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16 Best Free Blogger Templates Featuring Amazing JQuery Featured Slideshows

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One of the popular features of Blogger Blogspot Templates is the Featured Post Slider or Slideshow Carousal.Not too long ago a very plain Image Slider was the best you could hope for and you were lucky to even get that.However now with so many awesome Free Blogger Templates and Designers creating templates and converting Css and  Wordpress Themes  to Blogger the options are fantastic.We constantly see templates of premium quality with stunning Image Sliders available for free download.In this post i will list 16 of the Best Blogger Templates With Featured Post Sliders, Image Sideshows and Picture Carousals.All the Sliders are created with jQuery which allows some cool features such as the transitions  (The effect between each slide). So in no particular order here is the list !

How To Display AdSense When Using Blogger Dynamic Views Templates

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A question I was asked on the post " Always Display The Sidebar On Blogger Dynamic Views Templates " is "Can we have AdSense on Dynamic Views Templates".I had a quick look into it and the answer is yes.So in this post I will show you the steps involved to put AdSense on Blogger Dynamic Views. Now as far as I can see the  AdSense  units used are all 768x90 and 120x600.They are displayed between posts, below posts and beside posts.For the classic and sidebar templates Units are on the home page and posts for all other Dynamic templates units are on posts.In fact the AdSense set up on posts, 120x600 unit on the right with 768x90 below posts is great (See Image Below).OK so I have the steps added to a video and in text.

Remove The Template View Menu Options When Using Dynamic Views On Blogger

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Dynamic Views (DV) templates have become a popular choice with some Blogger users.When you choose dynamic views you select a default template which readers will see when they land on your blog.But in a menu under the header readers have the option to view your blog using any of the other six DV templates.So basically you are giving the readers the choice on how they want to view your blog.But this does not suit everybody, I have recently received a few emails asking is there a way to remove the choose template options on Dynamic Views.Chuck at  The Real Blogger Status  has also seen some enquiry's about this in the Blogger Help Forum.So, can you remove the options for readers to choose the template ? Yes, and with credit to  Southern Speakers  and here is how.

How To Use Images For List Bullet Points On Your Blog

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In this post i have a really cool Blog Design Tip to abhinandan sharma001your blog.When you create an ordered list, items in the list are numbered, and in an unordered list items have what is called a bullet point.What we will do in this post is replace the default bullet point with an image.We do this with just a small snippet of Css  including the image URL.To make it as easy as possible i have 10 ready to use images for your bullet points but you can of course use your own image.I also have this set so you can just use the image bullet point on selected lists.If we set it to work on all lists on your blog it could mess up your sidebar and other sections. You can see a screenshot and demo of how it looks on our  templates  site were we list the features for templates, the image we use is the same as the favicon further promoting the brand.

Add A Fixed Jump To Comments Button In Blogger

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Comments are the major way of getting feedback about our blog posts from readers, therefore comments are really an essential part of any Blog. If you are a blogger too then your always delighted to see new comments on your posts.But there are times when you don't get any comments at all, often in long posts. The problem is that readers don't scroll through the whole page thus they miss the comment area.Even though people are reading your posts you are not getting any comments at all and it's frustrating. So, how can you improve your site in a way that your blog post gets more comments and the comment form is easily accessible to readers?  This post covers this topic and tells you an easy and effective way of encouraging your readers to comment.The button will be fixed in the bottom right of the page, check out the demo.

Write For Abhinandan Sharma001

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Abhinandansharma001 Blog is now one of the leading blogs is the Blog Tips, Help, Design And  Gadgets Category.With a loyal following and over 2000monthly impressions we are still growing and publishing quality helpful content.Among the over 300 posts we have published a number of guest posts on a variety of subjects.Going forward i want to add even more voices to Abhinandansharma001 and publish more Guest submissions. As a guest author you already get to speak to a new audience, build your online credentials and of course get quality links and traffic to your Blogs and Websites.  Post And Get Traffic & Backlinks There will be 2 links to your blog, website or anywhere you choose (With some exceptions) added to the post so you really are reaching a new audience and as the primary readership of this Blog is people who keep their own Blogs you are connecting with like minded readers.The links are added as do-follow in an about the author section below post. What Type

Google Now Use Twitter Facebook And Site Speed To Help Rank Your Blog

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Google originally made its name by using a Page rank system based on links throughout the web to return relevant search results to users.Although there were many search engines available before Google the page rank system simply returned better results to users. Page Rank  (Googles Internal Page Rank Not So Much Toolbar Page Rank, a long story) is still the major factor in how search results are delivered and things like  Back links  and anchor text are still the major players and always will be.However over the years Google have added lots of other factors in how they return their search results, they claim there is over 200 components used to deliver the results we see.A couple of noticeable more recent additions to this are Social Media and Site Speed.

