A Caution To Businessmen

AND OTHER VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO USE BLOGGER AS SOMETHING DEPENDABLE:

Hell, don't do it! There will be no guarantee that Blogger will keep the blog online and available all the time. There are glitches and gremlins and other problems that individuals may overlook (just barely), but, at any rate, they have no money at risk, just their own ego and pride. People who have money at stake become a different kind of beast. If you plan to start insisting on the UTTER SERIOUSNESS of your blog and of your need to keep that blog up and going 24-7, you will sometimes be out of luck, just like the individuals who blog here. People who have business blogs often cry and scream that their readers MUST have access to the blog, but Blogger is usually not going to JUMP into action. I don't even have much sympathy for you, and I know how heartless Blogger can be! Whatever their excuse for it, neither civilians nor businessmen get instant fixes. So don't hang your life and soul on Blogger—and certainly not the Bottom Line of your business that you can't live without. In general, you get what you pay for. I've gotten more than I paid for, but I'm just one person, and I have low expectations.

A Caution To Businessmen

TO BUSINESSMEN WHO TRY TO USE BLOGGER: Hell, don't do it! There will be no guarantee that Blogger will keep the blog online and available all the time. There are glitches and gremlins and other problems that individuals may overlook (just barely), but, at any rate, they have no money at risk, just their own ego and pride. People who have money at stake become a different kind of beast. If you plan to start insisting on the UTTER SERIOUSNESS of your blog and of your need to keep that blog up and going 24-7, you will sometimes be out of luck, just like the individuals who blog here. People who have business blogs often cry and scream that their readers MUST have access to the blog, but Blogger is usually not going to JUMP into action. I don't even have much sympathy for you, and I know how heartless Blogger can be! Whatever their excuse for it, neither civilians nor businessmen get instant fixes. So don't hang your life and soul on Blogger—and certainly not the Bottom Line of your business that you can't live without. In general, you get what you pay for. I've gotten more than I paid for, but I'm just one person, and I have low expectations.

Screenshots In Blogger

How Screenshots Are Done

I used to back away from screenshots in Blogger, though I was not uncomfortable with adding photos the regular way. Now I don't run away like that! If you've never done one, this is how:

Go to the page you want to photograph. Make sure you have all of the important part in the screen. Press Prt Scr (Print-Screen) on your keyboard. That will save the image in the monitor at the time. Go to a image/photo program of your choice and paste the saved screenshot into that program and save it as a familiar jpg or gif file. Then you click on Blogger's image icon and browse for the picture. When you've uploaded the image to one of your blogs, you'll have a url (web address) for the image.

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Screenshots In Blogger

How Screenshots Are Done

I used to back away from screenshots in Blogger, though I was not uncomfortable with adding photos the regular way. Now I don't run away like that! If you've never done one, this is how:

Go to the page you want to photograph. Make sure you have all of the important part in the screen. Press Prt Scr (Print-Screen) on your keyboard. That will save the image in the monitor at the time. Go to a image/photo program of your choice and paste the saved screenshot into that program and save it as a familiar jpg or gif file. Then you click on Blogger's image icon and browse for the picture. When you've uploaded the image to one of your blogs, you'll have a url (web address) for the image.

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How To Query Blogger Help Group

Five Helpful Tips On "BHG" Protocol

1. Give your URL (blog address). 2. GIVE DETAILS: State the specifics of your problem or question. Are you Classic or New (Beta) Blogger? Do not speak in a telegraphic style or assume we know all the latest abbreviated jargon--we have time here for ordinary language. 3.THREADS (Conversations) A. Don't pile onto a long thread if your issue is not the same. "Start a new topic," as it says at the top of the Blogger Help Group page. You'll get more results. B. However, don't start a new thread if you want to say "I have the same problem as him or her!" Place your message on the same thread so it'll stay there! Threads can change sequence because newly posted or updated ones go to the top of the group--thus causing your separate, abandoned thread to make less sense. C. Don't repeat your message in every category of this forum; it just makes things messy. If you're not a jerk, stay on one thread until the end of the conversation. If you are a jerk, just hang on until I have time to kill you. 4. REACHING BLOGGER: It cannot be emphasized too much that you should get your plea for help (if any) filed with Blogger Support now, soon, so that when and if they send you those damn automated responses, you can start writing back to them asking for human help! Be persistent, not rude. 5. DELETE YOUR MESSAGE: If you find that you put your query in the wrong category and want to put the message in a different category, or if you just realized you've asked a jackass question, or for whatever reason, YOU CAN DELETE the first posting. a. Click "More Options" in the upper right-hand corner above the question. b. Click on the "Remove" option. c. Then click on "Yes, Remove it now". d. Then click "Confirm".

