lunes, 4 de marzo de 2013

How to Customize Blogger's Lightbox

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For those of you who have chosen to use the Blogger's Lightbox View for displaying pictures when clicking on them, you have the option to change its style in a whole different way. You will be able to change the black color of the screen, the border or shadow of the images and the color of the thumbnails background. We can customize the Blogger Lightbox entirely on our taste.

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Demo

Take a look at the screenshots below:

Before:

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After:

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After adding our CSS code, the entire look of the modal window will be changed: the background color, the bar showing the thumbnails, the border of images, the text within it, transparency and the close button.

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All we have to do is to overwrite the default styles and change them with ours.

How to Change the Blogger's Lightbox Background and Style

Step 1. Go to Template, click on the Edit HTML button (also click on the Proceed button if needed)


Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and search using CTRL + F the following tag:
</head>
Step 3. Just above the </head> tag, add the following code:
<style>
/* Background Color */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_BG_MASK {
background-color: #ffffff !important;
background-image: url(image-url-address) !important;
opacity: 0.8 !important;
filter: alpha(opacity=90) !important;
}
/* Images Border */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG {
outline: 0px solid #fff !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000000;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000000;
}
/* Close Button */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_BTN_CLOSE {
background: url(image-url) no-repeat !important;
width: 24px !important;
height: 24px !important;
}
/* Thumbnails Bar Color */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_FILMSTRIP {
background-color: #eaeaea !important;
}
/* Text Color */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_ATTRIBUTION_INFO, .CSS_LIGHTBOX_ATTRIBUTION_LINK {
color: #000 !important;
}
/* Index Info (number of images) */
.CSS_LIGHTBOX_INDEX_INFO {
color: #555555 !important;
}
</style>

Note:
- The text in green explains to which part the code belongs to and it doesn't need to be modified

For example, the portion below / * Background Color * / can change the background color or even the LightBox background color with an image - for this, change this line by replacing the red text with the url address of your image:
background-image: url(image-url) !important;
- Below is the opacity: if you add a lower value ( 0.8 ) the background will become more transparent.

- To change the icon for the close button, you have to replace the text in red from /* Close Button */ with the URL of your image. (you can host image at tinypic or upload it into a blogger draft and then Copy the Link Location - read this tutorial for more info)
- To change the text color of images, replace the #555555 value from /* Index Info (number of images) */

- We can also change the look of the border around our pictures like we can make them more round, add a shadow, etc... but remember this is CSS3 and older versions of Internet Explorer will not show any changes.

Step 4. Click on Save Template and you're done!
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sábado, 28 de julio de 2012

How to Make the Blogger Posts Have a Calendar for the Date in

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It's quite common to see calendar style dates next to some WordPress posts but for the Blogger platform it isn't always easy adding it. But who said you can't do it? You need to look no further than this blog. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a calendar style for your Blogger posts date!


How to create calendar style dates in Blogger



Step 1. Go to "Settings" > "Language and Formatting" - "Date Header Format" and change the date format as you can see in this example below (first add day, month and finally year)
 

Step 2. Go to Template > click the "Edit HTML" button


Step 3. Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the blogger' search box

Step 4. Type or paste the following line inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:
<h2 class='date-header'><span><data:post.dateHeader/></span></h2>
Step 5. In case you find it twice, replace it twice with this code:
<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate(&#39;<data:post.dateHeader/>&#39;);</script>
</div>
<b:else/>
<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate(&#39;&#39;);</script>
</div>
Step 6. Now type this tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:
</head>
Step 7. Just above the </head> tag, paste this code:
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var DateCalendar;
function changeDate(d){
if (d == "") {
d = DateCalendar;
}
var da = d.split(' ');
day = "<strong class='date_day'>"+da[0]+"</strong>";
month = "<strong class='date_month'>"+da[1].slice(0,3)+"</strong>";
year = "<strong class='date_year'>"+da[2]+"</strong>";
document.write(month+day+year);
DateCalendar = d;
}
//]]>
</script>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
/* Calendar style date
----------------------------------------------- */
#Date {
background: transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3HMAzTSr9MLjL7MaaMjaZQWHptxC2zGIcINZxy81pYvU_3JUM0H8ULq73auGW2zlU78P6h4dmmc4diUedpiWsFzpMpcA2yPyERkAf2aY0DuCtEt9PxpJnHpHiPWalenxAP0ruJkI2HwB8/s1600/calendar07.png) no-repeat;
display: block;
width:60px;
height:60px;
float: left;
margin: 15px 2px -40px -108px;
padding: 0 0 8px 0px;
border: 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.date_month {
display: block;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-1px;
text-align:center;
color:#ffffff; /* Month's color */
}
.date_day {
display: block;
font-size: 28px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Day's color */
}
.date_year {
display: block;
font-size: 10px;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Year's color */
}
</style>
</b:if>
Before saving the Template, here we can make some changes:

