Learn to code with Codecademy

If you are looking for a career in the computer world you should consider learning coding. You can learn the basics of HTML very easily online but there are enough free and interactive learning center for coding on JavaScript which are very important for designers. There might not be enough but there are some; and one of the best I have found online is Codecademy.



Codecademy has a instructor and interactive to make the learning environment very easily. You can just use free registration and track your progress with it to keep you encouraged. If you choose to you can also learn with your friends. It will teach you the basics of java script and show you the path to designing website. This is a very amazing tool that you shouldn't miss if you don't know JavaScript. With the friendly virtual instructor and learning with friends can help you learn more and faster. I would definitely recommend this tool for beginners. So what are you waiting for? Go check it out at http://www.codecademy.com and good luck on your learning.


Reasons why I would leave your blog

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To 'secret' to blogging traffic is to create a environment so that your reader can't leave you. It's better to have 10 returning visitors to your blog than 100 'peace out' visitors. There are some main reason and mistake done by new bloggers that makes most of your visitor to say good-bye. If you want to be a serious blogger you should start thinking about them rather than yourself. Here is my list on why I would leave your site/blog.

 

Unclear content



If you are writing about something you should know what your are writing on, don't act professional on something you don't know. The main element of a blog is it's content. You have to fix this before anything else. Make your content clear, right on point, easily understandable and fresh. And of course original. If your information is wrong or content is unclear it creates a huge negative impression on your reader which is almost impossible to delete with every cool design and offers you have for them. and make him/her click the back button.


Too much eye catching



If you have the right content you should start worry about your template and widget. Eye catching is important but it has to be professional. Some template are very poorly designed and completely unrelated to what readers are reading. Unless it's a personal blog your readers would be happy to hear the loud auto-play of your favorite song. Don't use too much gif/ flashy content, mouse effects or any other funky script that would make you visitors ask-"where's the bathroom?"


Advertising hammer



Well you heard somewhere online that you can also make money by blogging so you signed up for all the advertising sites. Since nobody seems to click on them you put a load of them, some pops up, some starts talking, some jumps on the screen and many other extra ways to earn some extra. If you think that's a right method think why your reader would come to your site, for your content. And if they can't get the information they wouldn't be interested on what is going on around and just click the close button. Limit your ads and if you have right content and template you will start get more clicks on your ad than hammering them on the head before.



Needy baby



"Pay 2 dollars to read the article on secrete to be cool"-sounds great deal right? Here's another one -"Register To view the article" or you can also use "Finish the surveys to see the article"to make your visitor run away. Don't expect too much from visitor, each one will not give you 10,000 dollar for you blog. Since there are billions of article on almost every topic online it's your job to keep your reader to you, they can find billions of the same article online, so if you find one don't ask for too many things right after they enter the door.


Randomness



Unless it's a personal blog, when people looks for a certain information they expect your blog to be on the same topic. Even if the reader finds one of your article helpful he wouldn't come back because he/she doesn't know if your future post will be on the same topic your client need information in or interested. It's important to keep your blog in one certain topic. If you get one visitor for one of the post you will get a returning visitor who will like your future posts. So don't make your blog random because it's only good for stalkers.



I would leave your site/blog for mainly because of these reason. I didn't mention some obvious reasons black hat techniques and spamming, cookies, malware etc. Try avoiding the things I have talked about to gain trust as a new blogger and get you readers to follow your blog. What are some of the reason you would leave a site/blog tell us in the comment below.

Google is changing it's Privacy Policy

If you live online almost anything you use is provided by google. With so many products such as Google chrome, Google Adsense, Google reader, Google Books, YouTube, Google Map, Google search and many other service each contains a different privacy policy and terms and condition. Now Google changing the theme to create one and easy Privacy policy to make Google experience even better.
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The new privacy policy  was written for all the Google product and in a simpler way to improve the experience and understanding. If you want to use Google plus after the update you have to follow the new privacy policy and terms and condition. This will finally be update on March 1, 2012. So know your privacy and terms and condition you have to use after March 1 now at http://www.google.com.my/intl/en/policies/

Or go directly to 
(note: This might be different on your region)

Source: http://www.google.com.my/intl/en/policies

Show Recent Comments

It's very usefull to Show Recent Comments on main blog page. We can know who have given comments on aur articles without open it one by one. At this time I will show you how to show recent comments on our main page blog. It's very easy

1. Login to blogger then go to "Layout"
2. Then copy this code :


<script style="text/javascript" src="http://superinhost.com/blog/comments.js"></script>
<script style="text/javascript">
var numcomments = 8;
var showcommentdate = true;
var showposttitle = true;
var numchars = 100;
var standardstyling = true;
</script>
<script src="http://tips-and-template-for-blogger.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments"></script>


- The 8 number is the sum of comments that will show up.
- Change tips-and-template-for-blogger.blogspot.com with your blog's name.

