Adding Pinterest 'Pin It' Button to Blogger Dynamic View Templates

Pinterest is a tool that lets you "organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web" - at least that's what they said. To date, I've never really fully understood what it does. But I do realize that it is popular, and people have been looking for ways to integrate the 'Pin It' button to their blogs - to allow their their blogs to get pinned to other pinterest users' pinboards. It's kinda like inviting your readers to pin your work to Pinterest (correct me if I'm using the wrong terminologies here). It's pretty straight forward to add a 'Pin It' button to a non-dynamic view template, but that isn't the case for Dynamic View templates. Worry not, here's one way to add a 'Pin It' button to your Dynamic View blog.

Default Avatar in Blogger Threaded Comments

It seems like all the hype on the new threaded comment system is cooling off. But I've decided to keep throwing comment-related tutorials, since few of my previous comment-related tutorials have gotten obsolete. Gotta make up for those posts now, don't I? Right, now.. Blog reader John Bolch has given me a fantastic idea. He said Blogger should give a default avatar to those comments left by readers with no profile images, including anonymous readers. Right now, it'll just show a blank dull image if the user doesn't have a profile image set up. Instead of waiting for Blogger to fix that, let's put a temporary fix up there, shall we? In this post, I'm gonna show you how you can give a default profile image/avatar/whatever-you-wanna-call-it to those avatar-less users.

Highlight Author Comments in Blogger's New Threaded Comment System

Still psyched about Blogger's new threaded comment system? Not really? Well, here's something to boost your spirit. In the old system, I used to have a way to highlight author's comments - you know, so that my comments stand out from my readers' comments. Unfortunately, with the release of the new threaded comment system, that tutorial got obsolete. So I dug further, and came up with a way to do the same in the threaded system. As a bonus, this tweak automatically highlights non-threaded old author comments as well! This is a response to blog readers Blaine and magda.