- To change the calendar style, replace the url in blue with yours;
- If the calendar doesn't appear as it should, change -108 with 0;
- With green are marked the areas where you can change the color of the dates

Step 8. Now Preview your Template and if everything looks ok, hit the Save Template button.

That was all... Enjoy!
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lunes, 4 de junio de 2012

How to Create Drop Caps (Big First Letters) in Blogger/Blogspot

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Here's another way to customize your Blog. In this case, your Posts and Comment's first letter. The effect is a large first letter stretching down three or four lines with the text wrapped around. The drop cap letter can also use a different font and have a different color from the rest of the text. This style can be often seen in newspapers, literature, magazines. So, in this tutorial I will show you how to apply automatically a Magazine text style on Blogger Posts and Comments. Let's start adding it...

-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Posts

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-> Add Drop Caps For Blogger Comments

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Big First Letter for your Blogger / Blogspot Posts


Step 1. From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:


Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger' search box. Type this piece of code inside the search box then hit Enter to find it:
]]></b:skin>
Note: you might need to click on the arrow next to it to expand the code within and then you need to search ]]></b:skin> one more time.

Step 3. Just above ]]></b:skin>, add the following CSS code:
.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}
Color - change the value in blue with the hex of your color
Size - to change the letter size, increase/decrease the value highlighted in pink.

Step 4. Now search for this code:
<data:post.body/>
Step 5. Then immediately before and after add the red fragments you see in the example below:
 <div class='capital'><data:post.body/></div>
Step 6. Save the changes by clicking on the Save template button.

Important! If the above code is not working, add one of following codes from this example:
<p class="capital"><data:post.body/></p>
Or try this instead:
<span class="capital"><data:post.body/></span>

Big First Letter For Blogger/Blogspot Comments

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger account > go to Template > Edit HTML > click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F keys to open the search box

Step 2. Type the following piece of code inside the search box and hit Enter to find it (if you have already added this code, skip step 2 & 3):
]]></b:skin>
Step 3. Add the following code just above ]]></b:skin>:
.capital:first-letter {
float: left;
display: block;
font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;
font-size: 40px;
color: #000000;
margin:0px 5px 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
}
Color - to change the letter color, replace the value in blue with the value of your color. Here's a tool that might help you to find the hex of the color that you need: Color Code Generator
Size - to change the letter size, change the value in pink.

Step 4. Then Search for this piece of code:
<data:comment.body/>
Step 5. Add the red codes before and after <data:comment.body/> as you can see in my example below:
<p class="capital"><data:comment.body/></p>
Step 6. Save your Template.

That's it! Now you have a cool drop cap first letter on your blog. If you have any question, leave a comment below!
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sábado, 2 de junio de 2012

Numbered comments on threaded comments for Blogger/Blogspot

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In a previous tutorial you've seen how you can add numbered comments to your blogger blog, unfortunately, this trick worked only for those who don't have the reply option and are still using the old blogger commenting system. But we won't have any problem this time because this tutorial will show you how to add numbered comments with comment bubbles on the threaded comments, as well ;)

What the following CSS trick will do for you:
  1. When the general block of comments is initiating (.comments-content) a counter called countcomments activates and starts with an initial value of 1. 
  2. Then, each time the code flow goes through a review of any level, either the original comment or a reply (.comment-thread li), it will bring us in front (:before) of the comment's body the number that is the counter.
  3. Finally, this is incremented in the counter (counter-increment).
See the screenshot:
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Isn't that great? I'm pretty sure many of you have been waiting for this cool trick. So, let's begin applying it for our threaded commenting system.

Steps to add bubble comments count

Step 1: From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:

    ... click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the Blogger' search box.

