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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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

In creating a website within Blogger, one of our first real challenges was developing a way to provide a slideshow within the website that was fully customized to the needs of the design, but also co…

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…

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…

When we first started creating custom websites using Blogger, one of the first real script needs that we ran up against was the need for an automatic thumbnail and read more function, one where you c…

You've been blogging along for a while now, inserting your images into your blog posts and sizing them to fit nicely into the template that you've selected. A few hundred posts later you deci…

A request that often is brought up in Blogger development forums is the desire to break the conventional post/article format of date -> post title -> post body -> post footer and do somethin…

I'm going to admit something: I like the Lightbox feature in Blogger. While the Blogger Product Team took some heat for rolling it out, they also pretty quickly added in the ability to turn it of…

Sometime in the switch to the new interface (perhaps?) a new default behavior was added to Blogger: margins were added to images with inline CSS. This is different than whatever margin or padding is …

Something that we've discovered is that there is more to the crazy URL string that you get when uploading to Picasa then meets the eye. In fact, you can use that crazy URL to your advantage, havi…

A common frustration, and one we too shared, was the limited sizes that thumbnail images can be displayed as. Widgets such as the Popular Posts widget have a pre-specified maximum size (72px squared)…

When you first sign in and create a new blog in Blogger, you might not know this, but you are unleashing a myriad of free services within Google that work together to provide you with a unified and t…