Showing posts with the label thumbnails

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…

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.…

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 …

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: 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)…
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