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How to remove blogger navbar - Blogger Hack

2009-03-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

How to hide and remove the Blogger navbar with simple CSS, How to Turn Off Blogger Navbar and why you should remove and disable the blogger navbar

Bloggers automatically inserts a little navigation toolbar (called Blogger Navbar) in all pages of blogspot blogs. This Blogger Navbar gets tucked into the top of the browser window and is supposed to add new (?) functionality to each blog. Blogger Navbar is 50 pixels high and spreads across the entire width of the browser window.

1. There are two buttons on the navbar that point to the Blogger Homepage. Too much of self-promotion.
2. The NextBlog button takes visitors to another recently-updated randomly selected blog on blogspot. But what if clicking the NextBlog button takes my innocent readers to a blog with adult offensive content.
3. The Search Blog Form is not integrated with my Adsense for search account. I want visitors to use my custom Google site search form that is monitized by Google Adsense.
4. The existing Blogger Navbar colors do not gel with my custom blogger theme.
5. The BlogThis! pop-up link is already availble when I enable Blogger Backlinks.

To hide the Blogger Navbar, try any of these CSS techniques. [they should work with Blogger Beta or Blogger 3.0 as well]

Technique One: Insert (copy, paste) the following CSS code in your Blogger Template to disable the Blogger Navbar

Technique Two: This is another simple way to remove the Blogger Navbar but it will not form valid HTML. Replace your &ltbody> tag with the following code and hide will hide the Blogger navbar.

Technique Three: Similar to technique two for hiding the blogger navbar but doesn't form valid HTML. Replace your &ltbody> tag with the following code and hide will hide the Blogger navbar.

<body>

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;body&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

I use the first technique for this weblog as it results in well-formed HTML. Remember GoogleBot hates pages that are not constructed with well-formed HTML. But hiding the blogger navbar gives rise to another problem. You might notice some empty space in your webpages between the top edge of the browser window and your blog content. We will again employ a simple CSS tweak to remove the gap at the top.

body

{

margin-top:0px;

}

If this doesn't remove the gap created with Blogger Navbar, try the following CSS hack

body

{

margin-top:0px;

position: relative;

top: -50px;

}

Is removing the Blogger Navbar legal ?

The Terms of Service for Blogspot.com do not mention anything about Blogger Navbar but it does state a word about the discontinued Blogger AdBar which was previously displayed on freely-hosted Blog*Spot blogs.By creating your BlogSpot Site, you agree that Pyra has the right to run such advertisements and promotions.

You also agree that you will not attempt to block or otherwise interfere with advertisements displayed on your BlogSpot site via JavaScript or any other means. Doing so is grounds for immediate termination of service. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by Pyra on your BlogSpot Site is subject to change.

Since it is not mentioned explicitly in the Terms of service, it remains doubtful if removing and hacking the Blogger navbar is any violation of the Blogger terms of service. Lets say we are not "removing the navbar" but only "hiding the navbar" or we could even re-position the navbar to the bottom of the blog. Get rid of the blogger nav bar.

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Subscription Links widget is now available for Blogger !!!

2009-03-28T09:14:00.000-07:00

Did you notice that Google has just published the Subscription Links widget from Blogger in Draft to Blogger ?

The new Subscription Links page element makes it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog’s feeds. They have added one-click subscriptions to six popular feed readers included iGoogle, Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes, NewsGator, and My Yahoo!. Since you can now put your feed links in your sidebar instead of just at the bottom of your blog, more readers will see them and subscribe to your blog.

In addition to blog posts, your readers can subscribe to feeds of comments. The comments feed on your blog’s homepage contains all comments, while the feeds on post pages only have per-post comments.

Ok, let see them in action

Install Subscription Links blogger widget

Step 1.

Go to your dashboard, choose the Layout tab, choose Add a Page Element where you want this widget appeared.

Step 2.

Choose Subscription Links element then click Add to Blog. If you can find it, scroll up to the top of the pop-up windows and it looks like this.

Step 3.

You can name your element instead of the default text “Subscribe To”

Step 4.

Go to your homepage, it will look like the image below

Step 5.

Click on the Posts tab or the All Comments tab to see it in action

Look nice, heh ?

P/s: If you’re looking for more control over your feed, try redirecting it to FeedBurner

And the final, do not forget to Subscribe to my feed to get the lastest Blogger Templates and Blogger Tutorials. Thanks

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Google - Microsoft Comparison

2009-03-27T04:35:00.000-07:00

Google applied for incorporation as a business 10 years ago Thursday, according to a timeline supplied by the company. The application was accepted on Sept. 7, which is Sunday.

In that decade, the search engine company has quickly emerged as the most successful business on the Web, and many expect it to dominate the next era of computing as thoroughly as Microsoft dominated the era of personal computers.

Here’s a quick snapshot of Google by the numbers along with some comparisons to Microsoft. The sources of the data are the companies, Yahoo Finance and comScore.

well,here's the REAL comparison :

Google’s age: 10
Microsoft’s age: 33

Google’s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $19.6 billion
Microsoft’s revenue in the last 4 quarters: $60.4 billion

Microsoft’s revenue at age 10: $140 million
($279 million in today’s dollars)

Google’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million
Microsoft’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million

Google net income in the last 4 quarters: $4.85 billion
Microsoft’s net income in the last 4 quarters: $17.6 billion

Google employees, as of June 30th: 19,604
Microsoft employees, as of May 31st: 89,809

Google’s revenue per employee: $1 million
Microsoft revenue per employee: $672,000

Market value of Google: $142 billion
Market value of Microsoft: $241 billion

Number of tech companies with a market value larger than Google’s: 3 (Microsoft, I.B.M. and Apple, in that order)

Worldwide searches on Google in July: 48.7 billion
Worldwide searches on Microsoft in July: 2.3 billion

Worldwide searches per hour on Google in July: 65 million
Worldwide searches per hour on Microsoft in July: 3.1 million

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How to remove blogger navbar - Blogger Hack

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Subscription Links widget is now available for Blogger !!!

Did you notice that Google has just published the Subscription Links widget from Blogger in Draft to Blogger ?

Install Subscription Links blogger widget

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Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets for Blogger

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Recent Comments Widget for Blogger

Google - Microsoft Comparison