Add Reddit button with count on your blog

Again here with a cool blogger hack.You read earlier about adding Digg button to your post. So i thought how can i be so rude at reddit since both sites work similar and reddit also provides traffic as same as digg. So this post is dedicated about adding reddit button in your blog. If you are not familiar to reddit and not clear about its benefit for your blog then you can visit Reddit homepage.

Its not hard to add reddit button to your post so that the post can be added to reddit by the readers. Its just some alter of codes like adding digg button and you got it. Ok lets start, first goto Edit HTML section of your Layout and also click Expand widget Templates. Now, search for <data:post.body/>
Now if you want to put your reddit button on the top right then replace the above code with this one.

<div style='float:left; margin-right:10px;'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script>
</div>
<data:post.body/>

You can also keep the reddit button on the top right section by relacing the <data:post.body/> by the code given below.

<div style='float:right; margin-right:10px;'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script>
</div>
<data:post.body/>

You can keep experimenting with codes to keep it in some more parts of the blog. Anyway, if you liked this then i hope a comment from you.

Tags: blogger hacks, blog hack, make blog better

Create sticky post on blogger!

I used to think if creating sticky post for blogger was that tough work. But thanks to eHow.com which helped me knowing that i was really an idiot to think such. Creating sticky post is really very very easy and its like adding a new page element ob blog. In fact, it is adding a new page element on blog.Sorry, oh you are asking about sticky post? Ok it is that post which always appears when your blog opens just above each post. Confusing? Well, that was the best definition i could give.

To create a sticky post, goto Page Elements section and then click on add a new page element. Now click on HTML/javascript and write what you need to announce or say. After you are done, save it and drag newly written HTML/Javascript item to the blog posts section. Now save and enjoy your sticky post.
If this post was good then read also Adding Digg Bottom in your post and Make your links tweak in blogger!

Tags: blog hacks, blogger hacks, make blog better

Make your links TWEAK in blogger!

This is my second blogger hack on making things tweak in blogger. Before i wrote a post on making images tweak on blogger. Then i thought if i could try making links too Tweak when mouse is placed on it. I tried and i did it. Here is rest on how to make your links tweak in blogger.

Its same like making images tweak. Just editing a hover code and we are done. First, go to your Edit HTML section of your Layout and search for the following code:

a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}

Now replace the code with the code given below:

a:hover {
position: relative;
bottom: 5px;
left: 1px;
color:#000000;
}

Now save the template and look at your page, the links tweaked man.

You can change the color of your link to your desired color when it tweaks. Also you can set your own parameters for your tweaking image by editing top and left pixels.
If you got any problems the just leave the comment and i will catch you.

I hope you enjoyed this post the try other blogger hacks like Control number of posts displayed in label page and Remove newer post and older post link from your blog.

Tags: blog hacks, blogger hacks, make blog better

Remove "Newer Posts" and "Older Posts" Link : a blogger hack

Blogger hack on removing the irritating "newer posts" and "older posts" link shown after the end of the post is what i am writing about. This blogger hack belongs to Annie of Blogger university and i am putting this blogger hack here as it may reach to the readers who don't know about her blog.

To remove "Newer posts" and "older post" is easy. It also removes "home" link from the buttom of the page. Firstly search this code in your blogs Edit HTML section:

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: left;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: right;
}

#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

Now replace that code with the following code:

#blog-pager-newer-link {
display: none;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
display: none;
}

#blog-pager {
display: none;
}

Save the template and thank to Annie, you are done. By the help of this blogger hack, you will never see those links in your blog again.
If this hack was helpful then visit our collection of blogger hacks.

Add google web search widget in your blog

Now we can add Google web search widget in any part of our blog. This widget lets us to search the web from the blog.This small but really cool widget allows us to search any piece of the web.

The widget looks exactly like you saw above. You can add this Google search engine widget in your blog by visiting a blog Widgets for free.

Add background in your blog

Adding background in a blog, that is what we are talking about now. Bored up with the template color and want to add some twist by adding background to a blog then this post is for you.