    Step 2: Type the following tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:
    ]]></b:skin>
    Note. you have to click on the arrow next to it, then search the ]]></b:skin> one more time 

    Step 3: Add the following code just above ]]></b:skin>:
    .comment-thread ol {
    counter-reset: countcomments;
    }
    .comment-thread li:before {
    content: counter(countcomments,decimal);
    counter-increment: countcomments;
    float: right;
    z-index: 2;
    position:relative;
    font-size: 22px;
    color: #555555;
    padding-left:10px; 
    padding-top:3px; 
    background: url(    https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeATFH15aaMqOOREqHK9GvEcBSHIwsIRxwQhe0zQ4D9JNnFDcPQ_IE5Yc-oHD0K1iNVLewkLBQW4ySpvwACwCqRLhv-hob028kzQCVowAxeUA9LAQMWAyghaVLPTIYVhn4T_xSLmXrZvd/s1600/comment+bubble2.png) no-repeat;
    margin-top:7px; 
    margin-left:10px; 
    width: 50px; /*image-width size*/
    height: 48px; /*image-height size*/ 
    }
    .comment-thread ol ol {
    counter-reset: contrebasse;
    }
    .comment-thread li li:before {
    content: counter(countcomments,decimal) "." counter(contrebasse,lower-latin);
    counter-increment: contrebasse;
    float: right;
    font-size: 18px;
    color: #666666;
    }
    Note:
    • if you want to have no bubble icon, remove the code in red (including the address in blue)
    • to change the comment bubble, replace the code in blue with the URL address of your own icon. If you're not sure what icon you should use, you can find some cool icons in my previous posts (see these tutorials here and here)
    • to change the position of comments count, increase/decrease the values (3 & 10) from padding-top and padding-left
    • to change the position of comments bubble/icon, change the values (10 & 7) from margin-left and margin-top
    Step 4: Now Save the Template and you're done!

    If you enjoy reading this blog, please share and subscribe. For any questions you may have, leave a comment below.
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    viernes, 1 de junio de 2012

    How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger Blogspot

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    When you are providing useful information in your blog, then many times some readers will need to get the latest updates from your blog. For that purpose, you need an Email Subscription Form in your blog, so that the interested visitors can easily get the latest updates.

    Related: How to Burn Blogger RSS Feeds at Feedburner

    To add email or Feed Subscription Form to your blogger blog (blogspot) is very easy.
    Just follow the next steps:

    1. Log in to Blogger, then go to Layout > click on "Add a Gadget" link:


     2. From the pop-up window, scroll down and click on the "HTML/JavaScript" gadget:


     3. Paste the following code inside the empty box:
    <style>
    .hl-email{
    background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKIkI_0MWoNvVHfeSlz_m4O2AEV2PpR5WdQez9F3BN675_3TREJxS3USTW8t9eBhdD5vf2Timw6_axExqpVhoblIRsZes-4Q39jglHCAVcKNy9sjhkK9dXcq-bXagmV4UpQLrh0K6r9Bg/s1600/mail.png) no-repeat 0px 12px ;
    width:300px;
    padding:10px 0 0 55px;
    float:left;
    font-size:1.4em;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin:0 0 10px 0;
    color:#686B6C;
    }
    .hl-emailsubmit{
    background:#9B9895;
    cursor:pointer;
    color:#fff;
    border:none;
    padding:3px;
    text-shadow:0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
    -moz-border-radius:6px;
    -webkit-border-radius:6px;
    border-radius:6px;
    font:12px sans-serif;
    }
    .hl-emailsubmit:hover{
    background:#E98313;
    }
    .textarea{
    padding:2px;
    margin:6px 2px 6px 2px;
    background:#f9f9f9;
    border:1px solid #ccc;
    resize:none;
    box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
    -moz-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
    -webkit-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); font-size:13px;
    width:130px;
    color:#666;}
    </style>
    <div class="hl-email">
    Subscribe via Email <form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" id="feedform" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
    <input gtbfieldid="3" class="textarea" name="email" onblur="if (this.value == &quot;&quot;) {this.value = &quot;Enter email address here&quot;;}" onfocus="if (this.value == &quot;Enter email address here&quot;) {this.value = &quot;&quot;;}" value="Enter email address here" type="text" />
    <input type="hidden" value="helplogger" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
    <input class="hl-emailsubmit" value="Submit" type="submit" />
    </form>
    </div>

    Settings 
    - Replace the url address in green to change the email icon
    - To change the width or the text area, increase/decrease the 130px value in red
    - replace http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger with your Feedburner Email Feed link. You can get it by visiting your feedburner account then navigate to "Publicize" and then to "Email Subscriptions".
    - Replace helplogger with your feed title. It appears at the end of your feed link. In my case it is http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=helplogger

    4. Now Save your widget and check your blog. Enjoy!
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    jueves, 31 de mayo de 2012

    Add Floating Social Media Sharing Buttons To Blogger

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    The Floating Social Media Sharing is a very popular widget on all the top blogs and this is one of the ways to increase the number of times your posts get shared on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.

