Tag: Blogspot

Another highly requested tutorial for you today on adding a search bar to your navigation menu on Blogger. It’s a good way to integrate a few things into one navigation bar to save on space and help your readers find what they are looking for. My next tutorial will show you how to add social…

Today’s post will be on adding a drop down menu to display post labels as categories and subcategories. The easiest way to explain is to show you the example below – clicking on the menu will display a list of categories and indented subcategories, by clicking on one of the options you’ll be brought to…

Very simple but highly requested post from me today about how to automatically resize your post images on Blogger. This tutorial will show you how to make your post images the same width and make them fit your blog post area perfectly to help improve the look of your blog. The code below automatically sets…

If you’ve ever tried to add an image gadget to Blogger you’ll know that adding a title for the gadget is a requirement. This can be pretty annoying when adding an About Me image that already has text. A lot of people have been asking me for a way to hide the title of the…

I’ve had a lot of requests for this lately so today I’m going to show you how to make your header, navigation and footer full width in Blogger. The way your template is set up is to have margin, padding and max-width values to “construct” your layout. In order to make your header, navigation or…

Really quick tutorial from me today that was requested a couple of times on how to change the first letter of your post title and post text on Blogger to be a different style giving a magazine effect like this sentence. I’ve seen this technique used in some cool and creative ways. You could combine…

In this post I’m going to show you step by step how to set up a custom domain on Blogger. I know what you’re thinking, this looks scary but it really isn’t too bad once you understand the process so I’ll go through each step and try to be as clear and as detailed as…

Today’s tutorial will show you how to create post summaries with a thumbnail on your main blog page. You could do this by manually adding jump links while writing posts, but this is a way to automatically add a “read more” button to each post on your blog. It can make your homepage appear neater,…

Today’s tutorial is about adding a border or image to the top of your blog along the browser window. It’s really quick and easy but can really bring your blog design together. If you try it out, let me know below. I’d love to see how you customised it. Turn off Bloggers navigation bar Go…

Today’s tutorial is all about the “read more” jump link on Blogger. I’ll go through how to add it to your blog, change the text, add the post title, add an image and customise the look of it. The default “read more” link doesn’t really stand out and let people know that there’s more to…

Today’s tutorial is about changing the links for “newer posts” and “older posts” at the end of your blog under your post section on Blogger. When a visitor clicks on the link for older/newer posts, it takes them to the previous/next page of posts. The number of posts shown on your home page will depend…

When a reader clicks on a label on your blog, they are greated with a message telling them that they are now viewing all of your published posts that are categorised under that label. Todays tutorial will show you how to remove this from your blog or change the text that is displayed as well…