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If you're on the verge of creating a new blog, you have a number of popular hosting platforms to choose from. Among the most popular options are Blogger -- once called Blogspot -- and Tumblr. Both platforms are free, allow you to create your own custom URL and offer the option of hosting advertising that may help you make money from your blog. But while some of the features are the same, the two platforms do have some distinct differences which could help swing your decision from one platform to another.
JAWS (Job Access with Speech) is a screen-reading software program manufactured and distributed by Freedom Scientific. Although it is most frequently used by those who are visually impaired, anyone can benefit from the screen-reader. Use JAWS to read the text on your Blogger pages, most of which have a blogspot.com URL. You have full control over how JAWS reads the text.
Google Blogger, formerly known as Blogspot, is a free blogging website that allows users to create their own blogs and readers to comment on blog posts. If you have a Blogger blog and receive comments from readers, you may want to reply to specific comments that have been posted. Replying to comments on Blogger merely requires using the appropriate symbol to reply to the commenter and then clicking the correct button.
IWeb is Apple's personal website development tool. Users select from dozens of themes designed by Apple, each one featuring coordinated fonts and backgrounds. Templates can be applied to almost any page, and there is no limit to the number of pages you can create. One of the features in iWeb is the ability to publish your website to any host, including Blogspot.
Links to other websites can become dead over time. Websites may go down completely or go through a redesign without automatically redirecting old links to new pages. Your Blogspot blog’s readers won’t be happy when they click a dead link on your blog and see an error message rather than the page you originally linked to. Checking for dead links by hand can be time-consuming, so you can use a free Web-based tool to scan your blog for dead links.
With the Link List gadget on BlogSpot -- now called Blogger -- blogs, you can display a list of links to your own posts or external Web and blog pages in a sidebar on the blog. By default, Blogger displays the list of links justified to the left, and you can’t change this alignment with the gadget configuration tool. To center the Link List in Blogger, use the workaround solution of editing the gadget’s design code in your Blogger template’s HTML code page.
If you own a Blogspot blog and want to add its contents to your Drupal site, you can syndicate your Blogspot RSS feed to embed it in Drupal. You can use the default Drupal Aggregator module. This allows you to coordinate the content between the two sites. You should only syndicate snippets of your Blogspot RSS to avoid duplicate content penalties with search engines.
Blogspot is a domain service from Google that allows hosting of blogs through their Blogger platform. There are several templates you can use with Blogspot, all of which allow for you to have a header at the top. Right below the header is a navigation bar that holds the categories. This category navigation bar assists customers in finding the information that they want easily in your blog. Categories make for a user-friendly experience and will help draw traffic to your site.
Feedjit is a widget for blog owners that allows them to see how many visitors they're getting and where they come from. There are different reasons for why a blog owner wouldn't want the widget displayed. It may take too long to load, they may not want their visitors to feel like they're being "watched" or maybe they just don't like the way the widget looks on their page. You can keep the widget from being displayed and still reap the benefits of being a Feedjit user.
Blogger, previously Blogspot, is capable of a lot of customization and advanced features; you can save upload photos, which are saved to Picasa, and create up to 10 pages to help make your blog feel more like a website. You cannot, however, host audio files, though you can choose to embed them in a blog or on your blog at will. To use audio on Blogger, you will need a host.
Countless free online resources make it easy to include advertising in your blog. Two popular blogging sites are WordPress.com and Blogger.com; and the latter is the website that gives bloggers their own blogspot blog. A blogspot blog is one of the more user-friendly blog formats for adding an ad. Whether you're advertising with Google AdSense or placing a banner ad from another company, you're not far from monetizing your blog.
Displaying related posts on your Blogspot blog encourages visitors to stay on your blog longer by showing them other posts they may be interested in reading. Since at the time of publication Blogspot does not offer a native related posts gadget, you must install the LinkWithin widget to display related posts. LinkWithin is a free, customizable widget that may be added to your blog to display up to five related posts beneath each blog post. No HTML knowledge is needed to use the LinkWithin widget.
Although many people choose to embed music players from a third-party site on Blogspot blogs to share MP3 music and podcasts, adding links to your blog instead is another way to share MP3s with blog visitors. Because at the time of article publication Blogger does not allow you to upload MP3s directly to its server, upload MP3s to a free file hosting service, such as ZippyShare, Box or MediaFire, then add the MP3 links to a new post on your Blogspot blog.
