Card based blog design – how to divide each post into a separate box on Blogger
Card-based layouts are becoming increasingly popular across the web, with many popular sites like Pinterest, Dribble and Google+ adapting the style. They are usually presented in a grid or list, showing a summary of information that is easy to scan. This makes them perfect for displaying blog posts. This post will explain the basic method…
How to enable the Search Description field on Blogger to increase page views
Search engines typically take the first couple of sentences of a blog post as use that as the site description on their results page. However, there is a feature on Blogger allowing you to write individual summary for each post. This allows you to choose the description which can help improve the number of visits…
How to add “Click to Tweet” link within posts to encourage social sharing
Today’s post will show you how to add Click to Tweet boxes in your posts on both Blogger and WordPress. You can add these Tweet boxes throughout your posts allowing readers to click and easily share pre-written content that links back to your blog. It’s an effective way to increase engagement and get more shares…
How to SEO your blog posts on Blogger – Video Walkthrough with FREE checklist
Today’s post is about taking my SEO tips and putting them into action in order to optimise your posts and blog content. I’ve written quite a few posts on SEO – covering basics of writing content and optimising images to increasing your domain authority, removing broken links and using NoFollow links. Despite covering a few…
An alternative way to fix blurry popular post images on Blogger
I’ve had a couple of questions recently about why the popular post images on Blogger are suddenly appearing blurry. I previously posted a fix to this issue here by automatically changing the S value which controls the quality, but it seems that Blogger has changed how it hosts images and no longer uses the S…
How to Correctly Centre Different Items on Blogger
Want to know how to centre your header image, blog post images, sidebar images, gadgets, text, headings and everything else on Blogger? I’ve created a reference list below for you explaining how to correctly center the different elements on Blogger, without needing to use deprecated methods. This post was previously part of a post titled…
How to make YouTube or Vimeo Videos Responsive on your site
YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosts make it easy to embed videos on your website and blog using frames, however there isn’t a responsive option and editing iframes is near impossible. This tutorial will show you how to make YouTube and Vimeo videos responsive on your site. Responsive YouTube and Vimeo Videos 1. Find the…
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 looking for. This tutorial will show you how to edit the content and design to make it more user friendly. If you want to have…
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 it. This post is going to run through all the information about it and show you how to customise the notice to suit your blog…
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 been highly requested recently as a lot of people are adding this gadget to their sidebar and above / below blog posts to help promote…
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 it. As more and more people are now asking about how to apply HTML/CSS to certain areas of their blog and not to others I…
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 of my most requested services. I’ve seen thousands of templates over the last few years helping out fellow bloggers – some custom, some pre-made, some…
Tag: Blogspot
Using Google’s blogging platform Blogger/Blogspot? Here you’ll find a number of posts on how to setup your blog, edit your theme and grow traffic to your site
