Setting up a new Administrator for your blog

This article shows you how to set up someone else (ie another Google account) as an administrator for your blog.

What is a blog administrator 

mail2Post: Using email to update your blog

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors make blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you need to do is set it up, and write posts using your regular email tools.

Mail2Post and Blogger. 

Turning the RSS feed off or on again

By default, public Blogger sites offer an RSS feed.  But there may be times when you need to turn it off, either for good or temporarily.

RSS and Blogger

It's annual performance review time - how did Blogger-HAT do in 2011?

This article is an review of Blogger Hint and Tips's performance in 2011, and includes a some statistics, and plans for 2012.

2011, the year in review 

How to put a gadget above your blog's header

This article is around how to plunk an thing (any type of gadget) exceeding the Title section in a blog made with Google Blogger.

Letting other people write in your blog

This article describes the ways that you can allow other people to write and publish on your blog.  It looks at and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Comments vs blog-posts, the case for team-blogs

There are two foremost ways to facilitate content can be plunk into your blog: Explanation and posts.

Blogger is designed, around the goal to facilitate preliminary discussions around modern topics are happening by you, and plunk into posts.  

The Page gadget: a menu bar for your blog, with links to just about anywhere

This article shows how you can use the Pages gadget as a general purpose menu bar for your blog.

Evolution of the pages gadget 

Based on a work by latvian (evolution)

When Blogger chief introduced so-called "static" pages, I notion they had a lot in life of latent.

Blogger-HAT Lite: quick updates about Blogger and related tools

Introducing Blogger-HAT Lite - quick notes about changes in other products that are important for Blogger users to know about.

Editing published posts in Blogger

This article describes how to edit a post that has already been published in Blogger, using the new interface.

Where has the Edit Posts link gone?

How to edit your Blogger template

This article is around how to edit Blogger templates, using either the old or modern interfaces.

It chains many other articles on this locate, which conjure up individual guide changes to solve detail problems.

Changing the Date for a Post

This article is about how to change the date of a post in Blogger.  It looks at where the date value is found, and what format is used to display and edit it.

Options for adding gadgets to your blog

There are (at least) three different ways of adding a gadget to your blog.  This article explains what a gadget / widget is, and looks at the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Adding a gadget to a blog with a dynamic-view template

Beer glasses can have widgets, and
now  dynamic-view blogs can have them too

This article is around how to add widgets (also branded as gadgets) to blogs to facilitate own dynamic templates.

Things are looking up:

Adding a gadget to your blog, using Blogger's WYSIWYG interface

This article shows how to use Blogger's add-a-gadget tool.  

It also looks at how you can move a gadget around in your blog, and describes what you can do with some of Blogger's most-popular gadgets.

Gadgets and types of Blogger template

Putting a Tweet-this-quote link in blog posts

This article shows you how to apply a "tweet this" label to a specific quote in a blog-post, and how this works for your readers.

What are "tweet this" links 

Male Blackbird - By Malene Thyssen (User:Malene)
[GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or
CC-BY-SA-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)]
via Wikimedia Commons

Previously I've described how to deposit a "tweet this" button into your blog.

This can be calibrate up to allow readers  share the definite position they're impression, or your full blog (but not both by the side of the same time).

It's an instance of   the "look could you repeat that? He said" line of attack to social networking.

Recently, it's befall general to invite readers to tweet a definite sentence or section of a position, by putting a "tweet this" link by the side of the finish off of the section, like this

Stop Pinterest from sharing your pictures or blogposts

This article shows you how to stop people from "Pinning" your blog-contents on their own Pinterest accounts.

Recently I've been investigating  Pinterest, and why some blog-publishers, especially those of you who use pictures that you aren't authorised to distribute any further, may want to ...

Stop people sharing your posts & images on PInterest [tweet this]

I'll share more about this soon.   But in the meantime:

Removing the navbar from your site

This article explains what Blogger's navBar is, what features it offers, and how to turn it off if your blog-site doesn't benefit from these features

What is the navBar in a Blogger blog?

At the top of most blogger blogs, there is a strip with some handy functions on it.

This stripe is called the navBar (short in support of navigation bar), and it can be incredibly handy in support of your readers - if individuals readers are Blogger users, or by the side of smallest amount Google users, and so value it.   For others, however, it's precisely clutter, and a litter of perhaps 15px of above-the-fold deep space.

Styles on Blogger's post-editor menu bar

This article shows how the styles that can be applied in Blogger's style-bar look.

What do these styles do. 

By Vishraval (Own work) [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons

This week, lacking one announcements so as to I've seen, Blogger added a form drop-down to the menu ban.

I noticed it at the outset on Thursday night (UCT) and allow since fixed so as to it's in both the new-fangled and old interfaces.

This small-but-important amend makes it a batch easier to add SEO friendly "tags" to your blogger content.

If you service the "header" form on a little text, the HTML behind the position says

Comment management policy and moderation principles

This article explains the policies that Blogger-HAT applies in accepting, moderating and responding to comments.

Comments are single of the ways we can allow other frequent send a letter to on our blogs.

Blogger lets us wish whether or not to allow annotations overall, and plus on personality posts. And it provides options in support of Blogger administrators to wish whether annotations are inevitably in print, or if they duty be standard at the outset. This admiration process is called moderation.

Adding meta-tags to your blog

This article describes meta-tags: why and how to add them to your blog.  

It applies to any type of meta-tag except the description-tag:  Blogger introduced special editing tools for them in late March 2012, so they are covered separately.

What is a meta-tag, and why would you use one

A meta-tag is a piece of HTML code that is found inside a webpage, and contains information about the page.