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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Increase Pop-up Image Size in Mosaic Blogger Dynamic Views

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I don't imagine Mosaic Dynamic View being very famous among Blogger users, as I rarely see any questions on the said template. But here's one for all you Mosaic users out there. When you hover over a mosaic post in Mosaic view, the post's thumbnail would pop-up and get slightly increased. With a little bit of magic code, you could make the pop-up thumbnails much larger, and appealing. And here's how.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Justify Post Summary in Blogger Dynamic Views

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Post summaries are dynamically fetched and displayed in the front page in Magazine and Timeslide views. However, they are left-aligned by default, creating a rather messy effect. Here's how you can justify them and make them neat in one simple step.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Convert 'Send Feedback' button to StatCounter in Blogger Dynamic Views


Several gadgets have been introduced to Dynamic Views now, but a stat counter isn't one of them. I thought it'd be awesome if the space occupied by the 'Send Feedback' button at the bottom-right of your blog can be utilized for showing a stat counter. Those that have tried adding StatCounter to Dynamic Views before might be wondering if this approach will mess up your default Dynamic Views background - nope, it won't. In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert the redundant 'Send Feedback' button that you can find in your blog to a Stat Counter button..This is a respond to blog reader Jennifer Farris.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Use Entire Header as Home Button in Blogger Dynamic Views

Before: Header is not clickable
After: Header is clickable, acts as Home button
Remember how non-Dynamic View template's headers used to serve as home buttons? I thought it was pretty neat. It's one of the things that makes you miss non-DV templates. In Dynamic Views, you still kinda have this feature - but you gotta click on your blog's title on the header. Simply clicking anywhere on your header will not bring you to your homepage, or to the top of your blog. Let's change that, shall we?