Feb 10, 2014

Customizing Blogger's New Feature - About Author Below Posts

professional author box widget

I always wondered that why Bloggers never draws it's attention towards multi authored blogger blogs. And it's true that blogger was not having about author section in it's default blogs but now blogger has brought this feature in all of it's default templates.

I've already written a tutorial on how to add this widget in your blogger sites.

Before proceeding to this tutorial you must know that that this widget is linked to your Google+ id and it fetch out the description part and name of the author from your Google+ profile. Therefore this widget is very handy, because you don't need to do much of coding and and writing in your HTML editor. (may be beginners would be happy to listen this)

Screenshot of this widget looks something like this

Suryakant sao


Let's Start Implementing

Before implementing it you need to read the first tutorial otherwise there are the chances of making mistakes while implementing it. After you have read the posts open Blogger Dashboard → Template → HTML Editor then search for <div class='post-footer'> 



After that paste the below given code after it

XML

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<h3 class='abt_author'>About The Author</h3>
<div class='author-profile' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
<b:if cond='data:post.authorPhoto.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl'>
<div class='auhtor-image'>
<img expr:src='data:post.authorPhoto.url' itemprop='image' width='100px'/>
</div>
</a>
</b:if>
<div>
<a class='g-profile' expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' itemprop='url' rel='author' title='author profile'>
<span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
</a>
</div>
<p class='description' itemprop='description'><data:post.authorAboutMe/></p>
</div>
</b:if>
</div>


So you've successfully added the HTML stuff, okay now in this step we'll customize it using CSS.
You need to find this code in your blogger template by pressing Ctrl+F ]]></b:skin>. Now paste the below given code just before it.


CSS

.author-profile {border-top: 1px solid #CCC;border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC;margin: 20px 5px 0 0px;padding: 25px 0 15px;position: relative;}
.author-profile img{border:1px solid #EFEFEF;float:left;margin-right:5px;border-radius:50%;-webkit-border-radius:50%;-moz-border-radius:50%}
.author-profile > div > a{color:#444}
.author-profile > div{font-size:14px;font-family:helvetica;margin:0}
p.description{font-size:95%;margin:0;line-height:1.7em}
p.description a{color:#333;font-family:arial rounded mt bold}
a.g-profile{font-size:30px;font-family:brush script std;margin:15px 0 5px}
.auhtor-image img{color:#FFF;margin-right:2%;border-color:#FF6854;border-style:groove;border-width:10px;padding:0}
h3.abt_author{margin: 0;position: relative;bottom: -35px;z-index: 10;background: #FFF;display: inline-block;padding: 0 5px 0 0px;}

After successfully pasting the code save your template and you're done. So this was the simple thing made special using CSS. 
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Jan 5, 2014

How To Use Zocial Icon Fonts In Blogger?

zocial icon fonts

Web-designing techniques is consistently improving from past few years. It's because of the popularity that freelance market has received in past 5-6 years.

Friends you know that 2-3 years back when peoples were scratching the newly launched CSS3, designers were using the old design techniques of using images, sprite images. But now everything has changed alot compared to past. Designers hate to use bitmap image files and prefer to use icon sets created using pure css3.

Why to use icon fonts?
It's a simple question that may strike your mind at the moment. But answer to this is very simple. Icon fonts are nothing but they are the shapes, designed by using pure css. That's why they don't eat much of your loading bytes and download more fast as compared to image files.


So let's start our lesson on how to use icon fonts in blogger sites?


Some Basic Steps

Easy to Use
Using icons fonts is not very tough task it's very simple now, all you need is to link the stylesheet of icon fonts in your blogger template and then start using it.

Let me simplify this more for you
  • Open Blogger Template → Html Editor → search <b:skin> on top
  • Add below given url just above it. (I've used zocial icon set for e.g.)

<link href:'http://weloveiconfonts.com/api/?family=zocial' rel='stylesheet'/> 


  • Now add below code in your stylesheet just before ]]></b:skin> 


[class*="zocial-"]:before { font-family: 'zocial', sans-serif; }

Calling the Icons
After adding the stylesheets of icons, save your template and then you're ready to use icons.
You can call the icons only if you provide correct class name for icon. Like we're using zocial icon set which has complete set of all the social media icons.

So for e.g. we want to use facebook icon then we'll create a element like

<span class='zocial-facebook'></span>
or you can also write it like
<div class='zocial-facebook'></div>
or
<i class='zocial-facebook'></i>

you can use any tag name span, div, i, abbr, a etc. but important thing is the class name as I've mentioned earlier in few paragraphs above. If class name is wrong icon will not appear.


Play & Learn fast





Final Words

Tell me How can I help you? Though this article is lengthy one but I am sure that I've not bored you in this article. I've used all the very details so that every class of leaner either be it pro-developer or be it beginner both can learn it easily.

