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10 Best Magazine Style Blogger Templates

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Are you Planning to start a Magazine Blog? Are you looking for the best Magazine Template to use on your Blog? Choosing the best template has always been a headache for bloggers. There are thousands of template available on the internet and it's almost impossible to check all those templates. So, in order to help you in choosing a template for your magazine blog. Today we're going to share a collection of 10 Best Magazine Style Blogger Templates. Previous we also shared 20 Best Blogger Templates of 2014, 7 Best Blogger Templates for Video Blogs and we also launched our 2nd website Themeolect, visit Themeolect now and browse hundreds of free blogger templates. Here's a collection of 10 Best Magazine Style Blogger Templates:
10 Best Magazine Style Blogger Templates

Awesome Mag


Awesome Mag Blogger Template is fully responsive theme that comes with features that are never seen before in a BlogSpot blogger template. It has a unique fluid design concept with robust elements, which make it a complete package of theme that could be converted into any niche site or blog. It is a 3 column template that can be customized into a portfolio, magazine, personal blog, products, list based sites and etc. It is optimized for both on-page and off-page SEO that gives enough flexibility to rank your post higher in the search engine results, and allows to index your posts 99% faster than the rest of the Blogger templates available on the internet.

Expose



Expose is a blogger theme with responsive layout and it’s High User Friendly Blogger Template. It’s design simple and clean, perfect for a variety of purposes, although focused towards Photographers and those using Portfolios to display their past and present work collections. Requirement: You need to save your own image on Blogger rather than do hotlinking from the various sources to run this template.

Social Mag



Social Mag is a based on Modern UI with futuristic interface. With features that makes it social media friendly. You'll find almost all key features on this template that are needed to run a blog or a magazine based site. This template gives extra importance to your social media network by giving more options to your users for sharing the content to subscribing to your social network.

Grid Mag



Grid Mag is a Magazine Style Blogger Template having 3 Columns, the header is divided in two portions, the left one is your header while on the right side we've implemented a banner ad section.  A beautiful sticky navigation menu on the top and one on bottom. The footer is divided in three portions, which means you can add 3 widget in its footer.

Spray Mag



Spraymag is a magazine style free blogger template. Spraymag is a clean and modern blogger template which is suitable for magazines, newspapers and the blog websites. Spraymag blogger template is very flexible and super easy to use. Spraymag is completely responsive and fast loading blogger template.  Spraymag comes packed with a lot of features like featured slider, Carousel , Featured Posts and a lot more. Features of Spraymag Magazine Blogger Template.

Sora Red



Sora Red is a blogger template with a awesome functional design that not only looks great but also performs exceptionally too. It is a responsive design; which means it can fit seamlessly into any screen size without any visual jerks.

Grid



Grid is a grid-based, responsive minimalistic Blogger theme suitable for any kind of creative, personal or business use. It is the fully responsive HTML5 & CSS3 template that best used for blogging, personal portfolio, even business portal. Grid works seamlessly on a wide range of devices including PCs, mobiles, laptops, etc.

Brand Mag UX



Brand Mag UX is pure and fully responsive Blogger Template builds with latest technologies like HTML and CSS3. It has a unique design concept with multiple elements to customize and turn it around. It has variation in the header, as you can add either Slider or Advertisements. You can use it for design, portfolio, magazine, personal blog, products, presentation and landing page etc. It is also pre-optimized for on-page SEO providing enough functionality to index your posts 80% faster than the other Blogger Templates available on different websites.

Mazaya



Mazaya is a Complete Blogger theme for a news or magazine site with the focus of attracting and keeping visitors on their site. Mazaya is a elegant and professional news theme which is great for anyone looking to display a lot of content in a clean and user friendly manner. Mazaya focuses your images, pictures including video files and allow them a better exposure for your fans and audience so that they can get engaged with your blog's content. Practically every typographic element has been endlessly tweaked for different screen sizes to make sure it looks great no matter what the device.

Movie Mag



Movie Mag is a unique Entertainment Blogger Template which is suitable for any type of Cinema, Movie Promotion, Theatres, Blogs and Movie Communities no matter the size. Movie Mag comes with a separate framework that is built with latest technologies like CSS3 and HTML5. Movie Mag has banner areas, so it allows you to show ads and earn money without making damage to your website overall look. Movie Mag will help you get a professional video site up and running quickly, it is inspired and support by the popular websites like YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion.

