How To Have A Private Or Invitation Only Blog On Blogger

When you set up your blog on Blogger the default setting is to display your blog to the world and be displayed in search engine results and most people are looking to build a following so they leave the settings as they are.But a blog can be a great tool for community's, groups and family to stay connected online and these are blogs you may not want shared with the entire Internet.Not a problem a few quick changes in the settings can block search engines from crawling your Blog and stop anyone you have not personally invited by Email from...

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How To Add A Small Search Box To Your Blog

Its easy to add a search box for your readers to search your blog. On blogger we have the option to add a google search to our blog. I think the google search box is too big and un-editable so i added my own small search box. This search is just as effective and very easy to add to your blog and you can make it appear to suit your blogs style and colors. This is the search box: Search Okkomadewaltricks To place this on your blog you just gotta copy the code below and replace by URL with yours and you have the option to make some...

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How Back Up Your Blogger Template With Hard Drive Or Notepad

Within this blog we talk a lot about making changes to your template by editing the html that makes it up.Something i quickly realised is that changes don't always work first time so its vital to be able to revert back to the template before you made changes.I do this in one of two ways :1.Save to hard drive. Simply click the "Download full template" option above the html area.You will get a small window pop up,click "save" then save it (just save it to documents).Then if your not happy with the changes you made instead of having to rummage...

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How To Make A Clickable Picture Link

How to make a picture (an image, photo or screenshot) clickable, that is, become a hyperlink.The first thing is you must get the picture up on the web. This you can do by uploading toPhotobucket.You can choose one of the billions pictures they have or if you have an account or open an account (its free) you can upload an image.Once you upload or select an image you will get code for the image in four formats you must select HTML.So for this we will use this image.When you click this image it will lead you to Photobucket.com.So we gotta change...

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How To Make An Easy Clickable Link

In this post i will show you how to make a text link or hyperlink.Making the link is very simple.This is how you would create a link directing to this site:<a href=" http://okkomadewaltricks.blogspot.com "> Click Here</a>And this is how it looks:Click HereTo make the link direct to your site or any web page you want all you have to do is replace my link (the bit in red) with your link.<a href="Replace this with your link">Here</a>You may also change the text that shows.So instead of "Click Here" you could have :<a...

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How To Make A Youtube Video Auto Start Or Auto Play

This is very easy to do and also a very common question.When you place a YouTube video on your blog the default setting is set for the video not to start unless play is clicked.If you would like the video to start automatically when someone arrives on your page you just need to add a simple piece of code. Make A YouTube Video Auotplay  YouTube have a newer embedd code and an old code i will cover both.You can see in both codes were i have added &autoplay=1- The old YouTube code <object width="425" height="350"><param...

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How To Totally Remove The Blogger Navbar Or Top Menubar

The blogger navbar is standard on all blogger templates.Some don't mind it personally i don't like it.Removing it is easier than you might think.In fact i have this Blogger tip down to three easy steps for you. Remove The Blogger Navbar Step 1. In your Blogger dashboard click Design > Edit Html. 2.Copy the code below : #navbar-iframe { display: none !important;} 3.Place it in your blogs html below the template details (found very close to the top of you html) and just above /* Variable definitions as displayed below: -----------------------------------------------Blogger...

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How To Get A Feedburner Rss Feed For Your Blog

One of the first things you should do when you start Blogging is set up a Rss feed..All blogs no matter what platform have a default feed, for Blogger the default feed is www.Yourblog.Blogspot.com/feed/post/default But the Google Owned Feedburner offers so much more and don't worry it is very easy to set up. Feedburner offer so many extras and as you build your blog you will notice so many areas that Feedburner can optimize your blog, we will also go into how feed burner give you the option to provide a 'Subscribe by Email' as you see...

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