Abhinandan Sharma

When I first started blogging, I thought to myself "if she can do it then so can I" with every blog that I read. And then one day I decided to do just that. Now keep in mind at the time, I didn't like writing much, I was a pretty private person and I hate asking for the sale or doing anything that seems overly self-promotional. Oh, how a few years will change you. Now, writing is my saving grace, I am beyond an open book and  I promote the heck out of me , my products and services and anything I believe in. I'm still an introvert at heart but I definitely have extroverted qualities that allow me to exist in the blogging world. With all that said, I wish someone had lowered my expectations about what it meant to be a blogger because it is so much more than writing a few posts each week. Here is what I wish I had known from the start. Blogging Is Anything But Free Yes, technically you can set up your blog for free. You can even write some posts for free. But if you...

:-) I know many bloggers have  YouTube channels  and like to post their YouTube videos on their blog.So in this post I will show you how can automatically post YouTube videos on your blog.Using IFTTT I have created two recipes to do just that, auto post any video you upload to YouTube to your blog on either  Blogger  or  Wordpress .As well as this the Video title from YouTube will be used as the post title and the video description will be used as text within the post. So;  IFTTT  is a site you can use to connect social accounts, online services, feeds, email and more.When we connect two of these services it is called a "recipe".I created a recipe wherein you can connect your YouTube account with your Wordpress blog and another were you can connect your YouTube account with your Blogger blog.I have tested both and once connected YouTube uploads are posted on your blog within minutes.I then made these recipes public so anyone can use them. I have a vid...

Instagramhas grown beyond recognition since it's launch in 2010 as a photo sharing social network.But what can Bloggers get from Instagram ? In this post I want to show you how you can easily embed photos from instagram in your blog posts.This is of course a great way to share your Instagram images on your blog but Instagram also has great potential as an image source in general.We all know pictures bring blog posts to life but often we struggle to find suitable free images to use in our posts.With theInstagram embed optionyou can get great free to use photos while knowing you are linking back to the owner of the photo in the proper manner. Here is an example of a photo I have embedded from Instagram.You can see the image is in a frame that links to the photographer on Instagram and shows the likes and comments so you need not worry about copyright.The images can also be resized to suit, in the embed code you will see and edit the height and width (This one is 710x612 Pixels). Ho...

Comments, Spam 4 comments Comment spam is a major issue for all bloggers. We all love commentsand they can be the life blood of a blog but spam can be hard to control.Even comments that look OK can contain spam links, especially on Blogger were when moderating comments you can not see if any of the text is a link.So in this post I have two ways to ensure your the comments on your blog will not contain spam links.Not only will it remove the links from any future comments but it will also remove all links from past comments. We have two options : CSS -First a small piece of CSS that will completely remove links left in comments.With the CSS the anchor text that make the link (the clickable words) will be completely removed the rest of the comment will remain. jQuery -Second we have a small piece of jQuery script that will leave the anchor text that make the link (the clickable words) but they will no longer be a link or clickable. Cool Ehh ?I had used the CSS for some time (Yes spammer...

I know many bloggers have YouTube channelsand like to post their YouTube videos on their blog.So in this post I will show you how can automatically post YouTube videos on your blog.Using IFTTT I have created two recipes to do just that, auto post any video you upload to YouTube to your blog on either Bloggeror Wordpress.As well as this the Video title from YouTube will be used as the post title and the video description will be used as text within the post. So; IFTTTis a site you can use to connect social accounts, online services, feeds, email and more.When we connect two of these services it is called a "recipe".I created a recipe wherein you can connect your YouTube account with your Wordpress blog and another were you can connect your YouTube account with your Blogger blog.I have tested both and once connected YouTube uploads are posted on your blog within minutes.I then made these recipes public so anyone can use them. I have a video tutorial below along with links to b...

This is a curved glossy navigation bar. Im gonna explain how  to  add  it  to  blogger. This  menu  work  fine  with  every modern  internet  browsers.You can link with your  main  pages by  using  wire frame   navigation. Im  using   Css3 and HTML, Just check  out demo. Its easy to add to blogger get my all  menu bar here

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ...

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.

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.

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...

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.

    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...

"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...

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.

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.