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Html Blogger: Guide: Search It
Friday, April 17, 2009
Hello everyone,

I am back from my holidays and decided to share something with you. Today's guide is about search. I know we have the nav bar up the top for that but that is not my favourite two options.
My ways puts search inside the blog.
Often blogs come with a search box built in on some templates but not really on the standard templates.
I'll start off with the easy html - free google way.
You will need
# Admin Privs
Time aprox: 5 - 3 minutes.
1. Go to Blogger in draft (the beta blogger)
I will do an article on its pros and cons later but now back to the guide.....
2. Click the layout link, it will take you to the Edit layout page, click add gadget.
3. Then click search box.
It should make a search box for you
Way two:
You will need:
# admin privs
Time 1 mins - 2 mins
copy this code into a widget
Sorry for the lack of topics I will be back to more harder things soon Any ideas?
Dmaster
I am back from my holidays and decided to share something with you. Today's guide is about search. I know we have the nav bar up the top for that but that is not my favourite two options.
My ways puts search inside the blog.
Often blogs come with a search box built in on some templates but not really on the standard templates.
I'll start off with the easy html - free google way.
You will need
# Admin Privs
Time aprox: 5 - 3 minutes.
1. Go to Blogger in draft (the beta blogger)
I will do an article on its pros and cons later but now back to the guide.....
2. Click the layout link, it will take you to the Edit layout page, click add gadget.
3. Then click search box.
It should make a search box for you
Way two:
You will need:
# admin privs
Time 1 mins - 2 mins
copy this code into a widget
Sorry for the lack of topics I will be back to more harder things soon Any ideas?
Dmaster
Tag Cloud / Label Cloud Widget
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Did you ever wonder what those links beneath my banner & page buttons are? Well, they are TAGS or LABELS for my posts. I put labels on my posts so that readers can easily find the topic they are looking for. Blogger has a built-in Label Widget, but oh! how boring the presentation is! Label Cloud is waaaay fuuuuunkier! ;-)
Here is ONE way, well actually THE EASIEST WAY, how to put a Label/Tag Cloud on your site!
First, go to www.tagcloud-generator.com
Then, follow these steps:
01. Add Your Tags: Tick "All Links from the Website". Then, type in the URL of your website. There is also an option where you can enter your tags manually.
But then, why would you do that?
Unless you enjoy inflicting pain on yourself! hehehe.
The rule of thumb is, if you let the generator automatically generate label cloud for you, you don't have to do anything if you have new tags. If you add tags manually, then you have to manually add tags everytime you have a new tag. Aaaarrrggghhh!
02. Parameterize Your Tag Cloud: In other words, "Funky-size Your Tag Cloud". Customize your tag cloud to fit your site's theme. A small tip though, at the very bottom of this step, you will see the Paragraph parameter. Tick the second or middle alignment option. This looks good than the other 2. Trust me ;-)
03. Your Tag Cloud View: This is how your Tag Cloud looks like after doing all parameters in step 02.
04. HTML Code for Your Website: If you like what you see in step 03, then copy the generated HTML code and paste it on your sidebars or below your header.
That's it! Isn't is as easy as ABC? ;-)
This is NOT the way how I did mine though. I went with the Long Hard Way. If you want to know how I did mine, say in comment and I may post about it next time.
But then, again, why would you do the long hard way when you have the short easiest way at your disposal?
Unless, again, you enjoy inflicting pain on yourself.
Like me! Mwahahaha! ;-)
No Guts, No Glory
No Pain, No Gain
No Pain, No Gain