Blogger Introduces A New Template HTML Editor

A few days ago I had wanted to do a tutorial on some new blogging techniques that I've learned recently, only to be surprised that the Edit Template editor that I was familiar with had 'disappeared' without warning! To see the new Template HTML Editor, click the 'Template' tab on the Blogger dashboard, then the 'Edit HTML' button.

Blogger has updated it with new features, an improved version that's to bring smiles to many.

This is good news to many, especially the web-developers, programmers and tech-savvy blog owners, but sad news to as many of us ordinary bloggers who are technically challenged!

I fall under the second group.... before I can master the old, it is being replaced by the new, a roller coaster ride until I learn and catch up again.

Add Your Customized Favicon To Blogger Blogs

Have you ever wondered how to add your own customized favicon (also known as favourite icon) to your blog?

It's a tiny image (16x16px) that you can have next to your web browser's window or tab to give the professional touch to your blog and make it easily identifiable.

Thanks to the Blogger team that had enabled this feature more than a year ago and simplify the process for us bloggers to install it at our blogspot. Yay... no knowledge of HTML or CSS codes required! Isn't that wonderful?

For those who are interested and yet to apply your uniquely customized favicon to your blog, just follow the steps in the tutorial below.

When commenting, use other Identity Options instead of Google Account

I've known its benefit for some time but as usual, I had procrastinated in making the change in my blog's commenting.

If a blogger is logged in to his/her Blogger/Google account, and uses the 'Google' as the the identity option when commenting, it will link to the blogger's profile, rather than his/her actual blog URL. You may prefer to use the ID 'Name/URL' because when the commentator clicks on your name it goes straight to your blog for more beneficial contents instead of your profile, and it'll increase your traffic hits too.

The disadvantage of using the identity option 'Google' is if the blogger has too many blogs, you won't know which blog it came from, making it difficult to reciprocate.

Enable Threaded Comments on your Blogger Blogs

Just in case you're not aware, Blogger had introduced threaded comments for your Blogger blogs since early this year.

Threaded commenting not only allows the blog owner to respond directly to an individual reader's comment on his/her post but also allows an interested reader to reply to other reader comments on that thread. A wonderful way to engage your readers in discussions as well. Besides, it's now easier to distinguish whether it's a single level commenting on the thread or two levels with threaded commenting. Great, yeah!!

The best part is this feature can be easily enabled on your blog!!

Learn how to enable the threaded commenting feature on your blog: