Tampil Cantik dengan Web Blogger

Web Blogger tidak kalah dalam hal penampilan maupun performa, bila di bandingkan dengan web berbayar yang ada. Tampilan blogger lebih modis dan lebih mudah dalam pengendaliannya. Cuma yaaa karena blogger itu sifatnya gratisan maka ada beberapa feature web yang tidak bisa ditampilkan. Tetapi bila kreatifitas blogger-man atau blogger-wati itu tinggi maka hal tersebut tidak menjadi masalah. Tampilan blogger bisa maksimal dengan kita sering berjelajah di area bloggeran, yang banyak sekali menawarkan blogger accesories maupun petunjuk-petunjuk (tips & trik). Banyak sekali yang jualan template gratis (www.eblogtemplates.com, www.btemplates.com), gadged HTML maupun berbagai trik edit HTML (www.bloggertricks.com) yang sangat mudah kita dapatkan. Semuanya serba gratis..tis..tis...
Ini 2 contoh blogger web yang sudah mirip website berbayar :

How to change your Blogger template

It is not that hard to change the template of your Blogger blog, just go to your Blogger dashboard and follow the steps told here. You can click on the thumbnails below to see larger versions of screen shots.

1. First of all login to your Blogger account and choose your blog (if you have more than one), than click on "Template" section.
2. You will see a big input box with full of codes at "Template" section. Click somewhere in that box then hit your CTRL and A buttons together to select all text in the box. After selecting whole text, hit the DELETE button on your keyboard to clear old template codes.
3. Open your theme.txt (which comes out of your downloaded template archive package) with a text editor like notepad and again select all text by hitting CTRL and A buttons on your keyboard, then hit CTRL and C keys together (or right click with your mouse and select copy) to copy whole text to your clipboard.
4. Go to "Template" section, and paste your new template codes to the input box by hitting CTRL and V keys together (or right click with your mouse and select paste), then click "Save Template Changes".
5. After saving process finished, click "Republish".

Important!

I recommend you to backup your old template codes before deleting them in this step. In order to backup your old template select all codes in the template codes box (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C) and paste (CTRL+V) them in a new text file with appropriate file name.

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Bagaimana Mengganti Favicon Blogger

Biar tampilan web kita lebih menarik dan terlihat profesional maka salah satunya adalah dengan mengganti favicon blogger kita. Favicon adalah icon yang muncul pada tab browser maupun pada web address (tempat dimana kita mengtikkan alamat website). Misalnya kita mau ganti iconnya blogger dengan ikon kesukakaan kita, tari gandrung.

Langkahnya sangat mudah, buatlah icon terlebih dahulu (bisa pakai software easy icon maker atau yang lain. Kemudian upload file icon tersebut ke site.google.com (buat akun terlebih dahulu).

Seteleh itu maka ikuti tutorial berikut ini (masih dalam versi aslinya). Bagi yg kurang jelas silakan email saya (nagudz@yahoo.com), nanti saya pandu...

To add a favicon you need to have a favicon and there are plenty of ways to create a favicon.If you are planning on using Photoshop then you need to download this plug-in.

If thats not possible there are plenty of sites out there that generates a favicon for you when you upload an image.Do a Google Search for "free favicon Generator" and plenty of sites would come up.I personally used http://www.genfavicon.com/ to create favicons because after uploading the image they let you select a portion of the image you want as the favicon. Set the size ( 16 x 16 ) capture and preview and you get a link to download the favicon.ico file. The whole process want take you five minutes.

Since you cant upload .ico files to blogger you need to find some free image hosting service to use and of course that service should let you upload .ico files.Since your using a service by Google I suggest you use Google page creator which lets you upload .ico files.Then get the link to the favicon file.

If thats a bit complicated for you go to http://www.iconj.com/generator.php where it creates a favicon for you and gives the facility to host if for free too.And it generates the url to be added in your header so I think this is the most easiest method for non tech bloggers.Thanks to Military Wife for sharing this info.

Now go to your blog and click customize.Then click the Edit HTML tab and search for "title" , this should be inside the header tags.You should find something like mentioned below.
----> intinya cari kode dibawah ini di "Edit HTML" :

#<><>

Just after that line add the following line and enjoy the nice icon showing up before your url.

