Popular Posts Widget for Christmas

By  at 3:44 PM  , ,  
The Christmas countdown has begun and while homes are decorated with colorful lights and the sweet smell of pine trees, there's no reason why we wouldn't decorate our Blogspot blog with Christmas bells next to the Popular Posts widget for Blogger!So, today I was playing around a bit with CSS and I was...

How to Use Character Entities in CSS, HTML and JavaScript

By  at 1:01 AM  , ,  
Sometimes, when using scripts, we must write special characters like accents by using a special set of codes called character entities. However, these don't always look good or we get a question mark or other strange symbols. Usually, this is solved if the character encoding is done right but the logic...

How to Create a Sitemap or Table of Contents in Blogger

By  at 4:39 PM  , ,  
One of the limitations of a blog is that it doesn't have an index or sitemap of the site to make it easier for readers to find the content that they are searching for. While the blog archive and labels have all the information about the published post, these do not appear on a single page completely,...

Using JQuery + EasyDrag to Move Elements or Images by Clicking on Them

By  at 7:00 PM  , ,  
This is a simple and easy-to-use jQuery plugin which enables drag and drop functionality to make your site more interactive so that readers can "play" with certain elements on the page by dragging them from one side to another. For example, they can drag the images with a script to move them on any...

Filter out your visits to your blog from Google Analytics traffic statistics

By  at 2:45 PM    
The results of daily visits in the web hit counters always have a margin of error. In most of them, this margin is very high, therefore the statistics shown are not even a bit closer to the actual visits we have. Google Analytics has a very short margin of error, which makes it more reliable, so that...

How To Add Snow In The Background of Your Blog Using CSS

By  at 2:33 PM  , ,  
Today we’re going to go over a super simple CSS technique that you can use to make it snow on your Blogger blog. It seems particularly attractive since it doesn't require scripts, only CSS and three small images.An advantage of this method is that by not using scripts doesn't overload the blog, the...

Recent Rotating Post Gadget with Excerpt For Blogger

By  at 5:41 AM  , ,  
This JavaScript code will display the latest posts of any feed, the difference being that it has two parts which can be used individually or combined. The top of this widget will show a single post along with the title (link), author, date and a brief summary of its content. In addition, this post will...

Scriptaculous image slider/carousel for Blogger

By  at 8:33 AM  , ,  
Image galleries, sliders and slideshows have become increasingly popular within web pages and more and more developers have been creating these amazing powerful, versatile and sleek galleries. In this tutorial, you will see how to display the relevant content in an attractive and usable manner, by...

How to Write SEO Optimized Blog Posts

By  at 12:13 PM    
I'm not an SEO expert and what you will read further is not top secret, but the basic optimization that everyone should apply in order to write SEO optimized blog posts. And with these techniques, effort and a bit of patience, you can occupy the best places in the search results of different search...

How to Add a Tiny jQuery Circleslider to Blogger

By  at 9:05 AM  , ,  
Tiny Circleslider is a small jQuery plugin generating a circular carousel of images that we can slide infinitely (circular). When clicking on the red dot, the main picture moves to the left and another set of images will slide out.There is nothing complicated about using this type of carousel, however...

Turn off the lights with jQuery

By  at 6:39 AM    
For those who enjoy watching videos on the internet, this is a very useful script made with jQuery by Janko. And what this script does? It will turn off the lights for you, so that everything on the page will be fading to dark, except the video, and everything around the video will be less visible,...

Before/After Photo Effect with jQuery

By  at 4:48 AM  , ,  
If you have a design or makeup blog, or if you are using before and after image comparison, this script will most likely be useful for you. In this tutorial, you will see how to add the Before/After plugin, a script that works with jQuery in order to display two pictures dynamically for comparing them...