September 2008

Blogger have developed an inline (embedded) comment form which can be enabled through Blogger in Draft. This is probably the most requested feature for Blogger, and I’m sure many of you will want to use this straight away!

To enable inline comments for your Blogger powered blog, you need to log into your dashboard through Blogger in Draft. Then go to Settings>Comments and scroll down the page to see the new “Comment form placement” setting:

Check the radio setting for “Embedded below post” which will enable the display of the comment form below your blog posts.

If you have customized your template, you will need to make a small change to your template code for this comment form to display. But don’t worry, it’s a very simple customization to make!

Simply go to Layout>Edit HTML in your blog’s dashboard and check the “Expand
widget templates” box. Then search for this section of code:

<p class=’comment-footer’> <b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments’> <a
expr:href=’data:post.addCommentUrl’ expr:onclick=’data:post.addCommentOnclick’><data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</b:if> </p>

Replace this entire section of code with the following instead:

<p class=’comment-footer’> <b:if cond=’data:post.embedCommentForm’> <b:include
data=’post’ name=’comment-form’/> <b:else/> <b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments’>
<a expr:href=’data:post.addCommentUrl’ expr:onclick=’data:post.addCommentOnclick’><data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</b:if> </b:if> </p>

Then save your template. Now when you view a post page in your blog, you should see the new comment form in place! If you don’t see your comment form, make sure you have changed this setting through Blogger in Draft and have added your code in the correct place in your template.

You can see this comment form in action beneath this post. Using this comment
form allows readers to comment using their Google account, OpenID, Name/URL and
all of the settings previously available when using a pop-up or full page
comment form (depending on the settings you have chosen).

I am very happy to see that Blogger have listened to our requests and have added this great functionality to our blogs. There are also some other new features added to Blogger in Draft including an improved posting page and import/export features which you can read about in
the Blogger in Draft blog.

Please let me know what you think of this new feature by leaving your comments
below.

This is one of the latest popular wordpress template converted to blogger by Themelib.Arthemia is a free professional magazine style theme designed by Micheal Jubel.

Selling Ad Space On your blog is one of the best way for making huge money.If you are having a blog with huge number of pageviews/readers, good Page Rank , Alexa rank , Number of Backlinks etc. people will surely like to advertise on your blog in any way.Users who are using wordpress for publishing their blog have automatic plugins by which they can sell ad space on their blog at their own rates.


But users using blogger.com as a publishing medium for their blog don’t have any such type of facilities.Some of them sell ad space via long processes like first e-mail them,then they will ask for your banner and image,then the payment methods..it generally ends in 6-7 replies.But there are some sites available now for blogger.com users which provides facilities of selling ad space in automated way.

Here are some sites which provides an automated way for bloggers to sell ads without any hassle:

1.Project Wonderful
It uses an auction style model to sell ads on your site which means there is no need to set a fix price for the space. Advertisers bids a price they want to pay and whoever pays the most gets their ad displayed.You can set days from a calender for which your ad should be displayed on.You can even set a Cap over the expense over a particular ad. They support various ad sizes and you chose what you want to display. They even have options where you can display multiple ads within the same ad unit. Earnings are paid out via PayPal once you have earned $10.

I will rate it 4/5

2.Performancing Ads
Performancing Ads is a new ad network that sets itself apart from all of the others in a lazy yet brilliant way: it exclusively focuses on the sales of 125×125 ad boxes on blogs.The launch was very good enough to attract users.Another cool perk for publishers is that you earn credits whenever your ad slots are booked. These credits can then be used to advertise your own site on other blogs in the network.The Pricing of your ad space is not set very properly enough. But Performancing Ads has a ton of potential specializing as an ad network for the 125×125 banner ad format used everywhere in the blogosphere.

I will rate it 3/5

3.ViralBlogAds
It is similar to Performancing Ads which focuses on 125×125 ad boxes.It’s a PPC advertising service so you need to get lots of clicks to earn some decent money.The registration is simple n Fast.Even the interface is easy to use.They have an exchange ads programme so if you haven’t got a PPC click ad for your ad spot they will show a exchange add and vice versa. Clicks are not the only way for you to earn money , they have a referral program that pays 15% earning commissions of your affiliates for life. And since its in the launching stage they are having a pre launch contest where you can win some exiting prizes.But I don’t think many people have joined it because I m the 332th member of this network.

I will rate it 2.5/5

There are many more sites like BuySellAds , OIO Publishers etc. which can be used for selling ad space on your blog.Hopefully, by using these sites you will start selling advertising on your blog or web site to earn good money.But do remember people will only think of buying ad space on your blog if have good pagerank,readers/pageview,ranking on different sites,backlinks and other major deciding factors.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.