For adding background in your blog, first you need an background image. Squidfingers is the one with lots of background images. After choosing your background image, you should upload it to the web. I use Google pages for this mostly. Now we found our background image and we uploaded it to the net so what should we do next? Next, shut down your computer. Wait, just kidding. Now search for the following code in your Edit HTMl page of layout section.

body {
background:$bgcolor;

We need to add the url of the background image in the following format:

url(url-of-your-image)

Now put your image url just below the first code and it may look like this:

body {
background:$bgcolor;
url(http://rabinsmith.googlepages.com/pattern_127.gif);

Now replace my url with your own image url. Be sure ; appears at the end of the statement.
Now if you did well then your background must be visible after you save the template and reload your blog.
this was todays post about adding background on your blog. You can also check other blogger hacks like Control number of pages displayed in label page and showing first letter of the post Big.

Show Post title first in search engine

I am here with a new blogger hack and this blogger hack is really fresh as i too just learned it. This blogger hack is about showing your post title before the blog title in search engines and it is called swapping blog title. This blogger hack is really useful for good search engine results.

You must have noticed your blog title shown first followed by the title of post in the search engine result. This thing doesnot sounds that cool. So how to get rid of it? From the help of archit, i finally got rid of it and i am describing the process of the blogger hack here.
Goto layout and then to edit HTML page of your blog. Now search for the following code:

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

If you didn't found that code then you can try searching this code instead:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Now replace that code with the code given below:

<!-- Blogger Swap Title by Archit T at http://blog.archit.in -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title>
<data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/>
</title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
<!-- End of Blogger Swap Title by Archit T at http://blog.archit.in -->

Now save the template and you are done. All the thanks goes to archit for this blogger hack.

You can also try other blogger hacks like removing border from header and images and creating float images in blogger.

Show 10 or more Recent posts

A blogger recent posts widget contains only 5 recent posts. This shortcoming of the feature may have left many bloggers sad. There are many recent posts widget developed these days but i really find the real blogger recent post widget cool. So i always wished if it could contain 10 or more recent posts. If you too lie in my category then i am here to make you happy.

Its so easy to show your recent posts as many as you want. Its just a click away but remember that you should do some edit in the code. Just change the number of your choice and give your blog URL, you are done. Since i am not the man behind this blogger widget i suggest you to visit the original post. If you read about this widget for first time in my blog then i would be more than happy.
Check other cool blogger hacks like Adding Digg button on your post and How to hide post date.

Cool Post rating widget for blogger

Another blog widget and this time with a post rating widget for blogger. Yeah the same post rating widget you can see after the post in my blog. This Post rating widget was developed by Js-kit and i am acting as a promoter, free promoter would be the best word.

This post rating blogger widget is cool as it has cool features. You can see how many votes your post has got and also can see the rating of the post in stars. Js-kit has indeed developed a good blogger widget. But this is not the only reason i am writing this post. I also want to inform about the exact place where to keep the code to get your widget just below the post like mine. The website gives the idea about code placing in another format which the ammature blogger like me find confusing. So here is the complete process.
Goto 'edit HTML' page from your "layout' and search for the following code:

<div class='post-footer'>
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

Now place the code below just above the upper code.

<div class="js-kit-rating" title="" permalink=""></div>
<script src="http://js-kit.com/ratings.js"></script>

Now save the template and you are done. that was easy and i don't hesitate to admit that i made it easier then the original sites description.
Anyway, you are free to check other blogger widgets like Recent posts widget with a post summary and Top commentator widget for blogger.

Add google calendar on your blog

Want to add a calendar on your blog? I don't. So i don't have added a calendar. But choice differs and you may like to keep the calendar on the wall of your blog. So here i am with a description about the calendar provided us by our big brother Google.

Google calendar widget is a ..hmmm.....calendar widget which is perfect to keep on your blog. This widget not only works cool rather it looks cool to. You can customize the look of your calendar as you wish. As i said i don't have a calendar in my blog but i have got a screenshot that may help you.