3. You can show it in page elements. Just click on "add page elements --> HTML/Javascript" Then insert the script in it.

Google+ is now open for teens

Teen run the internet. A social network without teen = fail. So finally the best and the latest social media everyone talking about is open for teens. 


Many teens been waiting for this for pretty long time now to get into this social media crowed. Since Google was in beta and still working on privacy settings it was closed for people under 18. Many teens got banned trying to get into Google plus. But to end all the drama Google plus is finally open to teen.
So, yay for teens and concerns for Facebook. Let's see what's waiting in the future for Facebook/Google plus. If you haven't registered already, go do so at https://plus.google.com

Money making tips for new blogger

For blogger who thinks blog = money, you are ...right! You can start earning money from your blog from your very first day. I will talk about one advertising program you can use right now to start earning from your blog. When you have a audience, the main focus for them is your content. And selling sidebar ads can be really hard job for new bloggers. So it is better to start with what your reader will actually care about. Yes, I am trying to to get the point on in-text ads.Today I will show you a affiliate in text program that I have been using from the beginning- Infolinks.



What is Infolink?




Simply Infolinks are in text ads. It behave link normal link from your website and when you mouse hoover it it shows the detail information of the link, if the viewer choose to check the link out and click on it you get paid. As you can see from the picture below



Why Infolinks?

 


  • Infolinks doesn't require you to give personal information
  • Infolinks doesn't have any minimum requirement- so anyone can join this programm
  • Infolinks is highly customizable to match your templete
  • Infolinks gives you the 70% of the revenue- the highest on the internet
  • Infolinks needs only one minute of your time to set up the ad on your blog
  • It also give yo options such as tag clouds, related tag, search wages other than in text ads for you to boost your earnings
  • Infolinks payout methods are Paypal, ACH, Bank Wire
  • Choose payout method whenever you want
  • Infolinks pays you monthly
As the best in-text ad there are many other reasons why you should and can join Infolinks to start earning today. What are you waiting for go register at: http://www.infolinks.com

What is nofollow? How should you use nofollow?

Nofollow is the latest HTML attribution to stop the spammer to get free page-rank by Google. It stops the page rank flow from going to sites you choose. But that would be pretty odd thing to do when linking to someone by telling them they are not trustworthy. You should definitely start using no follow tag if you don't want to mark yourself as a spammer to Google. There are lot of confusion about how you should use nofollw tag to keep yourself safe; so in this article I will discuss what is nofollow tag, how to use it,  what is it's purpose and concerns.

 

What is nofollow



"Nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring."
                                                                 ~Wikipedia 

Since links are ranks. This extra attribution rel="nofollow" tells google not to follow them, where the dofollow flows the rank to the following site.


How to use nofollow



Example of a normal link

<a href=”Your URL”>URL TEXT</a>


Example of a nofollow link
<a href=”Your URL” rel=”nofollow”>URL TEXT</a>


It doesn't make any difference to link to a site but it is different to Google on how he consider the link.


Where to use nofollow link/purpose of nofollow



If you are linking to hundreds or thousands of outward link you should start using nofollow tag, if you link to low rank page in normal linking you loose 'some' pagerank. It's time to figure out what site deserves the rank. But if you are following everyone giving away free ranks, Google will spot you as a spammer. Sites that are not trustworthy, paid links and anywhere you don't want your site to link in search engine publicly.The main purpose of this attribution is to stop spammers although there are many opinions on if it actually can serve it's purpose.


Where not use nofollow?

 

No follow is to stop spammer, you are not one of them. When linking to your own site (internal link) you definitely should not nofollow them. This doesn't mean you can link all 50 site you own. Only internal links from your site are safe to use without nofollow. There are only few exceptions but mostly you are free to dofollow (normal links) all the internal link.


So should I nofolllow all my links?



Sites such as Wikipedia completely nofollowed their content due to the increased number of spammers. Many webmaster goes completely goes against the idea of nofollow and others with it. Google's head of webspam team Matt Cutts discussed the question on YouTube.

Also the answer wasn't clear, my understanding are following- you should use both normal and nofollow link. Nofollow all seems noprolem but it definately isn't a good image for your website. Also nofollow all the links concerns search engine about where you 'link' to.