Use Blogger Template Designer Fonts On Custom Blogger Templates

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Back in January this year (2011) Blogger added 77 very  cool fonts to the Blogger template designer .The fonts they added were from the Google Web Fonts directory and included some awesome bold fonts, handwriting fonts and fun fonts that could give your blog a unique look.If you use a template from the template designer you simply go to the template designer editor then choose and save any font.While this was great news for Bloggers using templates from the template designer unfortunately Bloggers using Custom Blogger templates could not use the fonts so easily.So if you have a custom Blogger Template (A Template You Downloaded Online From A Blogger Template Site) in this post i will show you how you can manually add any of the fonts to your blog.

New Blogger Related Posts With Thumbnails Below All Posts

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We all know the importance of Displaying Related Posts below each post on your blog.Displaying a list of Related Posts not only keeps readers on your blog clicking through your archive but they are also crawled by search engines.But to get readers clicking through the related posts you need them to be eye catching and that's where the related posts with thumbnails works so well.The related posts with thumbnails lists a selected number of posts and also grabs an image from each posts to display.The gadget we have in this post is similar to the popular  Link Within Related posts  but with some great extra features and options. I have re sized the thumbnail and title so you can display more posts.Link Within Limits you to 5 posts with this gadget you can show as many as you like.This related posts gadget displays related posts using the labels, so it will list posts with the same labels as the posts it is below.You can add some extra customizations to this gadget and i will list them

16 Stunning Free Gallery Style Blogger Blogspot Templates

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In this post we will continue my list of The Best Free Blogger Templates in the most popular styles.We have already listed the best  Artistic Templates ,  Magazine Templates ,  Dark Templates  and  Odd Templates .Today i have listed some awesome Template with a Gallery design.Gallery templates can be used for any type of blog but are most popular with Photography Blogs, Design Blogs, Image Based Blogs and Portfolio Blogs.The basic premise behind a Gallery template is the posts are displayed on the home page as images, so the first images is cropped into a thumbnail and displayed.Some of the templates i have listed below are set to display up to five rows of images.The templates have lots of other features listed with the screenshot and for the Live Demo and Download details simply click the title.

Beautiful Animated Hover Effect Captions For Images On Blogger

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    In this post we have not only an amazing effect you can add to the images you use in your blog posts but it's amazingly simple and amazingly fast so wont slow down you page load time.The effect is similar to what you will see on many Featured Posts Gadgets, when you hover your cursor over the image a caption scrolls up from the bottom with your selected text. So, you can have the title of the image, a description, date taken, credit or anything you like.The code we will use has No Javascript this ensures it will load fast and as i said not slow down your blog.The code is all Css3 (Don't Worry I Will Keep It Simple) so you have a flowing and transparent effect with the caption.There is also a stylish Shadow edge around the image On-Hover. Just show us the demo and screenshot so we can see for ourselves i here you shout ! OK But, Before i show you the demo you should note while this image caption will work with all browsers older versions of Internet Explorer will

Amazing Animated Flying Twitter Bird Gadget For Blogger

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"Twitter", is one of the most popular Social networking sites in the world among Bloggers to promote their blogs.There are a number of  twitter widgets , scripts and plugins available to integrate Twitter with your blog.Most of the icons, buttons or badges are stationary or a  fixed floating Twitter gadgets .Now here i have a very cool unique Blogger Twitter widget, an actual Animated flying Twitter Bird that flies around your blog. This Plugin is java script based and it will display an animated Twitter bird that settles on different places of your blogs visible area. If a you scroll the page, the bird will fly towards the visible part and settle in a new place and it takes random paths for each flight.When you place the cursor over the Twitter Bird "tweet this" and "follow me" links appear,through this the visitor can tweet the article or follow you. Demo:- You can see the Twitter Bird Flying Around this page visible Area, Scroll this Page to see i

Polaroid Icons Blog Subscription Gadget With Rollover Effect

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The other day i posted 3 very cool sets of icons you could use to let people subscribe to your Rss Feed, Twitter and Facebook Page.In that post i gave you the code for the icons ready to use, you just had to add your URLs then copy and paste.Two of the icon sets were very similar both having a Polaroid Picture Design.One was fresh and bright while the other had a vintage worn look.This lead me to thinking wouldn't it be cool to have the worn vintage Polaroid icons in your sidebar and when someone hovers over them they switch to the bright clean icon.This is called a rollover effect. I'm sure you have seen image rollover effects before and this is a great way to use it. So lets look at it in action, i decided to use a rollover html code in the link rather than Css, just so once again it's a simple one time copy and paste.

