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Creating “Static” Pages With Blogger Static pages are a useful way of offering your readers information about your blog. Unlike WordPress, Blogger does not feature the ability to create pages. This presents a problem for those using Blogger to publish their blogs as “about”, “contact” and even “archive” pages have become the norm among blogs and are often sought after by blog readers. However, there is a way to work around this problem: by using a post as the basis for a page, you can create the sense of static pages in Blogger and link to these in the navigation section of your template. In this post, I’ll explain the method many Blogger bloggers use to successfully create “static” pages in their blogs, along with a few ideas for pages you may like to create. Creating your “Static” Pages in Blogger The blog pages we can create in Blogger are not truly pages; instead we can use a blog post as a “page” and backdate the timestamp so that the page does not show up in recent feed entries. Altering the post options An About Page

How to add CSS Rounded Corners to your Blogger Template Rounded corners can add a great deal of style to an otherwise simple Blogger template. Luckily, you don't need to create complicated images and CSS code to achieve this: Spiffy Corners is a free service which generates code that you can simply add to your Blogger template, and no externally hosted images are required! Since I originally wrote about Spiffy Corners, many people have asked me where they should paste the generated code in order to make those rounded corners appear. So in this article, I will offer a full explanation of how to use Spiffy Corners to create rounded corners in the main and sidebar sections of your Blogger template. What is Spiffy Corners and How Does It Work? Spiffy Corners is an online generator which creates CSS and HTML code to create anti-aliased rounded corners for your web/blog design. The way this method works when added to your Blogger template is simple and yet truly effective! How to use Spiffy Corners in your Blogger template The CSS Section ]]></b:skin>

API Cottage blogs May 30, 11 PM UPDATE: Thanks to everyone that participated in the 2nd Annual Cottage Charm Giveaway! Your offerings were all amazing and so very generous and I hope everyone had fun! As of right now, I'm no longer updating the giveaway participant list. Feel free to draw names for your giveaways as early or as late as you like on May 31st. Congratulations (in advance) to all 54 winners! (Click here or scroll down to view the "Cottage Charm Give Away" Participant List - Updated Daily Until 11 PM Central on May 30th, 2008) Last year I thought it would be fun to host a 'blogwide' cottage themed giveaway so that's exactly what we did! It's simple. Use your own definition of "Cottage Charm" for this giveaway- the possibilities are endless! At some point on Saturday, May 31, everyone participating will hopefully be able to post on their blog the winners of their giveaways after randomly drawing a name (or names depending on if they have more than one giveaway). and

The Top 10 Blogger Template Resource Sites These days, Blogger users are spoiled for choice by the variety of free Blogger templates available to them. What’s more, as blog designers push the boundaries of blog design, the quality of templates just gets better and better! Whereas not long ago, Blogger templates seemed to all have the same two column layout with no extra functionality, Blogger template designers now add features like navigation menus; tabbed widgets to include much information in a small space; three (and even four) column templates, and even magazine style layouts which previously were only available to those using WordPress. In this post, I’ll present the cream of the crop for Blogger templates: the top ten resources where you can find the best quality and variety of free Blogger templates to enhance your blogs. B-Templates B-templates probably has the largest collection of Blogger templates available online. Top picks Jackbook Top Picks eBlog Templates BlogCrowds GosuBlogger Blogger-Templates Zona Cerebral

:: How to Add Google Translator Widget to Your Blog - Blogger Templates What's you first reaction when you land on a website that's written in Russian, Chinese or Japanese ? Most of us would hunt for that English language translation flag and if that's missing, we will copy-paste the site address in Google Translate website or Yahoo Babelfish to convert the site content to English. Way too much effort. Now let's reverse the roles and say somebody from China or Japan visits your blog (written in English). Since more than 65% of web users speak a language other than English, it is essential that you provide language translation features in your blog so that you don't miss the non-English speaking traffic. So when an Arabic visitor passes your English blog, he or she can just click the Arab flag to translate the website into his native language - That way you don't loose a visitor plus he could even subscribe if the content is good even if written in another language. Here's a quick tutorial to add language translation to your blog.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> Last edited 04/24/2008 This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well. I will use the following software: Web Server: Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.2.4 and Ruby Database Server: MySQL 5.0 Mail Server: Postfix DNS Server: BIND9 FTP Server: proftpd POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-IMAP. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). 1 Requirements

Progress bars for blogging \n\n Here are some HTML/Javascript progress bars I whipped up for my wife, a knitter. I hope you find them useful, too. Instructions for most blog platforms are immediately below. If you have questions, email me at: matt AT smallish.com. Installation Instructions Skip this section if you're using the new "Blogger" interface. Copy all of the following (in the gray box) and paste it between the <head> and </head> tags in your template: That's it. How to use it You say you want to put a progress bar in your sidebar? You can, of course customize the appearance of the progress bar. For instance, 200 pixels too wide? Cute! Green! "New Blogger" Installation Instructions Do not carry out any of the above instructions. In the next window, type "Works in Progress" (or whatever you want to call this section) in the "title" bar. Customizing The Bars And of course, you don't have to only show 50%. You can put descriptive text above (or below) each progress bar just by typing the text in relation to the code.

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