Category: Miscellaneous
Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content
How to customise the 404 not found page on Blogger
The not found page on Blogger is really boring and unhelpful. It doesn’t encourage your readers to visit other areas of your site or help them find something they are…
How to customize the Blogger EU Cookies Notification Bar
I’ve been getting quite a few questions about the Cookie Notification that appears on Blogger blogs – from why it’s there, to can it be removed to how to customise…
Resize Bloggers popular post images to fit the width of your sidebar without being blurry
Todays post is going to show you how to change the size of the images used in Bloggers popular post gadget so that they are bigger and clearer. This has…
Apply CSS to specific pages on Blogger using conditional tags
Ever wanted to apply code to specific areas of your Blogger template but not to other sections? This is something I’ve included in certain tutorials/comments before but without fully explaining…
How to style a link to look like a clickable button on your blog
Sometimes a simple link isn’t enough, sometimes using a “button” makes the link stand out more and is easier for readers to identify the link as clickable. While this isn’t…
What you need to know about the box model (editing margin, padding and border values)
We’re back with another HTML for Beginners post, this time on the Box Model. Margin and Padding are used so often for spacing out elements in a design. I mention…
5 common coding mistakes on blogs
Before changing my direction in September, I’d say about 70% of what I did was coding fixes, tweaks, maintenance and development for existing templates. The Template Cleanup package is one…
How to install DISQUS Comments on Blogger
DISQUS is one of the most popular commenting systems out there for blogs. I mentioned it previously when I compared the 3 main commenting systems for Blogger so you can…
Add related posts to single post only on Blogger (hide on homepage)
I’ve had quite a few requests since my previous post listing the Alternatives to nRelate Related Posts for a tutorial on how to remove related posts from the homepage and…
Enable Pinterest Rich Pins for Blogger or WordPress
Rich Pins on Pinterest are just like standard Pins but they include some extra information about the source of the pin, quite similar to Twitter Cards. There are five different…
Alternatives to nRelate – related posts for Blogger
nRelate announced rather suddenly yesterday that as of December 31st 2014, their services will be shut down. This means that if you have a related or popular posts widget or…
How to add a line behind post title, date or text
Today’s post will show you how to add a line behind text on your blog, in a similar way to strikethrough or deleted text but instead of the line going…
