Add A Transparent Notification Bar To Your Blog

Guest Post By Pushker Yadav.

Hello Friends! First i want to pay thanks to the Admin of this blog who give me a chance to share something with you. This is my first Guest post on Spice Up Your Blog.Many Popular blogs use a notification bar to show a News feed and latest content because it attracts your visitors attention.You can add a link to a featured post, your Rss feed, social profile or an affiliate offer.So here I will show you how to add an awesome notification bar with close button.Its very simple and looks very cool.You can use it on a blogger blog and wordpress blog or even in your websites.

Add The Transparent Notification Bar To Blogger

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Blogger Threaded Comments Errors And Tutorials

Last week the Blogger team introduced threaded comment replies, since then there has been a number of issues.Many of these issues can be easily resolved while there are one or two that are currently being worked on.If your still having trouble implementing threaded comments on your blog check out the tutorials from Harish on way2blogging - Tutorial - Video Tutorial.

Posts Jumping Directly To Comment Form

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8 Smart Promotional Tips to Make Your Blog a Roaring Success !

Blogs: one of the hottest mediums in the online world, you can barely visit any site that doesn’t have a blog section, and the amount of blogs out there is increasing daily. Writing awesome content is all very well and good, yet this alone will not make your blog a hit; without smart promotion you will almost definitely fail. After all, what is the point in putting all your effort into writing fabulous content if no-one is listening?

Here are 8 tried and tested promotional tips that can do wonders for your blog following;
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How To Add The New Reply Button To Blogger Comments With Threaded Replies

One of the most popular posts on Spice Up Your Blog over the last few years has been "How to add comment replies to your blog".While that tutorial was a valid option to allow readers to reply to comments it did not place the reply to each comment in a threaded fashion.In fact many of the comments on that post asked was it possible to have the reply placed under the original comment.After so many many requests the Blogger Team have taken note and today Threaded comment replies are now available on Blogger.You can see on our comment form below comment have a reply button and the replies are placed below the original comment.

How to activate comment replies on Blogger

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How To Use A Drop Cap Large First Letter In Posts On Blogger

A very popular effect used in magazines and newspapers is a drop cap first letter to paragraphs.This effect can also be found on many blogs and websites.The effect is a large first letter stretching down three or four lines with the text wrapped around.The drop cap letter can also use a different font and can be a different color to the rest of the text.Almost two years ago i published a post showing how to add a Drop Cap to your blog, in this post i have an even easier more effective method.This method needs just a few lines of Css to be added to your template then the first letter of every post on your blog will automatically be a drop cap.You can then choose the color and font of the drop cap.Check out the Blogger screenshot, demo and tutorial below.Wordpress users can use the Wordpress Drop Cap Plugin.

Add The Drop Cap Large First Letter To Your Blogger

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35 Best Free Blogger Templates Of 2011

Last week i published the "25 Best Free Wordpress Themes Of 2011" and as promised today we have a list of the best Blogger Templates of 2011.The standard of Blogger templates took a huge jump in 2011 with more options and better designs and features.Scarcely a Wordpress theme is released that's not converted and available for blogger within a week combined with lots of designs unique to Blogger.This year also seen the release of the Blogger Template Designer and Dynamic Views offering up even more options for your blog.

Included in the list are all manner of styles to meet your needs, simply click on the title to see the demo and download links.

35 Best Free Blogger Templates Of 2011

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25 Best Free Wordpress Themes Of 2011

Now that we have entered 2012 it's time to look back at the best modern themes and templates for Wordpress and Blogger released in 2011, starting here with 25 awesome Wordpress themes.The following collection of wordpress themes are totally free to download and use.I have taken care to include various styles such as Magazine, Personal, Minimalist and E-Commerce.To access the demo and download for each theme simply click the title.

Collection Of Best Themes From 2011

Portfolium Theme

Wordpress Theme perfect for photography and design blogs.


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