30 January 2011

Add a Contact link such "Email Me" to your blog

If you want to increase interaction between your site and visitors you need to help an " Email me" link to your blog. to contact your site users click on mail me or email me and can send mail to you. with the help of contacting to your site visitors get help directly from you and will visit your site regularly.

Disadvantages of directly sharing your email address to your site the web site spammers can find your mailing address easily by using search engines or others ways and may harm to your site. visitors will click on "email me" and get automatically to Windows outlook express and able to send you mail. this type of link will help you to hide your email address sharing directly.If anyone use yahoo, gmail, hotmail or other mailing address can copy this email address and paste to outlook express and mail to you.

There are two ways to add Email me link.

 Way 01.
Suppose your email is example@gamil.com, here the link code you must follow the instructions.
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<a href="mailto:example@gamil.com">Email me </a>
__________________________________________

Way 02.
If you mean visitors of your site click on an image and get this link, then you will upload an image to a image hosting site who will give you a direct link.

Email me

Suppose your image link is "http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5398123507_a4a5029922_m.jpg", here the code and must follow the instructions.
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<a href="mailto:abc@gmail.com"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5398123507_a4a5029922_m.jpg" alt="Email me" width="120" height="57" border="0" /></a>
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Note: Do not forget to replace the mailing address and image url provided.

Instruction: follow any of the way then you copy the code and paste it to your blog layout page by adding any html/javascript gadget , save and published.

28 January 2011

Changing of blogger default icon is an easy process

The article i h'v written in it will help you to change your blogger default icon to your own custom icon what you want. at first i also have used blogger default icon but everyone want to uniquely customize appearance of their web url icon. i have successfully changed my  blogger icon and i mean you also be successful. To change blogger icon or favicon  you need to follow the steps given bellow.



Step 1.
Create An Image: you need to select an image what you want to see as your blog icon. then you can use this image to generate to Favicon Generator  and make it as your desire size. Formatting of this image you can use JPG, JPEG or PNG. i suggested to select PNG format because it will be size at 4:1 ratio.


Step 2.
Upload This Image: upload this image to a free image hosting site like Flickr. not only flickr you can also choose another free image hosting site but you need to copy the direct image url and follow the next step.


Step 3.
Add Tag:  add this tag to your blogspot template. login to your account and go to design page select "Edit Html" then paste it to "<title>" tag and  "<b:skin>" tag. To find easily this tag at "mozilla firefox" use find tool whose shortcut "Ctrl +F".

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<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
<link href='put the image url here' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>
<b:skin>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
    <b:skin>
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Save and publish. then visit your blog by opening it to other tab and you will see your customize blogger icon. it is very simple and easy so try and be faster to blogger.