Do not forget to leave your comments below telling me how much you liked playing and learning in this article.

Below is the list of all zocial icons with their class name just by side of the icon.


    List of Zocial Icons Sets

  • zocial-acrobat
  • zocial-amazon
  • zocial-android
  • zocial-angellist
  • zocial-aol
  • zocial-appnet
  • zocial-appstore
  • zocial-bitbucket
  • zocial-bitcoin
  • zocial-blogger
  • zocial-buffer
  • zocial-cal
  • zocial-call
  • zocial-cart
  • zocial-chrome
  • zocial-cloudstore
  • zocial-creativecommons
  • zocial-delicious
  • zocial-digg
  • zocial-disqus
  • zocial-dribbble
  • zocial-dropbox
  • zocial-drupal
  • zocial-dwolla
  • zocial-eventasaurus
  • zocial-eventbrite
  • zocial-eventful
  • zocial-evernote
  • zocial-fivehundredpx
  • zocial-flattr
  • zocial-flickr
  • zocial-forrst
  • zocial-foursquare
  • zocial-github
  • zocial-gmail
  • zocial-google
  • zocial-googleplay
  • zocial-googleplus
  • zocial-gowalla
  • zocial-grooveshark
  • zocial-guest
  • zocial-html5
  • zocial-ie
  • zocial-instagram
  • zocial-instapaper
  • zocial-intensedebate
  • zocial-itunes
  • zocial-klout
  • zocial-lanyrd
  • zocial-lastfm
  • zocial-linkedin
  • zocial-macstore
  • zocial-meetup
  • zocial-myspace
  • zocial-ninetyninedesigns
  • zocial-openid
  • zocial-opentable
  • zocial-paypal
  • zocial-pinboard
  • zocial-pinterest
  • zocial-plancast
  • zocial-plurk
  • zocial-pocket
  • zocial-podcast
  • zocial-posterous
  • zocial-print
  • zocial-quora
  • zocial-reddit
  • zocial-rss
  • zocial-scribd
  • zocial-skype
  • zocial-smashing
  • zocial-songkick
  • zocial-soundcloud
  • zocial-spotify
  • zocial-statusnet
  • zocial-steam
  • zocial-stripe
  • zocial-stumbleupon
  • zocial-tumblr
  • zocial-viadeo
  • zocial-vimeo
  • zocial-vk
  • zocial-weibo
  • zocial-wikipedia
  • zocial-windows
  • zocial-wordpress
  • zocial-xing
  • zocial-yahoo
  • zocial-yelp
  • zocial-youtube
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Jan 1, 2014

Customize Navigation Scroll-Bar With CSS3



Have you been searching for any thing which can change the design of navigation scroll-bar of your site. You might be wondering that how is it done? You should smile then, because finally you've arrived at the right place.

Changing the look and design of navigation scroll bar is not a hard task now. It's not hard because it can be customized very easily using CSS3 codes and another reason is I've already prepared a small stylesheet that will customize the look of navigation scroll bar whenever you site is opened.



So Here's the code

CSS

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:horizontal{height:10px;background-color:#eab92e;}

::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:vertical{
width:10px;
background-color:#eab92e;/*box-shadow*/
-webkit-box-shadow:1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.16);  
-moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.16);       
box-shadow:1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.16);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar{
width:15px;
height:15px;
background:#EBEBEB;/*box-shadow*/
-webkit-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);  
-moz-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);       
box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.13);
}


Customize the Color

Replace the codes in yellow color with the any other color codes you want to be displayed in scroll-bar.


Playground For Advanced Learners

Yeah! got it right this is the playground for you by, where you can learn some more advanced things. So what are you waiting for start playing and start learning.







Final Words

Do not forget to show your gratitude by leaving your comments below. And yep this is very small post but I am confident that it has very great content including a mini-playground also for our beginner developers. So play with the codes and start learning the Css thing with me :-)

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Dec 17, 2013

13 Magazine Style Seo Blogger Templates

There's something in the simplicity of Blogger Platform, that's the reason why millions of users still prefer create their blogs/sites on this platform and also their are many who are earning sufficient livelihood by blogging on this same blogger platform.

Well! You may also be knowing it that without SEO and DESIGN Factor, any website or any web-blog is just like a trash on the web. But hey! you don't need to worry about it I've reduced your work load of searching good blogger templates with optimized SEO and A Luring Design.

Moving on Let's start the showcase now...

