Dear Friends,This is my first add-on goody for the year 2007. Hope you will like it. Brainiac came up with a suggestion to add more languages to my Google translate for posts hack. As the number of languages provided by Google is limited, I decided to use the BabelFish code, offered in a language translation widget by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration. I have been using this hack ...
Jan 1, 2007View Comments
Translate your posts into 14 languages (Updates added)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Dec 16, 2006View Comments
Adsense inside your posts and only on post (item) pages
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Loui$$ from Blogging Secret just asked me how I was displaying adsense ads only on post (item) pages and inside the post i.e. in the beginning and the end of each post. For this I use the same if statements from my hack Display widgets only on pages you prefer but widget are not involved in this one as widgets cannot go inside a post. First let me acknowledge ...
Dec 15, 2006View Comments
Add background colors to comments
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hi all,This is a quick & dirty or a simple hack (if you want to call it that) that allows one to add a background color to the comments. I have this set in my blog and you can simply check the post page for one of my posts that has comments to see what I am talking about. Here is an image for your convenience:Interested? Please backup ...
Dec 5, 2006View Comments
Control your Layout editor’s layout
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Readers,I was going through the stock dots dark template when I came across a section labeled “Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe” just before the closing skin tag in the template head. Soon I realized that I can use this section to modify the looks of my layout editor in the following section: Template > Page Elements > Add and Arrange Page ElementsFor those of you ...
Nov 28, 2006View Comments
Show recent posts under a label (category) in a drop-down from horizontal navigation bar
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Dear readers,Based on the new JSON format and the JavaScript code for displaying recent posts from Hans of beautiful beta, I now present horizontal navigational menus with auto (activates on mouse hover) drop-downs which display the most recent posts under each of your labels (say categories).To see this in action take your mouse cursor to the "Beta Hack" or "Hack News" section in the navigation bar in my ...
Nov 26, 2006View Comments
Allow your labels to be searched in Technorati and Del.icio.us tags
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends,I have developed a simple little add-on for your blog. To know what I am talking about, just see the labels in my post's footer. Notice the tiny Technorati pic beside each label. When clicked, it shows you all the posts from bloggosphere that have been tagged with the label in question. (See end of this post for Del.icio.us how-to)It is a good way to allow your ...
Nov 13, 2006View Comments
Feed, Social Bookmark Drop-down and a Recent referrers hack
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Readers,In this post, I have presented the following add-on for Blogger-Beta:1. Subscribe drop-down (on-hover) for presenting feed subscription options.2. Social Bookmark drop-down for Blogger-beta post footers.3. Extreme Socializer – A Social Bookmarking alternative.4. Recent Referrers hack by web-messenger.1. Feed Subscribe Drop-down (on-hover)You might have noticed the Javascript-based subscribe drop-down (activates on mouse hover) in my blog’s widebar. I had got this one from here. Just go to ...
Nov 11, 2006View Comments
Host HTML pages for Frames in a blogspot address
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 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 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 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 ...
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