Blog Trick How To Make

Blog Trick How To Make is collection tips and trick to support you  design your blog.

How to turn your blog into a PDF for printing off

Maybe at the end of the year you would like to print off a copy of your blog posts for the year as a momento to give to someone.

Using Blog Booker is a way of doing that.

This video from Richard Bryne shows you how to do that.

Adding a photo to your profile

It will be nice if your viewers can see an image rather than the default head and shoulders shot when they click on your profile.

Go to your Blogger OVERVIEW- click on your name in the top right hand corner.

Click EDIT PROFILE.

Scroll down a bit until you see PROFILE PHOTO. Chose a file to upload.

Save it at the bottom of the page.

Getting Rid of the top Navigation Bar

The navigation bar at the very top of your blog can be a worry if your blog is going to be viewed by young children as the NEXT BLOG option could lead them to random places that it is not good that they go.

This bar can be removed if you want by placing a little bit of code in the blog template. Tricky but cunning!

Here is how to do it.

1. Firstly- seeing you have got rid of the Navigation Bar you still want a link to the Blogger log in page.

Go to your Overview and go to LAYOUT.

Click on add a gadget.

Scroll down the list til you get to LOGO. Click on the PLUS sign to add it.

Chose one of the LOGO colours that you like and click SAVE.

Now all you need to do is click on the Blogger logo and it will take you to the Blogger log in page.

2. Now go to the OVERVIEW, then go to LAYOUT.

Look for NAVBAR and click on edit.

Look for where it says OFF in the pop up box. Click and save it and your work is done!.

3. This is another way to get rid of the Navigation Bar using html.

 Copy this bit of html code.


#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}


Then go to the OVERVIEW and go to the TEMPLATE.

Click on it. Then click on EDIT HTML.

You will get told to be careful but procede any way.

Usually you paste the code under the second dotty line. Each template can be slightly different.

Click PREVIEW to check of the navigation bar at the top has really gone.

If it has, click SAVE TEMPLATE- if it hasn't try the code somewhere else.

I would add once more that it is a good idea to preview the changes before you actually publish them in case you have put the code in the wrong place. If you muck it up just discard the changes and try again.

Changing your Blogger Header

Changing your Blogger Header can involve a bit of trial and error as everyone's blog will be a different width.

Firstly chose an image than can be fairly long and thin.

I use Preview on my Apple laptop to edit the photo because it is standard on all Apple laptops.

Use the Tool Menu to crop your original photo.

Now use the tool menu again to adjust the size to about 1000px wide. Don't worry about the height.

Save the resized image to your desktop so you can easily find it.

Go to your OVERVIEW and go to LAYOUT.

Look where it says EDIT THE HEADER

Upload your cropped and resized photo.

 See how my photo is a bit too long and it sticks out the side. You can fix that.

Go back to the OVERVIEW. Click on TEMPLATE, then CUSTOMISE and ADJUST THE WIDTH until you get it just right.

When you do APPLY IT TO YOUR BLOG.

PERFECT!

Adding an Email Subscription

With an email subscription your readers will get an email telling them each time you update your blog.

I think it would be a great way to encourage contributions from parents/whanau as they will quickly know when you update.

There are two ways of doing it- the old way which is really complicated or the easy way. You decide which you would prefer to do. The easy way is first and the hard way is second as I would suggest that most people will chose the easy way.

It's easy....

Go to your OVERVIEW. Click on LAYOUT.

Click on ADD A GADGET.

A list comes up. Scroll down to until you find 'FOLLOW BY EMAIL'.

Click on the blue plus sign.

Sweet! That's all you need to do.

Adding Text to the sidebar

Go to your layout template dashboard and click on Add an element as you do and select TEXT.

Type what you want- change the colour etc and add a link if you want and save the changes.