How to Fix Double Post Problem on My Blog?

I have received so many question about double post issue/problem. Why I get double post on my blog homepage? Why I get double post after changing template? How to fix this double post problem?

Note to all, this problem not because of template. Do you remember, when you change the template, there's an option feature from Blogger, Do you want to delete these widget? If you choose keep widget, all your blog widget keep there. This feature is usefull for keeping widget so you don't need to add it one by one.

But the problem is, when your new template has Blog1 widget, and your current blog has Blog2 widget, it will make a double post. Note that Blog1 or Blog2 is post widget, so it will appear double.

So how to fix this double post problem?

Open Edit HTML, then find this code

<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>

or

<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>

Just delete one of them.

New Blogger/Blogspot Mobile Template Feature

Last Friday, Blogger has announced a new Blogger feature, Mobile View Feature. Many of us use mobile phone to access blog. It difficult to view desktop version on mobile phone screen size. Some of us ask about how to set mobile view for our blog? Now, we can set mobile view on our blog because Blogger has created mobile template feature.

Initially available as opt-in functionality on Blogger in Draft, mobile templates will re-format your blogs for smartphones to enhance your readers’ viewing experience. In order to activate mobile templates, simply go to Dashboard > Settings > Email & Mobile tab, enable the mobile template option and then save settings. For now, this is beta feature so you can access it through http://draft.blogger.com

Feature highlights

• Preview: Get a glimpse of what your blog will look like by clicking on the Mobile Preview button. You can also see it on your smartphone by scanning the QR-code to the right of the options.
• Automatic redirection: All opted-in blogs will automatically be redirected to the mobile view when accessed from a smartphone*.
• Template support: We are initially supporting 6 variants of the Simple template and 6 variants of the Awesome template. If you have used one of these 12 templates through our Template Designer, your mobile view will be rendered in the same style as your desktop view (other template variants will be rendered as Simple). Some gadgets are also supported**.

• Mobile ads: Mobile AdSense ads will be displayed at the top of the post pages and at the bottom of the index page if the blog has an AdSense gadget or inline blog ads.

I have tried it but, the mobile view doesn't redirected yet. You can try it and pick the mobile address http://www.ipietoon.com/?m=1 or http://yourblog.blogspot.com/?m=1

10 Things I Knew When I Started Blogging

You want to become a professional blogger, make loads of money and have the good life. All these guys do is write for a living, right? They spend a couple hours a week to put up a few blog posts and their readers are just itching for more. These bloggers are following the ten blogging commandments.

1. Have passion about your topic

You want to write something that you would read. If you're constantly reading about sports, why not make a sports blog? The right topic is one that you are passionate about. Readers always have room for one more blog if it's well written and from the heart.

2. Be consistent with your topic

You are drawing on a canvas when you write new posts. If you are painting with subdued blues and greens, it is jarring to suddenly switch over to fluorescent fuchsia. Likewise is you suddenly talk about religion on your weight loss journal.

3. Respond to comments

Comments provide that extra personalization to the blog. They can sometimes expound upon the topic. They can provide the forum for some great discussions and further blog posts. Give them a response and be thankful that people are reading.

4. Search for blogs you like

Chances are, there are blogs that you have been keeping up with for ages. What keeps you going back? Is it the writer's style and ego? Is it the way that the blogger loves peaches just like you? Place your own spin on the things you like about these sites.

5. Have an ironclad ego

You can't take comments personally. You wanted your blog to inspire passion, and it has. Remember that the angry commenters may be having a bad day and want to take it out anonymously on those around them.

6. Be a stickler for your posting schedule

Following a posting schedule is paramount to retaining readers. It's better if you write it in your profile 'Every Tuesday and Friday, … brings us into the world of great cheese,' but it should be followed. Essentially, you do not want to give your readers any reasons to stray.

7. Invest in a good design

You have about thirty seconds to make a great impression on a reader who is cruising for new blogs. Anything that makes a blog harder to read, from loud wallpapers to busy animations, drives visitors away instead of attracting them.

8. Be the one in charge

When it comes down to it, you're the one who's writing. You are the one in charge, not the commenters. They may be the ones who offer advice, but you're steering the ship.

9. Market your blog

You would read your blog because it offers the best advice in your favorite topic. Why not let other people know about it through advertising?

10. Invest a lot of time in your blog

Everything you do to improve your blog takes time. You need to do research into the new trends. You need to look into the new marketing techniques. You need to brush up on comma usage. A great blog takes time and does not come out of thin air.

I wish that I had these commandments when I first started blogging. I wish that I'd known how much time it takes to do research and keep up with marketing. I wish that I had known I'd be in charge of the marketing, because I thought that there was a magic visitor button to make traffic run to my site. Following these tips will help you incrementally improve traffic to your blog, and that is how real success is born.