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Flat Style Tabbed Social Media Widget for Blogger

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Are you fed up with those old style Social Media subscription styles? Are you Looking for something new? So to fulfill all your needs, today we're going to share a simple and attractive Flat Style Tabbed Social Media Widget for Blogger that we just customized. As you know that Flat Style is the hottest style nowadays. The widget we're going to share today is a Tabbed Widget with Social Media tabs in a simple Flat design and it'll definitely attract your visitors. This widget consists of four different tabs Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Pinterest. So, add this widget to your blog and impress your visitors.

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Flat Style Tabbed Social Media Widget for Blogger

How to Add Flat Tabbed Social Media Widget to Blogger

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

<style>
    ul.tabs {
        padding: 7px 0;
        font-size: 0;
        margin: 0;
        list-style-type: none;
        text-align: left;
    }
    ul.tabs li {
        display: inline;
        margin: 0;
    }
    ul.tabs li a {
        font: normal 12px Verdana;
        text-decoration: none;
        position: relative;
        padding: 25px 10px 0px 10px;
        border-bottom-color: #B7B7B7;
        color: #000;
        background: #00B366;
        outline: none;
    }
    ul.tabs li a:visited {
        color: #000;
    }
    ul.tabs li a:hover {
        background: #007D47 ;
    }
    ul.tabs li.selected a,
    ul.tabs li.selected a:hover {
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        font-weight: bold;
        background: #007D47;
        border-bottom-color: #007D47;
    }
    ul.tabs li.selected a:hover {
        text-decoration: none;
    }
    div.tabcontents {
        border: 1px solid #007D47;
        padding: 10px;
        background-color: #FFF;
        border-radius: 0 3px 3px 3px;
        margin-top: -7px;
    }
</style>


<script src="http://yourjavascript.com/1125723322/blogolect-tabber.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<ul class="tabs">
    <li class="selected">
        <a href="#tab1">
            <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPOB9ushssRciBD06z3hpjksEDeubKPTbCfFvLu4vOhUGeGzxULPT_YCZ3CYO2ZCKXXB92xsqo9FKGjQCMSxMoL_vVH4uX1GQNiuHTYL-McayPQbeoaL2LxjF8mvl0DS__E0NFDdv2fEh/s1600/blogolect-fb.png" height="32" width="32" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#tab2">
            <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqOsWPyAunaU7qdQo-7jNubiEat2W-k-jLTDv3nJVMxZGXy1RN5q5C0n-eTZe3UXrdpJIM6tdMO4Xn4vhMyJoZjXzGzn2y-a0NJkj_li2gj_c_Nzh6zzJSyF2i7L-POPGunwXEFaTLJrKd/s1600/blogolect-twitter.png" height="32" width="32" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#tab3">
            <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzHLMHYbcNyol6sHGpT9Fmp8b553x2JBGsjBSuIbTLJB5ojUaYtxjb-SJAbHRoJx2bTTWq-mzpIW4UuQ-h4Cc4Irb25qXMhuqTegM8RIkPnBGnUL7FkB-8XvFOcp7Cb10zuqGlU0_VE00/s1600/blogolect-googleplus.png" height="32" width="32" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#tab4">
            <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPZJyo0Fx0mgfOhEnW5baCSgWP56OdVOHVgyuw_ZU27BaBvUI7hOW_VWSdc8Q1FJ7BJ7Y6cXRrIvD_C7dAcC4-6q8Bhvws9CTrNROY8bX2yOJrbKG1hTuOUKYLZ3oI_HieXeIstjLsiApy/s1600/blogolect-pinterest.png" height="32" width="32" />
        </a>
    </li>
</ul>
<div class="tabcontents">
    <div id="tab1">
        <iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fblogolect.official&amp;width=285&amp;height=180&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;show_faces=true&amp;header=false&amp;stream=false&amp;show_border=false&amp;appId=409936535724253" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:285px; height:180px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
    </div>
    <div id="tab2">
        <div id="twitter-box"></div>
        <a href="https://twitter.com/blogolect" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large">Follow @blogolect</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
    </div>
    <div id="tab3">
        <script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer></script>
        <div class="g-person" data-width="250" data-href="//plus.google.com/+zohaibliaqat" data-layout="landscape" data-rel="author"></div>
    </div>
    <div id="tab4">
        <a href="http://pinterest.com/blogolect">
            <img src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/about/buttons/follow-me-on-pinterest-button.png" width="169" height="28" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" />
        </a>
    </div>
    <div style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
        <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogolect.com/2015/02/flat-style-tabbed-social-media-widget.html" rel="dofollow" target="_blank">Get this Widget</a></span>
    </div>
</div>

Customization:
  • Replace blogolect.official with your Facebook Page Username
  • Replace both blogolect with your Twitter Username
  • Replace +zohaibliaqat with your Google Plus Username
  • Replace blogolect with your Pinterest Username

Click Save button and you're done!

