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If you've been in the blogosphere for a while now, I believe you should have heard about and made use of either blogger or WordPress.org if not both. But for the benefit of those who do not have an idea about Blogger and WordPress.org; they are platforms used for managing, maintaining and updating a blog. The duo, are the most famous blogging platforms. While blogger is brings about hosted blogs, the latter brings about self-hosted blogs. It won't be totally fair to compare the two blogging platform since they aren't of the same category but then, some lies have to be debunked. ~ Eye Opening Tips For New Bloggers; Read this DO's and DON'Ts before Starting Your Blog   Now, I've read tons of websites comparing blogger and WordPress.org, but most of these blog sites have being somewhat unjust to blogger for reasons best known to them and in this post, I will be doing a much more better comparison without slanting or favouring one over the other. This po...

A good number of internet users if not all have come across and solved a captcha. Captchas are antibot checkers employed by websites to impede scam and spam. but these captchas are somewhat annoying and the latest and now most popular member of the captcha family, Google recaptcha, keeps popping up here and there in an absolutely unbearable and annoying manner. Solving captchas over the years have become somewhat harder and uncalled-for, especially with the spread and popularity of Google recaptcha. Solving captchas used to be fun and easier when users had to type in words and numbers as seen correctly but now reverse is the case as most websites have began using google recaptcha and recently, in order to have access to some websites, you need to prove that you are human! obnoxious I must say! To avoid getting stressed over selecting all roads, cars or signs, you could simply use Google Chrome browser. It's sickening that out of 10 sites you visit in a day, at...

This isn't one of those copy pasted blog posts.  It took me several days to actually break through something I literally have no basic knowledge of except for the minor addition and subtractions I could do. The good news is, I was able to come up with something intriguing and the bad news is, you may not be able to use this on your blogger blog if you already have tons of comments in it, except you are willing to lose those comments or leave the default blogger comment system in some posts. I've always wished blogger had a better comment system that isn't as shabby looking as the default system which of course most of us have to put up with. A good percentage of bloggers using blogspot hunger for the WordPress style commenting system and that's why I guess they created intensedebate which really didn't satisfy that hunger but here I am, adding some more to boost your satisfaction. That's that... Check out a Demo here . Here is how to get a WordPress style comm...

Sliders are beautiful, especially when you showcase the right images to your blog readers... If you'd want to add a slider widget to your blogger blog, then good thing is, there's is always a way out!  There are so many slider widgets online but today, I'm going to focus on adding the camera slider to a blogger blog...   You can choose to display your slider in your blog homepage alone or in your post page as well... Since blogger doesn't have additional plugins like WordPress, we'd have to edit our theme's html and add the raw html, CSS and JavaScript files to our blogs...  Here's why you'll love this slider widget...  • It's slick and responsive! Just what everyone wants.  • Each image can be graced with description and link.  • Adds more beauty to your website...  • You can edit the widget directly from your layout page and blog page.   Adding the widget...  First back up your template... Open your templa...

I have shown you how to center your blog header. Today I will be guiding you on designing your sidebar widget Title which makes your blog more stylish and classic. Widget titles appear above your gadgets so long you've written a text into the title box in your widget editor. Generally, these titles are styled based on your chosen template and by default, the sidebar widget title of the older blogger themes are simply plain and don't look appealing to the eyes! There are several edits that can be carried out with just CSS codes which can result in a beautiful customised and more appealing widget title. This edit requires nothing more than pasting the needed CSS codes into your theme's skin section through the CSS box in the advanced section of your template's editor. To design your sidebar widget Title, you need to decide on what how you want your gadget to look like or feel. If you are using the default blogger templates, there are a few edits you can do on yo...

Blogger is the best platform for beginners and it is even cool for professionals. Having used blogger to start up my blogging spree four years ago, I’ve realized that unlike what many feel about blogger's complex interface, I understand blogger more. There are lots of free blogging platforms out there but blogger has proven to be the best of them. If you don't have the funds to create the perfect WordPress.org blog, you could just stick to blogger.com. even if you don't like the default template, there are tons of free and premuim blogger templates online! I tried using WordPress.com but I couldn’t understand its numerous limitations and although I could learn, I was in love with blogger already and couldn’t switch. 1 . Blogger is a free hosting site and unlike WordPress.com , its users have access to unlimited hosting space. 2 . Unlike wordpress.com, Blogger doesn’t and wouldn't prompt any user to display ads on their blogs for the services rendered. Thus ad...

Blogger provides limited font styles for its users despite the availability of numerous fonts in the google web fonts. It's OK to get tired of the default fonts provided by blogger in the template designer. Also, you might want something girly, chic or fancy either for ads or blog header There are tons of beautiful fonts online that will bring more life to your posts as well as design. Yes, your fonts can actually make your blog look beautiful. Good news is, If your desired font is not in the Blogger template designer, you can add fonts to Blogger manually. The most popular web font directory is Google Font library , which is a greatly utilized by web developers and designers. Unlike most web font sites, the fonts hosted on google are free for personal or commercial purposes and are easily accessible. To add a font manually to your blog, all you have to do is head over to google web font , and find a preferred font (There are lots of fonts to choose from, don't get...

Have you ever been stuck on what design to use for your blogger blog because you invariably hate the default blogger Templates given to us. Well, a good number of us actually don't use the default blogger template. Having a personal blog doesn't end at posting daily or often about your personal life, it also has to do with a beautiful blog design that can give your readers an insight about what the blog they visit is all about! Of course, your design does matter! I could easily tell a news blog from a fashion, personal, health, lifestyle, or food blog by merely staring at its design! Bottom line? Choose the right design/theme/template for your blog. Below are 5 Inexpensive Premium blogger templates specially recommended for personal, lifestyle and feminine bloggers. Trust me, you'd love them. 1. Cinderella Cinderella is a responsive Premium Blogger Template. It has a beautiful design layout and it's perfect for fashion, lifestyle and personal blogs. Th...

Related post widgets are important and they engage your readers more! Yeas we know that already and there are lots of related post widget for blogger blogs online but everyone can't settle for one kind of design or look. Which is why, I struggled and succeeded in creating a classic and chic looking related post widget out of a simple widget. This related post widget is responsive and I'm sure it's just perfect for your blog. What's to love about this Widget? Below are some amazing features of this widget. Classic and chic looking. This type of related post widget is often used on premium blogger templates. Doesn't take the whole day to load, if you know what I mean! Shows three Related posts under every post in your blog. Mobile responsive. Horizontal layout design on desktop and Vertical layout design mobile. Elegant enough for your blog! What Blog is This Widget Suitable for? I would be honest with you, this widget is most suitable for fash...