Guest Author:
James Adams works with the team at CartridgeSave where he reviews products such as the HP 336 ink cartridge and helps out on their blog.

Blogger Showcase , Submit Your Blog

There are so many showcase gallery but mostly for Wordpress platform.I have ever listed about Web Design Showcase gallery, for design inspiration. No need to worry for Blogger platform user, now you can submit your site to Blogger Showcase, showcasing best blog design using Blogger platform.








Is there any complicated condition? These are simple requirements

1. Blogger platform is a must
   
2. Your blog can be original blogspot domain or custom domain
3. For personal blog, must be unique blog design
4. For niche blog, must be useful and original content. Some more resources on graphics and templates you can borrow from hosting nerds which is a blog done by web hosting search.

By submitting your blog, you get more chance for promoting your blog. What are you waiting for, just submit your blog or suggest your favourite blog.

Blogger Readmore Feature

Yesterday, Blogger has announced another Blogger Birthday feature. Blogger has add readmore feature on your post. Now you dont need to add any code because this new readmore feature ease us to choose whether show full post or break post.

Blogger call this feature  Jump Break. With Jump Breaks you can show just a snippet of your post on your blog's index page. Blogger will insert a "Read more" link to the full post page where your readers can keep reading.

How to use this blogger readmore feature?
There are two ways to insert a "Read more" jump to your posts.

If you use the new post editor , you'll notice the "Insert jump break" icon in the editor's toolbar. Click this icon and the "jump break" will be inserted into your blog post at your cursor's position.

If you don't use the new post editor, you can still insert a jump break in Edit HTML mode by adding <!-- more -->  where you want to break your post.

Want to change the "Read more" text to your own style? No problem. You can edit the "Read more" text by clicking Layout and then Edit the Blog Posts widget.

 

What if I use template with automatic readmore feature? Will discuss on the next post.

Source : Blogger Buzz

Blogger New Post Editor

Actually New Post Editor have been announced at June 2008 access through Blogger Draft. And now this feature have been launched officially on Blogger. This is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Blogger has developed new post editor embedded with multi features. You can set this new post editor, access through Setting - Basic , find the lowest section, at Select Post Editor, then choose Updated editor.

Improved Image Handling and HTML

At Old Editor, when you upload image you'll get new pop up window with maximum 5 image in every uploading. This is really wasting time. But now with the new post editor it will appear as a thumbnail in the image dialog box. That way, you can upload several images at once, and then add them into your post at your convenience. The thumbnails will be available until you close the post editor.
If you use Edit HTML, especially to add tables and other advanced HTML to your posts, you should find that the new editor has a number of enhancements to make the experience less frustrating, or, dare we say it, even pleasant.

Other Features

• Easy link editing in Compose mode. Just click a link and you’ll have the option of changing its URL or removing the link.
• Full Safari 3 support on both Windows and Macintosh. The old editor is pretty quirky on these browsers, but the new editor works as you’d expect.
• New Preview dialog that shows your post in a width and font size approximating what you’d see on a blog.
• Placeholder image for tags (such as those from video embeds) so that you can see and drag them around Compose mode.

Source : Blogger in Draft

List of Blogs with Unique Design Under Blogger/Blogspot Platform

Blogger/blogspot become more popular in new bloggers as their first blogging platform. As a user I said that this platform easy to customize. We often meet unique design in Wordpress platform, with flexibility in plugin, they can create unique design with special effect.

But it's all about creativity. I found some unique design too under blogger platform. Here they are

Blog Amuki : an artistic design with flash slideshow featured.


Cebong Ipiet's Personal Blog : this is my personal blog haha im being narcist


Deconstruction Code : dark design full javascript effect make this design so manly


Chic and Sassy : girly design with swirl pattern. You can find another girly template here


Extra Icing Cake : one of Gisele Jaquenod's portfolio, with cute cake header


Green Corner Cookies : combination of pink and green for cookies blog


Itzi Blog : another Gisele's design


Jasmin Love Coffee : another Gisele's design


Mike Matas : Personal photoblog, designed grunge and simple


Savvy Moxie : dark red color for mom blog


Sprinkle : another Gisele's design


Cheth Studio : dark design with unique features


Sweet Cupcakery : detailed with sweet cupcake


Quinto Elemento


Flair in The City : such a fashionable and cute template

LinkWithin : Related Posts Widget with Photo Thumbnails

Related post widget shows related stories in similar categories. Showing related stories under each post help your reader find any interesting post easier. My last post discuss about related post widget using javascript. This widget only show post title. Thought it will be more interesting showing related post with image thumbnail. There's any another easy way to do this.

LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. You can check the example on Free Blogger Templates Gallery. Check under each post, there are some related post with image thumbnail. More interesting than plain text. This widget totally free and easy to install. No complicated sign up or difficult script editing. How to put related post widget with thumbnail image on my post?

