Techie Vinayak: August 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Add A Survey For Your Blog

What does a reader wants? He wants that a blog should write something of the reader’s interest. So, what about a adding a survey on your blog which pops up from the bottom right asking for “What should we write about next?”. That would be simple for a reader to suggest the blog owner for something he wants. So, in order to get it follow the simple steps below:-
1. Create an account at KissInSights.
2. Complete the form and choose the survey you want.

3. Complete the form and click the button “Get the code”.
4. Copy the given code and go to your dashboard—> design—> edit html.
5. Find <body> and paste the KissInSights code right after it.
6. View your blog and have fun.

NOTE: I recommend you not to add this if you have wibiya toolbar because if you add it with the wibiya toolbar the submit button will hide behind the toolbar. I deleted the toolbar and then got this widget.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Add the Blogger share buttons

Share buttons are no doubt one of the most essential things for a blog. According to me, the best social bookmarking widget is the Sharing is Caring widget but for that we need to play with html codes. Wouldn’t it be fun if we just get a social bookmarking widget with one click. Yeah, you can do it simply and you do not even need to go to other sites to find the codes etc… Now here are the steps to get the blogger share buttons.

1. First of all login to your dashboard—> Design
2. Click Edit in the Blog Post area.
3. You will see a new window with the title “Configure Blog Posts”. See the Post Page Options and you will find an option “Show Share buttons”.

4. Just click the Save button and look at your blog.

This is the most easiest bookmarking widget to get, so if you don’t have a bookmarking widget, I suggest you to get this one.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Add The Official Twitter Button To Your Blog

You must have seen the Retweet Button on many blogs. Many people think that it is Twitter’s button but it was made by TweetMeMe. But recently Twitter introduced its official button. And now many blogs are replacing the TweetMeMe button with the official Twiter button. The twitter button comes in three styles.

To get the button, simply go to the Twitter Goodies Page and click on Tweet Button, then choose the button you want and grab the code from the bottom of the page. Well, I suggest you to paste it after the <data:post.body/> code. You can see the twitter button below the post.
For WordPress users just install the plugin called Twitter Button and customize the button.
Give it a try surely.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

How to auto-publish your posts to social networking sites!

Hi friends,
Most of us are familiar with social networking sites. Social Networking plays a big role in the development of our blog. Indeed it is an unavoidable factor in the life of a blog. Most of us do share our posts through the social networking sites to a wide range of readers. Here is an easy way of posting in there, instead of opening each and every site to share your new post. Just register with www.dlvr.it/ to automatically share your posts in a variety of social networking sites which includes Twitter, Facebook, Tmblr, LinkedIn and much more. This site allows you to share your posts in about 10 social networking sites.

Just give it a try.............Happy Blogging!

Posted by Mohammed Ibrahim.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Create A Contact Me Form For Blogger

A “Contact Me” page is a must for every blogger. Many people create a contact me page and give their email addresses and other ways by which the reader can contact you. But, a contact form gives your site a little more professional look. To see my “Contact Form” click here. To get this contact form, you just need to open EmailMeForm. You can create your own contact form. You can also choose from the existing forms and then edit them. This is a must use website. After creating the contact form, go to your blogger dashboard and create a new page. I suggest to you to keep the title of the page as “Contact Me”. Then, in the page editor, click Edit Html and paste the EMBED html code you got from EmailMeForm.

This helps a lot. So do try it.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Why You Should Use Template Designer?

Blogger’s template designer is a feature which you should definitely use. The template designer can be found in the Design option. Even I have got this template from the template designer.

Firstly, choose the template you want for your blog. Then you need to design it. You can also choose different ready-made designs of the template. You can even choose different backgrounds for your blog.

You can even change your blog’s layout. There are 8 options for changing your blog’s layout.

Now, the best tab of the template designer. The Advanced tab. This tab has many features such as changing your font, text colour etc.

So, those were the features of the template designer, I surely suggest you to give it a try and I am sure you will love it. Try it once and tell me how was the experience.

How To Create A Watermark

A watermark is a transparent text written, in a image for copyright issues. For example:-

Can you see the watermark at the bottom right. I have used Windows Live Writer for that and its just too easy. Follow the steps below to get that type of watermark using Windows Live Writer:-
Firstly, upload a picture on Windows Live Write and then click on that picture. You will see options on the right side, click on the advanced tab and click ©Watermark.
right side menu

Then type in the watermark and select the position where you want to show it, select the font and the size of the watermark and click OK.

To download Windows Live Writer you need to click here and download it simply.
Wasn’t that simple? I suggest you that you should use Live Writer to write your blog posts as it is simple and awesome.

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