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Add Animated pictures

These are few Sample animated gif files that I have added for you to see..

I presume that many of you would have tried to add a single animated gof file to the blog using the blogger-picture element.. and would have faced one of the following.

  • The Blogger does not allow you to add the animated gif and you get an error mesage
  • Technically u clicked on one animated-gif file to upload and once the upload is done you see a series of similar looking pics…leaving you wondering where all those other copies came from

So before learing how to do this.. we need to understand the logic in an aminated gif file

Animated gifs actually contain a series of images (or frames) that are displayed one after the other and give an illussion of movement.


Since Blogger seems not to like animated-gif pictures we need to upload our files to someother file-hosting service.I have used Ripway

  1. Register & Login to Ripway.com
  2. Upload the Animated gif file from your hard disk to ripway
  3. Once your file is uploaded properly you shouldc be able to see

    4. It will resemble something like shown below

    Right-Clik the open link marked by oval-shape-with-arrows-pointing and Choose properties

  4. This will give the direct link to your animated file
  5. You may save this link in a notepad so that you can use this in your post along with
    <img style=”border:none;” src=”-YOUR AnimatedGif FILE PATH-“/>
  6. Add to post and publish
  7. You now have a great looking Animated gif file in your blog

.You may choose any files Sharing service you prefer.Do feel free to give me the names of such file-sharing services so that I may add them here for refrece to other fellow bloggers.
Hope you were able to acomplish the task of adding animated gif files to your blog.Kindly leave your opinion at the comments section ..and dont forget to help another friend by backlink to this post..

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Remove " Olderposts " " Newer Posts " Subscribe toPosts- Atom

M any dont prefer to have the above said links in their blogs.I dont know if its healthy to delete such links.
However for those who have decided not to have these links.. here is how you can avoid showing these links in main page and also in blog page

  1. SAVE AND BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE

  2. This removes the ” Subscribe toPosts- Atom ” from your Main Blog Page
    • Locate and delete the line
      <b:include data=’feedLinks’ name=’feedLinksBody’/>

  3. This removes the ” Subscribe toPosts- Atom ” from your Blog Post Page.
    • Locate and delete the line
      <b:include data=’post.feedLinks’name=’feedLinksBody’/>

  4. This removes the ” Older Posts ” from your Blog Post Page
    • Locate and delete the line
      <a class=’blog-pager-older-link’ expr:href=’data:olderPageUrl’expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + “_blog-pager-older-link”‘expr:title=’data:olderPageTitle’>
      <data:olderPageTitle/>
      </a>

  5. This removes the ” Newer Posts ” from your Blog Post Page
    • Locate and delete the line
      <a class=’blog-pager-newer-link’ expr:href=’data:newerPageUrl’expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + “_blog-pager-newer-link”‘expr:title=’data:newerPageTitle’>
      <data:newerPageTitle/>

  6. This removes the ” Home ” link from your Blog Post Page
    • Locate and delete the line <a class=’home-link’
      expr:href=’data:blog.homepageUrl’>
      <data:homeMsg/>
      </a>

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Blogging in Indian Languages

There are many Indian- bloggers out there who would like to blog in their regional language as well.. in addition to blogging in english.. but lack of proper guidelines to acomplish this ..is a real pain and many quit even before they start.

This is my attempt at providing guidelines to blog in the 11 Indian languages listed here.It is well known that inorder to read the contents written in any language , we need to have the requisite fonts installed.For the puropse of reading-writing and positing in the listed Indian languages, I Shall be using Baraha for the following
reasons

  • This is a translitaor…ie you can write in the reagional language by typing in english..The texts in blue are typed in the Baraha-Editor while the text in Magenta are waht you see when you give the appropriate language settings

    • Typed in english
    Text in Regional Language
    namaste >        नमस्ते
    namaste          નમસ્ત ે
    namaskaarakaLu         ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಕಳು
    namaskaaraM >        നമസ്കാരം
    praNaam >        प्रणाम्
    vaNakkam >        வணக்கம்

  • You need not switch between s/w if you want to incorporate text from anyother language in the same content

    •         In Baraha you can write in Englsih,tamizh, hindi, gujaraatI, kannaDa malayaaLaM ,sanskrit

            In Baraha you can write in Englsih,தமிழ், हिन्दि, ગુજરાતી, ಕನ್ನಡ മലയാളം , सन्स्क्रित्

  • No need to include any seperate font file in the template to make this work with blogger.

