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Loops, loop positions, and isFirst variables in Blogger

Looping through the listing of blog posts <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> Inside the loop data:posts changes to data.post (determined by the value of var, set here as va…

Using Namecheap as your Domain provider with Blogger

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…

Validating for Rich Pins for Pinterest

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…

Putting two Google products to great use together: Blogger and Google+ (the hangout)

Bringing G+ Comments to your Blogger blog without walling it off

We think it is awesome that  +Blogger  and  +Google+  have started integrating more and more every day. The new commenting system brings additional engagement to any Blogger site as, if your readers…

Converting your Blogger blog posts into a Book

We're always up for a new challenge. This one was posed to us by  +Ben Morrell  who wanted to transform his blog into a book, or more simply a Word document that he could edit before shipping of…

Transforming a Blogger RSS feed into a slideshow

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…

Transforming Blogger's Popular Posts widget into a slideshow

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…

Is Wordpress better than Blogger for SEO? No answer.

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…

Setting up a Guest Poster submission form

We've created a number of functionalities using Blogger and Google Docs Forms as a means of creating submission forms for Blogger sites and customizing how they work. Based on a few requests we&#…

Group blogging and blogging in the classroom

We normally talk about blogging as a personal project or a business project; unfortunately we often forget blogging in the classroom. Through  +Google+  we've interacted with lots of educators th…

Thumbnail and summary including YouTube thumbs

Video bloggers, as well as bloggers that simply have some YouTube videos in their blog posts, have been requesting a version of our Thumbnail and Summary Script that includes the functionality for Y…

Hangout on Air: Focusing on Your Blog's Landing Page

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.…

Hangout on Air: Friday Request Line for 11/9/2012

This week focused on reviewing four websites that were submitted to our Event page: http://no1food.blogspot.com/ http://www.iamtypecast.com/ http://www.geekalicious.co.uk/ http://www.fridaytwiz.co.uk…

Using Blogger page types to affect your blog design

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…

Featured Blogger Site: Our own Confluent Forms LLC!

You know the maxim that the cobbler's children have no shoes? No longer! After years of discussing a redesign of our corporate website, Confluent Forms LLC , we have finally redesigned it. Up unt…

Hangout on Air: Friday Request Line for 11/2/2012

Too much talk about SEO including a discussion on using H1, H2, and H3 elements in your Blogger template, submitting your sitemap to Google Webmaster, Authorship, and working on your homepage to crea…

First post variation on the thumbnail and summary script

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…

Tip: A grid of post thumbnails for index/listing pages

Our thumbnail and summary script was such a success that people have been asking us for further and further customization based off of it. The most frequent request has been the ability to set just …

Hangout on Air: Friday Request Line for 10/19/2012

Less is more, user-centric design, focusing on your user experience, and lots of template manipulation!
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