Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Add Sleek and Cool Search Boxes to Blogger


We recently shared simple yet cool search boxes widget for blogger. Now its time for something new, cool, beautiful and sleek. So here comes sleek and cool search boxes for blogger/blogspot. It’s using simple image and css, HTML. Actually these are PSD source designed by Design3edge. We work hard in converting this to Blogger for YOU. Hope you enjoyed with this!
sleek search boxes by allbloggingtips

How To Add Cool Search Boxes To Blogger

  1. Login to Blogger Dashboard   => Design tab  => Page Elements .
  2. Click on Add a Gadget where you wish to place this Search Boxes.
  3. Choose HTML/JavaScript from the List.
  4. Place any one Search Box code in to it and Save the Gadget.

Style 1

search boxes
<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs6k-_oMmy_Bq0s8pFYPII2t4P_DJRliRWjegMQO7XjIF1Wp3_88bhCdW6q1DB6hxDrOTXw_A3EJ4q0YSbvpTNw8pqIGCjhZ0A-syfbxPORogok0bJH8Hc5oyOil626GRccCZiQxa4DnA/s1600/black.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 2

search boxes
<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkL2QPdnpqMd0JvCBTqcPhp9yVgivkKRUcKl4ty4srOzl349QyL4gOu_1gBm5bUQ6R4tc4KsuUeo4awnhU5oYfmIQ3KV5rlrgC2G0Fzr_jgZ3tgS7hg2hCCuD00ClLc9rwNFZKebJq2c/s400/whitez+by+abt.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 3

search boxes
<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6y64UaBE_-1TTEmd6oVA4NAvBZjw8pcOXGHr4h3mdtBUEBaex6909WvhwiGkjOlItS-zAH4OZDb-x1EQT2nB9Z-pe6GMjTLo0zU5ffbPqvReEvur5puzLeae8qU2OOWipb1b5sTz5VDE/s400/bluez+by+allbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 4

search boxes
<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGYL0GEGIDG2_AD2kFvXRjIkhlUtS8LJEEqLURupYGb7wQr0Zvo70jLIlCnTwZFuseZGF3i0ktTvqp_xXyW64z3MQZxgraG_XY-z6kqWKIQ_yxaOXq7Rinx_DlFlkswN9QrEpLb2DKHI/s400/transparent+by+allbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 5

search boxes
<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-vKJTRJJGhjgPe1GTI2rWxUCJnMZMPQ92EKTKBOBz2_HUVyg31odmUVdNco4RbTxo9CvwJe8DaH_erVcn7P72zPzYAc91uzQYAeJK_xIlFhHbyNJmzHcXIjoRNNCOrIYzizR6RG2Jf4/s400/pinkz.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Credits

This is again a first time shared tutorial guide by AllBloggingTips. These scripts, widget and style sheets are provided only by ABT  therefore if you wish to share this tutorial with your readers and friends then kindly link back to this post as the only favour in return. :D
That’s all!. We hope you enjoyed this Cool Search Boxes. You can also subscribe  us to get our next tutorial in your inbox ;)

HOW TO: Increase Traffic To Your Photography Blog


So, you have a photography blog and you’ve been posting pictures for a long time and you’re still not getting enough traffic. The same happened to my friend. Traffic means a lot especially for blogs. It’s easy to manage a photo blog, but when it comes to traffic it may be difficult to get it. In this article I’m gonna show you how to increase traffic to your photo blog making the best use of the social networking sites.
Photography

1. Use Watermarks while sharing your pictures

One of the best way to increase traffic to your photo blog is to share your pictures with your blog URL watermark or use some text like this on the image – “For Full Size Visit This Website – [YOURBLOG].com”. You small size pictures while sharing, and tell them to visit your site for the full size images.

2. Join Photography groups on Facebook

There are many groups on Facebook for photographers, you can find them in the search bar in the Facebook homepage, then there you’ll find some posting there, send a friend request to anyone of them, and then, after he accepts the request, tell him to add you to the group. And then post your images(which should have watermarks). And then wait for a few days, you’ll see the increase traffic to your blog!

3. Pin your Images

Pinterest is the largest growing social networking site. You can drive large amounts of traffic from Pinterest, if you have good amount of followers. You may google it to find tips and tricks about how to increase followers and repins. Here are a few tips to get more followers -
  • Keep pinning regularly
  • Don’t pin only your (blog’s) images, but also keep pinning other awesome pics.
  • Comment on others images to gain exposure
  • Follow as many as you can, so that you’ll gain exposure, since they’ll see you in their notifications and may follow you back!

4. Add your images in Flickr

As you know, Flickr is one of the largest image sharing sites. Add some images in Flickr with a watermark text(make sure your blog URL, is in the watermark text.)

