Blogger 4 Newbies

This should be I think a part of answers for the most FAQ on GIMME BLOG!

How to use yourname.Com SubDomain on your Blogspot / Blogger Blog.

Take a look at this pictures below, click on thumnails to see the actual size

1. Go to your Dashboard -> Setting -> Publishing

Thick the Custom Domain.

2. Click The Switch To Advanced Setting

3. Now Type YourName.JackBook.Com Subdomain

This is an automatic system. So as long as your requested name is still available, (not taken yet by the other) then you will be able to use it. Don’t forget to read The TOS

After you clicked the Save Setting button, the option to redirect www to non www will be active.
example: www.yourname.jackbook.com will be redirected to yourname.jackbook.com.

4. Thick that option to activate it.

Save it again, and now you are done.

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Below are the instructions on how to turn "Labels into Horizontal Tabs,"

Step 0: Label your posts.

Make sure your blog has some posts with label assigned, otherwise nothing will get created. See this topic on how to create labels:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=44498&topic=9084



Step 1: Downloading and unzipping the file from the Exploding Boy website

Here are the downloading and sample links:

http://www.exploding-boy.com/2005/12/15/free-css-navigation-designs/

http://exploding-boy.com/images/cssmenus/menus.html

Then, have a googlepages account and upload the pics there.

Step 2: Changing the Header to become appendable.

Modify this line:



to become

2" showaddelement="yes">



Step 3: Prepare the CSS portion of the hack.

Go to the very end of this article and cut the CSS portion you like there, then paste it at the very end of the CSS code (right before the closing CDATA part - see picture below)

Make sure to replace "www.yourwebsite.com" to your website.



Below is an example of pasting the code for style F:


/*- Menu Tabs F By http://www.exploding-boy.com/2005/12/15/free-css-navigation-designs/------
*/

#tabsF {
float:left;
width:100%;
font-size:80%;
line-height:normal;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;

}
#tabsF ul {
margin:0;
padding:10px 10px 0 50px;
list-style:none;
}
#tabsF li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#tabsF a {
float:left;
background:url(" http://www.yourwebsite.com/labeltabs/tableftF.gif") no-repeat left top;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 4px;
text-decoration:none;
}
#tabsF a span {
float:left;
display:block;
background:url(" http://www.yourwebsite.com/labeltabs/tabrightF.gif") no-repeat right top;
padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
color:#666;
}
/* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
#tabsF a span {float:none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */
#tabsF a:hover span {
color:#FFF;
}
#tabsF a:hover {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#tabsF a:hover span {
background-position:100% -42px;
}


Step 4: Adding Label Widget

Follow the instructions from this article, especially step B.4. After you've done with inserting the code & save it, go to Page Element option and drag the newly added widget to stay under the Header area (that we fixed so that it would accomodate this new widget.)

If you use a style other than F, than make sure id='tabsF' reflects the correct tab, such as id='tabsE' for style E. Later, if you like a different design, just cut-and-paste the style's CSS code, then change this id again to reflect the change.



There you have it! Well-designed tabs from professionals (The Exploding Boy website) being integrated into the new Blogger Beta.



Enjoy This hack !!!

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This is a pretty popular Blogger hack that lots of people have asked me about. Instead of answering to each email individually, I thought it would make more sense to write an article about it.

With this hack, you can choose to display a select amount of text from the beginning of each post as a teaser instead of showing the entire post on the front page of your blog. Then when people want to read the rest of the post, they can click a “read more” link to see the full post. This is very handy if you have lots of long articles all on one page. (Note that you’ll need to have post pages enabled in order to make this feature work.)

Step #1 - Update Your Template Code

First you need to edit your existing code so I recommend copying and pasting it into notepad or any text editor. Also, it’s smart at this point to create a backup of your template just in case something goes wrong. Now do a search (CTRL + F) within the text editor for the following code post-header-line-1. This is the default code that Blogger includes but some custom templates remove or change this code so you might have trouble finding it. If you can’t locate this text then try searching for instead. Your template will for sure have this since it’s the tag that actually prints the body of your post.

Now depending on which code you were able to find will determine how easy the next steps will be. You might need to do some detective work first in order to get this working properly in your custom template. The idea is to get this new code into your template before the tag. Keep reading and hopefully the explanation will illustrate the concept clear enough so you are able to adapt this hack to your custom template.

Add the following code below the