    This floating social bar has the following options: Facebook Like, StumbleUpon, Twitter Share, Digg This, Google+ and each of them comes with a live counter. You can add more sharing buttons or social bookmarking icons later if you want.

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    How to add the scrolling social bookmarking bar


    Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, select your blog and go to Layout 

    Step 2. Click on Add A Gadget link


    Step 3. From the pop-up window, scroll down and select HTML/Javascript 

    Step 4. Copy the code below and paste it inside the empty box.

    Step 5. Save the gadget.

    The code to copy-paste (updated!):
    <style type="text/css">
    #social-buttons {
    position:fixed;
    bottom:15%; 
    margin-left:-721px;
    float:left;
    border-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;
    background-color:#fff;
    padding:0 0 2px 0;
    z-index:10;
    }
    #social-buttons .button-share {
    float:left;
    clear:both;
    margin:5px 5px 0 2px;
    }
    </style>
    <div id='social-buttons' title="Get this from helplogger.blogspot.com">
    <div class='button-share' id='like' style='margin-left:7px;'>
    <div id="fb-root"></div>
    <script>(function(d, s, id) {
      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
      js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
    <div class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-layout="box_count" data-width="40" data-show-faces="false"></div>
    </div>
    <br /><div class='sbutton' style="margin-left: 2px;" ><a class='twitter-share-button' data-count='vertical' data-via='Helplogger' expr:data-counturl='data:blog.url' href='http://twitter.com/share' rel='nofollow'>Tweet</a><script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; type='text/javascript'></script>
    <br />
    <div class='button-share' style="margin-left: 3px;" id='su'>
    <script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script>
    </div>
    <div class='button-share' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'>
    <script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
    <a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
    </div>
    <div class='button-share' style='margin-left:3px;' id='gplusone'>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
    <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
    </div>
    <div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;">Get <a style="color: #3399BB;" href="http://helplogger.blogspot.com/">widget</a></div></div></div>
    Customization:
    • Vertical alignment - Change the 15% value of bottom. The code positions the social bar relative to the bottom of your browser window. To fix the distance even when window is resized, specify the value in px (pixels) instead of %.
    • Horizontal alignment - Change the -721px value from margin-left. Negative value pushes the button to the left of the main blog column, positive value pushes it to the right. Increase or decrease the value based on your needs.
    • Twitter setting - Replace Helplogger with your Twitter username
    • Replacing and removing buttons - You can replace existing buttons with your own. Each button is represented by this code:
    <div class='sbutton'> BUTTON CODE HERE </div>
      Enjoy!!! :)
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      Create A Rollover Image Effect (change image on mouseover)

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      The Rollover effect is one in which an image web object changes (swaps itself) on mouse over to another web object (called rollovers) and reverts back to the original image on mouse out. Rollover images are preloaded into the page when it is loading, this ensures that the rollovers are displayed quickly. The onMouseOver and onMouseOut attributes of the link tag are used to make this functional.

      Demo:  Place your mouse over the image below to see its rollover effect


      Making Rollover Effect Image

      You have the following code:

      <a href="URL ADDRESS"><img src="URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE" onmouseover="this.src='URL OF THE SECOND IMAGE GOES HERE'" onmouseout="this.src='URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE'" /></a>

      Change the colored texts as it follows:

      1. URL ADDRESS

      This is the address where somebody will be sent when clicks on the image.
      Example, my blog address: http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com

      2. URL OF THE FIRST IMAGE GOES HERE

      Replace the orange text (two times) with the URL address of the image which will appear before you hover over it.

      3. URL OF THE SECOND IMAGE GOES HERE
      Replace the text in blue with the url of  the image that will appear when the cursor hovers over it.

      Now you can paste your image inside a blog gadget, going to Layout > click on Add a Gadget link (right side) > Select HTML/JavaScript from the pop-up window, then add it to your sidebar.

      You can also add it inside your post by going to New Post > Switch to HTML tab and then paste the code in the empty box.

      That's it. Enjoy ;)
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