Find more information
Source: Wikipedia, Webmaster Tool Help

AdSense Publisher Toolbar for Chrome released

For fast and real time update Google AdSense publisher toolbar is her on the chrome store. This free tool officially lunched by Google is for real time updates on AdSense.  This pop up toolbar window will view AdSense user their information on

  • The following day's earning
  • Yesterday's earning
  • Earning for the month
  • Last month's earning
  It also include top 5 channel for your earning. This will bring more life to Google adsense and easy control for users to view their latest revenue. If you have Chrome browser it's one step easier to check your latest information.


How to install AdSense Toolbar


1. Go to Chrome store at AdSense Publisher app
2. Click Add to Chrome
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4. Look at the top right for the new icon and click on it
5. Click Allow
6. Hit Grant Access
7. Click on the icon again and you will be able to see your information

Also check out our video for visual instruction



Source:App Store, AdSense Help

Free Microsoft Office for your ipad

Image and video hosting by TinyPicFor new apple user it is sometimes hard to forget all the Microsoft software especially some awesome functions of Microsoft Office. You can now use full featured Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Power Point) on your ipad. This requires you to have internet connection to and provides 2gb of free space. This allows you to use full featured Microsoft Office from your ipad very easily. Also according to their website the app is also coming to android app store. This is provided by a popular company called OnLive known for making great game platform for ipad users.



For more information check out their video



So what are you waiting for go to http://desktop.onlive.com
make a free account and download the app for free on your ipad. Now you can use Microsoft office right from your ipad with all the features when ever you want how ever you want-for free.

Create your word doodle!

Organizing a thought and put it into a picture is sometimes a difficult job. But if you can use your keyword as the image the problem goes away. Simple easy way to express a idea or yourself in your keyword can be very useful. There is a website that allows you to do the exact thing  very fast and easily with it's simple steps. Follow the steps below and check out this awesome tool.


Create your own word doodle


2. Paste your text or blog URL and hit submit
3. Now randomize to choose your style
     -you can also view it in new window
     -change text front/ language/color
     -you can print your picture right from here
     -You can also choose to save it in a public gallery
     -if you save it you will also have power to embed the code to your blog
4. To save your image in high resolution for your use screenshot it


There you have it!

Best things about wordle.net is that it is extremely simple, fast, contained hundreds of randomized style and completely free. Free for almost any use. Check the FAQ for more info.

Thanks for wordle.net for this amazing tool and feel free to let us know what your making in word doodle.

Blogger Templates: Blogger Store v.2

This is Blogger Store v.2 the best blogger templates 2012 ever made. Comes with more elegant, simple and fresh fresh design. Its beauty can you see in the background pattern on the body and main content combined with appropriate background color.



What the features of Blogger Store v2 ?

1.      SimpleCart.js v2.2.2.
This template still using SimpleCart.js v.2.2.2 by The Wojo Group as ShoppingCart framework. Since I did some editing on this script, now you can using Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) for the currency. But it’s just a fake because Indonesian Rupiah currently not listed onPaypal.

2.      Animated ShoppingCart
I added a little animation effects on shopping cart, at default position he would not be visible and show only the total item and the total price and will be visible if you click on shopping cart menu. It will further reduce the use of space on your blog page

3.      Superfish Menu.
I’ve added 2 pieces of dropdown menu, Top Secondary and Primary menu. I use superfishfor it because I think superfish is better and give a softer effect than jQuery sliding menu on blogger store old version.

4.      Automatic Featured Content with jQuery Carousel Fred.
As my framework i always using automatic methode for all of my template. and specially for Blogger Store v2.0 I’m using Automatic featured content from  jQuery Crausel Fred v.4.5.2, this is automaticly work to displaying product by label or recent product also can display from another source, just need a several setting.

5.      Grid and List Style post integrated with jQuery Plugin.
This is a great one !! you will see two view style on this template, default is Grid style and will be change to List style if you click switcher button. This feature is integrated with jQuery Cookie Plugin, so the visitor can see style of the last time they visited.

6.      Advanced Blogger Template Designer Support
This feature gives you flexibility to customize the background and color of template on Template Designer, so you can get unlimited color and unlimited font for your template, available for :
Body Background Color
Main Text Color
Font Style and Size
Text Link Color
Background Menu Color
Background and border for Shopping Cart Color
This template also have several additional features:

7.      Social Bookmark Icon

8.      Search Form

9.      Ads Space

10.  Animated Sponsors Logo

11.  Pattern Background.

Blogger's New Threaded Comments Features and How To Enable It?

