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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: Custom Picasa Album Slideshows in Blogger

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…

Create a custom Picasa slideshow in Blogger

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…

Tip: Adding interactive captions to your Blogger images on hover

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…

Question: Picasa, Blogger, photos, load time and optimization

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…

Tip: A better automatic thumbnail and summary script for Blogger

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…

Tip: Automatically resize your Blogger post's images

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…

Tip: Transferring your Blogger blog and its images

Lets face it - sometimes life comes to a point where you need to hand over the reigns of your blog to someone else. You've built a great site, with lots of great content and followers and you don…

Tip: Sometimes you need to kill Lightbox in Blogger

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…

Tip: Cropping (square) and resizing your Picasa/Blogger images

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…

Tip: Resize your thumbnails in Blogger's Popular Posts widget

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)…

Question: Where do my images get stored when I add them to my blog?

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…
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