Changes

Sorry, I haven't been posting for quite a while now. I think that I may change the focus of this blog from just blogger to the internet, and tech in general. So to kick it off, favourite operating system?

Update

Sorry about the lack of posts recently. I have not gone on Blogger for ages. In fact I am doing this post from Microsoft Word '07.

I have had no emails so far apart from spam so it would be nice to know that someone is reading this. Constructive criticism would be highly appreciated. learnweblogs@gmail.com

The Blog Author J

 

Templates

Hello,

As you can see the template of this blog has been given an overhaul. It was made possible because Blogger introduced a new feature a while ago. It is called 'template designer' and is accessible by going to Blogger Dashboard>Layout>Template Designer. It allows you to alter everything from the background colour of your blog to the colour links turn when the pointer hovers over them. Best of all you don't need any knowledge of HTML or CSS. It also comes with additional templates. However some of the older templates may not be compatible with the new template designer in which case you would have to switch templates. The template let me have gadgets along both sides. The right side is for third party and miscellaneous gadgets and the left side is for gadgets affiliated with this blog. The new template that I had to choose because of the problem I just highlighted allows me to insert more than one row of gadgets at the bottom of the page. I inserted two polls and a small note along with the Back to Top link that was there previously. Please do at least one of the polls.

The Blog Author    :)

PS: None of your gadegets are deleted when you change your template.

New Blogger features

Blogger has announced a feature that enables you to create up to ten 'pages'. They are like the webpages on a normal website. This comes as Google announces the shut down of Google Page Creator. Google is urging users to upgrade to Gogle Sites but it seems that some will turn to blogging and the new pages feature instead.

The Blog Author       :)

Hello,

 

This post was published via Microsoft Word. To publish to your own blog via Word 2007:

1. Click the Office button
   
2. Click New
   
3. Click publish new blog post
   
4. Then enter all the information necessary.
   
5. Type your post using the formatting functionality of Word
   
6. Click publish
   

   
    

   Please note that you cannot press ctrl+n to open a new blog post
   

   
    

   I have searched online to see whether this is possible in older versions of Word and I have come up with nothing.
   

   
    

   If you have any suggestions or you know how to do it in previous versions of Word just drop me an email at learnweblogs@gmail.com or post a comment.
   

   
    

   The Blog Author J

Hello All

Hello,

Hopefully you are ready for another year of tip and hints to get your blog more viewers. I have set up an email address for this blog. It is learnweblogs@gmail.com. If you have any suggestions or questions please do not hesitate to send an email to that address.

You may have noticed that this blog has changed a bit. I tried to change the template of my blog using a different website but the whole blog got messed up. I will fix this as soon as possible.

The Blog Author   :)

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,

This blog has been on the internet for exactly 7 months and 6 days ago. I cannot believe it all started with a book from the local library. Here is the link to my first post, http://learnweblogs.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-first-entry.html.

Some of the highlights of this year include the comments, polls, sidebar gadgets especially the disscussion forum,



the YouTube video, Please Note: you can only view this video if you are on the posts own page.



the picture,

 and the jump breaks.

Blog Colour 2

The poll that I put up to choose the colour for this blog has not got a lot of response with only one person and me voting. For the time being I will make the blog Christmas colours like green and red, when I get more responses I will make a final decision for the colour.

Now since I don't have the exact hex codes for the current colour if the majority says keep it the same I will try my best to reset it.

In other news I will be doing a special End of year post which will mark the 9 months that this blog has been operating for.

The Blog Author    :)

Blog Colour

Hi,

I have found a website with hexadecimal/hex codes. These allow you to manually change a the colour of your webpage via the Html Edit page in Layout. To determine which colour to make this blog I have made a poll. Please vote to make your voice heard.

You are free to leave a comment as well with your views on the colour this blog should be.

The Bog Author    :)

This Blog on Facebook

Hi,


I have made a group for this blog on Facebook. It will allow a larger scope of people from different countries to visit this blog so more people have the chance to make their blog better. In fact a person who I don't know is visiting this blog. At least I didn't know until I checked the group on Facebook. to become a member of the I AM LEARNING HOW TO USE BLOGGER group just click here .

The Blog Author       :)

Cbox

I have successfully found something similar to a Discussion Forum. It is a chat box developed by cbox. You can make your own by going to the cbox website. It is under the Recent posts Gadget and above the Feeds gadget.The chat is also live so if one person in the US is typing and someone in NZ is typing they will see it update in realtime (to be tested). There is also an update button.

The Blog Author     :)

Update

Hello,

It has been one week since the previous post about transliteration. I managed to get my Google Analytics account up and running. Now I have completely run out of ideas for the next post. Now I need your requests. Tell me what you want to see in this blog and I will get it done for you. I have been running out of time so I don't think that the special post will happen on Saturday, but I have formulated a new goal....

Transliteration

Hi,

There are a lot of different languages in the world and there is only one World Wide Web. So to help with this hurdle there is a feature in Blogger known as transliteration. This feature automatically phonetically translates you work.

