54 unique and inspiring Blogger powered designs: some of these seem based on generic/free templates, while others are so far from the generic norm that it was difficult to believe these are powered by Blogger at all!
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Blogger Templates
I hate blogger.com because of its lack of good layouts. Well, here are some resources to get some well-designed templates.
B-themes
Doxs
Better in Pink!
Plantillas Webblog
Blog and Web
Create blog
Blogger Buster
Ehsany
Blogger Templates
Blogger Themes
Blogger Templates Deceblog
Six Shooter Media
Gecko and Fly
Pyzam
Blogger Templates by Caz
Free Templates
Custom Templates
Plantillas y templates blogger caseras
Find Templates
Mashable
Charm Skins
BlogU
CreateBlog
BloggerTemplates
dzelque
El blog de Lui
Eris
Zona Cerebral
Final Sense
Suck my lolly
Beautiful beta
Free Skins
Blogcrowds
Fresh Blogger
Template Panic
Hackjob
El buscador
JackBook
Kaushal Sheth
Blogger template directory
Layout Gala
Lemonade Designs
Blospot Templates
Noipo
Blog skins
Open Source Web Design
Web JCP
Pannasmontata
Café Junio
Ricardouk
Blog made in Spain
Search Engine Friendly Layouts
Burajiru
Thurst
Hoctro´s
Zoot's Designs
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Technorati Tags: Blogger Templates,Blooger
Fix Blogger Sitemap XML Warnings Inside Google Webmaster
Though you can easily redirect Blogger Feeds to FeedBurner now, this has a side effect - you will see some warnings when you submit the Sitemaps file (xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml) to Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tool reports that the sitemap has too many errors. It's like a catch 22 situation - you submit the blogger generated atom.xml file to Google Sitemaps but it's redirected to the FeedBurner feed and that causes invalid XML errors. Digital Inspiration provides an elegant solution to this problem.
How to add recent comments to your Blogspot blog
If your blog client of choice is Google's Blogger, odds are you've banged your head against a wall at least a few times wondering why Blogger can't be a bit more like WordPress or TypePad. While Blogger is incredibly easy to use, it's a bit more difficult to customize. But with a bit of work, you can tweak your Blogger site to near-perfection.
For example, while Google doesn't offer a "recent comments" widget, Blogger buster has created a simple widget generator that lets you build and add a recent comments section to your sidebar. You can customize how comments appear by choosing how many comments to display, whether to show the date or post titles, and how many characters to include in the preview.
[via MakeUseOf]
Backup your blog...the easy way !
You were always worried about your precious blog posts getting lost if the provider chose to shut the shop some day. Worry no more... Greg Duncan has created a free blogger backup software which is extremely easy to use.
With Blogger Backup, you can backup your blog posts into a single file or one blog post per file or multiple posts per file. The future versions may even save your blog posts into PDF files that you can distribute as eBooks.
Blogger backup can download everything or you can do incremental backups meaning backup just the new posts since your last backup or download blog posts posted between any two given dates. Best of all, Blogger Backup can also extract and save your Blog readers comments offline.
Technorati Tags: Blogger
Insert tag cloud in the new blogger
phy3blog shows a fantastic way to create a tag cloud {as seen in this blog sidebar} of the blog categories (tags). You have to have a blog on New Blogger, and you MUST be using the layouts templates - no old blogger or classic templates here.
Essentially, the method uses the del.icio.us tag cloud code with slight modification. The entire process can be summarized as :
- The first part to put in is the stylesheet section added between the <b:skin> tags. This stylesheet should not be modified unless you are a certified CSS guru.
- This next section is the configuration section for the Cloud. It also goes in the head
of the template, but outside of the stylesheet part. Easiest thing to do again is to find
the closing stylesheet tag ]]>
But this time place the code right AFTER that line, but BEFORE the </head> tag. Here, you can modify the look of the cloud by modifying any of the following style sheet :>var maxFontSize = 20; /* Change to a different size */
var maxColor = [0,0,255]; /* Change to a different value */
var minFontSize = 10; /* Change to a different size */
var minColor = [0,0,0]; /* Change to a different value */ Now is the time to add the code that renders the cloud, find out the following tag in the template :
Also the CSS modification is explained in great detail in this article.
Some great blogger templates.
Finally someone took the pains to design/port good templates for blogger. Blogyweb has some superb templates for the new blogger and some great tips.
- Plantilla Blogy Minyx – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Webby – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Tierra – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy neosapien – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy MinimalistaNegro – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Agua – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Integral – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Azulbrillante – Demo
- Plantilla: Blogy iPlantilla – Demo
- Plantilla Blogy Enlight – Demo
- Plantilla Happie – Demo
- Plantilla Elegant – Demo
Technorati tags: Blogger
Adding FAVICONs for your blog.
Adding FAVICONS (small icon in the browser address bar) in blogger is pretty simple task if you use MyFavTar.com's icon hosting.
and you will have a favicon for your blog.
- Register on myfavtar
- Click on 'Change my Favtar' and upload a favicon. Need superb Favicons ? check this excellent article from stunning magazine.
- Copy the code from myfavtar and paste it between the head element of your blog between and preferably before
Adding Google sitemap to blogger.com blog account
You can now add Google sitemap to your blogger.com account and increase your chances of being indexed in Google search engine result. You can add a Sitemap to your account to give Google more information about the pages in your site to help Google crawl them more effectively.
Step # 1: Login to sitemap account
At the top of screen you will see option to add site. Just paste URL of your blog (for example http://geek-o-pedia.blogspot.com/)
Click on Ok button. Next you will get confirmation message. Your site has been added to your account.
Step # 2: Now you need to verify your ownership of blog to view detailed statistics. Click on verify link. Google offers two methods of verification. You can either upload an HTML file with a name we specify (which is not possible with Google Blogger account), or you can add a META tag to your site’s index file. Adding META tag via template code is possible so just select Add a META tag from drop down menu:
It will generate code for you, copy the meta tag and paste it into your blogger.com template section).
Step # 3: Go to your blogger.com and login to your account. Goto your blog > Click on Template
Paste the META tag code after section:
Click on Save Template changes button
Click on Republish Index only button > Wait for few seconds so that your blog being published successfully.
Step # 4: Now goto sitemap account and click the box that read as follows:
I’ve added the META tag in the home page of http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/. Click on Verify button.
Step # 5: Now your site is added to sitemap account and verification is done. Next you need to add actual sitemap url. Since blogger.com account doesn't allow you to create a text file or anything else you need to add your site feed (ATOM xml) file as a site map. Click on add a sitemap link:
Step # 6: You can add a Sitemap to your account to provide Google additional information about about your blog. Google will process your Sitemap and provide information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab as well your sitemap will be downloaded everyday to index your blog fast.
Select type as : Add General Web sitemap
Now you need to add Atom 0.3 feeds. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed and this is the only way to add sitemap to your blogger.com account.
Paste url of your Atom feed: For example
http://geek-o-pedia.blogspot.com/atom.xml and click on Add Web sitemap:
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You will get confirmation:
You have added a Sitemap to http://cyberciti.blogspot.com/. Reports may take several hours to update. Thank you for your patience!
And you are done and your blog will be now index very fast (depend upon your posting and content).
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