Show No "About Me"

Show no "About Me",
Show only the "View My Complete Profile".

1. Go to the Layout section. 2. Click on Add Page Element. 3. Add it, if absent, or click on Edit Profile. 4. Click on Share my profile. 5. Do not click on About Me. 6. You may want to unclick the Show Location. If unsure, worry about it later.

This should allow most of the About Me to remain unseen, while your readers still have the View My Complete Profile to click on.

See also: Make Your Own Blogger Profile

Transfer Blog From One Account To Another

In 4 easy steps:

Nitecruzr's Post

http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-transfer-blog-from-one-account.html

OR USE

Blogger's Instructions

or More Blogger's Instructions.

Header Picture Code

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/AVvXsEiW0WfYsy_i4SwyaYumkQqxeLUFNu54pRYjaZfSPrMVvC1TPTUd7jd65bUanoyRQUUy5h3wInYtFVCoSkf5Co99QUH5n6v9_ZBhOF9fr-fIX6vW0oLQm-kfyfZnyJBk1p1KXlBU/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/AVvXsEiW0WfYsy_i4SwyaYumkQqxeLUFNu54pRYjaZfSPrMVvC1TPTUd7jd65bUanoyRQUUy5h3wInYtFVCoSkf5Co99QUH5n6v9_ZBhOF9fr-fIX6vW0oLQm-kfyfZnyJBk1p1KXlBU/s400/dgblues.jpg" border="0" /></a>

What you would need to extract is this:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0WfYsy_i4SwyaYumkQqxeLUFNu54pRYjaZfSPrMVvC1TPTUd7jd65bUanoyRQUUy5h3wInYtFVCoSkf5Co99QUH5n6v9_ZBhOF9fr-fIX6vW0oLQm-kfyfZnyJBk1p1KXlBU/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.

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SMALL IMAGE: The url contained in the blue text (marked S400) is the smaller of the images and will need no correction--just the code, such as this, shown above:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0WfYsy_i4SwyaYumkQqxeLUFNu54pRYjaZfSPrMVvC1TPTUd7jd65bUanoyRQUUy5h3wInYtFVCoSkf5Co99QUH5n6v9_ZBhOF9fr-fIX6vW0oLQm-kfyfZnyJBk1p1KXlBU/s400/dgblues.jpg

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.

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Team Blog

To create a Team, aka private, blog
1. From Dashboard, click on Settings. 2. Click on Permissions. 3. Under your own name, you will see Add Authors. 4. Add the new members' email addresses, separated by a comma. Each member will have to accept his/her invitation. 5. You can select below that just Who can read your blog. I know it'll do 5 or 6 at a time, but what the limit may be in that box is unknown to me.

If you want to make one or all of the team members administrators, just click on the word "guest"; it's like a toggle and will change to "administrator".

When you're through, make sure to click on the correct choice below as to who can read your blog. Click one of the three options and you're done.

If you've recently changed your blog from public to private, but it seems like it HASN'T changed yet, you may need to see this POST ABOUT PRIVACY.

ALSO: There is an overall limit of 100 persons that you can have on a private/team blog.

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Email Notifications--Google Groups

How do I create a group?

1. Go to the Blogger Help Group forum and look in various locations where it says "Create a group". There is one under the Reply under each question. There's one at the bottom of most pages. 2. If you create a group there, you can add multiple email addresses at one time. Be sure to mark them all to recieve all email notifications. 3. You will be given an email address for the Google Group; copy it. 4. Then, in your blog, go to Settings - Email - Blogsend Address. 5. Enter or paste the email address you were given in the Google Group. Save Settings and you should be through.

More explicit directions to put a "Subscribe To" box on your sidebar can be found here: Subscribe

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Delete A Post Or Draft

To delete either a Published or a Draft Post
1. From the Dashboard, Click on Manage: Posts for the appropriate blog. 2. Click the box to the left of the appropriate post. That will highlight the whole line with yellow. 3. Keeping track of the yellow highlight, move to the far right so that you can click Delete there. You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete it. Click on the "Delete It" to confirm it.

Below is the screenshot to illustrate the above. The sixth line, "Am I Beta Yet", is highlighted with pale yellow because the "delete" box has been checked for it:

Note: when "delete" doesn't work as it should, one temporary fix would be to try the "save as draft" option which has the effect of "un-publishing" the post. It will still be on your Edit Posts list, but your visitors won't see it any more.

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Change Color And Font

Steps 1--10 to change a font or color in New Blogger

1. go to the Dashboard 2. click on the Page Elements tab. 3. look up above and click on Fonts And Colors. You'll see a list. 4. on the left side click on which area you want to change color. 5. on the right side click the correct color for that text area. 6. on the left side you may have to scroll down for the font list. 7. then on the left click on which area you want to change text in. 8. on the right side click on the font, size, bold, italics you want. 9. in 4-7 above you can see the changes in the small view window at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes it has a glitch and won't show, but you can make the changes anyway if you are confident of yourself. You will see the change (or not) when you return to View Blog. If you're not confident, try again later. 10. be sure to Save Changes before you exit.

Things you can change in the list include:

Text Color
Blog Title Color
Post Title Color
Sidebar Title Color
Date Header Color
Text Font
Blog Title Font
Blog Description Font
Sidebar Title Font
Date Header Font

Some detail about Text Fonts:

Text color is the first in the vertical list, but "text font" is sixth; if you click that link, a list of fonts (not previously showing) should appear in place of the color boxes out to the right. Furthest to the right are boxes to check for Smaller, Larger, Bold, and Italic. If you still aren't seeing what you expect, never underestimate the value of "clearing the cache and cookies".

Body (or background) Color

Oddly enough, to change the blog's background color requires going into the template. See if you find a section resembling this from one of my blogs:

body {
background:oldlace; url("xxxhttp://www.blogblog.com/harbor/rocks.jpg") no-repeat right bottom;
background-attachment:fixed;
margin:0;
padding:0;
font:x-small Georgia, Serif;
color:$textcolor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

or, similarly, this is the code for this blog:

body {
background:#123;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

It's the "body" where you want to make the change or else create the color. Find or alter the color statement--whether you use a number or name doesn't matter. If you have to add the "background: color;", just be sure it's inside the brackets like you see in the two examples above.

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How To Change Your Password

Click on Customize in the Navbar or otherwise get to the Dashboard screen. Click on "My Account". Locate "Security" Find "Change password" at the far right of "Security".

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Compose Mode Or Edit Html Mode?

Does your Blogger editing screen look "odd" or wrong?

Is it possible that your screen mode toggled from one to another, either Edit Html or Compose modes? That sometimes happens and people who have never selected the OTHER mode can't recognize what they're seeing. If so, the Blogger edit box has the two choices beside each other in the upper right corner (see screen shot below).

In Compose you can see the photos. You can relocate the image by dragging and dropping it. In Edit Html you will see the code for the photos and will have to use Preview (or switch to the Compose mode) to see images. You can move it by using Cut and Paste on the code.

Is your "Compose Mode" turned on?
1. First go to Dashboard 2. Go to Manage: Settings. 3. Scroll down the page 4. look for "Show Compose Mode for all your blogs?" 5. Activate it by answering Yes. Be sure to click on the big orange Save Settings a little bit further toward the bottom of the page.

Sidebar Labels List In Classic Blogger

In order to put a labels list in by hand in the sidebar of Classic templates:

Click on a label below your post and copy its URL from the address bar once the Permalink has opened. Then you can paste this code into the template sidebar :

name of label

< href="url of label Permalink">name of label</a>

When clicked on by visitors, they'll be provided all relevant posts to scroll through, one after another--but not a concise list of titles.