Back To Top and Back To Bottom Buttons For Blogs

I wondered why don't we use back to bottom buttons just like back to top and this idea led me to jump at Photoshop again. The collection today consists of 20 high quality PNG static images that will allow your visitors to scroll up or scroll down thus making site navigation more easy and enjoying. Visitors are often too lazy to click Home or End button in the keyboard to scroll up or down the page and therefore these buttons will offer a much better flexibility to users to jump up or down as they wish and enjoy browsing through your blogs.

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How To These Buttons in Blogger?

Whether you are a blogger user or wordpress or you use any other CMS, the code below works for all platforms and is compatible with all browsers.

1. Go To Blogger > Design
2. Choose HTML/JavaScript widget
3. and paste these two codes inside it and hit save. That's it!

For scrolling Down use this code:

<a rel="nofollow" style="display:scroll;position:fixed;top:10px;right:5px;" href="#footer" title="Back to Top"><img src="ADD URL OF BACK TO BOTTOM BUTTON HERE"/></a>

Make sure to replace the bolded text with the link of your button. If for some reason the button didn't work then replace footer with credits. You can upload your button on blogger by read this post:

• Upload images on blogger

For scrolling Up use this code:

<a rel="nofollow" style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:10px;right:5px;" href="#" title="Back to Top"><img src="ADD URL OF BACK TO TOP BUTTON HERE"/></a>

Again fill up the required detail with the link/url of back to top button.

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Add Country Flag & Frames To Google Plus Profile Photos

When it is Google things are always extra ordinary. Google recently added Picnik to Google+ which is a image editing tool to add amazing effects to your G+ profile photos. You can crop, resize, rotate, fix red eye and do a lot more with this cool tool. One of the unique feature of Picnik is that it allows you to add text to your profile photos and not just that, you can also stick your country flag or any sports logo to your photo. You can even paint your profile pic! We edited the photo on the left side using Google+. Lets learn how.

 

How To Stick Country Flag To Google Plus Profile Photo?

I assume that you have read our previous post on Picnik, if not kindly read it first so that you may know how to launch this tool,

• Learn how to use Picnik?

Click the Create button on picnik and then click on Stickers. You will then see many options appearing on the left. Choose your country from the drop down menu under Select Team. Then click con USA Stickers (In your Case it will be your country name instead of USA) A small adjustable image resizer will appear on your image. Simply drag it or expand it to enlarge the flag size. That's it you are done!

Note:- To go back click Undo from top right to undo any editing changes you have made. If you wish to delete the flag then click on the flag and click on the Delete button that appears next to it.

 

How To Add Text To Profile Photos?

For Adding text select TEXT from the menu at the top of your picnik tool and then write any text you want in the box and hit apply. You can then drag the text anywhere you want and can also change its size and colors. You can also change the font family.

 

How To Add Frames Across Profile Photo?

Similarly Click Frames from the Top and then select any outline you want for you photo. At present only limited frames are available for free and other frames can be purchased by upgrading your picnik account for premium options.

How to Add Creative Common Attribution License?

You can add copyright symbols, no redistribution or no copy symbols using the photo license option.

Go To Stickers again and choose Photo Licenses from the options on the left and then you can play with dragging and resizing again as we did for previous effects.

You can do almost anything with your image to crop or resize the image you can click the Edit button next to create button. Then you will have multiple editing options like eyedropper, auto resize, exposure, contrast, color etc. It is simply a tool you can play with. I hope you found this tutorial helpful and if you have any questions just post us a question and it would a pleasure to help you out with your Plus experience. More Google+ tricks will be published soon so make sure you subscribe to receive all updates straight in your inbox.

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Add Cool Image Effects To Google+ Profile Photos In Picnik

Picnik is a great image editing online tool that helps you to add amazing effects to your pictures on Google Plus. You can edit your profile photos by adjusting color and contrast, fix red-eye or even add stickers and text.  At present picnik can be used to edit profile photo only and with time I am sure Google will allow its use for editing other photos in your albums. You have complete control on the appearance of your profile pictures now with this useful tool. You can crop and auto fix it to give it a clear look and if you are too patriot then you can even add your Country Flag to your profile pic by choosing the Create Option in picnik as discussed below.

