Minggu, 07 Maret 2010

Add Star ratings widget to your blog posts & get instant feed back from the readers

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Are you curious about what readers are thinking about your posts? then, you can add this beautiful looking outbrain 5 stars rating button to your blogger,wordpress,typepad,etc.You can also use this ratings button in any webpage.By adding this,you will automatically get the beautiful five stars rating widget just below every post.

This was very simple,easy to use,free and you don't need to register to grab this widget.By adding this widget,you will get instant feedback by your readers.
Most of the visitors feel a bit lazy to write a comments,so with this widget,they will help them and rate your posts as easy as 123.
You can get this rating widget here.Thanks to outbrain for providing this great widget.

how-to-embed-YOUTUBE video,movie in your blog

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This post explains, how to embed(insert) a youtube video in your blogger blog:
So,you want to embed a video(movie) onto your blog.The process is very simple,even a dummie can do it.If you want to embed your original video,then first sign up for an account in youtube and upload your video and get the embed code.
Otherwise,you can easily embed any public youtube video in your blog.Go to youtube.com and search for the video.For example,if you want to embed a britney spears video,search it and copy the embed code on to a windows notepad or anything else.
The following process is explained below with pictures for easy understanding.
1.Go to youtube.com and search for your required video
enter your search item and 
click the search button
2.Copy the embeded code(ctrl+c) and paste(ctrl+v) it in windows notepad.


copy the copy the html code from the box 
provided

3.Sign in in to your blogger acoount and click the New Post button and next,select the option 'Edit html' as shown below and paste the html code as shown below.

click the 'edit 
html' option as shown here

4.Publish the post.That's it, as you can see now,the youtube video is embeded in your post properly.
NOTE:You can change the width and height of the video by replacing the values to your desirable ones.
If you have any doubts regarding to this post,feel free to ask it here via your comments.

Sabtu, 13 Februari 2010

How to add background image to blogger header

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So, you want to add an image or a picture to your blogger header to give a unique look to your blog.Adding image to header is not a complex one,it is very simple.

Before this,first take a backup of your blog template,so there is a chance to get back to your current template if you made any mistakes.

1.First sign in to your blogger account>Edit html

click the edit html and scroll down the template till you see the below one and note down the width(sothat, you will have an idea of which image dimensions best fits your blog)

note down the width In the above case, my template is minima and the width is 660 px.



2.If you have photoshop or any other tools,crop the picture corretly to 660 px(width).If you don't have photoshop,then you can crop a photo by this free online tool Click here.

3.So, your image is ready now! click the page elements tab again.

click on the page 
elements tab
Click on the edit button as shown below next to your blog name.


4.And you will go to a window just like the below one.First select,the option whether you want to place the image behind the title and description or insted of title and description.Next,browse for the image and save the changes after the image has uploaded.

5.That's it! Now, your blog has a background image in the header.
Have any questions?ask your question via comments.