Changing Specific Link Color in Blogger Templates

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Links are usually underlined (upon hovering) and shown in different text color, so that they are easily distinguishable from plain text. However, the Template Designer tool doesn't allow you to change specific link colors. In other words, the link color that you choose will be applied globally, to all the links in your blog. There are users who'd like some links to stand out from the rest, blog reader chowgypsy is one of them. In this tutorial, I've prepared a list of code to specifically change some of the common links that you might wanna apply different colors to.

'Follow by Email' Gadget Can Be Readily Added In Blogger Dynamic Views

We've had the ability to add gadgets to Dynamic View for over 6 months now, but only a number of gadgets are currently supported. These supported gadgets are typically marked with a red tag (that says 'Available for Dynamic Views') when you view the list of gadgets in your Layout tab. Oddly, the 'Follow by Email' gadget isn't one of the marked gadgets, although it can be readily added to your Dynamic View templates. There is no sorcery as to how one could add this gadget - you add it like how you'd add any other gadget.. But since the (non-)availability of this gadget is somewhat misleading, I thought I'd throw this out anyway. There's really no special steps in this post, but I'll just walk you through anyway..

Scrollbar for Sidebar Posts in Blogger Dynamic Views

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Yet another Dynamic View template tweak. Sidebar view is one of my favourite templates in Dynamic View. It is the only template in Dynamic View that allows you to view the content of a post while still maintaining the complete list of posts in the sidebar - making blog-post navigation a delightful experience. However, you'd have to use your mouse to scroll up and down to navigate within the sidebar posts. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can add a scrollbar to conveniently access all your sidebar posts.

Adding a 'Read More' tag to Post Summaries in Magazine Dynamic View

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If you're reading this post, you're probably no stranger to the way post summaries are presented in magazine view.. The template dynamically fetches an excerpt of your whole article (often your first paragraph) and present it as a post-summary on the front page. Unfortunately, the summaries are put in a way where one could easily miss the rest of your post - as very little has been done to indicate that the summary has more to it when you click on the post.. There isn't anything you can do to make the summary show the whole of your writing, but there is one thing you can do to indicate there is more to your summary - place a 'read more' tag to the end of your summary's line..

Show Full Post Title in Blogger Flipcard Dynamic View

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I like Flipcard view - I really do.. Having most of my posts appearing in a single browser page (with the added bonus of having a thumbnail for each one of my posts) gives my readers a quick overview of my entire blog. However, when one hovers over my posts, I am not particularly excited with the fact that most of my post titles are cropped.. Instead of the full post title, I'm presented with the publish date info and the number of comments - two things that I could do without in my flipcards.. I'd trade these two trivial info for a full title any day - Actually I have done so, and that's what I'm gonna show you in this week's post!