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For all the bloggers out there, your page load time is also an important factor for many viewers to stay and visit your blog repeatedly. Hence the time to load a page of a website may play a crucial role in making the visitor come back. Hence, to know the time taken to load a page, you can make use of the following online resources: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ http://tools.pingdom.com/ http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test Then you can optimize your website or blog identifying the areas which take more time to load. A sample Statistics display in Pingdom:

You can make use of the background – property to make the back ground image fixed in a webpage. eg: #imageinpage { background: url(URL of the image) center top fixed; }

This blog I write here is written for the basic users of computers, though certain posts may seem advanced, majority of the posts here are concentrated only for the basic computer users. There are tons of sites for giving out advanced suggestions, so I write in here of simpler problems which may seem very much simple but complicated for very basic users. Even though certain posts might seem highly obvious to be written like I said, this blog is for the basic users. So this is why this blog exists and if you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks for reading.

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Blogger has got a good way for blog authors to get feed back on their content. Let the content be a picture, or an article or a review, you can get valuable feedback from your blog readers through blogger reactions. Blogger reactions occur as check boxes below your blog posts, which helps the readers to vote freely for your blog posts. This is an alternate to commenting but very effective way to express what they think. You can also pick a range of virtues for your post. For example, if you are going to post a picture as a blog post, you can set the possible reactions as lovely, ugly, cute, funny etc… The readers now just have to check the check boxes to vote. To enable Reactions go to the layout of your blog and then under Blog Posts page element click the edit link and in the configure blog posts window, check the reactions check box and then you can edit the possible reactions you want to get from your readers. Click the save button. Now readers can give you feed back at a single cl...

When search engines crawl your website, they look for the links in your site as well. The text of the link is also very important, because search engines also note this. Since each and every post in your blog has its own link, you must make sure that these links are quite meaningful. When you publish your post in blogger, the first few words are selected for making up for the link of that post. For example, if the title of the post is “how to blog using flock in blogger”, then the link would be something like http://blogname.com/......../how-to-blog-using-flock.html In the example above, if the blog title does not contain the “in blogger” text. But it would be better if the link were http://blogname.com/......../blog-using-flock-in-blogger.html So to do that, first publish the post with the suitable title which you want to have as the link. Then after publishing, you can change the title to a more detailed one. Note by changing the blog posts title, the blog URL does not change.

When people who have slow speed broadband connections, visit WebPages that load slower they do not come to that website again. At least in most cases they will try to avoid these WebPages. This will be a great deal and will cost you a lot of traffic. So let us see the various ways by which we shall reduce the time of loading of WebPages. JavaScript: JavaScript is one thing in your WebPages which will make your page load really slower. This is because many of these scripts make use of other website servers to display stuff in your blog like dynamically changing content etc. When the server which these scripts use is down it will make the page load slower even in case of high speed connections. So avoid using too much JavaScript in your WebPages.Especially the ones from the other sites. Images: Images make the page look good and pleasing but when the page is too much populated with images then there will be a time delay to download all these pictures in the first place. So minim...

Your ad in your website or your blog should be in such a way that people click on it with interest. You should make the ads appear as appealing as possible to make people click them. So you will have to optimize the ads in your website or blog. By optimization I mean the placement of the ads in the website or blog and also the color of the ads. Google provides various formats of ads like skyscrapers, rectangles, squares, horizontal bars and vertical strips. These ads are also available as image ads and text ads. A big mistake which many people do when they sign up for Adsense is that they put a lot of image ads in their website. Image ads are good and they stand out and this is the reason that many people do not click them. They tell the user clearly that they are ads. This might sound surprising but the text ads in a website are the most preferred ones. One reason is that they blend with the website really beautifully. They even load faster when compared to image and flash ads. ...

Well after creating your own blog or website you may want others (your friends) to know about it. But you cannot nag everyone by telling that you have a blog. An easy and a great way to do it, is to include the blog in your email signature. An email signature is like a visiting card. The people who receive your email will also receive the URL of your blog. Many email services like Google, yahoo support the inclusion of signatures with the emails that you send to others. Your signature will notify the reader of the email that you seem to have a blog and might check it out and may be he will like it. In Google (Gmail) you can set the signature by going to settings ------> general----->> Signature: (appended at the end of all outgoing messages) Just type in your blog URL in the text box provided and then save your settings. Now your blog URL will be appended at the end of all the out going emails. Similarly you can also add your signatures in your yahoo id as well. Go...

This is something many bloggers always wanted .A third side bar so that you can have additional stuff in there. So here I am going to explain in detail how to add a third side bar to the blog.The side bar will be added to the left. Note that this tutorial is on the assumption that you currently have a two side bar template with the side bar in the right. Let us start by expanding the resolution of the outer wrapper so that you will be able to accommodate a third sidebar in your blog. Please back up your template in case of emergencies. Login to your blogger account and go to the layout of the blog and then click Edit Html. Scroll down until you find the following: #outer-wrapper{ Width:900px; ……………… } In the width field increase the pixels to 900 as shown above. #main-wrapper { width: 450px; ……………………. } Similarly set the width in the main wrapper to around 450 px. #sidebar-wrapper { width: 250px; …………………………. } Similarly, set the width in the ...

