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Create a Sliding Google Plus Followers Box in Blogger

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Google Plus is one of the biggest social networks. Just like Facebook it allows people to create a profile, community and page. Google Plus is also a great way to drive massive traffic to your blog and sharing your posts on Google Plus increases your blog chances to appear in search results. Google gives more attention to the content shared on Google Plus. If you've created your Google Plus profile and you want to increase your followers, so in this tutorial we are going to share a sliding Google plus followers box. This box slides from the right side on hover with the followers box, it'll attract your visitors and they'll definitely follow you.
Create a Sliding Google Plus Followers Box in Blogger

Create a Sliding Google Plus Followers Box in Blogger

First and foremost, log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Layout >> Click Add a Gadget, scroll down and select HTML/JavaScript gadget from the list. Now copy the below code and paste it in the empty widget box

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<!--
$(document).ready(function() {$(".gplusbox").hover(function() {$(this).stop().animate({right: "0"}, "medium");}, function() {$(this).stop().animate({right: "-330"}, "medium");}, 500);});
//-->
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.gplusbox{
background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSYKQkPyhRQYd_ulRJjXy0CgyDiDFEwJbVeXgBKoqFY9f97PlSfgB1Bz-OMTnuE72K8Hvwu-Egv3uu3tR81JEqxgFAUVlomGxWdcRilYx0bLM9mXYHnR2cyehHSrPPLL3RPT0hRg-ASt-/s1600/blogolect.png") no-repeat scroll left center transparent !important;
display: block;
float: right;
height: 275px;
padding: 0 0px 0 46px;
width: 325px;
z-index: 99999;
position:fixed;
right:-330px;
top:20%;
}
.gplusbox div{
padding: 8px;
background: white;
border: 2px solid #D64937;
border-radius: 2px;
border-right: 0;
border-top-right-radius: 0;
border-bottom-right-radius: 0;
}
</style>
<div class="gplusbox"><div>
<div class="g-plus" data-action="followers" data-height="300" data-href="https://plus.google.com/+zohaibliaqat" data-source="blogger:blog:followers" data-width="320">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

      (function() {
        window.___gcfg = {'lang': 'en'};
        var po = document.createElement('script');
        po.type = 'text/javascript';
        po.async = true;
        po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
      })();
    </script>
</div></div>

  • Replace https://plus.google.com/+zohaibliaqat with your Google Plus Profile URL

Click Save button and you're done!

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How to Create a Drop Down Menu in Blogger

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A navigation menu/drop down menu makes your blog/website user-friendly by allowing your visitors to easily navigate your blog posts by just selecting categories from the menu. A navigation menu plays an important role in your blog development, either its a top website like Mashable or a newly created blog, a drop down menu is an essential element of every website. It makes your blog user-friendly, easy to navigate and also adds a new and unique look to your design and makes it look professional. After reading all these advantages if you want to add a Drop Down menu to your Blog/Website, then in this tutorial we'll show you that how to create a Drop Down Menu in blogger. The credit goes to MBT. The design we're going to share today is simple, clean and will surely attract your visitors.
How to Create a Drop Down Menu in Blogger

How to Create a Drop Down Menu in Blogger

First and foremost, log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Template and click Edit HTML. Click inside the template code area and by using Ctrl+F search for the ]]></b:skin> tag. Now copy the below code and paste it just above/before it (]]></b:skin> Tag)

body {
margin: 0px;
}
#menu{
background: #3EA9AC;
color: #fff;
height: 40px;
text-transform:uppercase;
border-bottom: 2px solid #3EA9AC;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 9px #B1B1B1;
border-top: 1px solid #3EA9AC;
}
#menu ul,#menu li{margin:0 auto;padding:0 0;list-style:none}
#menu ul{height:45px;width:1024px}
#menu li{float:left;display:inline;position:relative;font:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-shadow: 1px 2px 4px #838383;}
#menu a{display: block;
line-height: 40px;
padding: 0 14px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
}
#menu li a:hover{
color: #E4E4E4;
-webkit-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
background: #5FC6EB;
}
#menu input{display:none;margin:0 0;padding:0 0;width:80px;height:30px;opacity:0;cursor:pointer}
#menu label{font:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;display:none;width:35px;height:36px;line-height:36px;text-align:center}
#menu label span{font-size:16px;position:absolute;left:35px}
#menu ul.menus{
height: auto;
overflow: hidden;
width: 170px;
background: #3EA9AC;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
display: none;
}
#menu ul.menus li{
display: block;
width: 100%;
font:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
text-transform: none;
text-shadow: none;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #31AFDB;
}
#menu ul.menus a{
color: #FFF;
line-height: 35px;
}
#menu li:hover ul.menus{display:block}
#menu ul.menus a:hover{
background: #5FC6EB;
color: #FFF;
-webkit-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
transition: all .1s ease-in-out;
}