Get This Gadget!

Blogger hack: Hide blog post date!

The theme of this blogger hack is not new. I have already written a post to remove blog post's date, time and author earlier. But this blogger hack doesn't removes the blog post date rather it just hides the blog post date from your reader so that you shouldn't have to remove the code from your template.

Start by going to Dashboard then to Layout and finally to edit HTML.

h2.date-header {
margin:1.5em 0 .5em;
}

Now replace the above code with the following code below:

h2.date-header {
margin:1.5em 0 .5em;
display:none;
}

Now save the template, reload the blog and thank me. This was easy, wasn't it?
You can also try other blogger hacks like Controlling number of posts displayed in archive and label pages or Removing borders from header and images.

Hide Subscribe to: Posts(atom) , a blogger hack!

Time for another blogger hack guys. This time i am with the shortest blogger hack ever so i thought to make you bore with long description as it may help my post look longer. Anyway, i am not sure where i read this blogger hack so i have nobody to refer hence think as i discovered this blogger hack. This blogger hack is about hiding the unnecessary Subscribe to:Posts(atom)

Well, let me start with same old lines, goto Dashboard then to Layout and then to Edit HTMl and click on Expand widget templates. Now search for the following code:

<div class='blog-feeds'>

Now replace that line with the following line of code below:


<div class='blog-feeds' style='display:none;'>

Now save the template, reload the page and thank me! I think now you will not see that useless line anymore.
If this Blogger hack was useful then try Adding Digg button to your post or Adding Yahoo emotion on your Post!

Top visiting countries widget for blogger

If you are having hell of a time knowing the country your readers come mostly from then this blogger widget is for you. This top visiting countries widget for blogger helps to know that GREAT country which has given birth to most of your visitors.

Top visiting countries blogger widget is really helpful to you to track your target visitors or just to be happy saying 'Dude, people of US love my blog!'. I found this widget in widgetbox and later found that this widget was developed by Visitwidget. To talk about the appearance, this widget originally comes in green and you can choose up to 10 top referring countries. You can see the stat of today or last seven days. And i am not sorry that i am not posting screenshot of this widget. Dude, don't be so lazy just give some praise to the widget developer by knocking on their site. Anyway, if you loved that blogger widget then i will be more than happy if i can see your country in my list.

Get This Widget!

Check similar blogger widget like World visitor widget for blogger.

Free 3 column cool blogger template download

Here today with a cool free 3 column blogger template. It has been long that i haven't given any new blogger templates so i thought i will dedicate this post to a blogger template. Well this template Indomagz blogger template was initially a wordpress template but since it was so cool, it was converted to blogger template.



Indomagz Blogger template is a free 3 column blogger template that was converted from Indomagz wordpress template. This 3 column template has three 125*125 ad space on the sidebar. This template was converted to blogger compatible from wordpress template by dinesh of Bloganol. I think this is a nice choice if you want a cool eye candy 3 colum blogger template. You can see the DEMO first and if you liked it you can DOWNLOAD it too.

World visitor widget for blogger.

Time for another blogger widget guys. I am writing a new post after long time and must say i am feeling so.................fucked up! Well that was the right word. Oh i forgot to say, i got my visa for Australia recently and i am moving there in the first week of July. Oh, thank you so much(i can hear you saying congratulation!) okay lets go back to widget. This widget tracks the country of our blog readers and shows them in your sidebar.

This world visitor blogger widget which initially comes in blue is useful widget if you want to track the country of your blog visitor. This widget shows the country of your visitor in the format of world map. This world visitor blogger widget is really fun if you too love to see the country of your reader like me. well, i found this widget in widgetbox and thought it will be really great if i share it with you. so if you are looking for a cool visitor widget then this blogger widget may not disappoint you.
You can also try other blogger widgets like Top commentator widget or Multiple search engine widget for blogger.

A blogger widget to create Drop down menu easily.