About this blog

You have probably noticed the about this blog note at the top of the page. To add it you mut go to Layout, Add Gadget. Then type your message. After that save the gadget and then drag it above the Blog Posts part and  also on top of the gadgets. I reckon it looks better underneath the title but it is your call.

I have also found that I will have to delete something from the Blog Posts thing to put Star Ratings in.

So make your voice be heard and vote on the latest poll...

The Blog Author   :)

Octobers Goal

Hi,

As I said on the special post there will be a new goal/objective. The goal is.....

Get 25 votes by 27/10/09. I will have a total of 5 polls in that time and I hope that there will be at least 5 votes on each poll.

I also have another update...

The star ratings are not working and I am trying to find a solution. I think it is because I can only have 3 lines of thing underneath each post. If you have any answers or solutions please leave a comment.

The blog author  :)

SPECIAL POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!!!!!!

Thank You to you all for all of the comments you posted!
Bookologist posted the last comment 27/09/09 asking whether you can really put more than three reactions, as a follow-up comment to the one posted by Anonymous. So I set out to find it. My answer is ... yes you can to do this you must edit it as usual by clicking the Edit button in Blog Posts. Then click edit by the reactions part.Then add a comma and the next reaction.
Next is the new feature...

Embedded comments

Hi,

As I promised I have tried and tested something new from Bloggers 10th Birthday.

I enabled embedded comments, this means that when you click on the posts title the comment form appears underneath previous comments.

The special post is happening

Thank you because now because of your avid commenting I will be posting the Special Post.

Nothing more to say so...

The Blog Author  :)

Nine days to go

There are only nine more days until 1 October so keep those comments coming or the special post will not happen.

To tell you a bit about it it will have every thing I have learnt so far, plus two extra features.

All in one post!

I will also be shortening some previous posts with jump breaks so all of the information will still be there I am just trying to make the homepage load faster. I will only break the "The blog author" bit and the instructions on how to do it yourself

I also have another blog about Climate Change that you might like. I made a blog widget with Blidget and put it on my sidebar. I do this blog with Bookologist the person who posted lot of comments. Good on you!

The blog author    :)

Jump breaks

Hi,

As part of Bloggers 10 Birthday they announced a new feature that allows a more link to appear on the post. Like this

(click below for the rest of the post)

Two more comments to go

Hi,

I counted the amount of comments we have and guess what there are 1 comments which means that when there is two more comments I will post the special post.

Also I have put a new widget on the sidebar. It uses Google Calendar to schedule events. Sice I am confident that there will be 2 more comments in two more weeks I have already scheduled the special post to be on 1/10/09.

In the next two weeks I will have one post per week. Blogger is celebrating it's birthday by having new widgets, templates etc. I will use one new feature each week and put up a post about it.

I also have one mor thing to mention. I have another blog that I do with a friend. It is really cool and just follow the link to check it out. http://climatesat.blogspot.com/ . Don't forget to vote on the poll.

Online picture for real (look at the previous post for mor details)

The picture is too big as well...

I will try some other time.

Refer to the previous post for more information.

Extra News!!!

I have set a goal to do as much as possible to make more people visit this blog. So use the email icon and tell your friends and family.

My other goal is to get more comments in. I must have about 15 comments this month otherwise the special post in't going to come.

Bye   :)

PS: The special post is a post that I will do every month now to recap all of my skills that I learnt in  that month. Plus it is really fun to read and you will enjoy it so keep those comments coming.

Adding a picture from another website

Hi,

I am sorry for the mistake in the information in the last post. There is one more thing I can do in multimedia, that is adding a picture from the internet. However because of copyright etc. I have to upload one to this post and then use that one.

You may be thinking why I don't just use the one from the Adding a picture post, that is because the photo is huge when I open it on the internet.

Here is the picture from the computer..... 

Now I will make a new post and use this picture. Hopefully it won't be too big online.

Bye for now   :)

PS: MUST HAVE MORE COMMENTS

Template and Widget Information

Hi,

It has been a long time sice I posted something so here it is.

I was reading Blogger Buzz, Google's blog about Blogger to help Bloggers users, and as part of Bloggers tenth birthday they had changed the options on the labels widget. So I took advantage and I changed it. Now all of the labels are bigger if they have more posts with those labels on them. I have also changed the poll. The previous one was hard to adhere to because there is nothing else I can do in multi-media, so widgets it is!!! I have also changed the template becuse I thought that the old one too boring. The widgets are back on the right side now. Don't forget that if you can't follow the blog you can get a feed of it right to your browser. It is all in the sidebar.

Until next time...

Bye :)

Don't forget to keep those comments coming!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click on comments just below.

New Widgets

I added a couple of widgets that I found in Layout Basic Widgets

My Profile

Labels

Search my blog and the Internet with Google Custom Search

At the bottom of the page I have added a followers Widget so you don't have to scroll back up to the top of my blog just to keep updated on my posts.

I have also added labels to all of my posts so it is easier for you to find the post that you want.

:)