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Tag: Blog Design Series

How to Add Breadcrumb for blogger blog

All of us might have seen breadcrumbs on most wordpress blog.
So why not implement a breadcrumb for the blogger blogs.. For those who don’t know what a breadcrumb is,here is a little defenition from wikipedia.

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It gives users a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale.

The trails like Home >> Label >> Post Name are the breadcrumbs.

So Now lets get Started :

  1. Login to your blogger dashboard
  2. Go to Layouts and then Edit HTML
  3. Then I would Sugguest you download the whole template first then Continue Editing.
  4. Then Tick the Expand widget Template.
  5. Now find for this Code :
    <b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>

    <b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>

  6. Now Replace it with the below code :

    <b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>
    <b:include data='posts' name='breadcrumb'/>

    <b:include data='top' name='status-message'/> <b:include data='posts' name='breadcrumb'/>

  7. Now Find :
    <b:includable id='main' var='top'>

    <b:includable id='main' var='top'>

  8. Now Replace the above code with below code :
    <b:includable id='breadcrumb' var='posts'>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl == data:blog.url'>
    <!-- No breadcrumb on home page -->
    <b:else/>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
    <!-- breadcrumb for the post page -->
    <p class='breadcrumbs'>
    <span class='post-labels'>
    <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl' rel='tag'>Home</a>
    <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
    <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
    <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
    <b:if cond='data:label.isLast == "true"'> »
    <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a>
    </b:if>
    </b:loop>
    <b:else/>
    »Unlabelled
    </b:if>
    » <span><data:post.title/></span>
    </b:loop>
    </span>
    </p>
    <b:else/>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
    <!-- breadcrumb for the label archive page and search pages.. -->
    <p class='breadcrumbs'>
    <span class='post-labels'>
    <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Archives for <data:blog.pageName/>
    </span>
    </p>
    <b:else/>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
    <p class='breadcrumbs'>
    <span class='post-labels'>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageName == ""'>
    <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » All posts
    <b:else/>
    <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Posts filed under <data:blog.pageName/>
    </b:if>
    </span>
    </p>
    </b:if>
    </b:if>
    </b:if>
    </b:if>
    </b:includable>
    <b:includable id='main' var='top'>

    <b:includable id='breadcrumb' var='posts'> <b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl == data:blog.url'> <!-- No breadcrumb on home page --> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <!-- breadcrumb for the post page --> <p class='breadcrumbs'> <span class='post-labels'> <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl' rel='tag'>Home</a> <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> <b:if cond='data:post.labels'> <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'> <b:if cond='data:label.isLast == "true"'> » <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a> </b:if> </b:loop> <b:else/> »Unlabelled </b:if> » <span><data:post.title/></span> </b:loop> </span> </p> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'> <!-- breadcrumb for the label archive page and search pages.. --> <p class='breadcrumbs'> <span class='post-labels'> <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Archives for <data:blog.pageName/> </span> </p> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'> <p class='breadcrumbs'> <span class='post-labels'> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageName == ""'> <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » All posts <b:else/> <a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Posts filed under <data:blog.pageName/> </b:if> </span> </p> </b:if> </b:if> </b:if> </b:if> </b:includable> <b:includable id='main' var='top'>

  9. Now Find ]]></b:skin> and replace it with the below code :
    .breadcrumbs {
    padding:5px 5px 5px 0px;
    margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
    font-size:95%;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    border-bottom:3px double #e6e4e3;
    }
    ]]></b:skin>

    .breadcrumbs { padding:5px 5px 5px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; font-size:95%; line-height: 1.4em; border-bottom:3px double #e6e4e3; } ]]></b:skin>

Now you should have a working breadcrumb navigation on your system.

July 12, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Beginner Series, Blog Design Series, Blogger Hacks, fairytale, hansel and gretel, navigation aid, term comes from, Widget

Change Blog’s Font Type with Cufón


Still at the font embedding series, this time I’ll share how to change blog’s font type with Cufón. Few days ago, I write about how to change blogs font using some services. Also I’ve write about one of them, sIFR, which we know it use Flash. Cufón is different, it use javascript to render the font type.

Step 1 – Download Cufón

Download the Cufón javascript file. You can download the compressed version or uncompressed version. But I suggest you to use the compressed version.

