okay i was a first time blogger skinner about two hours ago... and now im pretty sure i've got this whole thing down.
website designers: this is going to be a breeze for you.
Blogger skinning is basically like website designing. You can even skin in dreamweaver! its totally customizable, whereas xanga isnt, and u customize everything in xanga using css.
just design a webpage
then where ever you want your blog to be, make a div
inside that div put the blogger tags in.
here are the blogger tags:
Start with
Thank you! This will sure help a lot of people. Topic Pinned
two hours????
thats crazy!
I've been on xanga for a month and i still don't quite get it.
so, lemme get this straight. Using blogger, you could/should(?) still use CSS while doing things, just within the div tag for the certain part?
I'm still really lost. Good thing xanga is n00bie.
I wonder if u can do image mapping on this?
AND thnx to me, we found out that you can make ur blogger on FRONTPAGE or DREAMWEAVER and copy paste the html. Nekked u still havent put the thnx to me on ur siggy
Ok im just gonna post up a brief tutorial on blogger. I learned alot and hoping to be a blogger mod soon here goes.
Ok, the main page is www.blogger.com so look around the site for a while.
To sign up, click the sign up button, or somthing similar if they change the page layout. After you sign up and do everything including your first post, on the right of the blogger.com screen should be a small box that says YOUR BLOGS
On mine, the one that says Come see His Grace, is the title of my blogger. It allows you to see your blogger, whether you want to see your skin or etc. If you click it, it will take you to a page where you post your new....err....post. On top, there should be a few links that say Posting Settings and Template.
Posting, lets you post another post.
Settings lets you change your website page title and description.
Template is where you put your Blogger template that ill be designing soon. In the mean time, use nekked's.
Under it, it says Create a new blog. Note that you can have more than 1 blog meaning new skins to tryout and a skintester w/o creating a new account.
Edit you profile lets u change you name, email, etc.
On the blogger main page, there are Blogs of note and Fresh blogs. This is like xanga's Newly updated Content and Featured Content. In the middle of the page are some news.
FAQ
Q: How do i get some help on my Blogger including problems and such?
A: On the main page look at the top right of th screen. There should be a small box (orange) with HOME ABOUT and SUPPORT. Click support and follow the steps.
Q: Do you have to pay for it?
A: Nope its free like xanga, but for 15 a year, you can host it on blogger w/o ads imagehosting and such
Q: Will Blogger work on a Mac?
A: Yup it will! We believe other browsers will be compatible with the Classic Interface as they evolve. However, Firebird and Camino are all still in beta testing. Safari has just recently gone final and there are known issues which affect the Blogger application (link and style buttons).
Blogger will re-evaluate how these browsers perform with the Classic Interface.
Q: Why choose Blogger over Xanga?
A: Not saying you should. Xanga is more popular and easier to control and such. Blogger in way mroe customizeable and the skins are in <html> format.
More will come after school
wow...girlie you are hella smart....man i'm still tryin to do this whole blogger thing and it has not been a success yet..but thank you for your tutorial
whee heee.! Nice job 2nekked! You open my mind.
Plus, it's like xanga PREMIUM for free!
that's kewl! i'll get me a blogger!
wheeee that's good info n_n
man this is easy....haha but i still choose to use your skins cause they are so pretty....and i will do my own but your skins are so pretty....i love your skins...trust me i do
so THAT's what blogger was! i heard a lot about it but i never got details. i think im gonna try it! thanks for da info!
can you say *confusing* mann.. i still don't get it! lol.. heeeellllpppp!!!
ok......
how do you post?
cool
wow~ very useful~ thankies!
thanx it may help me!
whats the full code look like
why dont u goto the skins directory and look at it?
damn do some work...
i dunt get how to do it
Just go to the Bloggers skin place and look how the code works.
Try incorporating some images or color schemes.
=)
Hope that helps.
can i get dreamwave or frontpage without a disc like buying it online?
...2 hours...?? i've been on it for.... 1 year!!! and i still don't get how to do anything.... all i know how to do is copy and paste hahahha
did you remember all those codes by heart..? or just from copying and pasting..? i tried looking through premade xanga codes.. but i just get confused at the end...
OK WTF???? I am so f***n confused I cant even breathe!What about people who know nuthing about this kind of stuff?Please Please help me and be a lil more specific~Thank you~
Hmm... can you explain the div part a little more?