Now again Search for the <body> tag and just below it add the following code

    <nav id='menu'>
    <input type='checkbox'/>
    <label>&#8801;<span>Blogolect</span></label>
    <ul>
    <li><a href='/'>Home</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Contact</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Drop Down 1<font size='1'>&#9660;</font></a>
    <ul class='menus'>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 1</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 2</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 3</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 4</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 5</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 6</a></li>

    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href='#'>Services</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Drop Down 2<font size='1'>&#9660;</font></a>
    <ul class='menus'>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 1</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 2</a></li>
    <li><a href='#'>Tab No 3</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href='#'>Advertise</a></li>
           </ul>
        </nav>

  • Replace Blogolect with your Blog name
  • Replace # with the Links and rename the categories

Finally click Save Template button and you're done!

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Launching Our Second Website - Themeolect

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Surprise! It gives me great pleasure to present to you Our 2nd Website entitled as "Themeolect". Yes, Themeolect, its the 2nd blog under our Network. The purpose of creating this blog is to provide you Highly Professional and Unique Blogger Templates. By its name anyone can guess that what this website is actually about, yeah Theme (Template).

Visit Themeolect Now


After receiving a lot of requests from BGT readers and our fans on Facebook for Blogger Templates. An idea came to my mind to start a Blogger Resource Blog. After spending hours on research, finally I came to my result and started to design my new website "Themeolect".

My Mistakes

1 Year back when I started Blogolect, I was a beginner blogger with no skills and experience. I made countless mistakes in my first 6 months due to which Blogolect didn't rank well but after hours and hours of daily research and improving my skills. I said to myself "Oh Sh**", I was doing all wrong and I wasted my six months. After that I started to blog regularly, writing top quality posts and improving my skills. Today after writing hundreds of posts on Blogolect for Helping Newbies, I'm going to enter into the next phase by launching my 2nd website Themeolect.

Don't forget to Like Themeolect on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/themeolect

Our Goal

At Themeolect, we'll share only the best and professional Blogger Templates. Our team will collect the best templates from hundreds of professional designers and we'll share them with you on Themeolect. Now you don't have to surf hours on the internet searching for the perfect template because Themeolect is one stop for blogger templates. Our main aim is to help newbie bloggers so that they can run a well-designed website.

Don't forget to share our new website on your social profiles, friends and on your website and help us in making it the No. 1 Blogger Template Resource website.

Google's Domain Registration Service Now Open to All US Residents

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Everyone knows the importance of a Custom Domain. Its is the first powerful step for a website. We already know many domain registrars like GoDaddy, Askforhost, Hostgator and Bigrock. But now Google is officially a domain registrar only in U.S.
Google's Domain Registration Service Now Open to All US Residents
This service was first launched in June 2014 and the service was only available to people through invite but now Google Domain Registration Service is Open to all U.S Residents.

Like all other domain registrars, Google domain registration starts at $12/Year. The service includes a domain name as well as extras like:

  • Private Registration
  • Email Forwarding
  • Support for up to 100 sub-domains 
  • Domain/URL Forwarding
  • Integration with Website Builder Services

Domain registration starts at only $12. Google has also added support for Blogger, making it easy for Blogger users to link up their blog with a new domain name. The service supports for over 60 domain extensions. You can also take advantage of integrated services through Google partners such as Wix and Weebly by paying additional fees.

This service is now open to all U.S residents. The company is planning to start this service in other countries but there's no timetable given. Those outside the U.S have the option to sign up to a mailing list in order to be notified when the service will be available in their country.

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5 Best Places to Learn to Code

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Coding is not just for geeks anymore. Gone are the days when programming languages could only be mastered by supergeeks. Now, everyone can learn to code. It’s never been a better time to pick up programming. No matter your age or your experience, you can start programming whenever you want. You don't have to go to college or university, just turn on your computer and start learning whatever you want...for free. The biggest problem in learning coding is that it was never easy, but now forget all complicated setups. Today we are going to share a list of 5 Best Websites to Learn Coding. These websites simplify coding and make it look like a child play and providing screenshots, instructors and thousands of video tutorials. So, it's your time to start learning and become a programmer.
5 Best Places to Learn to Code

Codecademy

Codecademy is featured in Bloomberg, The Guardian, Wired, and dozens of other Major Publications. Codecademy is one stop to learn coding. Everything is practical, no theory. Just join the community of codecademy and learn to code javascript, HTML, Python, CSS, PHP Ruby and more. Create your profile and start to learn code with free resources and create apps and websites. You can take lessons on writing simple commands in JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Python and Ruby.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is one of the best places to start your coding career. Millions of people are using khan academy to learn coding. Hundreds of video tutorials are available at khan academy. All the video lessons are available in almost 40 languages and increasing. It has also 5 different versions for different languages. And it's free for everyone, no ads, no subscriptions and nothing, just go and start your coding career.

