Move Items Above Or Below Post

Go to Layout page. Click on the "Edit" in the lower right hand corner of "Blog Posts". A window will open. Go down to the lower part of it that says "Arrange Items". See if you can "drag and drop" the items into new locations. If they stay in place, "Save" the change in the lower right corner. That IS how it's supposed to work, though I have occasionally not been able to get it to work very well for me.

[More below...screenshots of the "Configure Blog Posts" page.]

Click each screenshot for larger image!

Move Items Above Or Below Post

Go to Layout page. Click on the "Edit" in the lower right hand corner of "Blog Posts". A window will open. Go down to the lower part of it that says "Arrange Items". See if you can "drag and drop" the items into new locations. If they stay in place, "Save" the change in the lower right corner. That IS how it's supposed to work, though I have occasionally not been able to get it to work very well for me.

Click below to see screenshots of the "Configure Blog Posts" page.

Click each screenshot for larger image!

TOS Violation Page

Where to go to report the troublemakers, including a screenshot of the report page:



Contact this page and report any of these items at:

Terms of Service Violations.

TOS Violation Page

Where to go to report the troublemakers, including a screenshot of the report page:



Contact this page and report any of these items at:

Terms of Service Violations.

Dashboard Example

These are some old instructions and I'll update it when I feel like it. The screen has changed. Sorry.

Above screenshot shows several blogs on the left, the Edit Profile section on the right, and the Language drop-down menu below that.

Edit Profile, to state the obvious, is where you go to paste the url for your Profile Photo.

Dashboard Example

These are some old instructions and I'll update it when I feel like it. The screen has changed. Sorry.

Above screenshot shows several blogs on the left, the Edit Profile section on the right, and the Language drop-down menu below that.

Edit Profile, to state the obvious, is where you go to paste the url for your Profile Photo.

Having Your Titles Show In Archive

If you want your Archive to show your own post titles (as opposed to all dates), set your "Configure Blog Archive" page element like this screenshot. Make sure that "Hierarchy" and "Show Post Titles" are both marked.

[click image to enlarge]

If your Archive list is not seen in the sidebar, check the page elements in the Layout page and see if it has been deactivated. If not turned on, you should add it. Look carefully at its settings, then save them.

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Having Your Titles Show In Archive

If you want your Archive to show your own post titles (as opposed to all dates), set your "Configure Blog Archive" page element like this screenshot. Make sure that "Hierarchy" and "Show Post Titles" are both marked.

[click image to enlarge]

If your Archive list is not seen in the sidebar, check the page elements in the Layout page and see if it has been deactivated. If not turned on, you should add it. Look carefully at its settings, then save them.

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Manage Posts -- Screenshot

AKA "EDIT POSTS", depending on which menu you follow to get to this screen.

Manage Posts -- Screenshot

Delete A Post Or Draft

To delete either a Published or a Draft Post
1. From the Dashboard, Click on Manage: Posts for the appropriate blog. 2. Click the box to the left of the appropriate post. That will highlight the whole line with yellow. 3. Keeping track of the yellow highlight, move to the far right so that you can click Delete there. You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete it. Click on the "Delete It" to confirm it.

Below is the screenshot to illustrate the above. The sixth line, "Am I Beta Yet", is highlighted with a pale yellow:

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Delete A Post Or Draft

To delete either a Published or a Draft Post
1. From the Dashboard, Click on Manage: Posts for the appropriate blog. 2. Click the box to the left of the appropriate post. That will highlight the whole line with yellow. 3. Keeping track of the yellow highlight, move to the far right so that you can click Delete there. You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete it. Click on the "Delete It" to confirm it.

Below is the screenshot to illustrate the above. The sixth line, "Am I Beta Yet", is highlighted with a pale yellow:

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Compose Mode Or Edit Html Mode?

Does your Blogger editing screen look "odd" or wrong?

Is it possible that your screen mode toggled from one to another, either Edit Html or Compose modes? That sometimes happens and people who have never selected the OTHER mode can't recognize what they're seeing. If so, the Blogger edit box has the two choices beside each other in the upper right corner (see screen shot below).

In Compose you can see the photos. You can relocate the image by dragging and dropping it. In Edit Html you will see the code for the photos and will have to use Preview (or switch to the Compose mode) to see images. You can move it by using Cut and Paste on the code.

