New UI on Your Blogger Dashboard

The Blogger’s new UI has now migrated from Blogger Daft to the regular Dashboard.If you are a regular reader here, then you must have already seen screenshot of the new UI. Blogger has now made some improvements to the new UI, and has plugged it into the regular dashboard.The new UI also includes an option to Edit your Template Code.

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Embed Picasa Slideshow in Blogger

There are many photographers out there who wish to display their picasa albums in a Blogger Post. It’s actually quite simple to add a picasa slideshow. If you are noob, then these steps might help you.

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Changing Blogger Mobile Template

The Blogger Mobile templates is something pretty cool, and blogger provides you with 27 mobile templates to choose from. You cannot completely customize the mobile template(as of now) but you can pick any of the available templates.
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Comment Spam Filtering and Comment Inbox in Blogger

Many of you might have noticed that Blogger has made some Cool Improvements to its Commenting System. Blogger has introduced an improved Spam Filter and a Comment Inbox. Most of you must have noticed the new “Comment” tab in your Dashboard (This may not be present on all blogs. Blogger is in the process of rolling out this feature to all users)

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Set your photo as background image of Blog

It has been almost 5 months since blogger released the Template Design Tool. Blogger is working on adding more and more features to this innovative Design Tool. The design Tool allows you to change the Blog Background in a few Clicks.Blogger has got a huge collection of images from iStockPhotos which you can use on your blog. Blogger has now gone a step further by allowing users to Upload their on photos and use it as the Blog Background. This feature is not available on your Regular Dashboard..

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Blogger Stats on your Blogger Dashboard

Many of you might have been using Google analytics or some third party tracking scripts for monitoring your blog statistics. Now blogger has made it much easier for you. You can now get the stats right in your dashboard without adding any extra widgets or codes to your template. This feature is not yet available on your regular dashboard. This is only available on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard.

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How to Add Custom Fonts to Blogger

Adding Custom Fonts to Blogger can improve the look and feel of your blog. Before getting into font embedding lets know how this works.

In your templates you can use any font you want, but these would be properly displayed only if the viewer has those fonts installed on his/her System.

Font embedding Techniques allows you to use any font on your Blog and these fonts will be viewable to the viewers even if they don’t have the font installed on their Systems.

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Better Post Preview in Blogger

Blogger has now added a better Post Preview and a Preview Button on the Blogger Post Editor . The new Preview button opens up a new window showing a templated preview(the old preview function just showed a miniature preview without the actual templating) of the post that you are currently editing. This will let you see a complete preview of your post page even before hitting the Publish button.

In order to see the Preview Button, you should Edit / Create your post from your

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Create Newsletter for your Blogger Blog

Newsletter is a good option when you want to send custom mails to your blog readers. It lets you send content rich HTML emails to your readers.Its not like the Feedburner Email Subscription(which just sends post updates via email at regular intervals) .You will be able to compose and send the newsletter at any time. Here are the steps to enable and send Newsletters.

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How To Setup Google Apps on Your Website

Google Apps is a service from Google for using Google products like mail, docs, calendar etc on your domain name.Google Apps has a free version and you can signup for that and get the Google products at your domain name. You will get a GMail interface for email handling on your domain. You will be able to use this custom email addresse(yourname@yourdomain.com) on Google Talk or any other Jabber Client.If you bought a Custom Domain from Blogger,then you have already created the Google Apps account and so you can ignore this tutorial.

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How to Setup a Sub Domain on a Blogger Custom Domain Blog

This tutorial is for all those who are already using Custom Domains with Blogger. If you already have a blogger blog at some Custom domain like www.yourdomain.com , then you might want to add a sub domains to this custom domain like blog.yourdomain.com gallery.yourdomain.com etc. An example of such a sub-domain is bloggertemplates.bloggerplugins.org It is a blogger powered blog, which i created on the sub-domain. In order to create blogs at sub-domains, you need to create CNAME records for the same.

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Blogger Launches a new Template Designer

Blogger has now launched a new Template Designer along with 15 new default templates. All of these templates are highly customizable Each of them comes with different layouts and you can modify and redesign your template without much knowledge of CSS and HTML

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Blogger FTP to Custom Domain Migration

Blogger has officially announced that it would be shutting down the FTP publishing feature on March 26 2010. So the existing FTP publishers are advised to move onto Blogger Custom Domains.If you are not currently using the FTP publishing option, you can just skip this tutorial :)

Blogger has already posted about the advantages of custom domains.

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Setting up Blogger Custom Domain on Name.Com

If you are not sure what a custom domain is, then first read this article about Blogger Custom Domains and come back .

How to buy the Domain Name?

Name.Com will allow you to buy domains with different extensions like .COM, .NET, .ORG etc .

1. First of all Goto Name.Com and you will find a Search Box there. This search box can be used to check if the domain name is available or not. For example if i need the domain mynewcustomdomain.com , then i will search for mynewcustomdomain

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The Complete FeedBurner Guide with Some Cool Enhancements

What is Feedburner?

Feedburner is a service(now owned by google) which helps you in publishing your feeds in a better way.It helps you analyze your feeds,keep track of your visitors,know the number of feed subscribers etc.

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Blogger Custom Domain on Godaddy

This tutorial will explain how you can set up Blogger on a domain which you bought via Godaddy.I assume that you have already bought a domain from Godaddy. Here are the detailed steps for configuring your Blogger Custom Domain with Godaddy.

1.Login to your Godaddy Account

2.Click on the My Account Tab and Click on the Domain name which you want to use with Blogger.

3.Click on the Total DNS Control and MX Records link

4.Now add a CNAME record with the following details

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Using Windows Live Writer for Blogger

Blogger Supports XML-RPC Protocol which enables 3rd part Clients to make posts on Blogger.One of the Best Blogging Clients is Windows Live Writer.It comes for free.They just need you to have a windows live id(Sign up for one if you don’t have any)

Download Windows Live Writer

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Some Tricks for making links in Blogger Posts

Creating links in blogger is very easy. There is a link Option in our WYSIWYG Editor.When you use this option you can easily add a new link. Now to see the Code of this link just clisk on the Edit Html Option on your Editor[See image for details]

There you will see something like

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How to setup custom domain for your blogger blog?

What is a Custom Domain ?

When you register your blogspot blog, you will get a new blog with some URL like http://yourblogname.blogspot.com . This blog will be hosted on Google’s servers and you can make posts on your blog by logging in at Blogger.Com. Now Custom domain means that we will be using our own domain name instead of having the .blogspot.com extension. That is our blog URL will look something like http://www.yourblogname.com When you use a custom domain, your blog will still be hosted on Google’s servers and you can continue making posts from Blogger.Com as you usually do.So the only thing that changes is the blog’s URL

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Adding Video to Blogger

Videos and images can help you in improving your Blog Posts. There are many methods of adding a video to your blogger post. There are millions of videos available on YouTube. If you look at the right side of every YouTube page you will see an embed code.

Copy out this Embed  Code into you blogger post editor and paste in into your blog post. Now when you publish the post you would be able to see the video in your blog post.

If you have a video on your computer, and you need to get it into a blog post, then you can upload the video right from  your post editor. The video should be in one of the permissible formats and should be below 100 Mega Bytes in size.

If you don't prefer to upload your video via blogger, then you can upload it at YouTube Meta Cafe or some other video sharing sites and then use their video embed code within the post.

The blogger help group has made an simple and easy video tutorial about adding videos on Blogger Blogs. You will get a better idea if you take a look at their Video Tutorial. I have embedded the video into this blog post. :)