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Add a Social Media Subscription Widget to Blogger

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Social Media plays an important role in building a successful blog. It helps us to easily interact with our visitors/readers and also drives massive traffic to our blog. Read my previous article on 8 Effective Ways to Generate Massive Traffic from Facebook. I'm telling you with my personal experience that having a social media subscription widget in the sidebar of a blog can help you to increase your subscribers and followers. The more subscribers you have, the more traffic you'll receive because your subscribers will get notified about your new posts and they'll definitely visit your blog to check what's new. We have shared a lot of Social Media subscription widgets and today we're going to share another simple and professional looking social media widget for blogger.
Add a Social Media Subscription Widget to Blogger
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Add a Social Media Subscription Widget to Blogger

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

<style type="text/css">
.bgt-social { width: 290px; }
.bgt-social ul { border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.bgt-social ul li { list-style:none; padding: 0; text-transform: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF; }
.bgt-social ul li:first-child { border-top: 0 none; }
.bgt-social ul li:last-child { border-bottom: 0 none; }
.bgt-social ul li a { background-color: #F2F2F2 !important; color: #404040; display:block; }
.bgt-social ul li a:hover { background-color: #949494 !important;color: #0d0354; }
.bgt-social ul li .rss { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9Et3Mog5YHZFl7i255ymeXHc-KjAKeDFtjr6RuLkPc1fhb2w540-SCgs6jwtQG1HT7PSjcq7MAAx7-E-rKqm_L_rjiKvxpPPa2RjlmwLgTEVJYrjtrTuLtDcs1sD5z4m4j2wHlYenfQ/s1600/bt-RSS.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #F87E12; padding: 17.5px 60px; }
.bgt-social ul li .twitter { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGMTq40dHDW0_KpORAkYkgsgV2RnWow4gmx-rIJ9aBLxN9NNBfuCp2t3sQToq2WuIlHRrB7zculJik_g0WFVEsoIQR2DqFONJYMix83GSxvkoP8jAQOI5cf2wj-0G83mYzhHkgT0OGGE/s1600/bt-Twitter.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #4CACEE; padding: 17.5px 60px;}
.bgt-social ul li .facebook { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYkfKlcE8mCov_6Q_uxJXd2H2uCIyERoskN4IkfEvz1OotcDnUMDyDzrURVuhwkEHBJjnuskgHtbXuDn2-NBO3jAsXwBc4xrTHN1JGZee4LTkiGqd16nTEA0mC2wz0y_4-5Mbbs0IgXoM/s1600/bt-Facebook.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #3B5998; padding: 17.5px 60px; }
.bgt-social ul li .google { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXvnL73viWbMkBuYimBNdBfd3vcHyQ023H14oOGduXzX_7MeMtZL9ZIPl0G81Qu2fhnGB6lLU3r70m7sZlZkerP3LuctSxq8JJZMYs2Xk7r0BIJ_VJuZbkmSE4GFlUrDpjeCjlrdZ66U/s1600/bt-google.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #D44937; padding: 17.5px 60px; }
.bgt-social ul li .linkedin { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugZsg0el-QiBImXFwLYvf4scmn5xmHXJ5zfEI70l68SaKlxJV2hJYdTKaKQ5hZQ4KjK91VdHqu9W2KUxPf3eM39EGPcriMyhyphenhyphenFOn9n92TqqFOMfKIoJx9tzkLywcE_xEoOFZRQW_NrwU/s1600/bt-LinkedIn.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #3692C3; padding: 17.5px 60px; }
.bgt-social ul li .youtube { background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm96E4qvy67Zr9bWAgXKczIOu_rKQNqXnD37dX9FN2FHee3yQIdaBQ9S7f3fsXQanX70R4m0qLau8JrOb9JCxqTovGS3DtcsIc7I0r3BUnQSppi3bpisxE1yqnEd-T42RtKbDq87wl5uo/s1600/bt-Youtube.png") no-repeat scroll 10px center #C6312B; padding: 17.5px 60px; }
.social-about { display: none; }
</style>
<div class="bgt-social">
<ul>
<li><a class="rss" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogolect">Subscribe to RSS</a></li>
<li><a class="twitter" href="https://twitter.com/blogolect">Follow me on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a class="facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/blogolect.official">Find me on Facebook</a></li>
<li><a class="google" href="https://plus.google.com/+zohaibliaqat" rel="author">Join me on Google+</a></li>
<li><a class="linkedin" href="http://linkedin.com/USERNAME">Connect on LinkedIn</a></li>
<li><a class="youtube" href="http://www.youtube.com/USERNAME">Watch me on YouTube</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

  • Replace the text in green with your Usernames

Click Save button
And that's it!