So basically, if I wanted a date and entry, I'd just put:
[date code] (some line space code) [all the codes]?
okay okay lets explain this again.
you make your webpage:
so lets see.. u get ur image.. (image map if u want)
ok,but do you use any html?or do u have to use blogger`s html sites and stuff?i was thinking maybe xanga html will werk good..
this is really confusing..u can use xanga html too rite?
wow it seems difficult, but as long as I got it, then I can try making some. Thanks for the help every one!
wow...this looks interesting..i think imma try this blogger thing
ur two hours is like my two years..lol. well this will help. ill just take my time.
GOOD LORD! jk.....ok that was confusing...but i think i get it....ok nvm i dont....waaaaa!!!
ohh and how do you get a blogger?! u just use a regular website or what?
http://www.blogger.com
hmm blogger seems like a challenge n it sounds so k0ol! ill get me a blogger! once i get a hang of it i wanna be a blogger mod *GOAL*!!
i know the HTMLs but where do i sumit it?
umm so u cant use xanga skins on blogger? hehe just asking... cuz i asked and the computer lab teacher at my school said they worked... so i'm not sure i dont even know how to use xanga skins either so... yea i need a lot of help. i'm using blogger for this honor's course thing for school and i want to have a different skin then everybody else cuz then mine'd be unique and cool so can help me plz?
hol up let me get a blogger thingy then ill come back lol
blogger rocks!
imah die hard blogger fan!
its so easy to customize!
i haven't tried xanga cuz im too happy with blogger.
p.s: a big plus for blogger is that after its latest overhaul, it provides unlimited free picture hosting! you have to download a program which they provide on blogger called Hello!
more details are availble onrhttp://blogger.com.
im confused...=\
is there somethin here where i can make a picture i want to use into a link type of thing? how do i do that??
Wow. thankiess!
what site host blogger?
whats a div??(im new..yeah)
what's <!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --> and <!-- end code provided by createblog.com --> mean?
i dun get that~ and i duno how to appy it for my skin ~ can u help me?~
ehem...newbi here. I've been searching 4 that.....Thanks thanks a lot!!!
u r soOoOoO smart! I've been trying to do this for hours but I cant get it! LOL. I'm gonna wait for a few days until my front page gets fixed, it's easier to do it on front page than on notepad.
PERSONALLY, I think xanga is better than blogger.
xanga and blogger are like about the same to me.....
for me, blogger is really better. Blogger doesn't have a banner.
where do u put ur html??
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I don't get this website at all. all I want to do is see who visits my xanga website.
how can i be an official blogger to use the log? thanks.
cool.
i am going to use this in order to try to learn how to skin blogger!
yay! finally some codes that i can finally understand since you gave an explanitation! thank you so much! i am going to try to learn how to skin blogger. pray for me.
wow 2 hours... hmm gesh I used to not understand how people can be online for hours but gesh I'm the main one always on now... gesh talk bout putting your foot in your mouth and now I'm just learning the basic... blah well better now then later when I don't have all this free time...
thnx for that.. but im totally new to this so i dont even know how to design one..
How do i crop my image to a square when it asks me to do so, so i give a screen shot for what my blooger looks like when i want to submit it?? help me please
Yup, I love blogger and xanga equally. The thing about blogger is the e-mail posting. I love being able to post to my blogger through e-mail. You gotta go premium for that on xanga.
For all of the people replying and saying they don't know how...LEARN TO MAKE WEBSITE LAYOUTS FIRST!!!! lol. Reading over this tut. it implies that you have a knlowledge of HTML. If you do, then you are more likely to get it than others. I think that solves many problems...lol.
Yall's schools let you go to blogger and xanga? Those sites including .tk sites are blocked by our school systems Sonic firewall. "This site is blocked and your actions have been recorded" lol.
[I]lol i have noclue even what a blogger is... lol so it would be super ahhsome is some one could help me out!!!
[I] how do u make a blogger?
i rele need help i dont n how to even sign up for this blogger thing and i wanna try this so i got confuzed on signing up
I think a lot of the problem is the fact that you can have multible blogs on one account, so some people (esp. coming straight from xanga) get confused with "user name" and "name of blog" and "url of blog" and all of that neat stuff...
Ok, so you have this things in div boxes. Do you make the background layout just as one image? Or as a background? Does that work?
