Bloggs Lab

Today we'll be seeing how to add comments counter to the threaded comments in blogger. I'm not wasting my time explaining about blogger comments system and threaded comments. I guess you know it and you don't want me to explain.

One of the most important things we should keep in mind about our blog’s design is the ease of navigation. We should provide our users with an easy and attractive navigation system in our blog. Easy navigation doesn’t meant to keep your blog design simple. It should be attractive and eye catchy.

This is one awesome stylish addition you can add to spice up your blog. I've added this animated page loading effect to my blog. You can see a demo here itself by clicking on any link inside the site. It’s gives a cool effect to your blog. I guess you liked it on my blog. So here is how to add it to your blog.

Here is a simple trick to turn your widgets sticky when a user scrolls down your blog. We’ll use a simple to code to make your widget float as the user scrolls down the page. You can use this simple code to turn any widget in your blog sticky regardless of where it is. You only need to have the Widget ID. It will work perfect for email subscription box, social sharing widget, menu navigation bar or anything that has a widget id.

Tired of putting target="_blank" to every external link in your blog to make them in a new window when clicked. Here’s a simple jQuery script to automatically open all your external links in a new window. The script detects external hostnames and will automatically +add target="_blank" attribute to the external link when clicked. Thus making your readers stay in your blog itself and thus reducing bounce rates and increasing pages views.

One of the popular blogging tricks blog MBT has recently replaced their Older/Newer post navigation in a more neat and elegant way which is more efficient and reader attractive. And they’ve shown their kindness again by sharing the trick behind adding it with their readers (of course I'm a loyal reader).

I in my previous post shared a unique list of ‘back to top'/bottom’ buttons. And today in this post I'll show you how to use those ‘back to top'/bottom’ buttons efficiently in you blog. We’ll be using simple jQuery scripts to add smooth scrolling effect to the buttons.

Does tall widgets take out your blog’s valuable space and keep checking your readers’ patience ? Here is a simple trick to put your tall widgets inside a scroll bar. In this simple tutorial I'll show you how to add a widget (any widget) inside a scroll bar. You can easily adjust the height of the scroll box and the title of the widget will remain static as normal. Only the content of the widget will be inside the scroll box.

We all need to fill our sidebar with lots of reader attractive widgets. But the space doesn’t always let us to do so. Also we have to limit the number of widgets in the sidebar to make our blog attractive and user friendly. But we’ve to make use of the available space efficiently and effectively. Multi Tabbed Widgets are something that lets us achieve it. We can add any number of widgets into these tabs.

Blogger introduced threaded comment system an year back, from then we have see many great bloggers introducing their own stylish threaded comments system for their site. One of my favourite among many is Spice Up Your Blog’s. They have a simple colourful threaded comment system that easily help distinguish author comments from reader comments.

Blogger gives us an option to add jump break to posts. It enables us to display a a short summary of the post on the homepage of our blog with a link to the full post. Most of us add jump break to our posts, because displaying a short summary instead of the full post on the main page has many advantages. The main reason is that it increases page views and the visitors can easily get a selection of your posts.

Blogger post editor misses the option to insert tables into our blog posts. If you want to have comparisons or if you want to have a tabular display of items in your posts, you might find this as a great miss. Because inserting a table in blogger requires a little knowledge in HTML and CSS.  However MS Word has a solution. In this post you’ll see two methods for adding tables into blogger posts.