Is your "Compose Mode" turned on?
1. First go to Dashboard 2. Go to Manage: Settings. 3. Scroll down the page 4. look for "Show Compose Mode for all your blogs?" 5. Activate it by answering Yes. Be sure to click on the big orange Save Settings a little bit further toward the bottom of the page.

Compose Mode Or Edit Html Mode?

Does your Blogger editing screen look "odd" or wrong?

Is it possible that your screen mode toggled from one to another, either Edit Html or Compose modes? That sometimes happens and people who have never selected the OTHER mode can't recognize what they're seeing. If so, the Blogger edit box has the two choices beside each other in the upper right corner (see screen shot below).

In Compose you can see the photos. You can relocate the image by dragging and dropping it. In Edit Html you will see the code for the photos and will have to use Preview (or switch to the Compose mode) to see images. You can move it by using Cut and Paste on the code.

Is your "Compose Mode" turned on?
1. First go to Dashboard 2. Go to Manage: Settings. 3. Scroll down the page 4. look for "Show Compose Mode for all your blogs?" 5. Activate it by answering Yes. Be sure to click on the big orange Save Settings a little bit further toward the bottom of the page.

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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Page Elements Screen

This post was written before several of the new categories, such as the Blog List, Slideshow, or Video or Poll, so that the screenshot below will not quite match what you would currently see. Sorry, someday I'll catch up.

Some people still complain they can't see this item. Sometimes it helps to use Refresh (F5 or Ctrl-F5) or to clear your cache and cookies (in Internet Options-Tools). At times, you might even have to do it twice.

Here is a partial screen shot of the Page Elements list. Others listed below my screen shot are "Logo, Profile, Blog Archive, and Page Header". It is easy to select one and add it.

Click on page-element in the Label box below for other posts on this topic.



See also: Text and Html/javascript page elements

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Page Elements Screen

This post was written before several of the new categories, such as the Blog List, Slideshow, or Video or Poll, so that the screenshot below will not quite match what you would currently see. Sorry, someday I'll catch up.

Some people still complain they can't see this item. Sometimes it helps to use Refresh (F5 or Ctrl-F5) or to clear your cache and cookies (in Internet Options-Tools). At times, you might even have to do it twice.

Here is a partial screen shot of the Page Elements list. Others listed below my screen shot are "Logo, Profile, Blog Archive, and Page Header". It is easy to select one and add it.

Click on page-element in the Label box below for other posts on this topic.



See also: Text and Html/javascript page elements

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Change A Color In Links List

How To Change An Individual Link's Color

If you are already using Page Elements
and already using a Links List,
Click on your crossed tools for that section in the sidebar.
Then you can edit Configure Link List.
Look for the edit/delete line for the link you wish to change.

What you might see would be two lines for each link, such as


Keep Up With Me
http://www.zandria.us/

Change that first line of the two to blue, for example, thus:

<font color=blue>Keep Up With Me

But use the code as shown below for the above in the edit/delete line:
1. the ampersand (&) followed by "lt;"
2. then "font color=blue",
3. and then the ampersand (&) followed by "gt;"
4. (Don't leave out those semi-colons (;)!
5. Then type in the blog title.

[See very bottom of screenshot for illustration of above.]


It's odd, but that's it. Be sure to click on Save. You will still be on the Configure Links List page.

You can continue to change others in the Links List,
but be sure to Save Changes when completely through!

Change A Color In Links List

How To Change An Individual Link's Color

If you are already using Page Elements
and already using a Links List,
Click on your crossed tools for that section in the sidebar.
Then you can edit Configure Link List.
Look for the edit/delete line for the link you wish to change.

What you might see would be two lines for each link, such as


Keep Up With Me
http://www.zandria.us/

Change that first line of the two to blue, for example, thus:

<font color=blue>Keep Up With Me

But use the code as shown below for the above in the edit/delete line:
1. the ampersand (&) followed by "lt;"
2. then "font color=blue",
3. and then the ampersand (&) followed by "gt;"
4. (Don't leave out those semi-colons (;)!
5. Then type in the blog title.

[See very bottom of screenshot for illustration of above.]


It's odd, but that's it. Be sure to click on Save. You will still be on the Configure Links List page.

You can continue to change others in the Links List,
but be sure to Save Changes when completely through!