- Go to LinkWithin site
- Fill setting form. Type email, blog URL, choose Blogger platform, width. Width is how many related post will show. Adjust it to your post width.
- Click Get Widget button
- Page will be redirected to LinkWithin installation step. Follow instruction carefully. After all step done, the widget should now appear on your blog.

New Blogger Gadget : Recent Comment, Recent Post, Twitter Update

After blogger has released Search Form Gadget, so you dont need to confuse looking for search come HTML code, now Blogger has released really functional gadget. You can read on Bloggerbuzz, that Blogger invite developer to contribute Gadgets to Blogger, and the result is some gadget that you really need.

Access through Page Element and Add New Gadget. Click on More Gadget. There are 4 new gadget from Amanda Fazani, owner of Bloggerbuster, including Recent Post, Twitter Update, Recent Comments, Picasa Photostream.

Now you dont need to confuse, looking for recent post or recent comment script. Simply, add through page element, and you can set as you want.

For Recent Post Widget, there are several option, such as title, gadget height, number of post, summary etc.


Now it's easier for customizing our blog. I love blogger ^_^

Free Blogger Template Gallery

Nowadays, blogger template become more variative, fully featured, and well designed. You can choose adjust to your blog theme. The good news is most of blogger template is provided free. Here the list of best blogger template gallery. This gallery is showcasing template so you dont need to search one by one, just pick from the category

BieTemplates



Deluxe Templates



BTemplates

Bloggerstyles



Btheme

Another Way to Change Blogger Template Without Deleting Widget

Fyuh, such a long post title. On my last post, I give trick how to change blogger template without deleting widget. There's same main point, that is copy all widget from current blog to new template. Maybe, some of you not familiar with Notepad ++, a lil bit complicated. Here's another way to edit XML file.

1. Download new xml template
   
2. Save to your desktop. Remember, SAVE no need to open. Some mistake is they open xml file in browser of course there will be an error warning, because browser not compatible to open xml file
3. Create new blog. This is trial blog to edit new xml template
   
4. Upload your new template to trial blog. How to ? Open Edit HTML, and then upload downloaded xml file
5. Open your current blog layout
6. Go to Edit HTML, copy all widget code between <div id='sidebar'>
7. Open trial blog layout
8. Go to Edit HTML, paste to trial blog, all copied widget code. Put it between <div id='sidebar'> too
9. Save
10. Download and save full template of trial blog
11. Upload to your current blog layout, and you get new layout without deleting widget
    

CSS Web Design Gallery

So many great web design  with various themes around the world, such as web2.0, classic, art, cartoon, and many more.  I think these design could be inspiration for us especially for web designer. No need to search for item, simply by looking at web design gallery. Here the list of some showcase gallery resources.

CSS Illustrated

CSS Elite

CSS Glance

CSS Based

Browsershots

Creamy CSS

CSS Leak

Site Inspire

CSS Beauty

CSS Impress

Design Shack

CSS Breeze

CSS Cookie

Swell CSS

How to Add Javascript on Blogspot Template?

Sometimes we use javascript on HTML template to create some special effect such as slide, glider, parallax, automatic readmore and another blogger hack. As we know, javascript contain such a long code, usually we're using third party hosting. The purpose is to make it simple and lighter. Before put javascript on HTML, it should be uploaded to your web host.

Read this how to.

Here's how to place hosted javascript on HTML template.

Open Edit HTML. Copy these code below

<script src='http://YOUR-JAVASCRIPT-URL.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

put before </head> section

But many people have no own hosting, and sometimes free hosting have limited bandwidth and complicated registration. So how? Javascript can be placed through HTML without hosting. Here's how to place it.

Open Edit HTML. Copy these code below

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

your fulljavascript code here

//]]>
</script>

put before </head> section

Online Pattern Background Generator for Your Blog

There are so many online pattern background generator offers various background for website or blog. It's easy to use and we can make pattern as we want. How to use this pattern background for our template?

1. Create background using online tools. Save the pattern and then upload to imagehosting such as imageshack, photobucket, flickr
2. Open Layout > Edit HTML
3. Edit background body css code ,
   

body {background:url(http://your-image-url-here) repeat;}

Note :
For horizontal pattern change code to repeat-x
For vertical pattern change code to repeat-y

Here the list of Online Pattern Background Generator

Ava7 Pattern

Bg Pattern

Din Pattern

Donbarnet Pattern

Fractured Sanity

Huge Magazine

Hybrid Genesis

Liza Phoenix

Fred Farm

Pixel Decor

Stripe Mania

Stripe Generator

Striped Background

Squid Finger

Pixelnet
Tartan Maker
Texture Heaven

Texture Bank

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