That would be easy if it is...I think.
this really helps! Thank you.
hello...can i ask sth? for my blog skin, whenever i add an entry, the page will go longer than ever. how can i make it such that all the entries are in a FIXED box with a scroll bar so as to prevent the "UNFIXED" box for entries to go longer.
Wow, this looks...really simple.
When you take away the pre-made layout html, blogger html is really quite simple. Thanks a million for this, its awesome!
i love you. haha, i've been trying to get my blogger together
i wish to add, if you have friends using other journal they could comment on your blogger and leave their link unlike in xanga you should be a xangan as well...
don't get me wrong, i love xanga as well..
do you have the code for adding the navigation and all that other sidebar stuff?
you need to use a div code, and please post in blogger help next time.
what do u mean by "make a div"?
thank you so much for this, it helped me to fix my blog layout. your the best! it was easy to understand and now i cant wait to do more to my blog.
Eh..blogger is O.K.
Can somebody tell me how to use a layout for my myspace page? I've been trying all day and I'm getting frusterated.....
this is a BLOGGER forum, you know for blogger, not myspace. Please REDIRECT your questions to the appropriate forum.
ok..ummm just join, and got no idea how to use this, other then profile. any helps?
first you need to know how to make a layout, then code it. By using our tutorials.
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<blogger>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<BlogDateHeader><div align="right">
<$BlogDateHeaderDate$></div>
</BlogDateHeader>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<BlogItemTitle><$BlogItemTitle$><a
name="<$BlogItemNumber$>"> </a></BlogItemTitle>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<div class="blogPost">
<$BlogItemBody$>
<BR>
<a href="http://www.freecodesource.com"><img src="http://img.freecodesource.com/gallery/images/banners/prod_452_15700.gif" border="0" alt="Myspace Layouts" title="Myspace Layouts"></a><br><a href="http://www.freecodesource.com">Myspace Layouts - Grannie on an antique motorcycle</a><br>
<BR>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"
title="permanent
link">#</a> posted by <a
href="mailto:koolgranniexo@yahoo.com"><$BlogItemAuthorNickname$></a> |
<$BlogItemDateTime$> | <a
href="java script:HaloScan('<$BlogItemNumber$>');"
target="_self"><script
type="text/javascript">postCount('<$BlogItemNumber$>');
</script></a>div>
</div>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
</Blogger>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
easy right??!
it does matter. You need that as the body of your blogger.
go here for more (http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=110366).
how do i contribution on this site i'm willing to contrubute one of my fine layout so please ca nanyone help me please
I want to add a blog skin to my myspace is it possiable to do so. and if so how
if you want myspace blog, go to myspace.
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84325
i need help!
editing my blogger template is impossible!
i'm completely new at this.
i mean, i've used livejournal and that wasn't so hard. i got the hang of html and the bb codes and whatnot and i don't know if this sounds completely stupid (i'm sorry!) but i can't get any of the codes to work. something about the 'Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.' bit. i honestly have no idea how to get around the widget thing.
if anyone had the time to read this rather lengthy cry for help and can help me, please please please let me know! :]
go here, http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=162008.
Nice! Still learning.. new to all this. Thanks for the info. I'm sure that it will make perfect sense very soon. LOL
I am a newer to Blogs and found thid thread helping me lot in finding the ways to use my blog
I'm sorry to bump such an old topic, but hopefully since it's a pinned thread, it'll still be relevant.
These codes were extremely useful to me. :> This is exactly what I've been looking for.
It may have just been since some Blogger update or something, but I did find that when I inputted the codes into my blog a few required parts were missing. I did have to fix a div that wasn't closed, along with a few other parts. I also found that the amount of breaks in the text stretched out my blog a lot, and it took me a while to find and remove them from in between all the Createblog tags.
If the creator of the thread is still around, you may want to consider adding in the archive tags somewhere in your post.
Aside from that, it was an extremely useful resource. Thanks a lot. :>
i need help with edit html...im using classic html...then i paste thecode dat i already copy from here...but it was said like this..
securityToken: Your request could not be processed. Please try again.
please helpp...:(
How would you put comments? :x
I don't get it! It's been like 2 years since I was designing & coding websites, but it shouldn't be this hard...
''We were unable to preview your template
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "blogger" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".''
Is the message I keep getting...
Can somebody put a simplified, full blogger style sheet consisting of the start tags, a div & then an end tag please. The pre stylesheet in blogger is too messy. Too much excessive information that I'm sure doesn't need to be there if you were making one yourself.