Add A YouTube Subscribe To Channel Gadget To Your Blog

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You may have noticed I'm back making some video tutorials and the last few posts on Spice Up Your Blog  have included videos.Over the last few months i have been making videos for an Ebook I'm working on so had been slacking off on creating tutorials to go with the posts here.The videos i create for Spice Up Your Blog i host on YouTube and then Embed within the posts.You may do the same thing on your blog, if you do you may also like to promote Your YouTube channel on your blog.With that in mind in this post i will show you how you can add a very cool YouTube Subscribe widget to your Blogger or Wordpress blog. The widget is very user friendly and like the Facebook Fan Page / Like Page widget users can subscribe to your channel without the need to leave the page.You channels image thumbnail, Username, Number of videos and Number of subscribers are displayed along with the YouTube logo.You can also change the width and height of the gadget.
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This week with the design change here on SUYB i have been going through some of the archive and updating older posts.I needed to update the design of some of the posts and in some cases the content itself.You know there is some really cool posts from up to 2 years ago that stand the test of time.I know many of you missed these posts when they were first published and they could be just what your looking for. So i thought today i would bump up 10 of them.From Blogger Gadgets and Design to SEO and Traffic here are 10 great posts you may have missed.

A Cool Any Size JQuery Powered Featured Posts Slider For Blogger

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Over the last few weeks i have published some cool jQuery Gadgets and Widgets for your Blogs.In this post i have taken the jQuery Easy Slider, a stylish slide show with some neat options and turned it into a kinda mini slider with the option to go large.We previously published the  Blogger jQuery Anything Slider  that had the option to add videos or images as slides and a  Simple But Stylish Blogger Featured Posts Slider .So i wanted to continue with a slide show that could be easily re sized from spanning the width of your blog to the miniature example i have here. This jQuery Featured Posts Slider also has features like auto scroll, continues scroll plus next slide and previous slide buttons for manual scroll.The original Easy Slider script and code was created by the very cool  Css Globe , below is a live demo of our version.  As you can see i have gone small in the demo but it could be even smaller and of course much much bigger.

Latest Tweet Twitter Bird With Speech Bubble Gadget For Blogger

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Using the latest Twitter API it's become easy to create a neat latest tweets gadget.In this post i will show you how to add a Twitter bird with a speech bubble containing your latest tweet to your blog.The idea comes from  Paulund.co.uk  and all that's needed is some Css and a few lines of script.  

Updated Snow Fall Effects, Merry Christmas Banner And Christmas Theme Templates For Blogger

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In the build up the Christmas over the last few years i have published some seasonal posts with gadgets and widgets to add some Christmas cheer to your blog.These posts have proven very popular, the first snow fall effect for Blogger i published when Spice Up Your Blog was only a few months old in 2009 brought in a lot of new readers.So over the last week i have been working on updating the posts, the script for one of the posts "10 Falling Christmas Objects" had stopped working.I have changed that post completely and it's working fine now.Along with that post we have two other posts with snow fall effects, a stylish Merry Christmas banner that sits in the top corner of your blog and a a collection of Christmas templates on our templates site

A Stylish Css3 Fixed Position Vertical Side Menu For Blogger

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    So many sites we visit now have a navigation menu fixed to the side of the page for easy access to important pages.In this post i have a very stylish and colorful menu you can fix to the side of the page on your  Blogger  blog.The menu will stay in place even when the reader scrolls down yet doesn't interfere with the content.The menu has 5  icons  that on hover scroll out to reveal their purpose, so for example the home icon on hover scrolls out the word 'Home'.The 5 icons are for Home, About, Services, Portfolio and Contact Us.While you cant change the icons, you can change the text for each icon for example the portfolio icon could be changed to archive. The menu is made up almost completely of Css3 with just one image and is quick and easy to install.All the credit for the menu goes to the awesome  Tutorialzine , we have covered many of their tutorials previously.Below you can see a live demo, hover over the icons to see the scroll out effect.  