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• how to sell ad space on your blog • sell ad space on your blog • selling ad space on blog

Intense Debate is an Fantastic commenting system for Blogger,Type pad and WordPress.This buildan excellent commenting network between users in blogs.You canview live this commenting system in this blog.This complany is founded in December 2006.This service is now in Beta mode.Intense Debate offers blog readers a powerful networking system to establish reputations,link their profiles, make friends and syndicate their comments.You can implement this widget in Blogger,Wordpress & Typepad.

If you are a Blogger user or have Blogs of Blogger Platforms,You will be worry about commenting system in it.You will be dreaming to have a comment form in Blogger like WordPress.But now it is not a dream,You can now implement a better comment form in Blogger than WordPress:)

FEATURES:

::Tracking/Notifications

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Interested in the comments your friends make? What if there was a way to follow your friends and be notified when, where, and also what they comment? Intense Debate provides this functionality through RSS feeds for each user. Subscribers will be notified in their RSS readers with a direct link to view the context surrounding the comment as well. Give it a try!

::Structure

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The Intense Debate comment system is built to enable conversation within the comment section. No longer do you have to try to follow the maze of conversations happening in the comments by means of “@ username” or “@ comment number”. With Intense Debate the comments are threaded, allowing you to reply directly to an individual comment.

::Social traffic drive

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When you make a comment on an Intense Debate comment system you are marketing yourself like no where else. We enable you to link to several major social sites you are a part of to give fellow readers an idea of who you are. You can also link back to your website, blog and your stream of RSS feeds.

::Reputation / Comment voting

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Each user also has a reputation attached to their identity that is displayed whenever they make a comment. The reputation value serves as a quick overview of a commenter’s history and is based upon the quantity and quality of the comments a user makes.

::Profiles

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With Intense Debate, a user can set up an avatar to be shown whenever they make a comment on every site we power. Also find out more about the other commenters around you. Every user has a menu button providing links to their blog(s), profiles on other websites, and rss feeds of their comments.

HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT IN BLOGGER:

It is very very easy to implement in blogger.The result will be like mine as you see my blog commenting system.It is powered by intense debate.You can Install it in Blogger in just 4 easy steps:

  1. Just Click Install.
  2. Enter your Blog URL & Click Get Intense Debate Button.
  3. In next step,Download your template from blogger and upload it to Intense Debate.
  4. Now Download template from Intense debate and upload it again to Blogger & you are Done:)

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Yeah finally the extremely beautiful blogger template is here.After struggling with blogger HTML/XML codes, now this Lemon Twist “Awesome” Blogger Template is available to download.

You can download this template through the download link down there, but if you need some demo first, you can check the Lemon Template Demo Blog here (leave your comment there), or just view the snapshot below.

Lemon Twist Blogger Template

lemon twist blogger template

Ah I don’t even have any word to describe how beautiful this template is. All i can say is just “PERFECT!”

A great salute and credit to Chris Murphy, the WordPress Theme Creator. He made it so well. Chris make this wordpress theme based on his own site. He is using this same wordpress theme too actually.

Another wordpress theme designer who release his own site design as a free to download wordpress theme is my friend DezinerFolio.com. They also share their site theme for free. And as you can see, the web 2.0 template is just so beautiful.

OK back to this Lemon Twist Blogger Template, to install this template, you have to upload the javascripts file to your own Googlepages, or any file hosting you got.

Please follow instructions below to install this template.

  1. Backup your current template first
  2. Backup all the widgets (optional)
  3. This template on default needs at least 4 HTML/Javascript widgets.
    So if your current template has least then 4 HTML / Javascript widgets, go create the rest widgets before uploading the xml file. You can get all the sample of the widget codes included inside the ZIP file
  4. Upload the template via the Blogger Template Uploader on your dashboard
  5. Done

What should do after Installing this template: (UPDATED!)

  1. Change your blog setting to show only 1 post on the homepage.

    1. Go to your blog setting page

    2. Go to Formatting tab

    3. Change the value of the first field with 1

    4. go to the next step below


  2. Set your post time stamp / date format with the same format as the date format on the demo blog.

  3. Set your feed URL.

    1. Go to your HTML Editor

    2. Find this code <a href=’#Your-Feed-URL-Here’>RSS 2.0</a>

    3. Change the URL with your own Feed URL

    4. save the template. done

    This below is new added


  4. Look at the comment list. there is a difference between the author
    comment and the readers comment. To set that please follow the
    instructions below.