You can integrate TypePad posts into your Blogspot -- commonly known as Blogger -- site by using the Feed gadget. The gadget lets you retrieve posts from any RSS feed on the Internet, including a TypePad blog. All you need to know is the website address for your TypePad site and your Blogger login credentials to get started.
Adding a payment button to your blog allows visitors to make a donation electronically through the online payment service’s secure server. BlogSpot -- now called Blogger -- doesn’t include advanced e-commerce features for selling products, but you can add a simple “pay” button for readers who want to thank you for your efforts and donate money to your blog. Sign up for a Google Checkout merchant account, then add the Google Checkout Gadget to your Blogger blog.
Adding a new section in the Blogspot layout is rather tricky for the nonprogrammer. Blogger does not have a ready option to allow you to quickly add new sections, no matter what template you have set. You will need to edit the HTML code a little. After you have created the new section, you can add gadgets to it as with any other section.
Blogspot, also known as Blogger, is a free blog publishing service that has been owned by Google since 2003. The service allows its users to install templates on their blogs, some of which have navigational tabs along the top of the page. If you don’t like the tabs that came with your template by default, you have the option of editing them. You only need to make two small changes to the HTML code for each tab to customize them to your liking.
Blogger is Google’s free blog publishing platform. If you choose not to use your own domain name (www.myblog.com), Google will host your blog on the Blogspot domain (www.myblog.blogspot.com). Allowing readers to comment on your blog posts is a way for you to directly interact with them, so they can respond and react to your words and potentially strike up further conversation. Unfortunately, the comment sections can be overrun with spam, mean-spirited or otherwise useless comments. You can customize what comments appear and don’t appear on your blog with a bit of moderation.
Blogger, also called "Blogspot," is a free blog hosting service developed by Google. Blogs on Blogger are hosted at a "blogspot.com" sub-domain and can be customized by rearranging blog elements, uploading templates and adding media files. You can upload pictures and video files from your computer and embed them directly in your blog posts to enhance your content, or you can use the uploaded file URL to add an image to your blog's template.
You can embed music or other audio files hosted on third-party sites in Google Blogger blogs hosted at Blogspot.com. Google doesn’t offer on-site audio storage; however, you can host the audio on another website. After uploading an audio file to or finding one on a third-party website, add it to your blog post. You can either embed it using the third-party site’s audio controls or link directly to the audio file to create a podcast stream.
The Blogger title field requires specific HTML codes to insert symbols, such as left- and right-facing arrows. Properly known as the "lesser-than" and "greater-than" symbols, the characters are normally reserved for use in HTML markup. To make them appear in a blog post title, use the appropriate character entities.
Although there are many ways of organizing your blog on Blogspot, also known as Blogger, one of the easiest is to create categories for posts. By creating categories, also known as labels, users can easily find related posts by simply clicking a specific category. Adding categories on Blogspot merely requires adding text to a specific box within each post you make on the blog.
Many Blogger Blogspot users create posts with the "HTML" option in the post editor but you can also enter HTML code in the "Post title" box. Create the image and upload it to an image hosting service such as Picasa Web which is included with your Google account. Once the image is uploaded save the URL for use in the necessary HTML code.
Scribd is a free online service that allows users to upload, browse and share Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents. Scribd doesn't require you to log in or have an account to share and embed documents. Blogger's Post Editor provides you access to a blog post's HTML code to allow you to insert Scribd's custom code for embedding a document. An embedded Scribd document appears on your blog with viewing options for readers to zoom in and out of the document and view it full screen. Readers can also share the embedded document, as well as download it.
The BlogSpot – now called Blogger – blog service allows you to add content from external sites with iFrame HyperText Markup Language design code, using it to syndicate content such as video clips, advertising and interactive features.. To add an iFrame to your blog posts, use Blogger’s post editor tool in HTML mode.
The blogging community BlogSpot – renamed “Blogger” when Google acquired the service – offers a variety of free blog templates that you can customize to suit your preferences and the content or theme of your blog. You can change all of the font faces, sizes and styles in each of the key design elements in your blog template. To increase the size of the header on your blog, use Blogger’s Template Designer tool.
The BlogSpot -- now called Blogger -- content management and blog-hosting service offers a selection of widgets that add useful, informative or entertaining content or functions to blogs. You can add widgets -- officially called “Gadgets” on Blogger -- to offer a range of features, including links, news feeds, social networking integration, recent comments and popular posts. Add Gadgets to your blog with Blogger’s "Add and Arrange Page Elements" tool.
