Blogging tricks

How To Reduce Page Load Time

All the webmasters would agree that page load time should be as low as possible. This post will focus on HOW TO REDUCE THE PAGE LOAD TIME which is a key factor to increase the functionality of the blog or site. An optimal page load time should be less than 5 seconds. Without wasting any more time, let me give you top 10 possible ways to reduce the page load time:

Create Tabbed Navigation in Blogger | How To

Tabbed Navigation menu in blogger provides much more things in less screen area. It is very usefull in many ways you can also use it just like I’ve used it on my site. I’ve used Javascript Tabifier to explain the use of Tabbed Navigation in your Blog. You can check out the Javascript Tabifier homepage at Barelyfitz. An Example of Tabbed Navigation is given at Tabber Example Page. To add a menu like the one shown below-

Add Retweet option to your Blog

You must have seen some icons like that of Digg floating around your blog’s post and asking you to submit that article to Digg. A similar widget is now available for Twitter also. You can try this widget in your Blogger blog by following some of the very easy steps. Retweet button comes from Tweetme which offers two types of buttons as show below- I am posting here method of Installing both versions.

Get cool Yahoo Emoticons in Blogger

This post is for the persons who uses Blogger as Platform for their blog. You can get Yahoo Emoticons in your blog using blogger by two simple steps. Get Firefox Web Browser and Install Greasemonkey addon. Install the userscript for Blogger When you will be done with above Installations, you will be able to get Yahoo Emoticons in your blog editor like shown below Links :- Get Firefox | Greasemonkey | Yahoo Icons User Script

Add Yahoo Media Player to your Music Blog

If you are having a blog or a website which contains link to music files, and dedicated t music then you can use Yahoo Media Player on your blog/website. To do this you just need to upload your song to a direct link server like https://upload.pk. Then after getting link of your music file paste it in your site as usual as you do it using anchor tag. To use Yahoo Media Player, just add following code before section in your blog or any where in your site.

Online Blog Editor

Are you bored of your default online blog editing window that comes along with your blogging platform? So, its time to try some thing new, just check out the online Blog Editing AJAX based tool, which will help you in Blog Authoring. This service is available at WriteToMyBlog, which is a powerful online word processor.Some of its advanced features are listed below- Supports four mode of editing Standard Advanced HTML Customizable It is free.

Reduce your Typing Effort by Using Texter

Texter is an AutoHot key script made by LifeHacker.com. It is a very great tool for all bloggers and also good to try out for some of the people, who feels lazy about typing. You can get the download link and more details about how to use this software at LifeHacker website.From here you can get its source code as well as an installation package. I’ve made a short video on how to add a string to Texter, you can see that here.

How to add Animated Images to Blogger Blog

According to Blogger Official Blog for Known Issues, animated files does not remain animated when hosted on blogger because Picasa doesn’t support animated images and the Blogger-hosted photos are stored in Picasa Web Albums. A solution to this problem is to use some other Image hosting solution such as Tinypic, Photobucket, Pictures.pk,etc. Just upload your animated photo on any of these hosting sites and get the html code for the Image.

Get a Favicon to your Blog

What is Favicon ? Have you wondered how these little icons appear next to the web addresses, like the one you see above? When you visit the sites or bookmark them, these icons will make these URLs stand out. These are “Favicons” or “Favorite Icons”.Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for ‘Favorites Icon.’ A Favicon is a multi-resolution image included on nearly all professional developed sites. The Favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more customized appearance within a visitor’s browser.

Hide Navigation Bar In Blogger

If you are frequent blogger and use Blogspot for blogging, you might have seen above header there is navbar or navigation bar . Most of want to hide the navigation bar in blogger , but we don’t know how to do that. Here is a simple trick to hide the navigation bar in blogger. Just follow the steps below Log in to your blogspot account and select the Layout of the blog which you want to modify.