----> Paste tulisan seperti dibawah ini, di bawah kode tersebut :

#< href ="'your" rel="'shortcut" type="'image/x-icon'/">

There are some basic mistakes made by blogger , especially new bloggers that can reduce there traffic , networking and money making oppurtunities. Check whether you have made these blog design mistakes and correct them as soon as possible.


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Banyuwangi Blogger

Blog ini diperuntukkan bagi komunitas blogger yang ada di kota Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur. Untuk sharing dan saling bertukar fikiran demi kemajuan skill sebagai blogger.
Ya, kita mengikuti kemajuan dunia internet. Dimana saat ini banyak sekali ditawarkan webblog² yang gratisan (biasanya yang gratisan emang banyak peminatnya, termasuk saya, he he he....). Weblog yang terkenal dan mudah dalam penggunaan saat ini adalah Blogger dan Wordpress. Tinggal pilih aja, tapi rasanya blogger/blogspot lebih Oke.
Juga jangan sampai kita ketinggalan dengan daerah lain, dalam hal blogging.

Suplemen Google Adsense

Google just released a Newbie Central for their AdSense program, those ads webmasters can include on their site to earn money for every click on the ad from a visitor (if you're using the program, part of the advertiser budget will go to you, and the other part to Google). I wanted to add some tips from my own experience:

1.Ads can work well in-between other stuff. On a games site of mine, some of the games don't contain ads next to the game area; the AdSense ad will only be shown in-between game rounds. This is the time the visitor is not concentrating on performing a task but might take a small break, and be open to the option of visiting new sites.
2. Put too much emphasis on AdSense and your site may be linked to less. The more available space you dedicate to AdSense on your site, and the less you differentiate between ads and content in your design, the more money you earn with the program, right? Not quite. While pushing the AdSense may result in short-term gains, it might also convince some visitors that the site is too crowded to be worth visiting again. And some of those visitors may also be bloggers or other people who might otherwise help to promote your site with links to it. And the less your site gets linked to, the less traffic it gets, meaning AdSense revenues may go down in the long term.
3.Even if you get huge traffic, the AdSense income from the site is more dependent on the site type and audience. Google targets AdSense ads automatically to the site content. Or at least, it does so ideally – but some types of content fare better than others with this targeting. I noticed for instance that AdSense does better on a games site than on a technology blog. I also heard people say that AdSense does quite good on product oriented blogs; say, one post solely about the iPod; another post solely about Gadget XYZ, and so on.
4. Image ads can be relevant and work for you, but they might also apall some visitors. Google's AdSense program gives you the option to choose between a couple of different ad formats. Two main groups are text ads vs text & image ads. When you choose the latter, Google will deliver what they deem works best for your content (or so one would hope, and it would be in Google's best self-interest to serve you the best possible ad, it seems).

However, Google doesn't really know your layout preferences, and they don't really understand when your audience thinks ads are "too much"; and considering image ads include Flash animations (which you can't disable, once you go for image ads), Flash animations may well push some people away. One thing you can do is to only show image ads in areas where they don't disturb the content, e.g. at the end of posts. Also, you might want to listen to visitor feedback on the ads being served; I received emails before that the blinking ad on this or that site made a person want to leave the site, at which point I blocked the specific advertiser via the AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter option.
5. When it comes to context sensitive targeting, you can increase or lower the importance of certain parts of your page. To help Google find a matching ad for your content, you can use the HTML comment syntax by encapsulating more important parts with
(Google notes that it may take up to 2 weeks for this change to your site will be taken into account by the AdSense.)

What if your site doesn't have any good matchable content to begin with, though? Say, the page just includes an image. Well, for the reasons of search engine optimization but also ad optimization you might want to consider using at least a descriptive title, an explanatory footer containing the important keywords or keyphrases (the kind of footer that actually helps the human visitor by explaining what the page is about). In the case of image content, reasonable alt and title attribute texts should be used as well.*

*Whatever you do, don't resort to "keyword-stuffing" as it doesn't help your visitors and may get your page ranked lower in search engines.

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