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Blogger: Beyond the Basics

By : Lee Jordan
Book Image

Blogger: Beyond the Basics

By: Lee Jordan

Overview of this book

<p>Blogger is a blog publishing system from Google with a friendly interface specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.<br /><br />It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features including RSS feeds, link-backs, photo slideshows, and integration with popular Google applications like Picasa. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.<br /><br />If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will focus on transforming a typical blog into something fresh and professional that stands out from the crowd. It starts with an&nbsp; introduction to an example blog, discussing what it is lacking, and then adding all the features of Blogger to make it successful. This book will tell you how to transform a slow-paced typical business blog into an attractive and interactive profit-making blog with measurable results. It has a very user-friendly approach and shares tips, tricks, and resources to continue to grow your blog.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Blogger
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Pruning the Template Code


We will be editing the template code in this section. Printing a copy of the code is a good way to examine the existing code and gives you a reference to prop up next to your computer as you work. Log into Blogger and click on the Layout link in the Dashboard to open the Page Elements sub tab of the Layout tab. Click on the Edit HTML sub tab of the Layout tab. The template code goes on for pages and pages. Print out a copy of the code and see for yourself. Don't panic, we will attack the code, one section at a time. We will start with the most common content block. This "inside out" method is a common technique used when designing sites.

Note

Backup your original template before you make any changes. Click the Download Full Template link on the Edit HTML sub tab of the Layout tab to backup the template. Save the original in a backup folder. This way, you can always revert back to the original.

Designing the Visual Look

Remember when we made all those changes to the...