Step 2 – Generate Font

Generate your font on its official site. The name of the resulting file will include the name of the font and the weight of the font (as a number – 400 is equivalent to “normal” and 600 means “bold”). The name of the file doesn’t actually matter at all, but it makes it easier for you to identify your fonts.

Step 3 – Integrate on the Blog

This is the step where you must add the javascript code to your blog. This code placed before </head>

<script src=”cufon-yui.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”Vegur_300.font.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
Cufon.replace(‘h1’);
</script>

Code above is just example and it use one type of font.

Step 4 – Make IE Work

Unfortunately one problem remains with Internet Explorer. In most cases, there is a short but visible delay before the text is replaced. You can avoid this issue by inserting the following code right before the closing </body> tag (or before any external scripts such as Google Analytics).

<script type=”text/javascript”> Cufon.now(); </script>

Its Done!!! Save your template and preview.

Also see

>>> Official Cufón Documentation

June 17, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Design Series, Font embedding

How to add Custom Favicon to blogger blog

Hello to all my visitors . Today morning I saw a comment on trily – blogger template.That my visitor cryptoGATO wanted to add this own favicon instead of default blogger favicon. so this is my todays topic so i m going to tell to you all how to do it. I think you might have seen my favicon Generator that i have made for you all.

So now lets get started :

  1. Login to your blogger dashboard
  2. Click on Design
  3. Click on Edit HTML
  4. Find this <b:skin><![CDATA[
  5. Then add the below code above the <b:skin><![CDATA[ :
    <link href='YOUR Image Link' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

    <link href='YOUR Image Link' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

  6. Replace Your Image Link with the link of your desired favicon.
  7. Then Click the preview button. If you can see the favicon on the address on the tab then you have successfully installed favicon.
  8. Then Click on Save.

June 17, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Design Series, blogger, Blogger Hacks, CDATA, Customization, dashboard, favicon, favicon generator, image link, link, morning, preview button, Template

Using sIFR 2.0 in Blogger Templates

sIFR in blogger templates

sIFR is one of the alternative way to change font type to beautify typography, especially in the heading (H1, H2, etc.), like Cufón. This time I’ll share how to use sIFR 2.0 in blogger templates.

The Steps

  1. Download sIFR 2.0
  2. Upload the javascript files from the downloaded zip file, those are sifr-addons.js and sifr.js.
    If you busy to upload those files, copy below code and paste before </head>

    <script src=’http://mbahrizh.googlecode.com/files/sifr.js’ type=’text/javascript’></script>
    <script src=’http://mbahrizh.googlecode.com/files/sifr-addons.js’ type=’text/javascript’></script>

  3. Put the CSS code from the zip file, those are sIFR-screen.css and sIFR-print.css. If you busy to do that, copy below code and paste before </head>
    I’ve compress these codes.

    <style media=’print’ type=’text/css’>
    /* This is the print stylesheet to hide the Flash headlines from the browser… regular browser text headlines will now print as normal */
    .sIFR-flash, .sIFR-flash object, .sIFR-flash embed{display:none !important; height:0; width:0; position:absolute; overflow:hidden}
    span.sIFR-alternate{visibility:visible !important; display:block !important; position:static !important; left:auto !important; top:auto !important}</style>

    <style media=’screen’ type=’text/css’>
    /* These are standard sIFR styles… do not modify */
    .sIFR-flash{visibility:visible !important; margin:0}
    .sIFR-replaced{visibility:visible !important}
    span.sIFR-alternate{position:absolute; left:0; top:0; width:0; height:0; display:block; overflow:hidden}

    /* Hide Adblock Object tab:the text should show up just fine, not poorly with a tab laid over it. */
    .sIFR-flash+div[adblocktab=true]{display:none !important}

    /* These “decoy”styles are used to hide the browser text before it is replaced… the negative-letter spacing in this case is used to make the browser text metrics match up with the sIFR text metrics since the sIFR text in this example is so much narrower… your own settings may vary… any weird sizing issues you may run into are usually fixed by tweaking these decoy styles */
    .sIFR-hasFlash h1{visibility:hidden; font-size:16px; letter-spacing:40px}
    .sIFR-hasFlash h2{visibility:hidden; letter-spacing:-9px; font-size:14px}
    .sIFR-hasFlash h3{visibility:hidden; letter-spacing:-6px; font-size:20px}
    .sIFR-hasFlash h4{visibility:hidden; letter-spacing:-5px; font-size:21px}
    .sIFR-hasFlash h5{letter-spacing:-4px; visibility:hidden; font-size:14px}
    .sIFR-hasFlash h6{letter-spacing:-4px; visibility:hidden; font-size:12px}
    </style>

