Dear readers,If you were a regular visitor to my blog, you might have noticed that I was using frames to display all the link-exchange chicklets until some time ago. I discontinued the use of frames, because they don’t display by default in Internet Explorer or IE (which still seems fairly popular).I was hosting my frame HTML document at Google pages (as Blogger does not allow HTML file uploads) ...
Nov 11, 2006View Comments
Host HTML pages for Frames in a blogspot address
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Nov 9, 2006View Comments
Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Impressed by Wordpress’s Andreas04 template, I wondered if we can have some thing similar for Blogger beta. The answer is yes. Please view the image to understand the layout I am referring to:It is much easier to play around with the template in Blogger beta because of its easy to understand template script language and the flexibility to view the template in collapsed and expanded widgets view (about ...
Nov 5, 2006View Comments
Displaying widgets only on comment, label, search and archive pages
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends, From certain site tracking services, I have been looking at the way people come to know about my blog and I realized that only few of them access my blog directly (using its main URL). Most of them come looking for some hack (like social bookmarking, Google Translate etc) and land on an individual post page. When they land on such a page, a lot of space ...
Nov 1, 2006View Comments
Auto-hide blogger navbar like Windows taskbar
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends,Avatar from Bloggeratto has put up a comprehensive post on how to get your blogger navbar to auto-hide like the Microsoft Windows taskbar. This means that after using the code from his post you can make the blogger navbar hidden and it appears only when one hovers the mouse cursor over the navbar section.To view what I am talking about, just view Bloggeratto in Firefox and check ...
Oct 13, 2006View Comments
Google Docs & Spreadsheets (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)You might have come to know by now that Google has released a service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets . In this service, one can use an online text editor (similar to Microsoft Word and others) to create posts and publish it to their blog.With this service, you can:- Have your documents published online (as a webpage) to share it with others (dedicated URL to each document, ...
Oct 7, 2006View Comments
Comment Feed for individual posts (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure if this is a new feature or an old one that I missed. I was moderating comments on one of my recent posts when I came across this feed link under the post. It is a feed to the comments that appear only on that individual post (not the entire blog).To view this feed link just click on your post’s title (for example ...
Oct 1, 2006View Comments
Extension to a Social Bookmarking hack
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,This is an extension to Han’s hack on social bookmarking links. Please view the original hack here.Working on Hans’s original hack, I have added a few more Social bookmarking links to it and also made changes to its JavaScript code (that goes into the head section of the template).The links and the JavaScript (js) code are in one text file that can be downloaded from here. If ...
Sep 22, 2006View Comments
Rake in feeds with blogger beta and OPML (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure about classic blogger, but I can definitely tell about blogger beta, that it has a number of options to choose from as far as feeds are concerned. If you have the right idea, you can use all of these feeds to offer your readers the flexibility to choose what they wish to read and how.Full posts feed of your blog:http://[your blog].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full (updated as ...
Sep 20, 2006View Comments
Label feeds and peek-a-boo for sidebar (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,I had read about label feeds somewhere a while ago but ignored the idea thinking that I won't need label feeds. Little did I realize that label feeds is a very good feature for a blog like mine where I got multiple categories that are fundamentally different.So finally I implemented label feeds after reading about it from Phydeaux3's blog. Now, readers who are not interested in the ...
Sep 18, 2006View Comments
Open feed’s links in new window
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Based on the hack/mod I suggested in my article on link-lists in blogger beta, I have extended the same idea to feed displays that one may have in their blog.Feeds are a powerful and popular means of staying updated and they are also powerful distracters on a blog. If you have feeds to other blogs or news sites (like I have), it would be a good idea to ...
Sep 17, 2006View Comments
Hack updates
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,Here is your round of hack updates which covers recently introduced new hacks for blogger beta.1. Expandable/collapsible post with Peek-a-boo style (updated to Super peek-a-boo)Ramani has come out with another hack where in users can provide their reader with a summary view of their post and a peek-a-boo style link to view the rest of the post. This is a very good hack for people like me ...
Sep 16, 2006View Comments
Listen to your blog and blog podcasting
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have recently added a “Listen to this article” link in my post footer and a link to my podcast feed in my blog’s sidebar. Using the link in my post footer, you can listen to my articles by way of streaming mp3 audio. Isn’t that cool?Yes. But how did you do that?I was never into podcasting and had no clue about it. However, while browsing instabloke, I ...
Sep 16, 2006View Comments
How to add some thing to the post footer (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have had a few people who wished to learn how I added the various links that I have in my post footer. I have written this small tutorial which I derived from my previous post about adding social bookmark hotlinks to post footer. I have written this article assuming that you are aware of basic HTML formatting and codes don’t scare you :-).Before we proceed, I suggest ...
Sep 10, 2006View Comments
Linklists don’t open in a new window and new hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Just a quick update. I found that links added via the link list feature do not open in a new window. This might take away traffic from your blog. The solution to this is however, very simple. Open up you template's HTML code in expanded widgets format. Copy the entire code into notepad or some text editor and search for a particular link list using its title. (In ...
Sep 9, 2006View Comments
From rags to riches and hack updates
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I found this article on rediff.com. It's about a man who came out of absolute no where and completed his engineering/MBA from premier institutes in India to become an entrepreneur. A very inspiring and touching tale. Click here to read the article.On the hacks front:Please make a note of Hacks Wiki. This is a one stop database which contains most of the hacks that are available out there. ...
Sep 8, 2006View Comments
Hacks from Hoctro’s place and other hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hey all,There is a nice add-on or improvement to Ramani's original hack on sorting and display of search, label and archive results available here. Here is a description of the hack:"My improved hack is based upon not showing the date at which a post is created, and make the posts indented as a nice bulleted list" - HoctroHowever if you do want the date header on the label ...
Sep 6, 2006View Comments
Hide your Nav bar, add search and other blogger beta hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hiding the navbar in blogger beta is not much of a task but it has been made a piece of cake by praveen of apt thinking.... Click here to learn how to hide the nav bar in a jiffy.The search box on my blog has been picked up from here. Simple code and no scripts make it light and cool . You might also want to checkout that ...
Sep 5, 2006View Comments
Translate blogs using Google (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I have been able to locate the URLs used for submitting a page to the Google translate tool. I have incorporated them into my template such that the links appear under every post and readers can use it to translate a post into another language. Currently Google translate supports few languages and I will update my post footer when they add more languages.You can view and copy the ...
