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Our advice for anyone with a blog on  +Blogger  is that the moment you feel you'd be sad if you ever lost your blog, it is time to buy a domain name for it. Sure, you can buy one before you'v…

Pinterest recently announced new functionality for "Rich Pins" for Pinterest for different types of pins (product, recipe, movie, or article). As we're a blog, and support lots of blogg…

This tip was created by us to solve a challenge that one of our readers left for us on our Resizing your thumbnails in Blogger's Popular Posts widget  post. Initially we decided to make take this…

Why didn't we think of this sooner?!?!? Most blogs on  +Blogger  take advantage of the Popular Posts widget in their blog, and to some extent, most people wish it could look better or do more. Fo…

If only we had a dollar for each time we were asked this question, or were told that everyone should be using Wordpress because it's far superior to Blogger for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) b…

Per the summary: Thanks to everyone who viewed and participated in today's Hangout about blog landing pages. If you didn't get a chance to watch it live, be sure to check out the video below.…

In many of our tips we recommend wrapping the Javascript code that we're providing in something called a "if statement" and a "page type"; these two structures (in the form of…

It seems as though we're getting a bit carried away with our thumbnail and summary script ... we've created another one for you! This one is also by request; the desire to have the first pos…

As web developers we learn to live with what we call "cross-browser compatibility" issues. We know that, browser to browser, version to version, your website might display differently, or f…

This tip mainly applies to blogs that take advantage of jump breaks in their posts as a way to shorten posts on the front page(s) with links to the full post. In cases where you use jump breaks to li…

You've done it. You've finished a long, thoughtful blog post, spell-checked it a few times, re-read it to make sure your grammar wasn't too awful, and you're ready to publish. You com…

It's been a while since we took a look at the Blogger navbar, mainly because we simply got in the habit of using CSS to remove it ! It turns out that at some time in the past few months the Blogg…

How did we manage to present such a potentially complex topic in under 15 minutes?! Yesterday's Hangout on Air discussed using slideshows in your blog/website, the different ways that our company…

For a long time I've been disappointed with the way most content management systems provide image captions in their WYSIWYG editors. Many, including Blogger, create an old-school table wrapped ar…

We've been providing some Blogger templates for people to download and add to their sites for free, but it seems that we assumed a critical piece of information: instructions for how to install t…

Yesterday's Hangout on Air was a doozy! In under 30 minutes we discussed RSS feeds, the feeds provided by Blogger, how to manipulate them, and how to re-integrate them into your website in new an…

I'm sorry to be delinquent in posting this Hangout on Air (especially as we did one today which we'll be posting shortly). This was our first Hangout on Air and discussed the topic of bloggin…

If you've heard of RSS feeds, you probably know that they're a way for your site's fans to keep up to date with your site by "subscribing" to your feeds. If they have a feed rea…

Diana Studer , a photographer in South Africa, asks via her blog post questions about how she should be saving her photographs, what compression techniques and sizes she should be using, and how tha…

We came across a comment on Google+ this morning that had us scratching our heads, mainly because we never noticed this odd behavior in Blogger, but once noticed, it really is strangely wrong. Basic…