Blogger template tutorial Part 2

Update: I see from statcounter that people searching for Blogger beta (now New Blogger) are landing on this site. For those who want to add stuff to their sidebars, etc., looking for 3 column templates, etc., but using the New Blogger templates, please visit How to add ads., hit counters, etc in New Blogger (formerly Blogger Beta)Blogger Beta (now New Blogger): 3 column templateMore Blogger Beta

Blogger template tutorial

Update: Blogger has updated their default template which uses LAYOUT. However, this post is still relevant for those using the old classic Blogger template.Blogger templateA template is a set of HTML files which define the appearance and functionality of the blog. You can use the templates that are provide by Blogger, customize the provided template or write your own. To access Blogger template,

How to build traffic to your blog

You have shed blood, sweat and tears to put up your blog, you wouldn't want the blog to languish in a corner. You want people to read it. You want traffic. How does one increase traffic to one's blog?There are a number of settings you can do in Blogger towards this end. Sign into Dashboard, select your blog, click SETTINGS tab, then BASIC. Set "Add your blog to our listings" and "Show Email Post

How to backup your blog

Backing up your Blogger blogWhy is it important to backup your blog? You got to protect it from accidental delete (not rare). Another matter to consider is the stability of the blogging and web hosting service and its hardware. Blogger, even though backed up by the giant Google, faced some hiccups recently because of a hardware problem and caused a real scare among bloggers recently. How to

Introduction to del.icio.us

In an earlier post "How to do categories" a simple method was described using del.icio.us as a workaround for doing categories for Blogger. However, a reader has indicated that she is not familiar with del.icio.us tagging system. That is the reason for this post.Del.icio.us is a popular online public bookmarking system that is now owned by Yahoo and is a big improvement over the conventional

How to do categories

UPDATE 22 July 2008: This is an old post done before LABELS were introduced. For those blogs still using old Blogger classic template, please refer to Label (categories) list for old classic Blogger template and Scroll box for labels (categories). Currently Blogger has no provision for doing categories, a very useful feature. If you want this, you will have to hack or do a work around. There are

How to recover from an unintended delete problem

For a more comprehensive and updated post, refer to How to recover deleted post (updated).Recovering from an accidental deleteYou have accidentally deleted some posts or links, etc., or you may even have messed up your template, and you need to recover from the mistake urgently. What do you do?This is what you can do. Do a search (Google, Yahoo, etc.) for some terms in your past post and see if

Sidebar pushed to the bottom of the page

(For an updated version of this post, go to Sidebar slide to the bottom of the page: What to do?For an example of how I go about trying to solve this problem, go to Trouble shooting sidebar sliding to the bottom of the page problem. An example)A frequent complaint of bloggers is that the sidebar (profile, links, etc.) is pushed to the bottom of the page. This is a very common problem and may

Blogger for Dummies is now 3-column

Update 4 November 2006: For those looking for 3 column template for Blogger beta, please refer to post Blogger Beta: 3 column templateMore new Blogger (formerly beta) templates modified by StavangerNew Blogger template for posting large photos, etc.(note: Blogger for Dummies went back from 3 column to 2 column is back to 3 column again. See updates below.)Finally made the switch to a 3-column