  4. This is the most importance to use your desire font type.
    Actually when we download sIFR 2.0, it already bundled with flash file to make a font, but there is easier way:
    • Choose your desired font and save in desktop (because if it still in WINDOWS/font, it can be uploaded)
    • Generate your chose font to be a swf file at sIFR Generator. Upload your font, then next and next until finish and download it. In step 2, choose sIFR version 2 because we use this version.
    • Upload the downloaded file to image shack, because image shack can store swf file. After uploaded, take the link, e.g. .
    • Then the last, put javascript below to activate your chose font. Change the URL to your uploaded font link.

      <script type=’text/javascript’>
      //<![CDATA[
      /* Replacement calls. Please see documentation for more information. */

      if(typeof sIFR == “function”){

      // This is the preferred “named argument” syntax

      sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:”h1″, sFlashSrc:”http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2028/hotelcoralessexregular.swf“, sColor:”#AD3C00”, sWmode:’transparent’}));

      sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:”h2, h4, h6″, sFlashSrc:”http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/2368/motorway.swf“, sColor:”#2F1F00”, sWmode:’transparent’}));

      sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:”h5″, sFlashSrc:”http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6843/jamesfajardo.swf“, sWmode:’transparent’}));

      };

      //]]>
      </script>

      You must change the red code to your uploaded font URL.

  5. it’s done! You can edit above code to adjust with your template character, either font size or color.

Note:
The weakness of this sIFR 2.0 is the link text become inactive. So, don’t use heading tag (H1, H2, etc.) for text link.

June 14, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Design Series, Font embedding

Alternative Ways to Change Blog’s Font Type

Hi! Introducing the new category at B2K, Font embedding. This time, I just share some ways to change the font type in your blog. Later, I’ll write about how to integrate these one by one.

There are some alternative ways to change the font type to be nonstandard anymore, need not to use images, so your blog’s typography will more and more interesting.

  1. Cufón

    Cufon

    “Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. Cufón consists of two individual parts – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript.”

    Article about Cufón integrating:
    >>> Exploring Cufón, a sIFR alternative for font embedding

  2. sIFR 2.0 and sIFR 3

    sIFR

    “sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.”

    Article about sIFR integrating:

    • This is How You Get sIFR to Work
    • How to Use sIFR 3 (video Tutorial)
    • How To Implement sIFR3 Into Your Website
  3. FLIR

    FLIR

    “FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement) dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers.”

    Article about FLIR integrating:
    >>>How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR

  4. Typeface

    Typeface

    “With typeface.js you can embed custom fonts in your web pages so you don’t have to render text to images.”

    Other format from typeface:
    >>>Type Select, Selectable Text Replacement

Update : Sifr3 is down or its not being supported instead now you can try Google Webfonts.

June 13, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Blog Design Series, Font embedding

Highlight Author Comment in Blogspot

This trick is to give a Highlight Author Comment . This will make the blogs owner and authors comments looks different from the visitors comments. It’s very useful and interesting blogger hack tips. You can see the example in my blog. Here is what to do to make a “Highlight Author Comment” effect in Blogspot.

  1. Login to blogger, then choose “Design –> Edit HTML”. Don’t forget to backup your template first.
  2. Check the “Expand Widget Templates” box.
  3. Copy this script and put it before ]]></b:skin> or copy to your CSS area.
    .comment-body-author {
    background: #E6E6E6;<span style="color: red;"> /* Background color*/</span>
    color: #000; <span style="color: red;">/* Text color*/</span>
    border-top: 1px dotted #223344;
    border-bottom: 1px dotted #223344;
    border-left: 1px dotted #223344;
    border-right: 1px dotted #223344;
    margin:0;
    padding:0 0 0 20px; <span style="color: red;">/* Position*/</span>
    }

    .comment-body-author { background: #E6E6E6;<span style="color: red;"> /* Background color*/</span> color: #000; <span style="color: red;">/* Text color*/</span> border-top: 1px dotted #223344; border-bottom: 1px dotted #223344; border-left: 1px dotted #223344; border-right: 1px dotted #223344; margin:0; padding:0 0 0 20px; <span style="color: red;">/* Position*/</span> }

