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Google Talk Widget or GTalk Widget For Blogger / BlogSpot

Its been about 1 week that you haven’t read anything new from best2know.info so for that i m absolutely Sorry for that. So today I m going to present you with awesome solution to you.

We all bloggers try our level best to give out the best we can to the readers but sometimes user cannot understand the tutorial or their is a bug or the thing is not working. so sometimes readers hesitate to ask using comment box or your contact me page . So solution to it is the GTalk Chat Badge.

As most of Use Gtalk or Is the worlds most popular to communicate with.

1.Google Chat Back Gadget – This gadget allows your visitors to IM you without revealing your Gmail address.you can chat with your blog visitors like what you normally do with your IM buddies. The only difference here is that your identity wont be revealed.

How to Install the Google Chat Back Gadget?

  1. Login with your Google Account at Google Talk Badges
  2. Copy the HTML Code generated by Google
  3. Now login to your Blogger Account and Navigate to Layout > Page Elements Page
  4. 4.Click the Add Gadget Link and Opt to add an HTML/JavaScript Gadget
  5. Paste the HTML code(that we copied) into the Gadget and Save it.
  6. Now you should see the Google Chat Back Widget on your Blog’s sidebar.

Here is a Live Preview of what the Google Chat Back Widget will look like

2.Google Talk Gadget

This Gadget is just like the Google Talk Interface within your Gmail. This will allow your blog visitors to login to Google Talk. It is better to say that, once you add this gadget, your blog can serve as a Google Talk IM Client. This Widget wont allow the visitors to chat with you. If the visitor logs into his Google Talk account(via this Google Talk Gadget), he will be able to chat with his Google Talk Buddies and not with you(the blog owner)unless you were already on his buddy list

You can add this Widget easily using this One Click Installer. It will Add the Widget to your Blog’s Sidebar.

Add Recent Posts Widget

Fixed Side Menu For Blogger

Fixed side menu for blogger blogspot or some says it as fixed slide in menu for blogger as was seen only in wordpress but now can be used in bloggers also.As you could see it in my blog i have side menu that moves together with you scroll movement up and down on my blog.I am sharing this with you because many of my readers were asking how to make it as they liked it much and wanted to add it to there blogs so if you liked side menu in my blog you can go further to install it in your blog too.For Demo Of Side Menu Visit for Here:-Blogger Widgets

First Download these two files to your computer.
ssm.js
ssmItems.js

Now open the ssmItems.js file in notepad
After opening it in notepad you will see the codes like written below.

<!–


/*
Configure menu styles below
NOTE: To edit the link colors, go to the STYLE tags and edit the ssm2Items colors
*/
YOffset=150; // no quotes!!
XOffset=0;
staticYOffset=30; // no quotes!!
slideSpeed=20 // no quotes!!
waitTime=100; // no quotes!! this sets the time the menu stays out for after the mouse goes off it.
menuBGColor=”black”;
menuIsStatic=”yes”; //this sets whether menu should stay static on the screen
menuWidth=150; // Must be a multiple of 10! no quotes!!
menuCols=2;
hdrFontFamily=”verdana”;
hdrFontSize=”2″;
hdrFontColor=”white”;
hdrBGColor=”#170088″;
hdrAlign=”left”;
hdrVAlign=”center”;
hdrHeight=”15″;
linkFontFamily=”Verdana”;
linkFontSize=”2″;
linkBGColor=”white”;
linkOverBGColor=”#FFFF99″;
linkTarget=”_top”;
linkAlign=”Left”;
barBGColor=”#444444″;
barFontFamily=”Verdana”;
barFontSize=”2″;
barFontColor=”white”;
barVAlign=”center”;
barWidth=20; // no quotes!!
barText=”SIDE MENU”; // <IMG> tag supported. Put exact html for an image to show.


///////////////////////////


// ssmItems[…]=[name, link, target, colspan, endrow?] – leave ‘link’ and ‘target’ blank to make a header
ssmItems[0]=[“MENU”] //create header
ssmItems[1]=[“Home“, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com“, “”]
ssmItems[2]=[“Blogger Widgets“, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials“,””]
ssmItems[3]=[“Blogger Hacks“, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials“, “”]
ssmItems[4]=[“Blogger Tutorials“, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials“, “_new”]
ssmItems[5]=[“Grab This Menu Here”, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutorials“, “”]
ssmItems[6]=[“Contact“, “http://riteshsanap4u.blogspot.com/“, “”]


ssmItems[7]=[“FAQ“, “#nogo“, “”, 1, “no”] //create two column row
ssmItems[8]=[“Email“, “#nogo“, “”,1]


ssmItems[9]=[“External Links”, “”, “”] //create header
ssmItems[10]=[“Online Jobs“, “#“, “”]
ssmItems[11]=[“Funny Blog“, “#“, “”]
ssmItems[12]=[“Earn Money“, “#“, “”]


buildMenu();


//–>

Now just edit the the links in red in codes to place your own link which you want to display and text in blue which you want to show up the title for that link.

After editing all these links just save the file.
Now upload both files ssm.js and ssmItems.js to your own server.

Now GO To LAYOUT > EDIT HTML
and find the </head> tag and place the below codes before it.

<!–SLIDE MENU–>
<style type=’text/css’>
<!–
A.ssmItems:link {color:black;text-decoration:none;}
A.ssmItems:hover {color:black;text-decoration:none;}
A.ssmItems:active {color:black;text-decoration:none;}
A.ssmItems:visited {color:black;text-decoration:none;}
//–>
</style>

<SCRIPT SRC=’http://riteshsanap4u.googlepages.com/ssm.js‘ language=’JavaScript1.2’>
//Dynamic-FX slide in menu v6.5 (By maXimus,
//Updated July 8th, 03&#39; for doctype bug
//For full source, and 100&#39;s more DHTML scripts, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT SRC=’http://riteshsanap4u.googlepages.com/ssmItems.js‘ language=’JavaScript1.2’/>
<!–SLIDE MENU END–>


And don’t forget to change the links in red above with the links of yours where ssm.js and ssmItems.js file is uploaded to your own server.

And now SAVE It.

Yup you have just Done now. View your blog. If you have any problem please write below in comments i will help you out.I think you will enjoy this widget for sure.