You can change the looks of MyBlogLog Recent Readers Widget by editing the CSS of your blog. AU Interactive blog has given the code to modify the blog CSS and give your MyBlogLog widget a dashing looks. The theme is available in two colors (for dark and light background).
To modify the MyBlogLog widget just insert this CSS code above your </head> tag.
Now you can type and publish your blogpost in Hindi in your blogger blog. Google added the feature of English to Hindi translation in Blogger. For example you can type 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' in Hindi. (My India is Great)
मेराभारतमहान
With this feature on, just type the word in roman script (as it is pronounced) and as soon as you hit space key or any puntuation button, the word will get translated to Devanāgarī characters.
Here is a brief tutorial of for using this feature in Blogger.
To turn on this feature, go into the Setting (Basic) of your blogger blog and select yes for the transliteration option. now save your settings.
Now start composing a new post. In the post editer screen, you will see a new button 'अ'. Click this button to enable composing in Hindi.
Now write the words as they are pronounce. As soon as you hit the space key or any punctuation key, the word will convert into Devanāgarī characters.
If you want to edit a word in Hindi, just click to highlight it with left mouse button and you will see a drop down menu. select the word from drop down menu or select the option 'edit'. Clicking edit button in drop down menu will show an advance editor. this editor also has a keyboard button in the right.
If you click this keyboard button, an onscreen keyboard button will appear, with which you can type the desired word.
Some important points.
1) If you type a word in roman and the hindi transliteration which appears is not the one you wants, you can edit it using advance onscreen keyboard. This transliteration will be saved and next time when you will type the same word in roman, it will translated correctly based upon your previous edit.
2) This feature is avaliable on Internet Explorer 6 or higher and Firefox 1.5 or higher. Also this is available for Windows Operating System. Transliteration facility is unavailable in Mac OS.
3) This feature requires live internet connection. All transliteration are done on Google server and are sent back to your browser.
4) This features involves complex text layout which is not turned on in every browser. Internet Explorer has this feature turned on by default, while other browsers require support for complex text layout. This Wikipedia article gives detail help on how to turn it on in various OS.
Google has added a new feature in Blogger. Now you can check the space used by the images of your blogger blog. Actually the images which you post in blogger blog are stored in Picasa Web Album. While composing a post via blogger.com web based blog editor, just click on the 'Add Image' button.
This opens a popup window which allows you to upload photos. At the botton of the window, you can see the used space of your Picasa account.
Google by default gives 1 GB storage limit per blog.
Blogging is getting real popular and everyday thousands of new blogs are created. Most of the bloggers start with free blog hosts like blogger.com. And after getting addicted to blogging many of them think of migrating to their paid hosting. No doubt Wordpress is the first choice when you think of such migration. But there are many things which you want to ensure before migrating to WordPress.
I have been at the cross-roads for a couple of months, not knowing which way to go.... How easy (or tough) was the setup of WP? It requires a broadband connection, doesnt it?Did you find a good theme for it? If yes, did you tweak it?
If you have many questions and doubts regarding WordPress, I advice to take a test ride and free feel of WordPress. This will certainly help.
Their are many free webspace providers on net and you can give them a try. Fizwig is a good one for this. They offer free webhosting and one click WordPress Installtion.
(The point with Fizwig is that they will display their Google Adsense ads on your blog)
Once you are comfortable with WP you can get your paid hosting and domain.
# Web Hosting Any webhost that supports the following three things can be used to install WordPress 2.1 PHP 4.2 or greater MySQL 4.0 or greater The mod_rewrite Apache module You can check therequirements page of WP for more details.
# Domain Name Godaddy and NameCheap are big players in field of domain registration. And don't forget to use free available discount coupons for domain registration. You can always google them out. Some discounts coupons are available here.
# WordPress Themes There are thousands and thousands of free WP themes available on internet. You can use one of them, but I always recommend to give some personal touch to your blog layout. You can check Smashing Magazine's WP Themes list. Thats really a good compilation.
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