BLOGGER SUPPORT:
http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact

How To Query Blogger Help Group

Five Helpful Tips On "BHG" Protocol

1. Give your URL (blog address). 2. GIVE DETAILS: State the specifics of your problem or question. Are you Classic or New (Beta) Blogger? Do not speak in a telegraphic style or assume we know all the latest abbreviated jargon--we have time here for ordinary language. 3.THREADS (Conversations) A. Don't pile onto a long thread if your issue is not the same. "Start a new topic," as it says at the top of the Blogger Help Group page. You'll get more results. B. However, don't start a new thread if you want to say "I have the same problem as him or her!" Place your message on the same thread so it'll stay there! Threads can change sequence because newly posted or updated ones go to the top of the group--thus causing your separate, abandoned thread to make less sense. C. Don't repeat your message in every category of this forum; it just makes things messy. If you're not a jerk, stay on one thread until the end of the conversation. If you are a jerk, just hang on until I have time to kill you. 4. REACHING BLOGGER: It cannot be emphasized too much that you should get your plea for help (if any) filed with Blogger Support now, soon, so that when and if they send you those damn automated responses, you can start writing back to them asking for human help! Be persistent, not rude. 5. DELETE YOUR MESSAGE: If you find that you put your query in the wrong category and want to put the message in a different category, or if you just realized you've asked a jackass question, or for whatever reason, YOU CAN DELETE the first posting. a. Click "More Options" in the upper right-hand corner above the question. b. Click on the "Remove" option. c. Then click on "Yes, Remove it now". d. Then click "Confirm".

BLOGGER SUPPORT:
http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact

The Blogger Help-Blogs List

I used to think there were only 3 or 4 such blogs, but it seems to me like there are twenty or more. I'll have to count them on fingers and toes and hope they don't exceed my grasp! Here are the ones that I've heard of, but I won't categorize or put them in any order. I may have included some bad ones or left out some good ones--but I can always revise as I go!

Useful Blogs
The Real Blogger Status Blogger Tips and Tricks How Can I Do That? Some Template Tips & Tricks Compender Beta Blogger For Dummies Hackosphere The View From Here phydeaux3 Freshblog Friedbeef’s Tech Beautiful Beta Hoctro's Place Logical Philosopher Beta Bloggers Resources

The Blogger Help-Blogs List

I used to think there were only 3 or 4 such blogs, but it seems to me like there are twenty or more. I'll have to count them on fingers and toes and hope they don't exceed my grasp! Here are the ones that I've heard of, but I won't categorize or put them in any order. I may have included some bad ones or left out some good ones--but I can always revise as I go!

Useful Blogs
The Real Blogger Status Blogger Tips and Tricks How Can I Do That? Some Template Tips & Tricks Compender Beta Blogger For Dummies Hackosphere The View From Here phydeaux3 Freshblog Friedbeef’s Tech Beautiful Beta Hoctro's Place Logical Philosopher Beta Bloggers Resources

Have 2 or More Blogger Profiles

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>
<br/>
<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.

Have 2 or More Blogger Profiles

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>
<br/>
<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.

Write Blogger Support

Inform Blogger Support of your problem. Give as much detail as you can for them to understand. Don't waste your time cursing them. If they don't help you instantly, they may take a while to get to you, but eventually a human will reply instead of the robot.

The Main Blogger contact is Slow Poke Blogger Support.

You probably have to keep notifying them; Their first response is always an automated reply. If their first response gives you a number, reference it every time you write back!

Other lines of communication include

BLOGGER PROBLEM REPORT FORM

http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&contact_type=bug_with_blogger_beta&Submit=Submit

and BLOGGER HELP FORM

http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&contact_type=other&Submit=Submit

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Write Blogger Support

Inform Blogger Support of your problem. Give as much detail as you can for them to understand. Don't waste your time cursing them. If they don't help you instantly, they may take a while to get to you, but eventually a human will reply instead of the robot.

The Main Blogger contact is Slow Poke Blogger Support.

You probably have to keep notifying them; Their first response is always an automated reply. If their first response gives you a number, reference it every time you write back!

Other lines of communication include

BLOGGER PROBLEM REPORT FORM

http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&contact_type=bug_with_blogger_beta&Submit=Submit

and BLOGGER HELP FORM

http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&contact_type=other&Submit=Submit

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Table In Blogger Post

The trick is to type the whole table out on one continuous line; then you won't end up with a lot of extra line breaks imposed on it by Blogger. That's what produced the ONE TWO THREE FOUR below.