Blogspot blogs feature a wide variety of customizable options to help you personalize your page to your liking. Depending on your blog’s nature, you can opt to separate certain topics into sections, also known as categories. Alternatively, you can add tabs dedicated to information that does not fit into a particular subject, such as an “About” section. You can implement both options simultaneously to separate your content more effectively.
The "After the Jump" feature in a BlogSpot – now called Blogger – blog allows you to display the introduction or the first few summary paragraphs of a blog post on the home page along with a “Read More” link that directs readers to the full post. Adding a jump to your Blogger blog posts can give your blog’s front page a busier and more professional look by emulating the same style used by many of the large online news sites. You can add a jump to each blog post in Blogger’s post editor tool.
Publishing a blog is a way to share your thoughts with the world, but sometimes you want to give only certain friends or contacts access to your posts. Blogspot – or Blogger – allows you to make your blog private so that only approved subscribers can access the site. To make a subscription-only blog, use the Permissions feature in Blogger's Settings. Once you’ve changed this setting you can invite specific contacts to view the blog.
Running a banner graphic or ad on your blog can grab the attention of your readers to promote your content, sponsors or advertisers. One way to separate the ad or graphic from the rest of the content on your BlogSpot – now called Blogger – blog is to place a border around the banner. To add a border around a banner, tweak your blog’s HyperText Markup Language (HTML) design code.
Adding a share feature to your blog posts can help drive more traffic to your blog, because visitors publicize your posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and other social networks and micro-blogging services. BlogSpot -- now called Blogger -- includes a "Share" tool that you can automatically add to all of your blog posts. The tool isn’t enabled by default, but you can automatically activate the Share feature from your Blogger settings page.
Blogspot includes a dashboard you use to create new posts to your blog. The dashboard has a button you can use to insert a "WAV" file into a blog post. WAV is a large file format that plays music on a Web page. You must have the WAV file uploaded to the blog or a third-party site and provide a link that points to the WAV file location.
If you subscribe to Copyscape's Copysentry service to protect your Blogspot blog from plagiarism, adding a Copyscape banner to your blog helps you notify your readers that you are monitoring the Web for duplicate content and will protect your intellectual property if necessary. Copyscape has a large selection of banners for you to choose from, ensuring that you can select one that fits well with the design of your blog.
JQuery is used to simplify client-side scripting of HTML. With a page written in jQuery, you can allow your users to call certain functions on your page without the need for more advanced scripting. To implement jQuery with Blogspot, you must insert a script that tells your blog where to find the file that is needed to complete the user action. Blogspot allows users to manipulate and add programming to their blog using the edit function.
Adding MP3 files to a Blogspot page requires minimal knowledge of HTML and a simple code that places a music console or a link to the music file in your blog. You also have choices concerning how you want your MP3s accessed. A music player grants the reader control over the MP3’s volume, and allows her to stop, pause and fast forward as needed. A "Click to play" MP3 simply starts when the reader clicks the link.
When a blog has multiple authors contributing content, it can potentially publish several new articles every day. This can contribute to a large reader base, and potentially increased ad revenue. Google's Blogspot service gives you the ability to quickly convert your blog from a single-author blog to a blog with multiple contributors. Invite a new author to begin adding content to your blog from the Permissions screen on Blogspot.
Millions of people use free, hosted blog websites for personal use. Many businesses find that purchasing an affordable domain name and taking advantage of the free Web hosting and simple site construction saves a bundle in Web development expenses. You can make your blog look more like a website, by adding tabs and making simple template edits. In fact, adding tabs on Blogspot only requires three sets of easy to edit codes.
Add a team member to a blog on Blogger, which was formerly known as "blogspot," to permit other Internet users to add entries to a blog you own and operate. Regardless of whether the person you add is a colleague, or a personal friend, creating an account for him allows him to add content to your blog without your having to post it for him. Team members aren't able to modify your blog's settings or otherwise manipulate it.
Replies are an essential part of the blogging process; opening your Blogspot blog for replies allows your readers to discuss your content with each other and provide feedback to help you improve the blog. Open your blog for replies to create a reply button at the bottom of each new post you publish, and then edit your previous posts if you want to open them for replies as well.
BlogSpot, now known as Blogger, is a free blogging service that allows any Google account holder to create a personal blog to share personal thoughts or work. One way to enhance a blog entry is uploading a photo to the page. This helps visualize what you are discussing, while visually stimulating your readers. You can upload as many photos as you wish to any blog entry, but only use photos that belong to you or that you have permission to use.