 

How To Edit Profile Photos in Google Plus?

1. In your Profile page click the Edit Profile button and then click the link "Change Photo" below your profile picture
2. Upload your profile photo and click the link Edit Photo in Picnik

    3.   It will take 1-2 minutes for picnik to load and then you will see an amazing image editing tool in front of you with multiple editing options.

You can rotate, crop, resize, add exposure and colors and fix red eye on your photos. You can try this out and play around yourself. I will recommend that you use Google Chrome for fast editing. If you observe carefully Picnik provides two options i.e. 1) Edit and 2) Create

The first option will allow you to add effects I already discussed and the second option i.e Create will allow you to add stickers and and text to your profile pictures. Amazing isn't it? I will share a detailed post on how can you add your website title or your name to your profile pic. Stay tuned. Have fun! :)

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Make Your Google Plus Profile Picture Full size

I did a detailed analysis of what image dimensions are supported by Google+ for Profile Pic and scrapbook thumbnail images. Unfortunately the maximum image size supported by Google Plus is comparatively much smaller to Facebook which is 540px by 180px. The maximum profile image resolution in Google+ is 202px by 192px. This is my mere approximation and I can be wrong by 1 pixel more or less but as far as I could calculate the image dimensions using Photoshop, this was what I observed. So If you wish to use a clear cut image of yourself or your brand or product then make sure that you keep these image details in mind.

 

Following image formats are supported:

1. PNG
2. GIF
3. JPEG

Following are some Image Size Details:

1. Profile Picture: Maximum Width = 202px    &  Maximum Height = 192px
2. Scrapbook Photo size: Maximum Width = 126px & Maximum Height = 126px

What are Scrapbook Photos?

Just like your profile photo which appears to the left of your profile, your scrapbook photos are small thumbnail images that appear as featured images on the top of your profile just below your name. See the following picture to get an idea

You will be interested to know how I created that photo stream just like Facebook Photo Stream. I will share a detailed post on my next tutorial so make sure you subscribe and do not miss any trick on Google Plus. Have Fun! :)

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How To Use Google Plus On iPhone and Android?

Google+ Project has become viral by supporting latest mobile technologies. You can easily use Google plus with all its features like uploading photos, videos, sharing streams, creating circles and hangouts with latest mobile phones such as Google Android, Apple iOS, blackberry, Nokia Symbian and Windows Phone 7. Google Plus's instant photo upload lets you take pictures on your smart phone and instantly/automatically upload them on your Google plus profile and thereby share it with all your friends in the circle. All you need is to download Google+ applications for your smart Android and iphone mobile.

 

Availability

By far the following major mobile devices are supported

• Android™
• iPhone®
  
• Blackberry®*
  
• Nokia™/Symbian*
  
• Windows® Mobile*

Google+ Applications for Android and iPhone

Download the following app for Android 2.1 and up

• Android Market
  

Download the following app for iPhone iOS 4+

•  App Store

Receive Google Plus Notifications Via Mobile SMS

So far if you have a SMS enabled device, you can subscribe to SMS notifications or use SMS for posting to Huddle. To do this just go to the SMS account settings page to enable SMS.

Note: Standard SMS rates apply..

Watch this video for better illustration:

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Find out Background Colors Of Images and Fonts on a Website

I am sharing another of my favorite Firefox add-on that will help you find out the colors used on different sections by a website or blog. This add-on is know as colorzilla and it offers many options. You can pick up a color used on a webpage, you can also zoom a page and enlarge its size but the best thing I like about it is its selection option which gives you important information regarding the webpage div sections and CSS classes.  This tool comes with Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other useful options for web designers. Kindly first download it by clicking here.

How To Find Colors of elements on a webpage?

Once you install the add-on then restart your browser. This add-on will appear at the bottom of your status bar. Now whenever you want to find out the background color of any element or object used on a blog page simply Left click on colorzilla and then take your mouse cursor and click on that image or object. You can then right on colorzilla to copy the hexadecimal or rgb color code of the element. See these screenshots,

 

The above method activates eyedropper and if you wish to choose a color of your choice then double click on colorzilla and you will then have a wide range of colors to choose from.

How To Zoom out or Zoom in a webpage?

To Zoom a webpage simply right click in colorzilla icon and choose Zoom and then select the resolution in percentage like 300% 200% etc.

