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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