='hoctro'> </div><script type='text/javascript'> var homeUrl3 = &quot;<data:blog.homepageUrl/>&quot;; var maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 4;var maxNumberOfLabels = 10; maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel = 100;maxNumberOfLabels = 3; function listEntries10(json) { var ul = document.createElement(&#39;ul&#39;); var maxPosts = (json.feed.entry.length &lt;= maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel) ? json.feed.entry.length : maxNumberOfPostsPerLabel; for (var i = 0; i &lt; maxPosts; i++) {var entry = json.feed.entry[i]; var alturl;for (var k = 0; k &lt; entry.link.length; k++) { if (entry.link[k].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) { alturl = entry.link[k].href;break;}} var li = document.createElement(&#39;li&#39;); var a = document.createElement(&#39;a&#39;);a.href = alturl; if(a.href!=location.href) {var txt = document.createTextNode(entry.title.$t); a.appendChild(txt);li.appendChild(a);ul.appendChild(li); }} for (var l = 0; l &lt; json.feed.link.length; l++) { if (json.feed.link[l].rel == &#39;alternate&#39;) { var raw = json.feed.link[l].href;var label = raw.substr(homeUrl3.length+13); var k; for (k=0; k&lt;20; k++) label = label.replace(&quot;%20&quot;, &quot; &quot;); var txt = document.createTextNode(label); var h = document.createElement(&#39;b&#39;);h.appendChild(txt); var div1 = document.createElement(&#39;div&#39;);div1.appendChild(h); div1.appendChild(ul); document.getElementById(&#39;data2007&#39;).appendChild(div1);}}} function search10(query, label) { var script = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;); script.setAttribute(&#39;src&#39;, query + &#39;feeds/posts/default/-/&#39; + label +&#39;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=listEntries10&#39;); script.setAttribute(&#39;type&#39;, &#39;text/javascript&#39;); document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);} var labelArray = new Array();var numLabel = 0; <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> textLabel = &quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;; var test = 0; for (var i = 0; i &lt; labelArray.length; i++) if (labelArray[i] == textLabel) test = 1;if (test == 0) { labelArray.push(textLabel); var maxLabels = (labelArray.length &lt;= maxNumberOfLabels) ? labelArray.length : maxNumberOfLabels;if (numLabel &lt; maxLabels) { search10(homeUrl3, textLabel);numLabel++;}}</b:loop></b:loop> </script></div></div></b:if>

    6. Click | Save Template |
    7. Done.

    The result is like below.

    related post

    You can replace 'Related Post' (red color) with the words you like. For example, Other Articles, Read Also, or something like that. To show the 10 titles of related articles, change the number 6 (red color) with 10.

    Hopefully useful :)

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    Recent auto read more for Blogger : More powerful !

    If you're observant, auto read more on this blog has a thumbnail image. This is the recent Auto Read More, more powerful, because direct sentences for beheadings function works automatically without having to add the code like the old one.

    This recent Auto Read More is capable to display the first image in the article and make it float in the beginning of the paragraph, although the picture is in the middle or end of the article.

    Interested and want to try? Continue reading this article.

    First, please go directly to the page Edit HTML, find this code </ head> then copy the script below and paste it above the </ head>. If so, do not forget to save first.

    <script type='text/javascript'>
    var thumbnail_mode = "float" ;
    summary_noimg = 250;
    summary_img = 250;
    img_thumb_height = 120;
    img_thumb_width = 120;

    </script>

    <script type='text/javascript'>
    //<![CDATA[
    /******************************************
    Auto-readmore link script, version 2.0 (for blogspot)
    (C)2008 by Anhvo
    visit http://en.vietwebguide.com to get more cool hacks
    ********************************************/
    function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){
    if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)
    {
    var s = strx.split("<");
    for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){
    if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){
    s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length);
    }
    }
    strx = s.join("");
    }
    chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2;
    while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++;
    strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);
    return strx+'...';
    }
    function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
    var div = document.getElementById(pID);
    var imgtag = "";
    var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
    var summ = summary_noimg;
    if(img.length>=1) {
    imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';
    summ = summary_img;
    }
    var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
    div.innerHTML = summary;
    }
    //]]>
    </script>

    Still on the Edit HTML pages, give checklist the "Expand widget templates" and then find this code <data:post.body/>

    If you have found, replace <data:post.body/> with all of the code below:

    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
    <div expr:id='"summary" + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
    <script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");</script>
    <span class='rmlink' style='float:left'><a expr:href='data:post.url'>READ MORE - <data:post.title/></a></span>
    </b:if>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'><data:post.body/></b:if>

    Please save and see the results:)

    Notice:

    thumbnail_mode var = "float", (we can decide whether the location of the thumbnail in the (float) left, or if not please change it with (no-float)
    summary_noimg = 250; (Define how many characters will be displayed in the post without a picture / thumbnail)
    summary_img = 250; (Define how many characters will be displayed in the post with a picture / thumbnail)
    img_thumb_height = 120; (Thumbnails height in pixels)
    img_thumb_width = 120; (Thumbnails width in pixels)

    Important!