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Make Money Blogging - Ways to Make Money from a Blog

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Yesterday we shared an article on 7 Ways for Students to Make Money Online and today again we're going to share an article related to money. Today, we're going to discuss some top methods to earn money from a Blog/Website.

Do you own a blog? Do you want to make money blogging? If you do - you're not alone. Blogging is a profitable job and every blogger wishes to make money. There are hundreds of ways you can make money blogging. Whether you earn $10 or $1000, but remember something is better than nothing. The purpose of writing this post is to show you that how to make money from your blog.
The post we shared yesterday was 7 Ways for Students to Make Money Online and apart of all those methods to make money, one was blogging. So, if you don't know that how to make money from your blog then you're at the right place today in this article we're going to share some top Ways to Make Money from a Blog. But remember its not easy to make money, don't think that you'll easily earn thousands of dollars from your website. It requires both hard work and time :)

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PPC (Pay Per Click) Programs

PPC or CPC  programs are one of the best ways to make money from your Blog. PPC is the short form of Pay Per Click. There are various PPC programs available. These programs pay you for each click they receive on their advertisements. There are lots of various Pay per click (PPC) programs out there that allows bloggers to earn money online from each click generated by advertisement codes inserted into their Blogs.

How PPC Programs Work?
 
Just sign up for a PPC Program >> If your Website gets Approved >> Get the Ad Code >> Display their Ads on your Website >> Your visitors click on those ads and you'll earn money. The more clicks you receive the more revenue you'll get. Some top PPC programs are:

1# Google Adsense
2# Chitika
3# Revenue Hits
4# Bidvertiser
5# Infolinks
6# Superlinks

Join Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Marketing is a trouble-free method to make money from your blog, because it doesn't require affiliates to offer their own products. You just have to promote other merchant's products and you'll receive your commission on each sale.

How it Works?

It's just simple! Join an affiliate program >> Choose a merchant >> Promote their Products, sit back and take your commission on each sale. You don't need to offer your own product or to worry about its shipping etc. Just promote their products and make money. Some popular affiliate programs are:

1# Shareasale
2# Clickbank
3# Amazon Affiliates
4# eBay Affiliates

Direct Ads

Direct ad sales is another easy and simple way to make money from your blog. Direct ad sales is simply trading your blog space for other organizations/advertisers/websites. If you don't like to Join any ad selling network because they take 20-30% commission for each ad sale on your website then direct ads is the best method for you. The advantage of Direct ad sales is that you are in control of advertising and thus you keep 100% of the sales and revenue generated from the transaction. Keeping 100% of the profit is always a good thing to consider. But the disadvantage of direct ad sales is to find advertisers because in case of a network, its a complete marketplace and advertisers are always looking for you.

How to Start Direct Ads on your Website?

Its simple, create a separate page on your website with the title Advertise Here. Give a brief description of your website, its ranking etc. and set your prices such as Sidebar Banner (300*250) for 30$/30 Days. Display it on your website, advertisers will contact you for their ads, display their ads and earn money.

Paid Reviews

You can also make money by Publishing Paid Review on your website. You can earn a great amount for Paid Reviews. I personally know some bloggers who reviews products on their website. So start publishing paid reviews on your website and earn money.

Write an e-book

Yet another great way to earn some extra money. Yes write your own e-book and sell it on your website. Its just simple all it requires is hard work. Write an amazing book and choose an interesting Title. Now Publish it >> Start Selling it on your Website and earn money.

Final Words

There are tons of other methods to make money from your blog. We just shared some of them. Remember if you want to make money from your blog, then its not possible without hard work. So, do hard work and start your successful career in blogging. Share this article with your friends and don't forget to subscribe to us via email to receive hottest updates directly to your inbox!