    1. Go to your blogger template editor, and find this code below

    <b:if cond=’data:comment.author == “TemplatesTreasure.blogspot.Com“‘>

    See the bolded TemplatesTreasure.blogspot.Com? Change that with your Blogger Name

    2. Find this code below

    <img alt=’Gravatar’ class=’gravatar’ src=’http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/6801/authorgravataryu9.jpg‘/>

    yes, change the bolded one with your 64×64px image.

    3. Find this code below

    <img alt=’Gravatar’ class=’gravatar’ src=’http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5111/authorgravatarsmallid4.jpg‘/>

    change the bolded with your 32×32px image.

    4. Find this code below

    background: url(”http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6345/authornb8.jpg“) no-repeat left;

    change the bolded with your 75×75px image

    Done.




Some more new added features:



  1. Built in Swap Blogger Title Hack

  2. The images needed by this template are all hosted on ImagesHack.us

    I host all the images onto my ImagesHack.Us so it should has a larger
    bandwith limit there. I still recommend you host all the images to your
    own googlepages, or ImagesHack or any other free images hosting out
    there but it’s optional anyway.

    JackBook.Com has so many readers, and so many people using my templates. Thousands copies of my templates being downloaded every week.
    My googlepages account exceed the bandwith limit everyday, even now I
    use ImagesHack to host the images, but considering that JackBook.Com
    Templates have so many users there is still a possibility that my
    ImagesHack Account exceed the bandwith limit too. So it’s still
    recommended for you to host all the images to your own images hosting. But again, it’s optional. You can leave it as is if you want to.


  3. Featured Post on the Homepage Blog.

    Not like the other templates, this template has a featured post section
    on the homepage. Your last post will be the featured one. so the
    featured post is automatic. you don’t have to set it manually.


  4. Beautiful Comment list, with a List of Commentator on a separate panel. Just take a look on the demo here and tell me that you don’t love it
    :)

  5. Using JQuery provided by Google.

    Because the Javascript file hosted on Google Server and used by many
    other website too, It should load faster then if you host it on your
    own file hosting.



OK I guess that’s all. I will add more update later if there is something to add.

You can download the template via the link below.

Download Lemon Blogger Template Version 1.0


or download the wordpress theme here.


Now let me know how do you think about this template? Leave your feedback on the comment form below. thanks


Update:

Currently if you want to change the flicker images on the bottomfooter, you have to do it manually since it is not widgetized yet. Idon’t know how to get the flicker javascript codes, since on the wordpress theme it uses a php script to generate that images.

It would be great if any of you knows how to get the flicker codes :), just tell me on the comment. thanks


new added: OK here is a tip from Amanda Fazani, a good friend from Blogger Buster


If you still need the JavaScript for Flickr photostreams, you can get the code from here: http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne


You’ll need to log in with a Yahoo account to access this, and
may also need to tweak the code generated for your needs. I have used
this in Blogger before now, and it’s really useful once you get the
hang of using it.


Thanks Amanda.



flickr javascript code blogger


Update #2:

Oops there are some points you have to do after installing this
template that I forgot to mention on the post. Now I have update it,
please read the instruction again.


Update #3:

How to change the top image on the header? The FarFromFearless Image?

  1. Go to your template

  2. Find this line “http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8227/logoom3.png

  3. Change that image with your own 376×91px image

  4. It is recommended that you save that image and modify it with your own image editor.

  5. thanks


Can’t Add New Page Elements / Widgets ?


Some readers said that they can’t add any new page elements, if only they mentioned what’s the error message too.


Well because you guys didn’t give me the error message, then I can
only predict about what happened. I guess you guys didn’t follow my
instruction about that this template require at least 4 HTML /
Javascript widgets.


Make sure that you have at least 4 HTML Widgets. To fix this problem, I guess you just easily re-upload this new template.


I have met this problem once before, and I can fixed it by uploading the XML file twice. Hope it works. Thanks


Update #4:


How to add the Horizontal Menu on the Top Header?


OK, because there are already 2 or more friends who asked this question, here is the answer.


Actually I have mentioned about this on the post above.

After you download the template, you will see a text file named: Widget_Content.txt included in the zip file.

just open it, and you will see the content of that widget.


<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.google.com" title="Home">home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" title="About">About</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.templatestreasure.blogpsot.com/" title="Archive">Archive</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.gmail.com/" title="Portfolio">Portfolio</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.wordpress.com/" title="Contact">Contact</a>
</li>
</ul>


Put that codes inside the widget of HTML3

and it should be done. thanks

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