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Find out What Fonts Family a Website is Using

Web Fonts are the sole reason behind the outstanding web designs that you see today. Most often while visiting a blogger blog or website you wish to know what font type, font family. font color or font size the page is using. It is a perfect tool for web designers and developers to find out font details of a web page. Most people are not that skilled to find the answer using the source code of the page but know thanks to amazing Firefox Add-ons things are becoming more simple and easy to use. With Firefox Add-on Font Finder you can now easily analyze every single bit of information related to the Font being used. This little add-on lets you find 9 set of important information which are,

1. Font color
2. Background color
3. Font family
4. Font being rendered
5. Font size
6. Line-height, vertical-align, letter and word spacing
7. Font weight, style, variant
8. Text transform, decoration, align and indent
9. Element's type, class or ID

You can download this add-on by clicking here

How To Find out Font Details of a Webpage or Blog?

Once you install FontFinder on your Firefox browser, then it will appear at the bottom left corner of your status bar. Highlight any text which you want to analyze and then press right click and choose FontFinder > Analyze selection

On clicking the analyze selection button you can find out complete details about the font style used on any webpage.

You can now easily see what is the hexadecimal or rgb color code of the highlighted text, what font family and font size is used and how the font is aligned and spaced along with what CSS class or CSS ID is used to style the font. You can then check the source code of the webpage to find out the CSS code for this font style.

I just hope it helps you in better experience the web and in better understanding designing. Have fun! :))

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Add Facebook Comments Plugin To IFRAME TABS

We shared detailed tutorials on how to create a custom Facebook Tab and how to design a Facebook Template. We added navigation and drop down menus to the tabs giving it a website look and the only thing it lacked was a commenting system so that your Fans may post you questions directly on your Like Page Custom Tabs. Success of any business lies in its brand presentation. Almost every web owner has a Fan Page but very few have Custom Welcome Landing Pages which may showcase your brand. See the demo below and see the different tabs on my Facebook profile to get an idea

 

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How TO Add Facebook Comments Box To Custom Tabs?

I assume that you have already set up a custom tab with a custom design if not please read these posts first:

1. Create Custom IFRAME TAB
2. Download Facebook Template For Custom Tabs

Go to your Custom tab and click settings link

 

Just below all the codes that you see inside the editor paste the following code,

<div style="margin-top: 10px;">
<p><span style="color: #3177bc;"><b>Share Your Kind views:</b></span></p>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1" type="text/javascript"></script>
<fb:comments href="https://www.facebook.com/mybloggertricks" num_posts="4" width="450"></fb:comments></div>

Replace the bolded black text with your Facebook Profile link.

Save your work and you are done! Visit your tab to see the comment box appearing just below your landing welcome page. I hope you find it useful. Let me know if you needed any help. Peace out! :)

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Create a Contact Form With File Upload Option

The contact form that I am using on this blog is from emailmeform and it is all free but customized using CSS. I previously published a post on how to customize contact form provided by emailmeform but later due to change in the coding provided by them the styling do not work for new forms so today we will learn to create a simple contact form with no company Ads and along with an upload option that will allow your visitors to send you files straight from your website. The files can be a text file, video, audio, pdf, gif, png, anything. Follow these steps:

 

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Create a Free Web Contact Form

Sign up for a free account at emailmeform

Once you are registered click the "Add a Form" button and choose the form builder option.

Keep your form simple with some important fields only like Name, Website URL, Email, Age, Country, Subject and Message. The form builder looks like this,

The form builder has blue buttons at left and display at right. When you click a button on left the effect is displayed on right. Now kindly follow as I instruct for keeping things simple and for creating a simple but informative contact form.

Follow this order:

1. Click the Name button in advance section
2. Next click Web site
3. Next Email
4. Next Hidden Field. Now click the hidden field section on the right and rename it as Age
5. Next click Hidden Filed again and rename it as Country
6. Next click File Upload  (Optional you can leave this option if you don't want users to send you files via email)
7. Now From the Basic section click Paragraph Text & click it to rename it as Message
8. To make a specific form option a must to fill then simply click that row and select required as shown below

 

Your contact form now must look something like this:

     9.   Click the Form Title and add some message there for your visitors. For example you can write :

We Love To Hear From You

Feel free to ask for any help. We will catch you back as soon as time allows

If you wish you can remove the form title by unchecking the box and deleting the description text. See below

     10.    Now on the form settings choose Redirect URL and insert the page link of your thank you page. A thank you page is something like this

You may create a separate post for this by giving it an old publishing date. Blogger users can create a Page instead of Post.    