One way to attribute a photo is using the caption feature on Blogger. After you upload a photo, you can use the space below the photo to include a small caption. Not only can you attribute photos with this feature, you can also write a caption of what appears in the photo. At any time, you can change this description if you wish. You should use short phrase or statement when adding a caption so it fits in the designated space.
Make a Blogspot template to give your Blogger blog a custom look. Blogger allows you to control the look of your blog by uploading a template in cascading style sheet (CSS) format to the blog's HTML code. Even if you aren't highly skilled in coding, creating a custom template for your blog is possible, namely by modifying your existing Blogger template to meet your aesthetic requirements.
Site developers and blog owners use HTML div elements to display overlay popups that contain useful or entertaining information. Because divs can contain other HTML elements, you are free to place anything you like into an overlay, including text and images. Blogspot’s HTML editor allows you to add JavaScript to your blog posts. By embedding a short JavaScript function in your blog, you can add pop-up overlay function to any post.
When designing a blog, it is often helpful to create standalone posts for certain types of content. For instance, if you are adding an "about" section or perhaps a contact form, it would be easier for your visitors to locate those items if you display them separately from regular blog entries. Google Blogspot provides a static page feature to meet such needs.
Blogspot is a user-friendly blogging platform that offers numerous built-in features and gadgets to help customize your personal blog. You can efficiently select from multiple buttons that allows you and others to share your work, add automated content. Such features are divided into two categories, thus giving you more control over the placement of all available buttons and gadgets.
Blogger, whose blogs are published at blogspot.com addresses, enables you to blog about a wide variety of topics ranging from personal experiences to celebrity gossip. It provides various gadgets to help you share your published posts. One such feature includes a StumbleUpon widget that allows you to distribute any particular story on the popular social bookmarking site.
Although the Blogspot service, now called Blogger, provides in-depth visitor statistics for each hosted blog, you may want to display a hit counter button on your blog. Hit counter graphics display the total number of visitors to have viewed any post or page on the blog. Blogger blogs do not include a hit counter as a standard feature, but you can add one yourself by using a standard Blogger gadget to paste hit counter design code into the template.
The Blogspot platform lets you edit the HTML directly in your post's editor. In the HTML for your posts, you can use the CSS "box-shadow" property. The box-shadow property lets you create a drop-shadow for a div, paragraph or image tag. You set the width and color of the shadow when you specify the drop-shadow, and it displays immediately in your Blogspot post.
Blogger gadgets offer opportunities to add features to your blog, such as lists of links and social sharing buttons. Stumbleupon is one such social sharing site where Internet users submit Web links they like. Make it simple for your readers to share your site on Stumbleupon by adding a Stumbleupon button to your blog footer. With one click, users can promote any post or page.
When you write a post on your Blogger blog, which is what all Blogspot blogs became, you can choose to add a retweet button to the post. This button allows your readers to click a button to make a quick post to their Twitter account, directing their followers to your post. While Blogger doesn't have a native retweet button, you can use a piece of HTML code from TweetMeme to add the retweet button to your post.
Formatting is one of the keys to successful writing online. Properly formatted blog entries are readable and easy to scan, helping your readers find the information they need. Google Blogger provides standard formatting options including text styling, highlighting, pictures, lists and hyperlinks. The Blogger post editor should be familiar to you if you have previously used Gmail or a word processing application like Microsoft Word.
Blogger is a free blogging service that allows you to easily create and manage a blog. With Blogger, visitors also have the option to add comments to your pages or posts. By default, Blogger displays a link that reads "0 Comments" at the bottom of the blog; a visitor must click on this link to add a comment. If you'd rather insert a link with a more instructional message -- such as "Leave a Comment" -- at the bottom of your post, you can do so by changing a line of HTML code in the Blogger template editor.
Checking the number of visits -- also known as "hits" -- that your Blogger blog receives can help you to assess the overall popularity of your blog and the success of specific blog posts. Blogger offers all users access to comprehensive visitor statistics that include the number of hits for any given date range, from a single day to a week, month or for all time. The statistics service is invisible to your blog's visitors, and it doesn't collect any information that could personally identify an individual visitor. Check hits on your Blogger blog by accessing the "Statistics" feature.
According to Google, a Blogspot or Blogger "site feed is a machine-readable representation of your blog that can be picked up and displayed on other Web sites and information aggregation tools." There are four types of Blogspot feeds for your site, which include full-site feed, comments-only, label-specific and individual post comments. A person can subscribe to any of these feeds with the proper aggregation tool, such as Google Reader or NetNewsWire.
