Widget customization - how to style each widget differently?

March 14, 2010

Well, this is interesting. We've already learned  to tweak and stylize our Blogger widgets (gadgets), in general. For example adding icon beside sidebar title heading and placing icon or image beside Labels and Links. That's cool. But now, we'll learn how to tweak and style each widget (gadget) differently! Meaning:
► each of your widgets (Labels, Archive, Links, custom widget) can have it's own looks (color, font, borders, images....anything!)
► remember that WIDGET is the same thing as GADGET

Ok, here's the simple example:

I've chosen to differ my widgets a bit, so I changed a the style of Labels, Links, Archive and Picture widget. I choose these widgets just for this example. Remember that you can do this with every other widget too!

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Uploading pictures in Blogger - advices

March 18, 2009

In this article we will talk about upload of pictures (images) in your Blogger Blog. I'll try to point out some advantages and disadvantages, and share some general advices about using a free picture hosting services (Photobucket, Imageshack...) instead of using only the default Blogger image upload (Picasa).

There are two different "ways" of using pictures in Blogger:

1. pictures uploaded in Blogger Post (or gadget/widget)
2. picture used in Blogger HTML layout (for Blog design purposes)


PICTURES IN POSTS
Uploaded pictures HAVE to be stored (hosted) somewhere. When you upload a pic from your computer into Blogger Post, it will automatically be stored in your default Picasa account that comes in a package with your Blogger account....

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Blue Links problem in Blogger

March 13, 2009

One of the frequent problems in Blogger is that sometimes, a single post or a mistake in your HTML code, can turn the default link color of your Blog, into blue.
If this happens, you'll notice it immediately... The first thing everybody would do is:
LAYOUT ► FONTS AND COLORS ► I'll change that misbehaving blue link into whatever I want!
But, you'll notice that no matter what color you choose, your Links will still be - blue.


WHY DO LINKS IN BLOGGER TURN INTO BLUE, ANYWAY?
There are two main reasons:

► if you copy-paste your post content from Microsoft Word
► if you tweak your Blogger HTML code, and make a mistake (even a small one)...

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