11.  Now replace send Email by submit and align it to right as shown below:

  12.  Next click the Captcha Code at the bottom and select the none option from the left section as shown below:

This security code is often added to prevent spam but I have never used this security code and I honestly have received not even a single spam till today. Just remove it to make the contact form even more neater.

13.   Finally hit the Save Form Button and a window will appear as shown below:

14.   Choose the second option and add a recipient email ID. Choose an ID that you often use so that whenever someone leave a message you may receive it straight in your inbox. You can also add more than one recipients. See below:

Leave other options as default. Hit Save! Now choose the third option.

15.   In Form manager Click Code

16.  Choose the HTML Only option and copy the code. Make sure to enter the URL of the page where you want to embed the contact form. See below

It is therefore better that first you create a Page on Blogger and publish it. Fetch its URL and paste it in the blank "Enter URL where form is embedded"

Now simply copy the code and paste it in your contact page. To delete the emailmeform logo from the contact form find and delete a similar code like the one below from the code you just copied.

  <div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Powered by</font><span style="position: relative; padding-left: 3px; bottom: -5px;"><img src=
  "http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/images/footer-logo.png" /></span><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">EMF</font> <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.emailmeform.com/"
  target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Forms Online</font></a>
</div><a style="line-height:20px;font-size:70%;text-decoration:none;" href="http://www.emailmeform.com/report-abuse.html?http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/r99G329aiV6k6" target=
"_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Report Abuse</font></a>

Publish the page and bingo you are done! I know the steps are lengthy but the result is indeed worth it. In my coming posts you will learn how to completely customize this contact form with your own colors and styles. See our contact form as an example. I just hope you may have found today's tutorial helpful. If you need any help please do not hesitate to post your question. Have fun buddies! :)

Note: Paste the Contact Form code in Edit HTML mode only and hit the publish button on blogger Post Editor. Do not toggle to compose mode because this will collapse the form.

You may also find our previous tutorial helpful:

• Create Contact Form

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Customize Feedburner Chicklet Feed Count Text

A blog's success lies in the quality of its content and fellowship which is also termed as readership. The more subscribers you have the more you groom as an authority and trustful resource for knowledge amongst your visitors. Blog subscribers are the integral part of your online career. You are being judged by the number of readers you have. A good subscription box boosts the Feed count and results in reader growth similar effect is applied by that little dynamic Feedburner xml button i.e Chicklets . By default the chicklet displays number of subscribers as "**** readers"  The feed count is followed by the text "readers" amazingly with a little code you can change the appearance of this graphic text. You can turn readers into fans or followers. Follow up:

 

Change Feedburner Chicklets Count

Your feedburner feed count button has a code similar to this:

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TntByStc"><img
width="88" style="border:0" alt="" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/TntByStc?bg=F2F2F2&amp;fg=666&amp;anim=1" height="26"/></a>

 

The first URL is your RSS Feeds link and the second one (bolded one) is the URL of of that graphics button. You just need to add this code -> &label=readers after the bolded URL. See below,

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TntByStc"><img
width="88" style="border:0" alt="" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/TntByStc?bg=F2F2F2&amp;fg=666&amp;anim=1&label=readers" height="26"/></a>

 

Replace the word readers with anything you want. For example you can choose Fans, Followers etc as shown below,

Default: Readers

Fans:

Followers:

Choose a word that is equal to or less than 7 characters. Do not choose a long word as they will not fit in the button. Though you can edit the width but that will damage the look of the chicklet. Hope this little trick proves helpful to most of you. You are most welcomed to ask for any help if needed.

You can also create a completely custom feedburner chicklet button by reading this post:

• Create Custom Feedburner Counter

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Update Facebook Status From Google Plus!