New Ready To Use Rss And Social Icons For Your Blog

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In this post i have a brand new set of stylish icons you can use on your blog for readers to subscribe and follow you on social platforms.I really liked the look of this icon set and it includes an icon for Google + (Plus) you can use for people to check out and follow you on Google's new social network.In total i have four icons here for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and your Rss Feed.However the complete set has 24 icons for other sites including YouTube, LinkedIn and Stumble Upon, the complete set can be found on  Social Icon Studio .

Add Stylish JQuery Text Resize Buttons To Posts On Blogger Blogs

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I have had a few requests for a tutorial on adding text re size buttons to posts on Blogger.Back in 2009 i published a gadget that  allowed visitors to change all the text size and fonts on your blog  including headings, sidebar text and post text.But this time i wanted a gadget that onlu changed the text in the posts.I checked out a number of scripts and styles before settling on the one i have for you today.Using some simple jQuery and some colorful icons in a table we can create a stylish text resize section and float them on the corner of posts.The gadget has three buttons to increase text size, decrease text size and a reset button along with the standard text resize icon. Take a look at the demo below :  

A Complete Flag Translate Gadget For Blogger And Wordpress

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Your blog is open to readers from all corners of the world so for many it is important to offer content in the Language of the reader.Making your blog easy to translate is a great way to accommodate a global audience.There are a number of options when it comes to translation widgets and in this post we have an extensive Flag gadget.This gadget was created by  Chuck at the real Blogger status  and includes flags for 54 different country's or languages.This Flag translate gadget will fit nicely in your blogs sidebar ready for readers to click their flag view your content in their language. Take a look at the demo below :   

Vintage Style Rss Subscribe And Social Follow Icons Gadget For Blogger And Wordpress

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I recently came across a set of icons i thought would be perfect for a Subscribe and Follow section on blogs.The icons have a vintage design and we have icons that will link to your Rss Feed, Email Rss Feed, Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.Just for a little extra style i added a very simple opacity effect on hover.You can download the full set of  Vintage Social Icons  if you would like to add more profiles. For Blogger i have a Easy One Click add to blog link and  Wordpress  users can simply add the code to a text widget on their sidebar.Take a look at the demo below.  

Add An Awesome Fixed Position Slide Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget To Blogger

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In this post i want to show you a cool new way to have visitors sharing your blog posts. Share This  has always been my Bookmark tool of choice and recently they added a cool new interactive Bookmarking gadget.The gadget in question is a love heart with the share this logo and on hover the heart splits to reveal a selection of bookmarking buttons.It looks awesome and the slide effect is very cool while still being practical.When the heart opens it reveals icons for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Stumble Upon, Email and the Share This Icon Offers hundreds more bookmarking choices.I think this gadget fixed in the corner of the page on your blog will grab the attention of visitors and generate lots more shares.So below is a tutorial showing you just how to do that, first check out the live demo.  

Animated Sassy Social Bookmark Gadget For Blogger

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I know how much you all  like social bookmarking gadgets  and widgets especially unique gadgets that can catch the eye of readers and get them bookmarking your blog.Today I have a very cool social bookmarking gadget  with a stylish animated effect.With the Sassy bookmarks gadget a basic share button is placed in the corner of your blog, then on hover 6 icons for the main social bookmarking websites appear in a semicircle.The buttons that appear are for  Pinterest , Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Email.Below we have a live demo then check out the tutorial to add the Sassy Bookmarks to Blogger.  

Latest Google Page Rank Update August 2012

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I know you all keep a close eye on the page rank for your blogs, I have to admit I also look out for it.Google usually update toolbar page rank four times a year so around every three months.Well today we we have noticed a Major page rank update taking place.A number of my sites have seen a page rank change, at the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog is holding steady with a page rank of 5.You can quickly check the page rank of your blog to see if there was any change using our free page rank checker tool. : Google Page Rank Tool Remember updates take place over hours or even days so if yours has not changed yet it may still have to be updated.The last page rank update was in May this year so expect another update before the end of the year. Has your page rank changed ? Drop Your Comments And Questions Below.    

5 Steps To Creating A Successful YouTube Channel

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The Vision What is your channel going to be about? You can bet that there are already channels on the subject you have in-mind. It’s important to think of an angle, a unique twist that will make your channel different and offer something more unique to your viewers. What software and hardware will you need to get started? Take a moment to figure out if you’ll need to step up your editing software or buy a new camera. Another important question to ask yourself, “How often will I be uploading videos?” Set realistic goals based on your lifestyle.