Udemy

Udemy is one of the world's largest marketplace for online learning. Udemy offers tons of courses for learning. At udemy, 5 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming, designing, developing to yoga. 22000+ courses are available at Udemy. Basically you've to buy a course to learn it, but don't worry, there are hundreds of free courses available related to coding. There are dozens of free courses of programming available at Udemy.

Coursera

Coursera offers hundreds of free online courses from dozens of universities. Coursera offers hundreds of free courses to learn coding. Choose from hundreds of courses created by the world’s top educational institutions. Courses are open to anyone, and learning is free. You can participate in Coursera courses free of charge. To get a verified certificate, just pay the course free and get a verified certificate.

Code.org

Launched in 2013, Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science by making it more available. Millions of students have tried their An Hour to Code program. Their courses are available in 30+ languages. In addition to their introductory course, Code.org also offers courses in JavaScript, Game Coding, Python and more.
There are hundreds of other websites to learn coding. We just shared some of them and we'll try to cover more articles on coding. Stay tuned!

Have you studied at any website we shared above? How’s the experience? Do you have a favorite free coding resource? Share yours for others in the comments section below.

7 Best Blogger Templates for Video Blogs

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Here's a Collection of 7 Best Templates for Video Blogs.
Recently we shared an article on 20 Best Blogger Templates of 2014 and today again, we're going to share another article on Blogger Templates. Blogger is a flexible and easy to use platform. Apart of its hundreds of features one of its best features is that you can easily install/upload custom templates within just a few minutes. Thousands of Professionally designed templates are available on the internet, but the problem is to choose the best one, that fulfill your requirements.
7 Best Blogger Templates for Video Blogs
If you're looking to start a new Video Blog on Blogger and you're confused about its template, then just take a look at this collection of 7 Best Blogger Templates for Video Blogs. All these are handpicked templates having clean design, professional look and eye catching layout.

Movieism

Movieism is a unique and stylish entertainment blogger template which is appropriate for any kind of movie blog, cinema, movie promotion, film blogs and movie communities. Movieism comes with a separate framework that is built with latest technologies like CSS3 and HTML5. You can create a custom homepage or can use the default one which entirely depends upon your needs. It is responsive which makes it almost one of its kind movie templates for blogger BlogSpot blogs.

Video Box

VideoBox is a very professional video gallery blogger themes with great feature like wooden design and gray color for basic design this themes, ads space widget at top right sidebar, professional video gallery blogger themes and 4 columns layout, drop down menu for main navigation, 1 right sidebar, auto thumbnail post at homepage, 4 column widget at footer, ads space ready, fast themes on browser and you must try this themes for music or video sites.

Moviexpose

MovieXpose is a unique Entertainment Blogger template which is suitable for any type of cinema, movie promotion, Movie Reviews, blogs and movie communities no matter the size. MovieXpose Template comes with two designs - dark background and light background. It is ads ready, two view mode (List and Grid) width cookies and Rating widget inbuilt.

Blog Tube

BlogTube is a Professional Responsive Video Blogger Template designed for video sites, video blog video portal. This template will help you to setup a professional video site quickly. It is inspired by popular websites including YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. No two opinions to say that it is the most powerful Video Blogger theme ever. It is fast, responsive, minimal and packed with tons of features required to set up a professional video site.

Videoism

Videoism is a professional video hosting blogger template designed for video site and video blog portal. This template would help everyone in setting up a professional video site rather quickly. It is somewhat inspired from popular video hosting websites like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and etc. No modest to say that this is the most powerful and robust Video Blogger template ever. It has significant features that would surely make your visitors feel great. It is extremely light weight and has quite impressive features too.

Tube Mag

Tube Mag is a Professional Responsive Video Blogger Template designed for video site, video blog video Portal. This theme will help you get a professional video site up and running quickly, it is inspired and support by the popular websites: YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion.

Johny Crottube

Johny Crottube template is Johny Crott series that was made for video content only from Youtube. There's so many feature in this template. It's a white and black color with 5 column blogger in there, easy loading with elegant looks, 1 left sidebar in homepage and 1 right sidebar in post page, 3 columns footer, navigation drop down menu, grid and list style, pagination for blogger ready, clean design template, and more.