If you have to login to both sites, Google+ for new taste of social networking and Facebook because some of us just can’t stop using Facebook and migrate to Google+ at once, then this trick is all about you! Although, Google has not yet come up with any of the G+ API that may provide a shortcut, but still we can try a work around to synchronize the Google Plus status with Facebook.

Drawback: Only limited number of characters go to Facebook status, due to the email template of Google+. Therefore write short and precise one liner status on Google+ in order for it to appear on Facebook.

How To Post Status on Facebook From Google Plus?

Just follow the following simple steps…

Step 1: Go to http://facebook.com/mobile and click the link that says: "Send my upload email to me now" . Then check your Inbox to get your personalized email address which will be used to post text, videos, and photos straight on your Facebook profile. This is something private for you, like unique id for every Facebook user. 

This Email ID will look something like this:

bgart580coarse@m.facebook.com

Step 2: Go to https://plus.google.com/ and then click Circles section where you can invite your friends to your G+ profile.

Step 3: Create a new circle, give any name to it for example like myfacebook , click add a new person

and then write the email address you got in step 1. Add this person to the myfacebook circle that you just created.

Step 4: You are done, now whenever you are updating your stream/status at Google+, include your myfacebook circle that contains the Facebook email by clicking the link that says "Add more people".  See below

Remember to check the box that says "Also email 1 person not yet using Google+"

Since your Facebook email is not using Google+ so your status will be sent to Facebook via this email.

On Facebook your status will appear like this:

That's all! :)

Until you get any plug-in by developers, I think this is an interesting trick that clicked my mind today and thought of sharing it. If you face any problems just let me know.

Note: Sometimes the status doesn't appear on your Facebook profile so you must try different browsers. I recommend Google Chrome.

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This was a Guest Post by Umair Ahmad khan @Facebook

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Transfer Facebook Contacts To Google Plus - Trick!

All your Facebook friends contact list can now easily be transferred or migrated to your Google+ account withy simple steps. Since Facebook has blocked all chrome extensions that helps users to directly transfer Facebook contacts to Google+ therefore we will need to work around and look for a more easy 2-step method. For this tutorial to work you will need a Yahoo mail account. There are two basic steps which are:

 

1. Import Facebook Contacts To Yahoo
2. Import Yahoo Contacts To Google+

If you don't want Yahoo friends on Google Plus and just want to invite Facebook friends on Google+ then I would recommend that you sign up for a temporary new Yahoo account.

1. Import Facebook Contacts To Yahoo

1. Sign in to Yahoo
2. Click on the Contact tab

 

         3.  You can clearly see that there is a "Import Contacts" button on clicking which you will be able to import your Facebook contacts to Yahoo. You can also import your contacts from the following services to yahoo as well if in case you wanted them on Google+

• Hotmail
• AOL
• Orkut
• Outlook express

         4. Now you just need to follow the easy instructions and import all Facebook contacts.

         5. Job done!

Import Yahoo Contacts To Google+

1. Log into Google Plus
2. Click The Circles tab

 

       3.  Now choose the Yahoo Option

 

        4.  Click it and you will then be asked to import yahoo contacts to Google+ by clicking the Agree button as shown below,

         5.  Once you click the agree button all your yahoo contacts which includes your Facebook contacts will be added to Google+. You can now add them to circles and have fun sharing love and joy. Peace out! :>

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Google+ : How To Download Photos and Videos?

Google Plus fortunately lets you make a backup copy of almost all information that you share online with friends. Whether it may be your photo albums, links or posts shared as stream data, profile data, buzz data or people in your contacts and circles, you can backup and download all these files in your computer hard drive. This will help you keep your files save and keep your memories alive if you ever wanted to leave this great social networking site or if in case your account password goes in the hands of wrong people. All data is downloaded in .zip format which can be compressed using winrar software except profile data which is stored with .json extension.

 

Make a Backup of All data on Google+

To download and backup all your data follow these steps:

1. Sign in Google Plus

2. Near the top right corner select Google+ settings

    3.  Next choose "Data Liberation"

Now you can simply click the white Download your data button or you can click the individual options below. The best is to download images, circles and contacts individually. Your shared videos will be in stream data so remember to download it too.

For downloading videos on Google+ remember that all videos will be uploaded on YouTube and then shared on your Google+ account. So you will need YouTube downloader to download videos shared on Google Plus.

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