Comment Spam Filtering, New Comments System on Blogger

Blogging is joyful activity that we can communicate with other people from all around the world. Unfortunately, many of webmaster use this comment system to do spamming activity. Spamming our blog comment with unrelated comment, even put their promotion links.

To address this, Blogger Team have integrated Google’s spam filtering technologies into the Blogger comment system. Some of Blogger user will notice the new “Comments” tab. (Note: Blogger Team are gradually rolling this out to all users, so some of you may not see the new Comments tab yet.) In the Comments tab, there is a Spam sub-tab that shows all the comments that are likely spam.



The comments in the Spam inbox are not visible to readers. So, you can permanently delete spam comments by selecting them and choosing Delete. You can also mark comments as Not Spam that have been incorrectly classified as spam (what we call the “false-positives”). Choose Not Spam and the selected comments will be moved out of the spam list and will be immediately published on your blog.

Yes this is like an Akismet on Wordpress. Now Blogger user can filter which real comment or spam comment.

Kiddie Blog

My new design (after long time haha) , and still about kids, children, cute, baby, etc :D , I love cute thing so much. Kiddie blog blogger template, another cute template. I use a cute lil girl and birdy graphic, and also baby clothes. Use this for your baby, kids, child or even baby clothes shop.

Dominated with green, pink, brown color, but you also can customize this design as your preference.

Preview | Download

Remember to back up your template before change it. And for you a new mom, read this Must Have Item for New Born Baby.

New Share Buttons on Blogger

Actually, this featured has been launched at June 2010. Sharing is an important feature for bloggers. When your readers find an interesting post, they probably want to share it with other people; this in turn brings more traffic back to your blog.

Blogger now offers new share buttons. The new buttons can be placed under each post and let your blog readers easily share your post via email, Blogger, and popular social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

You can start show the new share buttons under your posts by editing the Blog Posts widget and enabling Show Share Buttons in Design | Page Elements





If it didn't show, it seems you're using tweaked or customized template, so you need some tweaks.

Stats Menu on Blogger in Draft Dashboard

Most of blogger use statistic tools on their blog just to know all blog statistic. Maybe you have used histats, google analytics, and many more. But now, Blogger have introduced Stats menu on your blog dashboard.
There's also a lot more data that's being tracked, such as popular search keywords that send visitors to your blog, which country your visitors come from, and which web browsers they are using. Basically, with the new Stats feature, you know what's going on with your blog right now.

The new Stats feature shows all of this data in a simple, easy-to-understand graphical user interface. Since Stats are part of Blogger, you don't have to sign up for another service, or embed any code in a gadget. 
Just login to your blog through http://draft.blogger.com , and you can see Stats menu under your blog name.

Check out this Stats menu, and what do you think about it?

Bunda's Corner Family and Food Template

It was a long time, I did not create any template for blogger. Yesterday I have finished a custom blogger template with the happy family and bento food theme. I designed three column layouts with bright color and of course the illustrations are funny family. This is the preview

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Yes, I also love a bright and pastel color. Detailed with a cute animals, cat, bird, mouse, and yummy bento japanese food.

Check my another design here

Blogger Template Designer Now Available on Blogger.com

Actually Blogger has launched its beta testing of Blogger Template designer at March 2010. So we can access it only from draft.blogger.com

Finally, at this June 2010 Blogger Template Designer has officially launched for everyone. Open your dashboard and you can find Design menu.

What we can do with this new blogger template designer?

• Beautiful new templates. Blogger have designed 19 brand-new templates, with more on the way. You can quickly give your blog a great new style by selecting one of the new templates.[1]
• Separating design from layout. Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
• Hundreds of free, professional background images. We've paired up with iStockphoto to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost.
• A single control to change all your design's colors. With other platforms, users have to define every color in their blog separately, making changing the color theme of your blog a tedious task. The Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
• Pixel-perfect layout manipulation via smooth resizing. You can define your layout down to the pixel via sliders that update the blog's preview in real time.
• A real-time preview sits below the design control panel. Watch your blog update as you create your template design.
• Keeping it simple. Throughout the Template Designer we use hierarchy to hide complexity from you.
• Complete control. Under the advanced tab, you can override a design's CSS and enter your own CSS in the editor and see your blog's preview updated in real time.
• Cross-browser support. Blogger handles cross browser support for you, so you don’t have to. Want a design with rounded corners? We give it to you in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