You must have seen my old posts on creating Drop down menu and drop down labels. Those blogger hacks were cool but since we should play with HTML codes to create Drop down menu and labels there it wasn't hassle free or lets say they were not that easy. So i am here with the easiest way to create Drop down menu. i am here with a page designed by hackosphere that can create Drop down menu by just entering title and URL. here's more about it.

This is the easiest Drop down menu creator i have ever seen. You can create your drop down archive or drop down labels anything by this tool.No, you shouldn't play with HTML codes nor you should edit your template. Just enter the title and URL and your drop down menu is ready for you. And another good thing is after you created your drop down menu you can put it in your blog with one click. See the screenshot below created by my own brother to understand it.

Visit Drop Down Menu creator page.

Create Table of contents: A blogger hack.

Back again with a blogger hack and this time with a coolest thing. You can see 'Show Table of contents' section in my blog now where all my table of contents will be loaded with one click. You can try it just to see what table of content looks like if you haven't seen it earlier. Well before starting to write about this blogger hack, i want to remember Hans of beautifulbeta who created this blogger hack as far as i know. Well, i am deriving his codes and hacks but i am trying to write in a much simpler way then him. So here is the process to create a Table of contents in your blog.

Table of contents helps your readers to find your posts easily. Just add some codes and all your posts are one click away from your readers.
Goto blogger 'Edit HTMl' page and search for the code <b:section> with id=main. This is the section which held blog posts. Now replace that line with the following code.

<b:section class='main' id='main' maxwidgets='2' showaddelement='yes'>

Now add the following CSS code to the head section of your template. This code is for the style of your table of contents. You can change this code according to your choice. The best place to add this code is just above ]]></b:skin> I am saying this place now because i was really confused about at which place of the head section should i put this code when i was creating my own Table of contents.


<style type="text/css">
#toc {
border: 0px solid #000000;
background: #ffffff;
padding: 5px;
width:500px;
margin-top:10px;
}
.toc-header-col1, .toc-header-col2, .toc-header-col3 {
background: #ffd595;
color: #000000;
padding-left: 5px;
width:250px;
}
.toc-header-col2 {
width:75px;
}.toc-header-col3 {
width:125px;
}
.toc-header-col1 a:link, .toc-header-col1 a:visited, .toc-header-col2 a:link, .toc-header-col2 a:visited, .toc-header-col3 a:link, .toc-header-col3 a:visited {
font-size:80%;
text-decoration:none;
}
.toc-header-col1 a:hover, .toc-header-col2 a:hover, .toc-header-col3 a:hover {
font-size:80%;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.toc-entry-col1, .toc-entry-col2, .toc-entry-col3 {
padding-left: 5px;
font-size:70%;
}
</style>

Now you are done with 'edit HTML' page. Now save the template and go to 'page elements' section.
Now click on 'add a page element' and then click on 'HTML/Javascript'. Now paste the code there leaving title blank.

<div id="toc"></div>

Now do the final step. Again add a new page element and click on HTML/javascript. Now paste the code there and keep the title 'Table of contents'.

<div id="toclink"><a href="javascript:showToc();">Show TOC</a><br/><br/></div>
<script style="text/javascript" src="http://home.planet.nl/~hansoosting/downloads/blogtoc.js"></script>
<script src="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&max-results=999&callback=loadtoc"></script>

Change YOURBLOG with your own name and congratulate yourself for making your own table of contents.
This was todays blogger hack on creating table of contents. You can also try other blogger hacks like Adding Yahoo! emotion on your blog post or making your images tweak on blogger.

6 mistakes blogger should avoid while writing post!

Okay, i told you earlier about What to do when you have nothing to post about. and Polishing one cool old post to make a new one Now i am here with the 6 mistakes blogger should avoid while writing. I know there are many mistakes we make while writing posts but what to do? I though so long and just came up with 6. Well. here are the six supreme mistakes you should do often when you want your blog to be screwed.