    If you have installed Read More in old version, the code should return to its original first. Remove the red code below (each template may be different, so just adjusted)

    <div class='post-header-line-1'/>
    <div class='post-body'>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
    <style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
    <p><data:post.body/></p>
    <b:else/>

    <style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>
    <p><data:post.body/></p>
    <a expr:href='data:post.url'>Readmore</a>
    </b:if>

    <div style='clear: both;'/>
    READ MORE - Recent auto read more for Blogger : More powerful !

    7 New Widget for Blogger

    As we know, Blogger has launched new functional gadget that is recent comment, recent post, etc. Here is the list functional widget for Blogger. It’s easy to install.

    1. Random Post Widget : Developed by Bloggodown, this widget displays links in form of link lists. There are two options, random post list and random post with summary and really easy to install.

    random-posts-widget-with-summary

    2. Recent Post with Thumbnail : Developed by Bloggertricks this widget is really eye catching to show recent post. Visitor can see thumbnail picture.

     recent posts widget for blogger

    3. Total Count Post and Total Comment on Post Widget : This widget will show your total post and total comment. You can get this widget from Bloggodown

    Total-Posts-And-Comments

    4. Related Post Widget : Get this widget from Blogspottutorial. Usefull to extend pageview of your blog. Placed under post and will show another post in same category.

     

    5. Popular Post Widget : Show link of most commented post. Get this widget and installation setting on Bloggerstop

    6. Recent Comments Widget : Helpfull to track newest comment, so you can response it quickly. Get this recent comments widget from bloggerstop

    7. Top Commentator Widget : Widget from bloggerstop, show the most loyale visitor that always drop comment on your post. Show your gratefull by showing their link.

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    How do offline posts using Microsoft Word 2007

    Usually, if we want to post an article we will write it in Microsoft Word first. After that we open a new blog post pages and do copy-paste. In another way, articles will be moved first to WordPad to remove a format that come stuck when using MS Word.

    There is another way to post an article using MS Word and can be uploaded directly without opening a browser. Maybe you do not already know, and wondered how to do. It's easy. We will use of the features in MS Word to post articles directly to our blog.

    Ok just go ahead, open your MS Word, and then click MS Office logo in the upper left corner, click | New | then click on icons | New Blog Post | and | Create |

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    Will display a page like this. Type the title of the post in the | Enter Post Title Here |, blank field underneath is where you write your articles.

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    Before start writing articles, you must setup for your blog account first. Click the icon | Manage Accounts | New |. On | Choose Your Provider Blog | choose your blog provider, then click | Next |. Fill in the blog address, user name and password, click | ok |. MS Word will automatically register your blog account. So your computer must be connected to the internet.

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    After finish writing an article, you can upload with simply click of an icon | Publish | and your articles will be sent to your blog. If you have many blogs, make sure you choose your blog where articles will be posted. Click on the blog list at right position next to the account (see screenshot below).

    gambar2_thumb

    Although it seemed more practical, you must open your blog directly to make adjustments such as the layout, fonts, labels, image, or tag. But it can be done anytime:)

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    Can not upload image in Wordpress

    If you use selfhosted WordPress, may have experienced difficulties: can not upload images while writing an article, or may not be able to install the wordpress plugin via wp-admin. Usually, a notice will appear like this:

    Unable to create directory / wp-content/uploads/2010/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    Do not be confused. Also, you do not need to reinstall WordPress, because such case is only a problem of file setting permissions on wp-content folder. I’ll show you how to handle this: go into your account, continue to | cPanel | File Manager | Public HTML | search wp-content folder. See the screenshot below. Right-click the folder | wp-content | File Permission | next screenshot will appear.

    image1 image2 

    See there. Maybe there is code number 755 when the little box of write on the group permissions and public permissions are not checklisted. Now replace that number with 777 or give a checklist to all of the boxes then click | OK |. Done.

    Now, please upload images or install the plugin via wp-admin :)

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