You can make a blinking text or a blinking link by enclosing them in the blink tags. Eg: <blink> your text to blink </blink> Note: The blinking methods and time may vary with different browsers. Some browsers it may not blink at all. However it works in Mozilla, Firefox, opera etc. It should also be noted that, blinking text might be harmful for people with image disorders and might even make the page unclear and annoying to read. If you use it, use it wisely.

This has always been a question which is put to me by my friends. I tell them a lot of ways but I just thought today of compiling the entire thing as blog port. You can earn money by paid to click services, affiliate programs and also by accepting donations for your website. The latter might sound a bit not convincing but believe me it is true when your content is worthy. Many people just give away money for their satisfaction. One of the famous spot for blogging for money is blogger.com. It supports almost all kinds of services and it is free. It is good and highly customizable. So, if you have not started blogging yet, then you can make use of this site for blogging. Now let us see about paid to click services. Now here is a request before reading further. Please increase traffic on your website or blog so that more people visit your blog and you get more clicks and then you earn money. One thing which has to be noted is that, you should not click the ads yourself, for you migh...

First get the Adsense code from Google. Then Login to BlogSpot. Go to the layout of the blog in which you want to implement the Adsense code. Click on the Add a page element link, either on the side bar or on the bottom of the layout. Select the Html / JavaScript widget from the resulting screen. In the HTML /JavaScript page, give a title for the script or simply leave it empty .Just paste the Adsense code in the bottom space after the title text box. Just save this widget and then it is all. Just view the blog to see Adsense ads according to the format you have chosen, while getting the code.

All my friends told me that by adding Meta tags my site would improve much further. So I added some Metatags from Metatag generators. But when I was hoping that my site would improve. I found that in the content analysis by Google in webmasters there has been some metatag issues . Google has found duplicate Metatags in my website and then Google did not index it for some time. But not until I removed the Metatags.

Header is the one where the blog title is displayed along with the description. First create an image which is around 760 pixels wide. To have the image as the header, follow the following instructions. First, login to your blogger account. Then go to the layout of the blog .There click the edit on the page element which shows the title of your blog. Then, in the resulting page, just browse and select the image you would want as the header. You can also upload it to any web host and give the link in the next text box. You can either have the image as the back ground of the title and description or you can replace the title and description with the image. However the former is highly recommended. Then you might want to check the shrink to fit check box. Then click save and it is all done.

Background images would do a lot in improving the displaying content of your blog. Chosen the correct kind of the background, It will not attract visitors but it will force visitors to stay in your site for some more time. Here is how you add the background image to your blog post, First upload the image to any file hosting like photobucket, Google pages etc and get the link of the image. Login to Blogger (BlogSpot) and go to layout > edit HTML. Always back up tour template before editing it. Check the show widget templates check box (recommended but not needed). Then search your template until you find the following code: body { background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; } In the above code replace “ background:$bgcolor ;” with background:url(url link of the image to be set as the back ground); Just save your template and then you will be able to see the i...

When I tried to display HTML code as it is, in my blogger post the HTML tag is rendered .That is the output was shown and not the HTML tag code itself. It kind of bothered me for a while until I got the solution. So, here is how to display HTML code in blogger posts. It is simple just use the textarea tags. For example, if you want to display the HTML code you can use the following syntax: Syntax: Use the HTML tags here > The cols stands for columns, xx stands for the No of columns. One column is one character long. The rows stands for number of rows, xx stands for no of rows that is sentences. Using this textarea tag will result in the following similar output. In the output the “Use the HTML code here”in the syntax is replaced by a simple HTML code. Computer internet tips and tricks

Social bookmarking buttons helps visitors of your website or blog to share your website content with others. So, adding social bookmarking buttons are very important. To add social bookmarking buttons do the following: First sign in to your blogger account. Go to the layout of the blog which you want to add the social bookmarking buttons. This article helps you to add a bookmarking button to every post of your blog. Even if you have your settings to display more than one blog post per page, then each post in that page will have a social bookmarking button. To add the button, go to the EDIT HTML link in your layout. [Make sure you have enabled JavaScript in your browser, because without JavaScript you will not be able to open widget templates or even save your template. If you do not understand this line just ignore it.] Now check the “Expand Widget Templates” text box. This step is very important. Now look for the following lines in your html file, ...

Some times it might be necessary to have links in your website or blog asking people to email to you if necessary. Then you can use the following html tag to do this formatting: <a href="mailto:your_mail_id">

Sign in to blogger account and then go to the layout page. In the layout page click on the,  Fonts and colors link. Select the Text Font and then you will be able to see a list of fonts available in the right side. Select the required font. You will be able to select whether to have a bold text or italic text as well. Similarly you will be able to change various preferences like Blog title font, Sidebar title font, Blog Description font etc.