7 Simple Ways for Students to Make Money Online

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As a student, didn't you ever wished to have some extra pocket money to spend? If your answer is Yes then you're at the right place. Today we'll learn 7 Simple Methods for Students to Make Money Online. What you do all the day after your college/school? Playing games, chatting, watching movies, etc. Right! You're also wasting your time in doing all these activities, just like all other students. Don't you think that its your precious time and you shouldn't waste it. Playing games, Movies and chatting is not everything in this world. Why don't you spend your time in doing something new? Why don't you double your pocket money by spending your time in doing simple jobs and in return you'll earn money.
7 Simple Ways for Students to Make Money Online
But during your college/school days, it's difficult to do a full time job. But don't worry, now you don't have to do a full time job to earn money. All you need is a PC and Internet. Friends, chatting, Facebook, etc. is nothing but just a waste of time. That's why I recommend everyone and especially students to spend their time in developing the skills for their career rather than playing games and other stuff.

So here are 7 Simple Ways for Students to Make Money Online. These methods don't require long-term efforts, just start earning within a few minutes. You can easily double or 3x your pocket money by using these simple ways. The first one is:

Make Money by Uploading Videos on YouTube

YouTube, everyone knows about it, the No.1 online video broadcasting website. YouTube is ranked in the Top 3 most visited websites on the web. If you're looking to make some quick money, then YouTube is a great way to make money. All you've to do is to create video tutorials, upload them to YouTube and monetize your videos with Adsense.

Adssene will pay you for displaying ads on your videos. For this you have to become a partner of YouTube, but the problem is, this service is only available in some countries. The countries where YouTube Partnership program is available:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and the United States.

Freelancing - Become a Writer

Freelancing is probably the easiest way for students to make money and the revenue is also high. If you start freelancing and become a writer, all you've to do is to write articles for your clients for their websites, magazines, etc. Payments are fixed for either words ($5/500 words), projects or hourly rates. Check this article to learn more about freelancing and where you can work as a freelancer:

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Become a Blogger - Start your Own Website

Blogging is another great way for students to start their career online and start earning. But blogging requires time and hardwork. It's not that much easy as you think. It hardly takes just 5 minutes to start your own blog but, to make it successful, you've to work hard. You can start your website on any topic, in which you're interested such as pictures, movies, games, etc. Check these articles to learn how to start your own website:

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Fiverr

Fiverr is the world's largest marketplace starting at $5. You can offer anything that you want for $5. Its just simple, all you've to do is Create an Account >> Create a Gig (I will design a logo for $5, I will record a video for $5 or whatever you want) >> Now publish your gig, people will see your gig and if they get interested they'll order you. Complete their order and earn money. For each $5 order, you'll earn $4 and $1 to fiverr.

Fill Out Online Surveys

Make Money by just filling out online surveys. Filling Online Surveys is a popular way that most of the students are using to make money in their spare time. Research companies are always recruiting new members for surveys to test their new products. For a few minutes of form filling you can easily make money, some surveys offer up to £3 for completing the survey.

Paid Surveys sites include:

Design T-Shirts

Designing T-Shirts is another easiest way to make money. You can make some extra money by designing T-shirts and submitting your designs to t-shirts producing companies. Designing T-shirts is easiest way because all you've to do is to design your shirt, it doesn’t involve manufacturing, packaging, shipping etc. you only have to be creative. After designing your T-shirt design you can sell it in the marketplace or you can also open your online shop.

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Make Money with Hubpages

If you don't want to start your website from ground level and you don't know anything about SEO but you're a good writer, then Hubpages is best for you. All you need to do is to write an article on any topic at Hubpages and publish it. Once you publish it, if your content is interesting and highly professional then you'll receive thousands of views and your visitors will increase. Now just associate your Adsense account with Hubpages and earn money.

There are tons of other methods for students to easily make money. We just shared 7 of them and we'll try to share some more articles for students to make money online. At last, don't get scammed in selling your products or work and don't let these little side jobs take away you from studying. What do you do to make some extra cash? Let us know in the comments! Do share this article with your friends and don't forget to subscribe us!

How to Add Slidorion Featured Posts Slider to Blogger Blog

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In this tutorial we're going to share an article on How to Add Slidorion Featured Posts Slider to Blogger Blog.
An Image Slider is used to show most popular or featured posts on a blog. Mostly bloggers use image sliders for attracting their visitors to specific posts, because visitors are likely to get more attracted to sliders. Today we're going to share Slidorion Featured Posts slider for blogger. Slidorion slider is a combination of an image slider and accordion. It displays an image with its title and description. The right side consists of an accordion like slides menu and the images on the left side. The slides are linked to respective tabs with a large array of eye catching effects. In this tutorial we'll show you that How to Add Slidorion Featured Posts Slider to Blogger Blog.