Source : Blogger Buzz

[1] Note: Selecting a new template will erase all of your customizations on the existing template, so if you have customized your template be sure to first save the current template at Design > Edit HTML click on Download Full template

Where I Can Find Suitable Website Templates

Website templates are considered as pre designed websites. It is a very easy guide to start your own website. You will have to add the personal content only and you can easily start having your own website. Various types of website templates are available on the Internet and you can choose the one suitable for your website subject.

There are website templates for gaming website or professional photography, hair salon or say fashion related website. You can also create flash in your website with the help of website templates. Another advantage of adding the free website templates is that they have all been coded in CSS. There is no need to place the link of the website from where you have taken the templates.

These absolutely customizable website are always ready for use as they can be easily downloaded at any time. If you want to set up an online store, then you can also get many websites offering ecommerce templates. These ecommerce templates are compatible with almost all the hosting companies and they can be used for all sorts of business. Some of the websites sell these website templates for free, while some take a small charge for it.

How to Use Google Font API on Blog CSS?

What is Google Font API? The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page. It means you dont need to install font family on your desktop computer to see custom font on any web.
Benefits of the Google Font API include:

• A choice of high quality open source fonts.
• Works in most browsers.
• Extremely easy to use.

For example, the following text uses a web font called Tangerine:


We can apply this font on web without install it on our PC, even our visitor can see it because we use font and script from Google Directory.

Yes, Google have created Google Font Directory. There we can browse this catalog of available fonts, learn about the font designers who created them, and copy the code required to use them on our web page. The fonts in the directory are all released under open source licenses; you can use them on any non-commercial or commercial project.



Now, we can use this unique font on our website or blog. How to use Google Font API ? For reference, you can read this Quick Start example or follow this example.

Step 1
Open Layout>Edit HTML. Add a stylesheet link to request the desired web font(s). Copy these code and paste after <head> code

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Font+Name"/>

Note : Change Font name as your desire or you can pick this code from Google Font Directory. For exampale if you want to use Yanone Kaffeesatz font, go to Google font directory, click on font type, then click on Get Code.

<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Yanone+Kaffeesatz" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Step 2
Insert CSS code
font-family: 'Yanone Kaffeesatz', arial, serif;

You can insert it wherever you want. For example you want use that font for Post title, so insert it after
.post h3 {

or you want to use it as global font so insert it after
body{

etc.

I try to use custom font for my post title as you can see it. I think this is a great idea especially for everyone who concern on blog design and appearance. Thanks Google.

Improved Post Preview Blogger in Draft

Usually we preview our posts before hit publish. We want to see how it looks, it was good or still needs to be fixed? Blogger in Draft now supports a new improved preview That feature allows you to see how your post will from actually look to your readers.

This is a preview of the new beta testing, so you Should http://draft.blogger.com to log in to write or try a new post preview. On the New Post page, click on the Preview button, and you will of see a new window open with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) preview of the post. This is how your blog post to your readers will from Appear Pls you publish, with The Same format and style of your current theme Blogger. And to host the blog you can check out some plan under blog
hosting.

Note That the preview page does not automatically updated as the contents of the post changes. To make sure the post looks OK after you've done further editing, you can manually refresh the preview page, or click the Preview button again.

(Source: Blogger in Draft)

Twitter Background Gallery

No day without tweeting? Do you addicted to Twitter? Need a personal looks of your Twitter profile? Usually we really frustate because we have no skill to design . Don't worry, there are so many free Twitter background can inspire us.



Twitter Background Gallery, showcasing more than a thousand of Twitter background. Twitter Backgrounds Gallery is the largest showcase of unique Twitter backgrounds submitted and recommended by Twitter users worldwide. Get inspired, vote for your favorites, find a designer or DIY resources and most importantly - have fun! Proud of your own twitter background? Submit it to the gallery.