Thanks for the lovely words last week! I thought I’d continue on and share some of my favourite tips from around the blogosphere that I have used previously on Blogger.
If you ever host giveaways, you MUST have numbered comments! I mean, do you really wanna sit there and count, then recount to double check, lose your place, start again… No. The best one I found is by the gorgeous Jenelle from Echinops & Aster. Not only does it keep going for as many comments as you have instead of restarting at 200, but it will also number any Reply comments, and the best part is that it looks great too, sitting so neatly and discreetly next to the commenter’s name:
I’ll admit that off-centred headers are a little annoying for me – I’m such a visual person, and add that to my perfectionism… Is it any wonder I’m constantly tinkering to improve my blog in all the little ways?! But it’s nice and easy to fix!! Sneaky Momma Blog Designs has a great and easy tutorial for how to do this.
This one’s a fun one! While Pinterest has now released their own Pinterest Blogger widget, I like the one I have because if you hover your mouse over the Pin, it enlarges! And then you can click on it and it will take you straight through to the Pin.
You can even choose for it to just get Pins from one certain board if you like! Very handy indeed.
And of course then there’s my little tutorials for how to centre blogger page tabs and how to share photos from Flickr WITH the captions!
Deb@asimplelifequilts says
Thank you so much Alyce for these helpful posts! I am always looking for tips on using blogger.
Mara says
Okay did the numbers one and it now works, I will look into the Pinterest one tom., thanks for all of the great tips
Jess says
Cool! Thanks for the links x
Jenelle says
Thanks for the tips and for featuring my post! The pinterest widget looks pretty cool. 🙂
Nina Marie says
Thanks for the numbering link – I was wondering how to do that! I also want to add that my biggest blog pet peeve is cluttered pages – I don’t like too much stuff on either side of the posts. Its distracting and I can’t enjoy the post. Also another pet peeve of mine is photos that don’t add much to the post and layout of the photos. Like do I really need to see the quilt in 6 different settings – plus it all rolled up showing only the binding. . . . just sayin’
Kathy says
Thanks for the blogging tips. I got the numbering comments to work but the pinterest one is not so successful. At least not for me. I can’t get it to display images or hover. It just says Latest Pins( I did the logo thing but is doesn’t show up either.) I moved it farther done on my sidebar until I get it figured out. It does take you to all my pins. People can’t edit from there can they? Thanks for getting me started on some upgrades.
Molli Sparkles says
Numbered comments for the win! Thanks Alyce, once again, for your bloggin’ know how!