Make Your Blog More Better

As you know, Techie Vinayak’s main motive is to make YOUR blog better. And as I have tried both wordpress.org and blogger.com I know that wordpress.org definitely makes your blog look more good. Here are some advantages of a Wordpress blog than a free blog:-

• You can customize your blog’s design with own premium themes.
  
• You can enrich your blog’s features with thousands of free third party plugins.
  
• Your own your blog content and backup is available.
  
• You are free to put advertisements on your blog.
  
• You can enhance your blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization) easily with plugins.

Don’t you think that you should now shift your blog to WordPress. Oh…you need a domain, a web hosting :-( and you don’t want to spend your money at that. But now don’t take tension about that because WPWebHost will be taking care of all that.

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HOW TO WIN?

1. Blog about this contest and link back to this post. You could take a banner here and insert to your post.
   
2. Get 7 comments for your post. (Trackback isn’t counted)
   
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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.

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.

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.

Falling flower effect for blogger

Falling flower effect is very popular.I have an example for it:-
http://www.blogbark2.blogspot.com
Flower effect has 3 choices.Here they are:-
Pink Flower

Purple Flower

Yellow Flower

Now here are the steps to add them.
1.Pink Flower
For pink flower first go to Layout—> Edit Html—> Click the Expand Widget Templates check box.
Then find the following code:-
</body>
And just before that code paste the following code:-
<script src="http://flowerfall.googlecode.com/files/spiceupyourblog1.js" type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Flower fall effect by Vinayak Nagri www.superstarvinayak.blogspot.com
* Please keep this notice intact
***********************************************/
</script><a href="http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2010/01/falling-flower-effect-add-3-types-of.html" target="_blank"><font size="1">Get Flower Effect</font></a>
2.Purple Flower
For purple flower first go to Layout—> Edit Html—> Click the Expand Widget Templates check box.
Then find the following code:-
</body>
And just before that code paste the following code:-
<script src="http://flowerfall.googlecode.com/files/spiceupyourblog2.js" type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Flower fall effect by Vinayak Nagri www.superstarvinayak.blogspot.com
* Please keep this notice intact
***********************************************/
</script><a href="http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2010/01/falling-flower-effect-add-3-types-of.html" target="_blank"><font size="1">Get Flower Effect</font></a>
3.Yellow Flower
For purple flower first go to Layout—> Edit Html—> Click the Expand Widget Templates check box.
Then find the following code:-
</body>
And just before that code paste the following code:-
<script src="http://flowerfall.googlecode.com/files/spiceupyourblog3.js" type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Flower fall effect by Vinayak Nagri www.superstarvinayak.blogspot.com
* Please keep this notice intact
***********************************************/
</script><a href="http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2010/01/falling-flower-effect-add-3-types-of.html" target="_blank"><font size="1">Get Flower Effect</font></a>
Thats it.Save your template and see your blog.

Add Wibiya Toolbar at the bottom

What is Wibiya?

Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
Wibiya offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications.
Currently wibiya offers a fixed set of tools such as creating a blog community via facebook connect,enabling twitter alerts on your blog and enabling post navigation but there is a lot to wait for as we will be adding more and more application through time.You can see the example of the toolbar on this blog at the bottom.Wibiya has a handful of options which you can show on your blog or website.So this one is a must.If you want to apply Wibiya Toolbar then go to http://www.wibiya.com and sign up.Then choose the colour of the toolbar and the icons you want to display on the toolbar.It is very useful and very nice.Do apply it.Its very easy to add so do it.

Add the Disqus comments

Tired of blogger comments then get these Disquis comments.Just open http://www.disqus.com and sign up there.It is really awesome.You can also choose how people can comment on your blog.You can see an example below this post.I think they are better than blogger comments so if you like them change it. Firstly create your account on disqus and then verify your email address. Note that you have to create an account on Disqus Comments not on Disqus Profile. Disques Profile is used to comment on other blogs. After creating the account, customize the commenting system and then click Blogger and read the instructions.