HOW TO DO THIS ….SO THAT I CAN ALSO START BLOGGING (..COMMENTING…) IN INDIAN LANGUAGES

  1. Equip yourself to the read the webpages that publish in the language of your choice

    Decide on the language that you would be primarily posting on..because you need to install the respective fonts in yoursystem..For TamilFonts Click Here..,SELECT-LOCATION —INSTALLfor the rest I would suggest that you visit any popular site in the language f your choice..they will be able to direct you towards installing required fonts.

  2. Gear up to write in the language of your choice

    In order to acomplish this..

    • Download and install Baraha7 here
    • Open Baraha—Edit–Default Settings
    • Select LANGUAGE OF YOUR CHOICE from the language drop down list
    • Clik ok

    • Now start typing in englsih.. you will see the characters taking shape

    However you need to read though the Transiletaration-Rules and Transiletaration-Examples specified under each language in HELP
    This will give you an understanding towards when to use Capital-case letters and when to use SmallCase letters

  3. This is how you paste your content written in Baraha
    • Open the respective baraha document..written in the regional language.

    • Select the text you want to display in regional language (or use EDIT–SELECT ALL)
    • In the window where the regional-language characters appear as you type—Right click

    • Copy special–Text UNICODE The Ordinary Copy option will not work towards pasting the characters of regional language

    • Paste — in your Post (..comments..) page

Now you have sucessfully publised a text in one of the Regional Languages… Congradulations. Hope the instructions were easy to follow and enable you to convey your ideas in regional languages as well..expand your horizon..Donot forget to be
back here to tell us how you feel after having sucessfully posted your content..your opinions will be an inspiration to someone else..oh!yeah!..dont forget to metion this post in your Credits list..Enjoy..

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Have Scrolling list and links

All of have lists & links that we would like to share with our readers. Sometimes these lists can run very long. I personally find this very cumbersome and boring.

So I decided to make them appear as scrolling upwards so that all the links are displayed within the space we decide to allot them. You can see this in action here itself.

If you take a look at my Right-side-bar, I have a scrolling list of CREDITS.This gives a neat-and-tidy look .Want to add a similar look to your blog as well.. follow the instructions closely
This is assuming that you know how to add ordinary and linked lists.

  1. SAVE AND BACK UP YOUR TEMPLATE

  2. The logic is to use a marquee within a table..here I am using it in sidebar

  3. Template-Add Page Elements-HTMLJavascript page element

    <table width=”100%” border=”1″ >
    <tr ><td >
    <marquee height=150 width=100% onMouseover=”this.stop()” onMouseout=”this.start()” direction=up scrollamount=”2″>

    *******what ever list you wish to add******

    </marquee>
    <td></tr></table>

  4. If you wish to add an ordinary list then just add them normally

  5. If you wish to add a list with links then add them using the <a href=”URL_of the link” > Text that represents the link </a>

  6. You may add as many number of lists as you wish.

  7. Save and view.

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To add a Shout Box

Do you see the small chatwindow at my right-sidebar.Its called a Shoutbox.Any person viewing your blog can enter his message there for all the readers to see.It is nice when someone has somekind of announcements.Follow the instructions carefully.

  1. The shoutbox that i am using is from CBox
    • Register with Cbox Go for the Basic (free) version
    • Use the various options and modify them to suit your taste

    • Go to QUICK SETUP and copy the cbox code to a notepad

  2. SAVE AND BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE
  3. Template–Page Elements–Add a new HTML-JavaScript page element and paste the Cbox code

  4. Save and view

  5. Start posting the latest developments in your Cbox for all to see

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Translate your blog

Each one would have noticed the variety of visitors who come to your blog. So why not cater to a wider audience, by allowing auto-translation of your blogs. Do you see those flags at the top of this page..go ahead, clik one and you will see that this blog gets translated automatically.Googling landed me at Amit’s post.I am merely replicating Amit’s Translation Instruction so that people who stumble on my blog can also have the oppurtuniy to know about this feature. I must add that i did modify his instruction a little bit to make it work for me.This is how i did it
STEP:-0
SAVE YOUR TEMPLATE
STEP:-1
copy the following code to the notepad