How to get a URL for an "About Me" photo that is only on your computer at present
Can You Have One Of The Deserted Blogs With The Great Names?
Logically, you'd think Blogger would get rid of Blogs like that, but they never do. Their policy is otherwise. They're giving everyone a very long time to decide to come back and blog some more.
Blogger Employee says: "Unfortunately, there is no way to take over a Blogger domain that has already been claimed by another user, even if that user hasn't published for quite some time. Blogger accounts and Blog*Spot addresses do not expire and we like giving users the option to come back to their blogs after long absences. The only suggestion we can offer is to contact the owner of the domain you are after---if they have chosen to list their email address---to see if they are willing to delete the blog."
So you need to think with more imagination. If it's the address you want, come up with one that's similar by adding a word or a letter or a number to the front or back of it. Or place hyphens between the words. The name on your blog can be anything, you know. It's only the URL that has to be unique. I don't know that most people pay attention to the URL. We just click on the links! Not many of us memorize your url and type it in from memory! I can barely type in my own from memory, frankly.
Consider the Marine motto that Clint Eastwood advised new marines in the movie "Heartbreak Ridge":
Improvise! Adapt! Overcome
First, read or at least skim Blogger's explanation about it.
The Blogger Flag
There are times that spammers or hackers may have removed the entire Navbar, including the Flag. Below is a way to "click" the Flag, anyway!
First, copy and paste into address bar:
javascript:toggleFlag();
Then you can hit Enter. You're done. Don't expect any indication that it worked. But maybe it'll do you some good.
How to display your time format under the post:
1. Click Settings.
2. Click Formatting.
3. Click Timestamp Format. Select a time display.
4. Save Settings at bottom of page.
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These are my rote instructions when sidebar nosedives happen, which mostly occur in the Internet Explorer browser. I don't know that it happens very much in Firefox, but I know other horror stories about Firefox, so don't get excited!
But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.
Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way.
To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.
To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.
W3C says: The <font> tag in HTML is deprecated. It is supposed to be removed in a future version of HTML.
Even if a lot of people are using it, you should try to avoid it, and use styles instead.
Yipes. I have always used the <font> tags, so I probably have lots of errors out there, but I don't think I'll correct any of them until they truly cease to work. Meanwhile I guess I will try to use the "styles". I'm still teaching myself and will probably step on my own whoosit! But let's plod on and look at the following that you/I might place in a post:
<p style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:green">
ALL of it should precede the text to be viewed (green text below). View the Source Code for this post if that isn't clear.)
This is a sentence with some text in it. This is a dizzy sentence with some text in it. This is yet again a sentence with some text in it. This is another sentence with some text in it. This is a sentence with some silly green text in it. This is another silly sentence with some text in it. This is a damn sentence with some text in it. This is a puke-green sentence with some more damn text in it.
That would be too complicated, I suppose, if you needed it for frequent use or intended it for every post. I need to establish it as a CSS description so that it's on tap when I need it. So I'll add
#fs1 {font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:green; }
to my template's CSS (cascading style sheets). The "fs1" is just an arbitrary code that I made up; as long as it is repeated in the code below, any word you choose instead will do.
Reference to the #fs1 is placed in the post thus:
<div id="fs1"> text </div>
These sites might help, but I haven't used them all, so I'm just pointing them out:
For New Blogger, see HACKOSPHERE
I have personally installed and used the hack from Hackosphere on 3 of my own blogs, including this one, and it works very well. It was demanding enough that it took me 4 times to get it right, but it was worth it.
Fair Warning, though, about the above: In some cases, even short posts that you have not coded to say "Read more" at the bottom will do so, anyway. I would like to see a fix for this myself, but until it occurs, I don't mind the slight confusion. In some cases, I marked my short posts with END. at the end of the post, so even if it's marked "Read more", you can see that it's finished.
For classic Blogger, check expandable post summaries in Blogger help or this one
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Unordered List
Newbies using New Blogger template may be better off using the Link List in the Page Elements. It is easier; however, it is more difficult to backup the Link List widget than to just backup the Page Element.
(Page Element and Widget are different names for the same thing--one is more accssible to you (through the Layout page) and the other, in the template, you can go into more deeply as far as editing it IF you know how!)
So I prefer the ul list, whose html code I can keep backed up in a Notepad file or other plain-text program, in an html/javascript page element.
If you are using a Classic template, you will need a list of this sort for the sidebar.
Put this after or at least not inside the other ul lists in the sidebar in the template.