Recently blogger introduces threaded comments features. Which is a great step forward. All bloggers re bored with old commenting systems. But now you don't need to be worry about reply options etc. First take a look at some features of threaded comments than I will show you how to enable threaded comments option in bloggers

Some Features of Bloggers Threaded comments

  • Your readers can now easily interact with more freedom and flexibility while leaving replies or posting comments.
  • You don't need to use @etc to reply to comment 

How To Enable Bloggers Threaded comments


You just need to enable two options:

Set FEED to Full
  1. Go To Blogger > Settings > Site Feeds
  2. Set Allow Blog Feed To Full
  3. Hit save
     
Embedded Comments
You must embedded comments below posts as you can see in our blog. The comments are visible just below posts and you don't need to click a link for comments to popup. I am sure most of you are using embedded comments but for those who aren't please do this:
  1. Go To Blogger > Settings > comments
  2. Choose "Embedded below posts
  3. Hit Save!
All done! You must see now a reply link below each comment posted. Clicking this link will allow you to reply to a specific comment.  Enjoy this excellent new feature.


About the Author
Ammar is the a 16 Years old blogger. He loves to write about Tips, Tricks and Tutorials. He blogs at AllBloggingTips where he share Blogging Tips and Free Themes

How to customize pictures

We all know the importance of good images in a blog. One good image can turn a article from ok to the best. Sometimes even your best image wants some simple customization to fit your blog. Photo effect such as round corners, reflection, shadow are popular and fastest way to make your photo ready for your blog. Sometimes it is better to remove image border from your blog and choose the photo with right background to give your image more professional look. In this post I will show several websites that allows you to add the effects keeping the quality of your photo intact.Customizing your pictures
Photo Credit: 3rdworldman from morguefile.com
using the method below are faster and easier and completely free without any skill.


 

 

 

Crop it with Resizeyourimage.com


Sometimes before you re-size your image might you want to crop it first. Sometimes details can highlight your article better. And this site does a really great job with it. You can Visually choose and crop out the image and still have your original quality.

Resize it with Resizr.com


Resizing your image is important to focus on the detail or to fit your thumbnail perfectly. It is better to crop your photo your image before you start adding any effect.  From this website you can very easily customize and and choose dimensions and quality of your photo as well as formats.


Add Shadow effect with Dropshadow.net



After your done with with cropping and resizing you can start adding some cool effect such as shadow for a realistic look. From this site you can do exactly that without having to loose any quality. If your blog doesn't have any borders shadow and reflection effect are a a killer way to make your photo 'awesome' for your blog.

Add Reflection effect with GenFerateit.net

Adding reflection effect makes your image stand out just like adding shadow. And this website is already popular for several other generator and does a great job on creating customized reflection. You also don't have to loose any image quality. But remember not to to add reflection and shadow on the same image.


Those followings are mainly the most popular and effective effects to make your photo better in minutes. The best thing about those tools are that they are completely free and keep your photo quality intact. Whether you need a photo for a website or to customize your personal photo
fast and free this tool always comes handy.

Share and comment below if you like it and your favorite customizing tool.

What is blogging?

Your blog or web log is your won online space to share your thoughts ideas and information. But if you want to take those ideas and information in a new level so that it finds a fair amount of reader, you should consider following some 'rule' to make your blog stand out. The more professional your blog will look the more chances of you getting more ‘loyal’ readers. I will write a series of short articles on each topics to start your journey on blogging.
Although the first thing that comes in mind for start blogging is to find a good blogging platform, this article will mainly focus on the base idea of blogging. But just to point fingers the best blogging platform right now you can use for free are either Blogger or Wordpress. But the ideas for all platforms are ‘blogging’ that's what actually matters.

Some great articles on pros and cons of blogger platform


What is Blogging?

    Blog is short for web log. It’s you won little space online. You can connect to other people by spreading your thoughts, ideas, experiences, information rumors and pretty much anything you like. It’s your choice what you want to put into your blog and that chooses who you want as your audience. Check out the video for better understanding on 'blogging'. The more you know about your base the better it is for you success later on.





    Do you really want to be a blogger?

      Blogging is one thing that if you want to success in, you should never stop writing. The more you blog, you learn about your skills, improvements and also notify bots about the importance of your blog. It is always your choice why you want to blog and how you want to blog. But if you see no point of writing and sharing, blogging just might not be for you. And you must have courage to write regularly. And if you have heard about dream stories to earn thousands of dollar just by writing anything out there-you now know what are scam what are not. Choose first if you actually want to blog or not because it’s a rather difficult (easy) process to create a successful blog. Otherwise it’s just waste of your valuable time.