ONE	TWO
THREE	FOUR

Go to Blogger Article

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This is something Ive tried only a few times, but it seems to be very effective, especially if you're going to use tables often. This changes it another way, using css:

Table Formatting In CSS

My explanation of it is as follows, changing the table in the CSS:

Place the following line of code in your CSS:

.nobr br { display: none }

And place the DIV tags around your table as below:

<div class=nobr>
<table border=2>
<tr>
<td>PICTURE</td>
<td>OR TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

See also Table Used For Horizontal Photos.

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Table In Blogger Post

The trick is to type the whole table out on one continuous line; then you won't end up with a lot of extra line breaks imposed on it by Blogger. That's what produced the ONE TWO THREE FOUR below.

ONE	TWO
THREE	FOUR

Go to Blogger Article

---

This is something Ive tried only a few times, but it seems to be very effective, especially if you're going to use tables often. This changes it another way, using css:

Table Formatting In CSS

My explanation of it is as follows, changing the table in the CSS:

Place the following line of code in your CSS:

.nobr br { display: none }

And place the DIV tags around your table as below:

<div class=nobr>
<table border=2>
<tr>
<td>PICTURE</td>
<td>OR TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

See also Table Used For Horizontal Photos.

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New Blogger

If you're a new Blogger wondering why your blog can't be Googled yet, you may just be impatient. Your posts are not indexed immediately. The Google indexer goes through the whole Internet, then starts again, and it's not done in a short period. It may take as long as a month to find and index you, but once it starts, you'll probably be satisfied.

USE META TAGS if interested in hurrying the process more:

Look in your template and locate the head.

within the head you should insert the two meta tags below. The indexers will read these meta tags.

<head>
<meta name="description" content="Most frequent Blogger questions answered. advice and tips. Help Group. "></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="help answer questions Blogger help group
advice tips solutions tips"></meta>
</head>

Change all the terms in the meta tags above to ones present in YOUR blog.

Above all, get your link out there. Share it with friends. Email your url to them. When you are in your site, highlight the url in the Address box up above, right-click and copy it. Paste it into emails. Then your friends can save it to a Bookmarks or Favorites list. Also, post comments in other and similar blogs. Be friendly, chat. Pay attention to people writing good stuff, but who don't have 20 or 30 comments per day yet. You'll be more likely to swap links with people who are not yet overwhelmed and who feel friendly toward you. You yourself must write plenty of good posts!

See also:

• Publicizing Your Blog


• Adding Sitemap


• Submit URL To Google

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New Blogger

If you're a new Blogger wondering why your blog can't be Googled yet, you may just be impatient. Your posts are not indexed immediately. The Google indexer goes through the whole Internet, then starts again, and it's not done in a short period. It may take as long as a month to find and index you, but once it starts, you'll probably be satisfied.

USE META TAGS if interested in hurrying the process more:

Look in your template and locate the head.

within the head you should insert the two meta tags below. The indexers will read these meta tags.

<head>
<meta name="description" content="Most frequent Blogger questions answered. advice and tips. Help Group. "></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="help answer questions Blogger help group
advice tips solutions tips"></meta>
</head>

Change all the terms in the meta tags above to ones present in YOUR blog.

Above all, get your link out there. Share it with friends. Email your url to them. When you are in your site, highlight the url in the Address box up above, right-click and copy it. Paste it into emails. Then your friends can save it to a Bookmarks or Favorites list. Also, post comments in other and similar blogs. Be friendly, chat. Pay attention to people writing good stuff, but who don't have 20 or 30 comments per day yet. You'll be more likely to swap links with people who are not yet overwhelmed and who feel friendly toward you. You yourself must write plenty of good posts!

See also:

• Publicizing Your Blog


• Adding Sitemap


• Submit URL To Google

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Blogger Limits

Blogger talks about the limits of Blogs, posts, pages, pictures, team members, etc.

Blogger Limits

Blogger talks about the limits of Blogs, posts, pages, pictures, team members, etc.

Delete Blogger Comments

Read the info here --> Delete the Damn Comments!

Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

Don't rush the process or you'll delete the wrong one.

Be sure that you were logged in when attempting to see the trash can and delete the comment.

Delete Blogger Comments

Read the info here --> Delete the Damn Comments!

Danger, Will Robinson, danger!

Don't rush the process or you'll delete the wrong one.

Be sure that you were logged in when attempting to see the trash can and delete the comment.