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12 Things to Do After You've Written a New Blog Post - Infographic

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Yesterday we shared An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015. Today, again we're going to share an article to boost your website traffic. Okay, you've just finished writing a new blog post. You're excited to share another great post on your blog. But you know what? Sometimes great content also gets unnoticed because of some simple but major mistakes.
Things to Do After You've Written a New Blog Post
You've just finished writing a new blog post? What would you do next? Hit Publish and start writing the next post! But wait you did it all wrong. Sometimes you spend hours and hours writing a great new post, you put a lot of effort into polishing the post up to look its best, and read and reread it many times to make sure everything is just right. But it gets unnoticed and you receive just a few visits. This happens because you're making some major mistakes while publishing/writing your new post and that's what we are going to talk about today. Today, we're going to share an infographic created by Divvyhq on 12 Things to Do After You've Written a New Blog Post. Hope you find it useful.

12 Things to Do After You've Written a New Blog Post - Infographic

12 Things to Do After You've Written a New Blog Post

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An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015

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What do you think that you'll publish a post on your blog and the comments and shares will start rolling in? No, you're wrong. Increasing website traffic has always been a major problem for Bloggers. Writing quality content is not enough. You've to spread the word all over the world. Without readers, a website is nothing. No matter how good and informative post you've published on your blog, if it isn't seen by readers. And the only way to get our posts read by people is to promote it everywhere you can. Recently, we shared some articles on increasing your website traffic and we got good response from our readers, so today again, we're going to share some proven strategies for increasing your website traffic. Here's An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015.
An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015

Be Social - Promote your Each Blog Post on Social Media

The Social Media Usage is increasing every year. Social media usage has increased in 2014, as compared to 2013 . People are using social media for both business and personal usage. Let's take an example of Facebook there are billions of active users on Facebook. So, if you share your website posts on Facebook, I think it would be great for you. Uh! I know what you're thinking now, that How is it possible to reach all those billions of people? It's impossible, I know. But there are hundreds of Facebook group having millions of members. So, just join those groups and share your posts on daily basis. You can get those groups by using Google.

Related: 8 Effective Ways to Generate Massive Traffic from Facebook

But remember, social media isn’t all about posting content, it’s more about engagement.  So, do post your content, Post Questions, Ask opinions, Do surveys and take the full benefit of social media.

Share More than Once a Day

Many of us have the mentality of sharing once and done. But that's not the right way. You publish a post, and share it just once, so what about those people who missed your post? Some people log in to their account daily, some people after 1-2 days, while some people on a weekly basis. So what about those people? That's why you should post more than once a day.

Okay consider you Publish one post on your website daily. After sharing that post on your social accounts, share your previous post after 5-6 hours and keep sharing your posts after a certain interval. Here's a simple Time Table for you:

You Published a Post Today! Share it --> Share it again after 2 days >> Share it again after a week and then share the same post after a Month.

But remember, don't get crazy about sharing. Yes, that's right! Don't behave like lazy people by sharing 15-20 times a day. The best way is to share 3-5 times a day and keep your followers busy. Enough said!

Extra Tip:
Share the same post more than once with different Unique and Catchy headlines. Share it with a quote, its title or write an interesting headline.

Participate in Communities Related to you Niche

Here's another killer tip to boost your traffic. Engaging with other bloggers is a great way to boost your traffic. Its a proven strategy and it helped me a lot in increasing my website traffic.

Also Read: Top 6 Blogging Communities to Promote your Blog

Lets take an example, you're a designer and imagine what would happen if hundreds of designers meet at one place? Obviously they will share their ideas and bla bla bla. Same in the case of blogging, if you join a blogging community, you'll meet other bloggers and all of you share your posts. In this way they'll visit your blog and its impossible that you wouldn't find some interesting posts written by other blogger.

Also Read: Boost your Blog Traffic and Authority with ViralContentBuzz

In this way, you can boost your traffic and engage with other bloggers. And thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. So participate in communities related yo your niche, engage with other bloggers and increase your website traffic.

Guest Posting

What is Guest Posting? Simply, guest posting is to write an article and submit it to a website that accept guest posts. If your post gets accepted, they'll publish your article on their website and in return you'll a backlink to your blog. Simple. Right!

Also Read: 7 Ways to Increase your Blog Traffic

Guest posting is one of the best ways for increasing your website traffic. Guest posting doesn't only help you in increasing your website traffic, it also sends you external links from those sites, and the more links your site gets, the better it will appear in search engine results.

From Editors Desk

There are thousands of ways for increasing your website traffic. We just shared some important and effective ways in this post. A part of all above methods, focus on your content, write quality content and don't forget SEO.

What you think about the above methods? Let us know in the comments.