      Focusing on one topic

        Now if you choose to blog, you need a focused an basic idea on what you are going to write about. It can be anything you want but you have to have good passion or experience on it. It can be about gardening, rockets, new technology or anything you are interested in. Even if you like quantum physics and know nothing about it is possible to write and create a successful blog on it but chances are very low. It is important to focus your blog on only one topic. It can be a broad topic but it should flow in one direction in order to keep your reader focused. Writing about random things are not a good way to get a single targeted audience. And your audience wants certain type of news/solution and it is less likely someone will follow your blog for that one post. Thinking about what you-as a audience would like, is the main idea for creating a good content and/or blog.It is very important to write about one topic unless you have a broad audience ready for you.

        Follow our blog for next series. Also be sure to leave a comment on what you think about the topics for today.

        Sitebite-go staright to the point

        Photo credit: alvimann from morguefile.com

        You can find many huge books and articles online. When you give the link to someone for share they he/she have to read all the way through to find what exactly you were talking about. But there is a simple web app you can use to get straight to the point. This web app will highlight the section of the article you want them to read. This is called Citebite.



        Follow the simple steps to try it out for the first time


        2. Copy and paste the section of the article you want them to read



        3. Below it copy pate the article link

        4. Hit 'Citebite'

        You will see a customized link below, copy the link and you are ready to share.

        How to check who is not following you back on twitter


        For personal twitter account, just out of curiosity or for SEO masters to build and redict their traffic it is good to analyze your twitter following data. In this post I will show you a tool that can do exactly that. Using this twitter app you will be able to see all the Twitter user you follow and status on if they follow you or not. In addition to that you can also choose to follow or unfollow a user right from there. It also shows the mutual friends list. This app is simply called Twitter karma.

        Follow the simple steps to check the app out




        Log in to your twitter account
        Confirm to allow the app to access your data by clicking Authorize app
        Now click on the button that says 'Whack!'
        It will take several minute for the result to come up, (if it doesn't come in 5 minute hit reload) Once it does you will be able to see who is following you and who is not, you will also be able to follow and unfollow from there.

        Hopefully this might be helpful to some twitter user. If you have any thoughts leave them below.
         

        Show Widgets Only in Homepage or in Post Pages

        Once you activate any widget, in your blog, it will be displayed in all the pages by default, including your homepage.
        But sometimes, we do want to show some widgets only on Homepage or only for the individual posts pages, or only in a specific page, the coding is quite simple, but you need to customize the widget through the "Edit HTML" link in your "Layout" section.

        Follow these steps:
        Create any widget, and place it where-ever you want, and save the template. Check if it is working (should be displayed in all the pages). Remember to give a TITLE to it, like Archives/BlogRoll/Maps/Clock, anything unique.

        Now go to "Edit HTML" page.
        Click/mark "Expand Widget Templates"
        Then find for that unique Title (by searching through CTRL+F method)
        It will be something like this:


        <b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
        <b:includable id='main'>
        <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
        <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
        <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
        </b:if>
        <div class='widget-content'>
        <data:content/>
        </div>

        <b:include name='quickedit'/>
        </b:includable>
        </b:widget>


        Now tweak this as follows

        CASE #1
        To SHOW the code/widget only in HomePage


        <b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
        <b:includable id='main'>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
        <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
        <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
        <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
        </b:if>
        <div class='widget-content'>
        <data:content/>
        </div>

        <b:include name='quickedit'/>
        </b:if>
        </b:includable>
        </b:widget>


        CASE #2
        To SHOW the widget in "All Posts", but NOT in HomePage


        <b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
        <b:includable id='main'>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
        <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
        <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
        <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
        </b:if>
        <div class='widget-content'>
        <data:content/>
        </div>

        <b:include name='quickedit'/>
        </b:if>
        </b:includable>
        </b:widget>


        CASE #3
        To SHOW the widget in any particular page


        <b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='UNIQUE WORD OR TITLE HERE' type='HTML'>
        <b:includable id='main'>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "SPECIFIC_BLOG_POST_URL"'>
        <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
        <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
        <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
        </b:if>
        <div class='widget-content'>
        <data:content/>
        </div>

        <b:include name='quickedit'/>
        </b:if>
        </b:includable>
        </b:widget>

        How to get black safari nav bars on iOS 5

        Hi everyone today I'm going to show you how to get black navigation bars on your iOS 5 device without jailbreaking

        Step #1. Go to settings

        Step #2. Tap on safari settings

        Step #3 enable private browsing

        Thats it you should now have black navigation bars


         
        About the Author
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