5. Optimize your images for search engines

SEO is the best way to increase traffic for any kinda blog. This is the same for photo blogs too. Here are few tips to optimize your images for search engines -
  1. Use keyword in file name
For example, let us think you’ve bought a new Mercedes, and you want to post that image in your photo blog, then the image with file name my-new-mercedes.jpg would get a better ranking in search engines than IMG00010.jpg
So, it’s better to use a keyword in a file name, to get a better ranking.
  2. Descriptive Alt Tags
The alt attribute describes the contents of an image file.(You can read about the importance of alt attribute in the image publishing guidelines). An image with alt attribute is market up as follows -
<img src="my-new-mercedes" alt="My New Mercedes" />
  3. SEO Friendly Images WordPress Plugin
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress Plugin which automatically updates all images with proper alt and title attributes. It makes your SEO for images easy. Read more about this plugin here – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/
You can read more about optimizing images for SEO here –http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114016&ctx=sibling

Some website which increase your photo blog’s exposure -

Hope you find this article useful :)

How to Add Cool Floating Notification bar in Blogger


We already shared a floating notification bar for wordpress recently. Many of my readers request to create this floating notification bar for Blogspot/Blogger blogs and today we are sharing a simple yet Cool Floating Notification bar for Blogger. Its very easy to add this widget in blogspot. All you have to do is copy code given below, paste it in to your blog and customize text, link etc according to your needs. Isn’t that simple! :D
Blogger floating notification bar copynotification

Add Cool Floating Notification bar in Blogger !

First  Always Back Up Your Template Before You Any Make Changes – How To Back Up A Blogger Template
  • Goto Blogger  => Design => Edit HTML
  • Next search for this code
<body>
  •   Just below it paste the following code,
<!-- Notification code start -->
<style type='text/css'>
#ut-sticky
{
background: #7d7e7d; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #7d7e7d 6%, #7d7e7d 9%, #0e0e0e 99%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(6%,#7d7e7d), color-stop(9%,#7d7e7d), color-stop(99%,#0e0e0e)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #7d7e7d 6%,#7d7e7d 9%,#0e0e0e 99%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #7d7e7d 6%,#7d7e7d 9%,#0e0e0e 99%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #7d7e7d 6%,#7d7e7d 9%,#0e0e0e 99%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(top,  #7d7e7d 6%,#7d7e7d 9%,#0e0e0e 99%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr=&#39;#7d7e7d&#39;, endColorstr=&#39;#0e0e0e&#39;,GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */

border-bottom:2px solid #999;

color:#fff;
text-align: center;
margin:-12px auto;
padding-bottom:1px;
border-top: 1px solid #333;
height:38px;
font-size:13px;
position:fixed;
vertical-align: baseline; overflow:hidden;
z-index:999;
width:100%;
border-bottom-left-radius:6px;
border-bottom-right-radius:6px;
display:block;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: arial,&quot;Helvetica&quot;;
font-color:#fff;
 -moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 4px hsla(0,0%,0%,.35);
 -webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 4px hsla(0,0%,0%,.35);
}
#ut-sticky:hover
{

background-color:#333;background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(top,#555555,#434343);background-image:-ms-linear-gradient(top,#555555,#434343);background-image:-webkit-gradient(linear,0 0,0 100%,from(#555555),to(#434343));background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient(top,#555555,#434343);background-image:-o-linear-gradient(top,#555555,#434343);background-image:linear-gradient(top,#555555,#434343);background-repeat:repeat-x;filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=&#39;#555555&#39;,endColorstr=&#39;#434343&#39;,GradientType=0)

-webkit-transition:all 1.3s ease-in-out;-moz-transition:all 1.3s ease-in-out;-o-transition-duration:all 1.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 1.3s ease-in-out;

 -moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 4px hsla(0,0%,0%,.35);
 -webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 4px hsla(0,0%,0%,.35);

}

#ut-button {background:#fff; padding:4px; color:black;text-shadow:0 -1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.25);background-color:white}

#ut-sticky p{line-height:5px; font-size:13px; text-align:center; width:95%; float:left;}
#ut-sticky p a{ text-decoration:underline; padding:4px; color:#FFFF33;}
.ut-cross{display:block; position:relative; right:15px; top:4px;float:right;}
.ut-cross a{font-size:18px; font-weight:bold; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;; color:#FF0000; line-height:30px;}
.ut-cross, a:hover{color:#DDD; text-decoration:none;}

</style>
<div id='ut-sticky'>
<p style='padding-top:17px;'>Add This Floating Notification Bar To Your Blog <a class='ut-button' href='http://www.allbloggingtips.com' target='_blank'>Click Here!</a></p>
<div class='ut-cross'><a href='javascript:hide_cross();'>X</a></div>
</div>
<script language='JavaScript'>
function hide_cross() {
crosstbox = document.getElementById(&quot;ut-sticky&quot;);
crosstbox.style.visibility = &#39;hidden&#39;;
}
</script>
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/>
<!-- End of Notification code, info - http://www.allbloggingtips.com -->
To Customize it
After adding above code just edit above HIGHLIGHTED text and link to your desire text.
I hope you enjoyed this cool Floating Notification bar widget. Do let me know if you face any problem. Peace, blessing pals :D
 

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