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Post Footer Customize Template (2)

April 07, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

We continue from where we left off in Post Footer – Customize Template (I). In the first part, we went through how you can change and customize the appearance of the “Posted by author” link and replace it with another name or picture. You could also remove the timestamp if you want. In this part, we continue with customization of the “Comments”, “Labels” and other icons shown in the Blogger Post Footer.

Comments

1. Settings

If you simply want to enable or disable Comments, login into your Dashboard and under Settings -> Comments, you will see the options for “Comments”. You can either “Show” or “Hide”. You can choose “Hide” so as not to show the Comment link, without deleting existing comments.

2. Change the word “Comments”

Should you want to retain the Comment link but change the word “Comments” to something else, scroll to this part of the template:

<b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments’>
<a class=’comment-link’ expr:href=’data:post.addCommentUrl’ expr:onclick=’data:post.addCommentOnclick’><b:if cond=’data:post.numComments == 1′>1 <data:top.commentLabel/> <b:else/><data:post.numComments/> <data:top.commentLabelPlural/> </b:if></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>

Tutorial: How To Make Money Online?

April 03, 2009 Tutorial Blog 3 Comments

Since I’ve been making money on the internet for almost four months now, I thought that I would make a comprehensive master plan that taught people the basics that they need to know to learn how to make money online. Teaching people how to make money on the internet is what we do around here and our specialty is explaining things in a way that people can understand. I firmly believe that almost anyone can learn to make money online if they’re willing to study and put in the time. If you want to learn how to make money on the internet it’s going to take some work but we’ll walk you through what you need to know, step-by-step.

There Are TONS Of Ways To Make Money Online

When people want to learn how to make money online they always think that it’s a simple process that they should be able to learn overnight. You can’t really learn this business overnight but if you’re willing to be steady and continue to learn, before you know if you’ll have some online income.

In order to provide you with a basic understanding of the master art of online income, I want to teach you some of the concepts. After that I’m going to point you towards some walk through lessons that you can read. We’re going to walk you through everything you need to know but it’s going to be on you to implement everything we teach you.

Post Footer Customize Template 1

April 02, 2009 Tutorial Blog 11 Comments

In this Tutorial, we discuss the various ways you can customize the Post Footer and change the Blogger template. The steps will cover how to change the “Posted by author”, “Comments”, “Labels” links in the Post Footer, replacing them with other names or pictures.

This is how a typical Post Footer looks like. It includes the author’s name, time of the post, number of comments, number of backlinks, icon for readers to email the post, icon for you to edit your post, as well as Labels.

Footer Post

Update:

If you are looking to change the text, alter some settings or re-arrange the positions of the Post Footer elements,you can go to Template -> Page Elements and click the “Edit” link on the Blog Posts widget. You will see a screen like this:

Blog Posts

Even though this is a simple way to make minor adjustments, you will not be able to insert pictures, signatures, change the author’s name, etc. To do these other things to the Post Footer, you may want to read the rest of our guides here and customize your Footer.

Blog Comment Helping in Page Rank?

March 28, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

There are four types of blog commenting systems used by the majority of blogs:

Blogs that use comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”. Reserved for blogs that receive a lot of traffic and want to make sure no comments are spam and no comments are left just for PageRank purposes.
Blogs that use no comment moderation and “rel=nofollow”. Reserved for blogs that will let users post whatever comments they want, but the links will not serve any PR purpose but only traffic.
Blogs that use comment moderation and links follow. Usually reserved for blogs that promote leaving comments because the links will follow, but don’t want many spam comments to plague their blog.
Blogs that use no comment moderation and links follow. These blogs have no comment moderation meaning comments will go up instantly and link follow through to your website to boost in PageRank.

The PageRank Search tool allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of that particular site

Blogging History

March 19, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

According to Wikipedia, the largest free encyclopedia, the term “weblog” was first used by John Barger in 1997. In May, 1999, Peter Merholz converted the word into a new term keeping the characters the same. He made it “we blog” instead of “weblog”. He especially pointed out the term “blog”. Shortly after that, this word was globally accepted both as a noun meaning a weblog and as a verb meaning “to post in someone’s blog”.

One of the early blog sites “Xanga” had 100 weblogs in 1997, which surprisingly turned into 50 million by the end of 2005. People started using blogs globally in 1999. Blogging started becoming popular when among others, Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan from Pyra Labs created their blog publishing tool Blogger. Using this site anyone can start blogging within minutes. The whole system was free and very attractive. Surprisingly, Google bought the whole service in 2004. Blogger is still a free blog-publishing tool, but under the banner of Google. The words “weblog”, “weblogging”, and “weblogger” were inserted into The Oxford Dictionary in March, 2003. This purely indicates the magic of the word “blog”, which is still the favorite publishing system among millions of people.

By the end of 2001, blogging had become more popular. Everyone focused on the possibilities and importance of blogs. Shortly after that people started researching on blogging. Even schools of journalism were very interested in the whole process.

There are other publishing systems like Wikis and CMSs, which also gained popularity in the meantime. CMS stands for Content Management System and these are generally used for publishing articles, news content, or general content in a website. They are especially built for maintaining every kind of website. Joomla, CivicSpace, Typo3, and DotnetNuke are popular CMS software systems.

There is also a special kind of CMS that is called a Wiki. In Wikis any user can modify contents, and all the posts are editable by general users; and usually, Wikis are devoted to a specific audience. A Wiki tracks every change made by the users so that you can find who changed the information and why. One of the most popular Wiki engines is MediaWiki. A blog is also a kind of content management system but the main purpose is to maintain the articles chronologically.