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The term drop-down menu (also dropdown menu or dropdown list) refers to a graphical control element, similar to a list box, which allows the user to choose one value from a list. It helps to organise content effectively, besides it looks attractive too. Today, I am sharing with you some tips to add a Drop Down menu to your blog. Just go through the article and follow simple steps. At the end, you will get a beautiful drop down menu. Step1: Go to Template -> Edit HTML Step2: Press Ctrl+F(Find Box) and search </header> in it. Step 3: Copy & Paste the HTML code given below, just below </header> (If you want to place drop-down menu somewhere else you could place code there as per your requirement). You can edit and replace highlighted texts with your own titles. Also you have to add links corresponding to title by replacing # for each title. <nav> <ul> <li><a href='#'> Main Title 1 </a></li> <l...

Recently, I am using my webmaster account to check my all websites reports and get to know that my rich snippets showing errors like this, Error: At least one field must be set for Hcard. Error: Missing required field "name (fn)". So, I decided to correct this error, normally in custom blogger templates, rich snippets problem occur due to incorrect structuring of template. I started googling but not found any solution for it, then, I started to read to rich snippet manual to find, What's the problem ? I come to know that I made a childish mistake in my template and decided to publish here. So, that everyone can correct it. I found a lot of templates lacking with code shown in step 1 also, check if your template contains it or not and if not then, add it to your template. Steps 1. Open your blogger template from 'edit html' in template sidebar on Blogger dashboard, search for post-header-line-1 and paste below code after it, <span class=...

Recently, I changed my feedburner  url  to my domain branded url , but due to busy schedule, I am not able write any article from last some days. It is very nice to use to use branding on your blog to make it more professional and far traditional. It's important to taken in account that this tutorial works only with TLDs (Top Level Domains) . An example feedburner id is http://feeds.feedburner.com/the-infotech-blog If you change it to your sub-domain name, it will be http://feeds. your-domain-name .com/the-infotech-blog  So, lets see, How to Use Own Domain as Feedburner URL ? Login to feedburner account and open this link . login to your domain registrar account, open DNS Manager and use host=feeds  and use cname according to provided on MyBrand page . This screenshot show the setup on Godaddy account . Now add, feeds.your-domain-name.com  to MyBrand page 2nd step. click on save and its done. Credits: Feedburner help

Blogger is always favourite platform for me, as it doesn't require web hosting, you only need to buy a domain which is also optional. But if you want to create website with more features and professional way, you will be comfortable with Wordpress for more than 10s of reason. Well, you all know Blogger uses widget for adding any new field in your blog. It is always possible that while, editing another widget, accidentally you delete a widget which doesn't need to be deleted. now, question arrives, How to overcome this problem ? If you're familiar with widgets, you have seen 'Attribution' widget which is always locked, when you create a new blog. You may also like: Remove Attribution Powered by Blogger Now, i am showing it in steps to make easy to implement: 1. Login to Blogger account and open Layout bar and note the name of widget which is locked. 2. In above example note 'Like us'. 3. Now, click on Template and open Edit html. 4. N...

Sometimes before Blogger started redirecting its all blog to their local ( location specific ) domain, which make a site more complicated to be trusted which is hosted on Blogger without custom domain. I find this change not SEO friendly as sites that are tracking that specific Blogger rank find ranks for local domain specific site. But, if your site is browsed in other country then it shows another rank for that particular country with specific domain. In brief, this make your site rank more & more worst. So, I really suggest you to redirect domain to .com domain. Some steps are given here to make your Blogger domain .com : Log in to your Blogger account, open Template and click on 'Edit HTML'. Find <head> & paste below code just below <head> : <script type='text/javascript'> var blog = document.location.hostname; var slug = document.location.pathname; var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf(&quot;.&quot;)); if (ctl...

I like to use only two blogging platform WordPress & Blogger, but i prefer to use Blogger then WordPress because it does not need any web hosting account, & needs only a Blogger account which uses Google data centres for data and website storage. A website is always looks professional when it does not gives any credit or attribution to any one, any default Blogger website shows attribution & navigation bar (optional) but it is needed to remove it for making website professional. This is the most easy step for removing any Blogger attribution bar, but i recommend you to do not remove attribution because there should be a back-link to the free service blogger. 1.)Open template, then click on Edit HTML in your blogger account. 2.)Expand Widget templates. 3.)Search for:       <b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution'> 4.)Replace  locked='true'    with  locked='false' 5.)Save t...