March 9, 2010
Blogging At No Cost - Get A Free Domain And Free Hosting
Mymindblog came with an initiative to provide free domain and free hosting account for bloggers. This really sounds great for bloggers who look to expand their blog with a top level domain. Once I got the news, I just surfed and bit and found some nice information. Mymindblog partners with Godaddy for purchasing domains and the blogs will be hosted at Hostgator. Its really nice to hear from them offering a top level domain (.com, .net, .org) for a year and two months of free unlimited hosting account with Hostgator. No worries you are not asked to pay even a single penny, so no need of credit card verification or paypal. But make sure that you don't register multiple domain as they keep track of your IP from which you get this domain. Using this technique to own a domain takes about a day. So I found another way through which we can own a domain in some minutes. So here are the step you need to follow to own a Free Domain.
Step 1: Point your browser to http://www.myblogmind.com/go/hostforweb.php and select the first option and type the domain name with extension eg: yourdomain.com and hit on the button Click to continue.
Step 2: Check for the domain name with your preferred extension and don't change the 1 year registration, so leave the more info setting by default (one year).
Step 3: Now don't make any changes in this page, leave things as it is and hit on Update cart.
Step 4: Check DNS Management (Free) and click on Update cart.
Step 5: Now at this step enter the promotional code as MYBLOGMIND and click on Complete Order to finalize your purchase.
Step 6: Enter you information (select the payment method as Paypal) and click on complete order to own the domain. Voila you are done with the installation.
Note: You are getting a free domain, so please don't spam, as someone is paying. So dont create multiple domain name. If they found a single person owning multiple domain, all your domain will get suspended.
Update: The domain registered through this process, will not be visible for 24 - 72 hours. So please be patience. Drop in your comments, I will help you out.
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Step 2: Check for the domain name with your preferred extension and don't change the 1 year registration, so leave the more info setting by default (one year).
Step 3: Now don't make any changes in this page, leave things as it is and hit on Update cart.
Step 4: Check DNS Management (Free) and click on Update cart.
Step 5: Now at this step enter the promotional code as MYBLOGMIND and click on Complete Order to finalize your purchase.
Step 6: Enter you information (select the payment method as Paypal) and click on complete order to own the domain. Voila you are done with the installation.
Note: You are getting a free domain, so please don't spam, as someone is paying. So dont create multiple domain name. If they found a single person owning multiple domain, all your domain will get suspended.
Update: The domain registered through this process, will not be visible for 24 - 72 hours. So please be patience. Drop in your comments, I will help you out.
March 6, 2010
Floating Twitter Follow Us Badge For Blogger
Twitter is a great tool to bring quality visitors, when it comes to blogging. There are quite a lot twitting tools for blogger, to makes your blog conversations more visible. One of its kind is Twitter follow me or follow us badge. This is a floating badge for blogger blogs, may be many us could have seen in blogs. Now you can make the happen on your blogger blog. Just follow our instruction to add floating follow us badge on your blogger / blogspot blogs.
I made the installation pretty simple by making a blogger gadget. So all you need to do is hit on the button and add it on your blog, with some slight modification.
After hitting Add Twitter Widget, click on Edit Content by default the twitter widget is set to float on the right side, so if you want to change, replace the text right to left in the code. Then replace the default Twitter URL with your URL. Well, all set done.
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I made the installation pretty simple by making a blogger gadget. So all you need to do is hit on the button and add it on your blog, with some slight modification.
After hitting Add Twitter Widget, click on Edit Content by default the twitter widget is set to float on the right side, so if you want to change, replace the text right to left in the code. Then replace the default Twitter URL with your URL. Well, all set done.
ReBuzzThis An Alternative to Buzrr For Google Buzz Counter
Everyone is taking about Google Buzz these days, but I don't know exactly whether its really created a Buzz. But it seems people started focusing on creating application for buzzing products. Following this foot steps is ReBuzzThis a portal, which talks about Google Buzz's hot happenings as like Tweetmeme for Twitter.
ReBuzzThis wants to encourage blogs and website to integrate Google Buzz as their sharing tool. So for bloggers, tools like this will really help to share their conversation and ReBuzzThis has also introduced Buzz counter button for different blogging platform and websites, which they believe would bring more traffic and make them stand out in Buzzing community. Well, we wish best of luck for their service.
To know how to add Google Buzz for your Blogger / Blogspot blogs, check our previous post. We had also included some compact Buzz buttons to give a twitter counter feel for Buzz.
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ReBuzzThis wants to encourage blogs and website to integrate Google Buzz as their sharing tool. So for bloggers, tools like this will really help to share their conversation and ReBuzzThis has also introduced Buzz counter button for different blogging platform and websites, which they believe would bring more traffic and make them stand out in Buzzing community. Well, we wish best of luck for their service.
To know how to add Google Buzz for your Blogger / Blogspot blogs, check our previous post. We had also included some compact Buzz buttons to give a twitter counter feel for Buzz.
March 4, 2010
10 Essential Blogger Plugins and Blogger Widgets
Blogger one of the widely used blogging platform, and a favorite of mine. When it comes to plugins and widgets availability there are numerous available over the Internet, but choosing the best is little tricky. So here is our collection of 10 best blogger plugins and widgets, which takes blogger a step ahead in blogging. Lets get into serious blogging.
1. Related Post Widget With Thumbnails: One of best plugin to show related post for blogger with thumbnail. This is an alternate plugin for Linkwithin.
2. Google Buzz Share Count Button: Google Buzz is buzzing up these days, this plugin will show counter for the Buzz share button as like the counter button which we see in Mashable.
3. Top Commentators: This plugin has two variants. One for blogs with lesser comments another for blogs with lots of comments. Yahoo pipes is used to get the top comments through Feedburner. So if your using Disqus or Intense Debate, this plugin won't work.
4. Recent Post With Thumbnails: One of the popular blogger widgets, created by Aneesh. Easy to customize and easy to integrate on your blogs.
5. Featured Content Slider: An elegant featured content slider from bloggermint. Easy to integrate into blogger and compatible with all major browsers.
6. Sociofluid - Social Bookmarking: A very useful widget to add social bookmarking widget with animated icons for your blogs.
7. Accordin: A unique blogger widget from Abu Farhan. This will show or hide your widget on your sidebar. A first of its kind for blogger.
8. Recent Post With Thumbnail and Simple Spy: Many would have seen simple spy (fade in post scoller) in some design, this widget makes that possible with blogger blogs.
9. Random Rotating Banner: One of the best money making widget, with easy to customize options. You can even customize the number of ads to be rotated. What I noted about this tool was, you need a little bit of modification for your template to make it work.
10. Free Forum: Well, now blogger can have forum, sounds unbelievable but its true. Bloggerstop has released a trick to embed forum into your blogger / blogspot blogs. These forum are not capable enough to show a professional look, anyhow a good try of integrating forum.
There may be more useful plugins and widgets around the web and I have not included some common plugins like page navigation, which is very common. Drop in your comments for best blogger plugins or widgets according to you and do join our blogger forum community to share your voice with us.
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1. Related Post Widget With Thumbnails: One of best plugin to show related post for blogger with thumbnail. This is an alternate plugin for Linkwithin.
2. Google Buzz Share Count Button: Google Buzz is buzzing up these days, this plugin will show counter for the Buzz share button as like the counter button which we see in Mashable.
3. Top Commentators: This plugin has two variants. One for blogs with lesser comments another for blogs with lots of comments. Yahoo pipes is used to get the top comments through Feedburner. So if your using Disqus or Intense Debate, this plugin won't work.
4. Recent Post With Thumbnails: One of the popular blogger widgets, created by Aneesh. Easy to customize and easy to integrate on your blogs.
5. Featured Content Slider: An elegant featured content slider from bloggermint. Easy to integrate into blogger and compatible with all major browsers.
6. Sociofluid - Social Bookmarking: A very useful widget to add social bookmarking widget with animated icons for your blogs.
7. Accordin: A unique blogger widget from Abu Farhan. This will show or hide your widget on your sidebar. A first of its kind for blogger.
8. Recent Post With Thumbnail and Simple Spy: Many would have seen simple spy (fade in post scoller) in some design, this widget makes that possible with blogger blogs.
9. Random Rotating Banner: One of the best money making widget, with easy to customize options. You can even customize the number of ads to be rotated. What I noted about this tool was, you need a little bit of modification for your template to make it work.
10. Free Forum: Well, now blogger can have forum, sounds unbelievable but its true. Bloggerstop has released a trick to embed forum into your blogger / blogspot blogs. These forum are not capable enough to show a professional look, anyhow a good try of integrating forum.
There may be more useful plugins and widgets around the web and I have not included some common plugins like page navigation, which is very common. Drop in your comments for best blogger plugins or widgets according to you and do join our blogger forum community to share your voice with us.
March 1, 2010
Add Google Buzz Share Count Button On Blogger / Blogspot
Google Buzz share count button can be seen in Mashable, but you can opt the same on your Blogger / Blogspot blogs. Its been three weeks after the launch of Google Buzz, Buzrr a new website, which exactly works like Tweetmeme for Twitter came out with exciting features. In addition to that Buzrr has released a share count button for Google Buzz, which can be added to blogs and websites. So here is our tutorial to add Google Buzz share count button for Blogger / Blogspot blogs.
Live Demo
Step 1: Navigate to Blogger dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and Expand Widget Template. Now search for <div class='post-header-line-1'/> or <data:post.body/> soon after this code place the below code
Step 2: Save your template, you are all done. Now your blogger blog has share count Google Buzz plugin.
Update: ReBuzzthis has released a new share count button, with compact and large button. So to make this change, just replace the script
With
If you want a compact version just use this code
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Step 1: Navigate to Blogger dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and Expand Widget Template. Now search for <div class='post-header-line-1'/> or <data:post.body/> soon after this code place the below code
<div style='float:right; margin-right:10px;'>
<script src='http://www.buzrr.com/button.js'></script>
</div>
<script src='http://www.buzrr.com/button.js'></script>
</div>
Step 2: Save your template, you are all done. Now your blogger blog has share count Google Buzz plugin.
Update: ReBuzzthis has released a new share count button, with compact and large button. So to make this change, just replace the script
<script src='http://www.buzrr.com/button.js'></script>
With
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://rebuzzthis.com/buttons/button_105.js"></script>
If you want a compact version just use this code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://rebuzzthis.com/buttons/button_106.js"></script>
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