Below is the code for a list of links that you could put in your sidebar via the template. The code could also be used in a html/javascript Page Element (in New Blogger). First one is an example of a link.
<h2>New Category</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zandria.us/">Keep Up With Me </a> </li>
<li>list another one!
<li>list another one!
</ul>
If your template uses a particular "class" for it's titles in the sidebar, just imitate (copy) them in order for your new list titles to match the old ones.
For a second list, if needed, do another title and pair of start and end tags and fill in the middle part.
For just one link in the sidebar, use code as below:
<a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com/The" rat="" squeaks=""></a>
The difference between an unordered list as above and an ordered list which Numbers your list is merely using an ol tag instead of the ul tag!
From Blogger Support:
Re: System Error Message - 006
Thanks for writing in. Blogger imposes a size limit of 1 MB per page. So if you have too many posts displayed on the main page of your blog, you will run into this error. You can fix this by lowering the number of posts that are shown on your home page. Instructions for that are here:
Blogger Info
Other posts will still appear in your archives, so nothing will be lost. Also, your page will get the added benefit of loading faster when people view it. Let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.
MFBQ Instructions to set number of posts on main page:
1. Go to the Dashboard.
2. Click on Change Settings.
3. Click on Formatting.
4. Look at the first listing, Show.
5. Indicate how many posts or how many days you want on the Main Page.
(Though it won't be wrong, there may be times when some of last month's posts are both in the Archives and still on your front page. You may or may not mind that. You may just want a short front page.)
6. Go to the bottom of the page and Save Settings.
Exit.
If you're using the scribe template, thE script for the various titles is NOT a font, but each word is an graphic. You may want to know the following for further heading titles:
p.s. Every time I click on it, there's a glitch, a pause of a couple of seconds, that claims an "Internal Error" and then it goes on to the site. Be patient and it'll come up.
SCRIBE FONT, ADDITIONAL WORDS
I can't emphasize how much easier the method above is!Below is the old (Classic) method
The Html/Javascript Page Element Is Better!
At first I chose some Text Page Elements for my information at the top of the blog, but I have since changed it to an HTML/JAVASCRIPT Page Element. For some reason, both require line breaks in order to separate the text into paragraphs. Fair enough, I can do that. But the Text element loses those line breaks every time you return to do some editing, and that's crappy.
So if you had paragraphs or any kind of one-line-at-a-time "grocery list", you'd have to revamp the post to restore it to what you started with! Not hard, just time-consuming!
Text page elements are only good for a straightforward paragraph of information or for some other kind of information that you don't have to edit often.
In the HTML page element, nothing changes or is lost, and you can just edit what you meant to without a lot of special revamping. This is important to a ceaseless reviser like me--I often re-edit!
It is misleading to all users that we are able to put HTML into a Text page element when it's so problematic to do so! And there should have been a warning about this difficulty with making paragraphs. Anyway, fair warning from me!
Unscrambling Blogger photo code for Header picture code
Blogger's picture icon is good for regular pictures in the post or in the sidebar, but it's overdone for the purpose of putting a photo in your header. You don't need both large and small versions for the header.
What Blogger may give you when you upload the photo to a post (Save it, but don't Publish it!) will resemble this:
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpW1aB-k5624zmLHtevnTSHu92pNnWHqXUKjExe1a8I07pY2lG-8k2gfSJjZjDYBqsveMXGO6S2_JObmNffTGAb1a3tjqAvOWfUv-dYq1yXjZi2P5zbRMOFP5fQuAqJon51K8q5kzJCjQ/s1600-h/dgblues.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025971925707284738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpW1aB-k5624zmLHtevnTSHu92pNnWHqXUKjExe1a8I07pY2lG-8k2gfSJjZjDYBqsveMXGO6S2_JObmNffTGAb1a3tjqAvOWfUv-dYq1yXjZi2P5zbRMOFP5fQuAqJon51K8q5kzJCjQ/s400/dgblues.jpg" border="0" /></a>
What you would need to extract is this:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpW1aB-k5624zmLHtevnTSHu92pNnWHqXUKjExe1a8I07pY2lG-8k2gfSJjZjDYBqsveMXGO6S2_JObmNffTGAb1a3tjqAvOWfUv-dYq1yXjZi2P5zbRMOFP5fQuAqJon51K8q5kzJCjQ/s1600/dgblues.jpg
If you didn't notice on your own, the difference between the red code at the top and the red code above this paragraph is that the -h has been deleted after S1600.
Assuming that the S400 is actually small and not just less than the large one, you could enter that code, as shown, into the Photo Url as your Profile Photo.
