Popular Widgets

Increase your subscriber count using feedburner redirection

2008-05-28T03:48:00.001-07:00

This is old news but I thought I will write a small post informing about this new feature in Blogger for the benefit of those who may not know about it. Even if you burn your Blogger feed to Feedburner, some percentage of your visitors may still be reading the Blogger feed. This could happen if they had provided your blog URL (instead of your feedburner feed) to their feed reader and their feed reader auto-discovered Blogger feed. The side effect of this is that your subscriber count will not be accurate.

The first useful development of Google buying Feedburner happens to be the new "Feed redirection" feature. Using this, you can redirect your Blogger feed to Feedburner feed. You can do this by going to Settings->Site Feed and providing your feedburner feed URL for redirection (as shown below).

I did this sometime back and my subscriber count increased from 700+ to 800+ the next day. You could try this too!

Bonus news: Amit informs us of another new feature - Comment Form message with which you can show a message in the Blogger comments page. I made use of it immediately!

Featured gadget: Gadget de SincroGuía TV

2008-05-28T03:38:00.001-07:00

Name: Gadget de SincroGuía TV
Author: InOut TV
Description: Personalized TV guide for Spain

More information | Download gadget

Remove the NavBar

2008-05-09T00:12:00.000-07:00

Okie, personaly i would like to say, for newbie blogger must be dont know how to remove the Navbar on the top. So this tips will be resolve your problem, some one call this trick is hack blogger, but personal i dont think this is a hack ;))

To hide the Blogger NavBar:

- Log in to blogger

- On your Dashboard, select Layout. This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog's HTML.

#navbar-iframe {
  display: none !important;
}

Paste that code in header

So if your would like to show nav back remove the code.

What is Widgetbox.com

2008-05-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

Today i surfing on internet and to find out the best widget for blogger in google and it is come out widgetbox widget. Personally i've already sign up and play to it, is not to difficult to play it, i think every one can use this widget and the same time install to your blogger, so your can see your blog is more interactive blogger. Okie now i wanna story about installing the widget using widgetbox.

Installing the first widget using Widgetbox

If you do not already have account on Widgetbox.com (or any other widget platform), then create one. In Widgetbox, use the Widget Search box to find the first widget - AddThis. When you search you will get the view below. Click the Details button.

You are taken to the widget configuration screen. This is a common step in configuring each widget. You are asked to choose parameters that this widget expects. With widget box you also see a live preview of what the configured widget will look like. Fill in the URL of your blog and press Get Widget.

You should see the layered popup shown below. This popup asks you where would you like to place the widget. You can choose to place it into a panel (the widget box) or into the post. If you want the widget to be permanently displayed on your blog, you should choose the panel option. Note that the Advanced placement option below lets you place the widget into any web page using JavaScript.

The next screen allows you to choose where you want to install the widget panel. There is a rich set of choices that covers popular blogging platforms and social networks. However, you need to be aware of some caveats. Most importantly, the hosted version of Wordpress is not supported.

The Widgetbox folks told me that there is great integration with TypePad. I wanted to try that, but when I was asked for a credit card upfront, I decided not to proceed. So this left me with the blogging software that I used in my early days of blogging - Blogger. Just for this post, I created the blog called Widget Box 2007, where you can find this post as well as all the widgets that we are covering.

So once I selected Blogger from the list of panel integrations, the screen below appeared. In that screen, Widgetbox suggested that I copy and paste the snippet below into a particular place in my Blogger Template. This is the manual step that needs to be done carefully. It is exactly the place where an API would have saved lost customers and made life a lot easier for platforms like Widgetbox. Alas, we are not their yet - so I went on and manually copied the snippet. It is worth noting that Widgetbox instructions suggest to look at the sample picture - definitely worth looking at, as it shows you exactly where to insert the code snippet.

This is the most error-prone manual step, the rest of the work Widgetbox does automatically. You can customize the look of the panel, including its size and CSS Style. Once you are done, click the Publish changes button to push the changes out. You do not need to republish your blog, the changes will be visible instantly.

Setting up the other widgets

Adding other widgets was simpler, because I did not need to setup the widget box. Next I added the Flickr Slideshow widget. My only complaint about this integration was that it asked me to search for my actual Flickr user id. This is both annoying and a strange thing that Flickr does - and Widgetbox exposes.

I just wanted to use my login, but instead I need to go to a page and fetch some strange looking sequence of letters and numbers that represented my real Flickr id. As the end user, I never want to see anything like that. Once I finally found out what that magic number was, I could not get the preview to work. So I decided to just use the most popular photos instead.

The Google site search widget was a zero pain install. All I had to do was specify what site to search. The del.icio.us widget was also very easy to configure - just specify my real (pun intended) username. And finally the Digg headlines widget did not require any customization at all.

Once all the widgets were added, I noticed there was a way of re-arranging them on the panel, using drag-and-drop. After I tweaked them one last time I hit the Publish button again and went on Blogger to see what it looks like.

So what do your think now it's easy right so had fun

creadit : widgetbox2007

3 Column Blogger Template: Comptech Blue

2008-05-08T23:30:00.001-07:00

This blogger template is produce from isnani blogger, he is one of the development for blogger template. Many people like it, so if you like it also, please download here.

I need this Template

Feedjit For Bloggers and Webmasters

2008-05-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

Today i wanna share the best widget for bloggers and webmasters tool about using feedjit. I'm also already use this widget at my blog such as http://mp3populardownload.blogspot.com and http://moviepopulardownload.blogspot.com. It's Cool.

FEEDJIT serves over 70 Million widgets every month. Visit our blog for news, see who's talking about us and check out our global feed to see who's using us.

Feedjit widgets are all free and you don't need to register to get them for your blog or website. Our widgets are also extremely lightweight and won't slow your site down.

If you're a Blogger or Typepad user you can install any of our widgets with one click. If you use a different platform or if you're installing Feedjit in a website, then simply cut and paste the script we provide into your blog template or website HTML. Feedjit will appear in the position you paste the script.

Feedjit's mission is to provide high performance real-time widgets for the blogging community that are free and easy to use. FEEDJIT is founded by two serial entrepreneurs whose previous businesses include a search engine and a blogging platform.

So if your wanna see your real time visitor click here and add on the widget at your blogger. Amazing tool and need take one at http://feedjit.com/

Fabrik Share The Fun

2008-05-08T23:13:00.000-07:00

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Easily share your content with friends and family
Embed slideshows and playlists into web sites including MySpace, Flickr,
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How to expand the sidebar?

2008-05-08T23:05:00.000-07:00

Today i has been seeing new widget about sidebar expand. This widget will be expand when its clicked. I think this is one of the coolest thing after making peek-a-boo post.

This hack(should we call it hack) is not mine. rather this hack comes from the person who said he spent two days to create the code. Hallelujah! He deserves it. So the man behind is of site Flooble! Flooble is the site that contains Blogger scripts, Blogger hacks and lot more. If you are interested to learn blogger hacks , do yourself a favor, Check the Fooble site.
Oh, we were on sidebar expand. Okay so i am not giving any codes here and i am directing this to Foobls site. So click here to know the way of getting expandable sidebar. If this hacks works on you then don't forget to leave me a comment so that i can add you in my blogroll.

credit : flooble.com

50 Great Widgets For Your Blog

2008-05-08T22:56:00.001-07:00

http://mashable.com/2007/09/06/widgets-2/