Blogspot, also known as Blogger, is a free blogging platform offered by Google. It primarily focuses on options and preferences novice Web designers can modify without any programming skills. As a result, you can decorate your blog with a variety of add-ons that include games, applications, backgrounds and more. You may add such applets through the "Design" option, a link located toward the top-right portion of your blog's homepage.
Google's free Blogger service -- also known as Blogspot -- allows you to customize the look and feel of your blog by adding functionality through gadgets. Gadgets are small applications that perform functions such as allowing users to search your blog. Gadgets may also display recent comments or popular posts. Drop a gadget into your Blogger layout by accessing the "Design" page for your blog.
If you find a "blogspot" blog that contains copyrighted music or other multimedia content, you can report the site to Blogger, which hosts all blogs with the blogspot address. Unauthorized use of copyrighted material contravenes Blogger's content policy, and it will investigate all reports of music copyright infringement. Blogger will then remove the music from the blog and, in some cases, delete the Blogger account of the user who uploaded the material.
if you've found a great blog on Blogspot and want to engage with the owner, you may run into some stumbling blocks if the owner of the blog didn't make it easy for you to find him. If the owner didn't provide his contact information, Blogger will not share it with you. If you're not having any luck tracing the owner from the information the owner provided in the body of the blog, try a few other things to connect with him.
All Blogspot blogs now live at Blogger.com which is operated by Google. You can use the Google search engine to search Blogger for a specific person's name or nickname to find out if he has a Blogger blog. Once you've found someone's Blogger blog you can read and comment on her posts or subscribe to receive her future posts in your Blogger dashboard. You can also enter the blog URL into your preferred RSS reader, such as NetNewsWire or Google Reader, to subscribe to new posts.
Blogspot blogs are blogs on Google's Blogger network. All of these blogs have a feed, which allows users to read blog updates in one of the many feed readers on the Internet. Finding a feed on a Blogspot blog is not tricky, as all feed links are located in the same place on every Blogspot blog.
Blogspot is part of the name given to blogs on Blogger, a blogging platform created by Google. Blogspot blogs contain posts on all sorts of information. Some blogs comment on political situations, while others talk about entertainment such as the "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers." Using the search feature built into the platform, you can easily find a blog you will like.
Blogspot, also known as the Blogger platform, provides a wide variety of gadgets to help you customize your personal blog. Common gadgets range from adding a search engine to implementing local weather information. These elements add interactivity to your blog without the need to learn a programming language. In turn, visitors are exposed to a greater amount of variety, which can help your blog become more popular.
A hit counter gauges how many people have visited a Web page. Some hit counters count all hits, including repeat visitors, while others only count unique hits. Visible counters are placed directly on a Web page, allowing anyone to see the number of hits you've received. Invisible hit counters, conversely, work on the back end and may include graphs. Log in to an account you've set up to view the number of hits to a Web page.
Blogspot is a favorite site for bloggers, as it provides easy-to-use templates for people who want to get their voices known across the Internet. However, Blogspot does not have a specific way for you to search for bloggers by their names, so you need to know the name of the blog you're looking for. You can also use a search engine, like Google or Yahoo, to search for a specific person by entering "Blogspot" and the person's name; as long as their name is listed prominently on the blog, it will come up in your search.
Blogger, also known as Blogspot, is a blog platform offered by Google and available to billions of people worldwide. If your friends have a blog, there's a decent chance that they're hosted by Blogspot -- making it simple to search within the platform to find any friends who might be using it. Some basic information included in your blog will also make it possible to find new friends who may be interested in the topics your blog talks about.
Blogspot is the host service for Blogger---one of Google's many tools. Blogger is a place or platform where individuals and groups create blogs or online journals. If you want to find someone on Blogspot, you can use the Google search engine.
If you have a Blogger blog on Blogspot, you will have a lot of standard options you can add to the layout. One of the things you will not see included on the layout page is the ability to add a hit counter. But one can be added through a third-party vendor.
Blog visitor statistics can help you to judge both the overall popularity of your blog and the success of individual blog posts and content. The Blogger content management and hosting service offers free in-depth visitor statistics for all blogs with the Blogspot address. The statistics include number of visitors, time of visit, duration of visit and the geographical location of each visitor. You can also find out which search engines and websites refer visitors to your blog. Access free visitor statistics for your Blogspot blog by logging in to your account and using the "Statistics" feature.