Yeah! Do not forget to leave you comment telling about your favourite blogger templates from the showcase below 

1. Intouch


Demo | Download



2. Enpine Blog


Demo | Download



3. Perk Misty


Demo | Download



4. Foodie


Demo | Download



5. Blog Safari


Demo | Download



6. Round Up


Demo | Download



7. Gadget Mag


Demo | Download



8. Bloggie


Demo | Download



9.Simple Snipe


Demo | Download



10. Lafontis


Demo | Download



11. Prosume


Demo | Download



12. Trackers Mag


Demo | Download



13. Simplecorp


Demo | Download



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Dec 9, 2013

Green Lava Threaded Comment Theme For Bloggers

Hey Friends I am back again with the most awaited thing by you all. If you might have read my previous posts on which I have provided a freebie i.e. customized comment theme for bloggers used by trackmyblog itself. But due to lack of time second theme was left as coming soon, but friends really I would have felt bad myself if I kept you waited for long for this simple freebie widget, so soon I completed some left works and then prepared this article for you.




customized threaded comments for bloggers


Comment System 2 : Green Lava

This comment theme has been used in gadget mag, a simple but responsive blogger theme created by me. I have shared it as freebie on our sister site Template Trackers. Well to say about there are lot of things in this theme, but I'll mention important features only here and for the rest of review you will be appointed soon after the end of this para :)

This theme is named as green lava because this theme is painted with green color and with it's shades. Yeah! Green is my favourite color so I've given a touch of greenry in this new theme for blogger comments. This theme is also auto-numbers the nested comments with the help of counter-reset and counter-increment property I've used in the stylesheet of this theme.

Yeah! I know it, now you might be wondering that what is this counter-reset and counter-increment. That's why I've already written in brief on this topic. 

So moving on ahead let's have a look on the screenshot of this comment theme named  Green Lava



threaded comments for bloggers
Screenshot
Click on the image to see live demo of the comments.

So I must stop talking now about this theme and let me show you the stylesheet code of this comment theme.


Here's The Code

Css

/*====================
Green Lava Comment Theme
======================*/
.comments {padding: 30px 1em 0;clear: both;margin: 0 1em 1em;background: #FFF;border: 1px solid #DADADA;}
.comments ol{list-style:none;counter-reset:trackit}
.comments ol li {list-style:none;counter-increment:trackit}
.comments ol li:before {
content: counters(trackit,".");position: absolute;right: 1.5em;color: #6CB61A;font-size: 24px;background: rgba(133, 206, 53, 0.4);border-radius: 50%;-moz-border-radius: 50%;
padding: 1px 9px;}
.comments .comments-content .comment-replies .comment-thread ol li:before {
content: counters(trackit,".");position: absolute;right: 2.5em;color: rgba(1, 111, 1, 0.34);font-size: 24px;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
border-radius: 0%;-moz-border-radius:0%;}
.comments h4 {  font-size: 25px;  line-height: 30px;  padding: 0;  text-transform: capitalize;  }
.comments .avatar-image-container {float: left;max-height: 65px;overflow: hidden;width: 65px;max-width: 65px;}
.comments .avatar-image-container img {max-width: 65px;max-height: 65px;min-height: 65px;min-width: 65px;}
.comments .comment-block {margin-left: 5em;position: relative;word-wrap: break-word;}
.comments .comments-content .user {font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;background: #85CE35;padding: 1px 5px;font-size: 14px;}
.comments .comments-content .user a {
color: #FFF;}
.comments .comments-content .icon.blog-author {display: none;}
.comments .comments-content .datetime {margin: 0;background: rgba(133, 206, 53, 0.25);padding: 1px 5px;font-size: 14px;}
.comments .comments-content .datetime a{color:#6CB61A}
.comments .thread-toggle {
display: none;}
.comments .comments-content .comment-header {margin: 0 0 8px -2em;overflow: overlay;position: relative;}
.comments .comments-content .comment-replies .comment-thread ol li {border-top: 2px solid #86B15E;border-bottom:0px!important;background: rgba(100, 201, 22, 0.1);padding: 10px;}
.comments .comments-content li.comment {
border-bottom: 2px solid #86B15E;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment:last-child {border-bottom: 2px solid #86B15E;padding-bottom: 0;
}


Listen Now

Dear readers you  have to copy and paste this code before ]]></b:skin> in your blog's template.

  • For this open your Blogger dashboard→ Template → Html editor
  • Now by pressing Ctrl+F search for the above highlighted code and paste the stylesheet of the comment theme just before it. 

After adding the code save the template and see the whole new theme installed to your blogger template.



Final Thoughts

Friends as we all know that we need support from others and so we also support others so that we can stand together to help each other, with what we have got special with us. So please show us your respect by leaving your valuable comments below in comment box. With your love we will able to perform well as we will get recognized by more and more peoples. 

Friends as I have mentioned that this is a freebie so you can share this comment theme in your respective blog's but do not forget to give proper credit to us. We want you to respect the time consumed while creating this themes for blogger users.
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