Why Widgets? Widgets are the Back-bone for Websites & Blogging Platforms

Today widgets are indispensable tools for websites, more specifically the entire blogs derive their power from the widgets & these "magic-codes" acts as a vehicle to link the blogging world. 
What are widgets? Widgets are highly optimized, small but powerful pieces of code (programs), with the property to be embedded into blog’s template & webpages to give some added functionality on the respective webpage. Widget codes are easily adaptable to changes made by the user.
Why widgets? Which widgets to use? The most important question for bloggers is answered here.


Widgets are the web-tools providing:
  • Linkage to your websites & blogs to the different social networking sites, workgroups, communities & forums of the people belonging to different parts of the World.
  • Blog & website analysis & tracking in terms of performance & traffic (visitors).
  • Improvement of blog & website accessibility, intetractivity & traffic (of course).
  • Socializing & bookmarking (Saving your Favorite posts, articles & webpages).
  • Customization & beautification of your websites & blogs.
  • Direction on becoming more reader specific & targeted (Getting the actual taste/choice of Readers).

    Today about 1000s of widgets are available & are specific in action & use. I categorize widgets into 2 major classes:
    1. Widgets for websites & blogs.
    2. Widgets for Socializing websites & blogs.(Widgets for Traffic)
    I will present the list of the most popular & successful widgets for blogs in my next posts.
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Adding Expandability to each Blogger Posts using "Read More..."

We often find web pages with a very small scroll bars at the right ,that is, those having all the full expanded posts putting entire individual post's contents on the homepage. It not only takes time to transfer/load the page but also increases the page space complexity. In this case, Adding an expandability to each blogger posts using the link "Read More..." will allow readers to see all the posts in a more organized & compacted way & help them to switch to full posts option.


It will also help in loading the pages more quickly. Here is the full working & tested way to add "Read More" to each blogger posts.Now Proceed as follows:


1. Login to your blogger account.
2. Enabling Post Pages: Go to Settings > Archiving, then select Yes > Save the Settings. 
3. Pre-formatting Post Editor: Go to Setting > Formatting, then scroll down to bottom, paste the following code in the Post Template & Save Settings.

<span class="fullpost">
</span>

4. Now go to Layout > Edit HTML, click on Expand Widget Template & search for the following code:

<data:post.body/>

5. Copy the code below & paste it ABOVE/BEFORE the previous line in blogger template.


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:else/>
<style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>


6. Copy the code below & paste it BELOW/AFTER the <data:post.body/> line in the blogger template.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'><br />
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>

7. Save the Template & Its all done. Now, Go to Posting > Create. You will see

<span class="fullpost">
</span> 
in the post area in the Edit HTML tab.
Anything you put above the tag <span class="fullpost"> will be the introductory text.PUT main body of your post between the <span class="fullpost"> and </span> tags so that the “Read more…” link expands the main body of the post.
Enjoy Expandability.

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Uploading A New Template In Blogger.com

After Selecting the attractive template which suits your blog theme & that enhance the functionality of your blog, it should be uploaded to  your blog. Blogger's cool feature (Backup / Restore Template) makes it very simple to easily  backup, upload & restore templates.

Proceed as follows:
1. Login to your blogger account
2. In the dashboard page, click on the Layout link to jump on the layout tab
3. In the layout tab, click on Edit HTML
4. Click on Download Full Template to make backup of the recent template ( Must do )
5. Select your new template from a file (with file format .xml ) on your hard drive by clicking on Browse button & then upload the template by clicking on the upload button.

It may happen that you get two types of messages while uploading: 
1. Confirmation to delete the items (widgets). Click on Yes & your new  template is  uploaded.
2. Error Message: that the XML elements could not be parsed. It shows that there is some problem in the template XML code. Click on the Clear Edits button to rectify all the modifications. Now continue with a different download.

The two simple checks to verify proper template uploading:
1. Click on the  Save button again.
2. Navigate to the Page Elements & Save the template.

Now, your template is uploaded successfully & click on View Blog to see the uploaded template.

I will cover the most popular widgets & blog customization in my next posts.
Happy  Blogging.

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Starting A New Blog: What blogging platform to choose?

Going to start a new blog, great! But if you want a really cool & attractive blog you should first consider a few things that are indispensable for newbie stepping into blogging. This article will introduce you to essential aspects of blogging before you actually start & help you to have one with a professionally-crafted design & content. 
Consider the following:

1. Deciding the central category/idea/theme for blogging: It should be clear what is the basic theme of your blog that all your blog content would reflect. Write some of the articles early before you have the blog. It will help you easily post them quickly on your blog.
2. Deciding the platform for blogging & signing up: Choosing the platform for blogging is easy depending upon the services provided & eminancy of the platform. Sign up & start blogging.
 Most popular blogging platforms are: (Blogger is my choice)
3. Deciding the fully working & attractive template which suits your blog theme: A 3 column template will be the best choice & can be downloaded free.

Once you have done the above you have to upload the template( facility provided by Blogger.com) & proceed further refining your blog.

I will cover the uploading of the templates in blogger.com in my next post.

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