1. Don't write about your dog, girlfriend or kid: Well i have no problem if you write abot these if you have a Personal blog but if you really want to get more readers and more rank then forget about your so called 'love of life' while writing post. I personally feel so bored when i read a blog describing blogger's dog, his kids eye or what ios the weight of his kid. So writing more about your familiar stuff is a big No no. Dude, who cares if your girlfriend kisses like a Slut? So foget them and write your post.

2. Don't interrupt your writing with lots of links: If you are using lots of links here and there then forget getting good response from readers. Many links in the post seems blog so dirty and dirty posts are not so welcomed in the blogosphere. So avoid using lots of links in between your posts and help make your blog a eye candy.

3. Don't promote yourself: Who are you to promote yourself a lot in your post? A new Newton or you invented an atom bomb? You are just one in a millions user of blogosphere. So keep your attitude and story within yourself and STOP promoting yourself and your personal stuffs at the expense of readers.

4. Don't be boring: Yeah don't be boring like me or be ready to have no improvement like this blog. You better try to make your blog interesting by using good languages and nice examples. Entertainment with knowledge rules here so screw your boring articles and put some pressure on your head about making articles interesting.

5. No copy and paste: If you only remember this then be assured that your blog will have a long lifetime. Don't ever think that copying John Chow's article will make you the next John Chow. Just adding mo!re pages on your blog doesn't means you will have a great blog. There has been overwhelming increase in number of bloggers so from now onwards ONLY CREATIVE BLOGGERS CAN SURVIVE HERE. Copying only helps best in high school exam and if you want to do same on blogging, forget it! And even if you copy someones post the don't forget to give a link to the original post or you will have the worst nightmare ever. I was nearly screwed doing this but now i am changed.

6. Don't give your all attention on money: Nowadays many people are bloggers as they want to make some quick money but in real there is no quick money in internet unless you are click scam. Writing too much of sponsored post can also make you lose your readers. Many is not bad thing but if you want to make it big on blogging, money doesn't deserves all the attention.

Well this was my Polished post on the mistakes that should be avoid while writing posts and i know this must be the worst suggestion you ever read on internet. If so, i will be so happy if you Subscribe me

Changed the name of my blog

This is just a quick post to inform that i have changed the name of my blog from 'Third world chaos' to 'Blogged up'. I thought that Third world chaos was not a suitable name for this blog talking about blogging. So do you have any comments about my blog's new name or if you have some good name suggestion then please leave a comment here. Thank you all.

Polishing your old Posts to get a new one!

This post is an expanded post of What to do when you have nothing to post about. Sometimes we don't have topic to blog but we want to give new post to readers everyday. So what should we do at that time? Two options, first go to some other blogs and look for the content that may be USEFUL to your readers and write them in your own words and publish them and another option is write nothing at all. the second idea is harmful and the first one is even more harmful as it may not be whole correct thing. So I have third option, polish your old posts and republish it.

There may be some old good posts that haven't created any buzz they deserved. You can use them in this idea. You can examine why that 'Good' post didn't received good response or why that post was not success though being good? Then you can rewrite that post and publish it. I am sure your post will get the good response it deserved.

This doesn't mean that you can polish anything random and publish it. There are many things that should be considered when you are polishing your old post to make it new. First thing to consider is quality of the post and also should keep in mind if that post is relevant to current time. For example you have a post about Lindsay lohan entering rehab but you cannot publish that post now as it isn't relevant now. If you publish the post irrelevant to the current time, i bet you are going to be screwed. Another thing to keep in mind is the posts fruitfulness to your readers. If the post is not fruitful to your readers then there is no benefit of polishing and publishing it. And yes, the main thing you should keep in your mind is correct all the shortcomings and mistakes of old post when you are polishing it. Just copying your old post from the archive and publishing it will make no difference.

If your new polished post meets all the above criteria then you can publish that post now. Since you are going to publish your unnoticed but good post, it will be real treat for your readers and you too will meet will great response. I too polished my old post What to do when you have nothing to post about, corrected my old mistakes and when i published it, i was happy with the response. So when you have nothing to post about, polish your old post to get a new one.