Placing direct information and a photo into the sidebar to replace the Blogger "About Me" Profile OR because you want more or different info/pictures in your profile!
For different reasons, some people even want to be able to have a different Profile on different blogs on the same account. This is a workaround to achieve that goal.
By placing the code for an image and your own personal info directly into the sidebar or page element, AND by suppressing the Blogger Profile, you can work around the problem. You'd have to eliminate the Blogger Profile entirely (mark it as NOT to be shared, either in Edit Profile or in the Profile page element).
First thing is to find a photo. My Blogger Profile pic is 88x68 pixels, but of course that's only how it shows in the sidebar. The photo size I submitted was 320x240 pixels. I don't currently know how much larger you can go, but I've seen some that were very large in other Profiles. Obviously, what we'll need in the sidebar is one of those pics such as Blogger pics turn out that are shown larger when clicked on.
For the test photo I use further down the page, I started with a medium photo in a photo program where I could copy it and resize the copy. Thus I had a thumbnail and a larger pic, as so many of us are used to.
My thumbnail here is larger (123x92)than the profile photo I actually use, but it fits in the sidebar, and that was my only goal. So I took the two photos and fitted them into the formula as below.
Once the images are hosted online, you can copy the code and place it in the sidebar, probably looking something like this:
<a href="PhotoUrl"> <img src="smallPhotoUrl" />
</a>
| Below is the actual code for the fabricated Profile I made up in a practice blog (shown further down the page). The code should be entered in an html/javascript page element in New Blogger or in the sidebar section of the template if you are still using a Classic template. |
<center><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AVxLoZ0mR_0/Rc6Xl8IUJzI/AAAAAAAAALA/
BwKtMwuI4ek/s1600-h/Picture+17.jpg"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJjw5A53sPOxfcrfdxTYgwjModCyJGmTAaK1yw1BU3ha69yhlvvt9sgGSe5PXhNquxOaAlHckxxbyPiSekVJ3SGWH7vbOzXHM62lmFHU7f4VkW0Vor96tPhVeBpttjQ2Ocfqv84lZkt0/s1600/picture17-small.jpg"/> </a>
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<b>Clower McFlowers, <br/>
Chigger, Texas, USA <br/><br/></b></center>
Clower is a mean bastard, but he's our mean bastard! I can put whatever other info I want to include here. Might even insist that my name is Mortimer Snerd. Can't never tell. I was born in Montana. On horseback. In the rain. Yeah, that's it. And I'm a negro, too.
Below is the screen shot.
is it possible to sign the posts with different names? HOW?
ReplyDeleteWould appreciate the help
I would also like to know if this can be done. What's the point of having two blogs if you have to use the same profile and the same signature?
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing where Blogger requires you to give a real name as your "signature". Just a name. Elmer Fudd would do. And if you had two gmail/Google accounts, you could have totally separate Profiles and signatures; you'd just have the pesty trouble of signing in and out, in and out of the two accounts.
ReplyDeleteI no longer wish for separate "identities", but if I did, I'd do it with two blogs on one account, do what I've suggested here (for both blogs), and change the "posted by" name (in Edit Profile) on one of them to a pseudonym, fake name, or nome de plume!
I am, of course, Donald Duck!
Hello Rat!
ReplyDeleteThis is very clever but a bit too clever for me. I don't want different names - I just want my 'see my complete profile' to turn into 'see profile & rates'! It's running onto 2 lines and it looks a bit rubbish and I want it to look tidy again, like it did before I moved to this Layouts malarkey.
If I try the Rat Hack for that widget (or rather try hiding the profile and 'rebuilding' the code by cutting and pasting Clever Rat's code in as a new element), will I turn into Rat or will it all work out and allow me to edit the HTML like I want to? My template is new layouts and it's rounders I think.
Might the Wise Whiskered One advise the technically challenged courtesan?
Livvy xxx
Well, I say different "names", but of course I just mean that it's possible to have different profiles for each blog if you use the html/javascript page element. That's what I've done. I've got the same name and different details at this site than I have at my TRS site. You can, too!
ReplyDeleteBut if you start turning into a rat, just don't marry anyone named Sass.
Livvy, if you decide to make different profiles, email me and I'll walk you through it at whatever point you hit a roadblock.
ReplyDeleteHi, Rat
ReplyDeleteTo use someone elses words I an extemely 'technically challenged'
I do not understand a thing!
Is there anywhere, I will be able to follow step-by-step instructions in lay terms?
Retha
I tried the best I could to do just that. There are other help sites listed in my sidebar, so you can try them. Maybe someone will speak more plainly. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to tell you how helpful your post was!
ReplyDeleteI am setting up two blogs - one in English and one in French.
And so I wanted one to display my profile - in English.
And the other, my profile in French.
So I wtote my profile in English and allowed it to be viewed on one blog.
On the other blog I supressed my profile and wrote it in French in a TEXT page element.
So, thank you once again!
Jacqui
In the default profile, what you put into "Interests" become links that others with the same interests can find you through.
ReplyDeleteI rely on those links for traffic. So don't you lose that feature if you create your own profile?
You're right. I've never valued those links enough to mind losing them, I guess.
ReplyDeleteThat's where I start when I'm winding down for the day and just want to surf a bit.
ReplyDeleteI start with one of the links in my own profile so that I'll only arrive at the blogs of people with similar interests.
Of course, that's a good idea, but it's not the only one. One can Google for a key word or words, including "blog". Or one could search the Google Blog Search.
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