  4. Then Find this Code
    <dd class='comment-body'>
    <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
    <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
    <b:else/>
    <p><data:comment.body/></p>
    </b:if>
    </dd>

    <dd class='comment-body'> <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'> <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span> <b:else/> <p><data:comment.body/></p> </b:if> </dd>

  5. Then Replace the above code with the below code
    <b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
    <dd class='comment-body-author'>
    <p><data:comment.body/></p>
    </dd>
    <b:else/>
    <dd class='comment-body'>
    <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
    <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
    <b:else/>
    <p><data:comment.body/></p>
    </b:if>
    </dd>
    </b:if>

    <b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'> <dd class='comment-body-author'> <p><data:comment.body/></p> </dd> <b:else/> <dd class='comment-body'> <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'> <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span> <b:else/> <p><data:comment.body/></p> </b:if> </dd> </b:if>

  6. Then Preview and Save your Template.

June 12, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Author, author background, background color, blog, Blog Design Series, Blogspot, color border, hack tips, Template, Widget

Top 5 Jquery Slide Gallery

Do you have minimal traffic from your website or blogsite? Is it too plain you wish you could afford to hire web developers and graphic artists to achieve the getting high standard of Internet users and clients?

You need no expertise to achieve that standard. So i gathered the simplified but best and user friendly JQuery to suit your needs and to give hype for your business and personal portfolios to help you maximize your traffic.

SLIDEDECK for WordPress

Though this Slide Jquery Gallery requires more time and effort to have that professional look of your blog or website, this slide deck will give the impression of PERFECTIONISM driving to marketing and advertising strategy. For its free? there is no room for second thoughts of having this and change your life for real.

YOXVIEW 

Aside from its ability to beautify your gallery, it is also capable of embedding your videos. Don’t you think its great to have that creative look in your site? Though i do not advice for business or e-commerce sectors to have this to present your gallery and advertising portfolios.





TRANSPARENT SLIDE GALLERY | tutorial 


This is open for Blogger and WordPress users. It has the simplest and easiest to understand tutorial among jqueries i used. It has automatic slide so i suggest to add more pictures to maximize the slideshow.

SLIDE SHOW JQUERY | tutorial 



I personally like it for your client testimonials. Lets put different strategy to your website. The idea of giving your clients to be heard is a win-win advertisement. The logic? “you value your clients, and your service will speak for it”.

JC FLASH PLAYLIST

It has 3 categories to choose from. The best thing about this Flash playlist, it is 100% FREE. Its like a touch screen, automatically move up and down when you point your cursor to the list. It has quite delay if you have too much pictures loaded in the playlist so have a separate gallery for best views of your work.

If you are familiar with Flash, this one is for you.

Now, doze off to your dashboard and change your blog into more inviting and fun to read. Having second thought? i bet not. On a positive note, for blogger users, they can maximize or minimize the size of their slide. check out tutorials to learn more about the products.

For FREE inquiries for your creative and professional web design, 
email riteshhanap@gmail.com.
For FREE inquiries for advertising and marketing strategies for small business websites, email kumi.atienza@gmail.com.

June 12, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Design Series, Cool things, Jquery, Tutorials

How to add a bookmarking widget below Post Title


Hi Everyone its been an long time I haven’t posted anything. Just Sometime before I receive an Email From Peter . He wanted to Know how to have social bookmarking widget below post title. So its mine todays Topic.
You Might Have seen some of the earlier bookmarking widget that have been published on this site.
You can grab any one of them theirs no problem.which one you select. So lets get Started.

Follow this Steps :

  1. Log in to your Blogger dashboard.
  2. Then Click on Design then click on Edit HTML.
  3. Then check Expand Widget Template.
    Preview :
  4. Then Find for <div class=’post-header’>
  5. Just below it add the bookmarking code that you have grab
  6. This will result in Codes to get displayed below post title.
  7. Then Click on Save.

How to Show Bookmarking widget only on Post page :

To display the widget on post page according to reference of the earlier post How to show Sidebar or widgets on Homepage or Post Page.

You have to just copy the below code and paste :

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>

Paste your Bookmarking widget Code Here.

</b:if>

you are Done now If any problem then please do not hesitate to contact Like peter you can contact me Using Form on Contact Page Or directly mail me at riteshsanap@gmail.com

June 7, 2010 Ritesh Sanap Blogger Tutorials Blog Design Series, Blogger Hacks, Social Bookmarking

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