How to Add Slidorion Featured Posts Slider to Blogger Blog

First and foremost, log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog >> Template and click Edit HTML. Click inside the template code area, press Ctrl+F to search and search for the </head> tag. Now copy the below code and paste it just above/before the </head> tag

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

/*!
 * Slidorion, An Image Slider and Accordion Combined
 * Intructions: http://www.slidorion.com
 * Created by Ben Holland - http://www.benholland.me
 * Version: 1.2.0
 * Copyright 2013 Ben Holland <hi@benhlland.me>
 */
!function($){"use strict";$.fn.extend({slidorion:function(options){var defaults={autoPlay:!0,controlNav:!1,controlNavClass:"slidorion-nav",easing:"",effect:"random",first:1,interval:5e3,hoverPause:!1,speed:1e3},opts=$.extend(defaults,options),firstSlide=window.location.hash.match(/slidorion/i)?location.hash.split("/")[1]-1:null;return this.each(function(){var current=firstSlide||opts.first-1,effect=(opts.first,opts.effect),interval=opts.interval,controlNav=opts.controlNav,controlNavClass=opts.controlNavClass,zPos=1,intervalPause=!1,active=!1,prevEffect="",obj=$(this),autoPlaying=null,$slider=$(".slider",obj),$accordion=$(".accordion",obj),$slides=$slider.find(".slide"),$linkHeaders=$accordion.find(".header"),$linkContent=$accordion.find(".content"),effects=["fade","slideLeft","slideUp","slideRight","slideDown","overLeft","overRight","overUp","overDown"],slideEffects=["slideLeft","slideUp","slideRight","slideDown"],overEffects=["overLeft","overRight","overUp","overDown"],animationOptions={queue:!0,duration:opts.speed,easing:opts.easingOption},sliderCount=$slides.length,accordionCount=$linkHeaders.length,randomEffectMap={random:effects,slideRandom:slideEffects,overRandom:overEffects},init=function(){sliderCount===accordionCount?(opts.autoPlay===!0&&(autoPlaying=setInterval(function(){playSlider(current,effect)},interval),obj.data("interval",autoPlaying)),opts.hoverPause===!0&&opts.autoPlay===!0&&obj.hover(function(){intervalPause=!0,stopAuto()},function(){intervalPause=!1,restartAuto()}),resetLayers(),$slides.eq(current).css("z-index",zPos),zPos++,$linkContent.hide(),$linkHeaders.eq(current).addClass("active").next().show(),controlNav&&(obj.append('<div class="'+controlNavClass+" "+controlNavClass+'-left"></div><div class="'+controlNavClass+" "+controlNavClass+'-right"></div>'),$("."+controlNavClass+"-left").click(leftNavigation),$("."+controlNavClass+"-right").click(rightNavigation)),$linkHeaders.click(sectionClicked)):console.log("The number of slider images does not match the number of accordion sections.")},getRandomEffect=function(effect,arr){return effect=arr[~~(Math.random()*arr.length)],effect==prevEffect?getRandomEffect(effect,arr):effect},animation=function(current,section,effect){if(!active){active=!0,opts.autoPlay===!0&&opts.intervalPause===!1&&restartAuto();var $current=$slides.eq(current),$new=$slides.eq(section),currentWidth=$current.outerWidth(),currentHeight=$current.outerHeight();randomEffectMap[effect]&&(effect=getRandomEffect(effect,randomEffectMap[effect]));var changeSlideCSS=function($el,settings){var defs={left:"0",top:"0",zIndex:zPos};$el.css($.extend(defs,settings))},animateSlides=function($el,settings){if($el instanceof Array)return $.each($el,function(){animateSlides($(this),settings)}),void 0;var defs={left:"0",top:"0"};$el.animate($.extend(defs,settings),animationOptions)};switch(prevEffect=effect,effect){case"fade":$new.css({"z-index":zPos,top:"0",left:"0",display:"none"}).fadeIn(opts.speed);break;case"slideLeft":changeSlideCSS($new,{left:currentWidth,top:0}),animateSlides([$current,$new],{left:"-="+currentWidth});break;case"slideRight":changeSlideCSS($new,{left:"-"+currentWidth+"px",top:0}),animateSlides([$current,$new],{left:"+="+currentWidth});break;case"slideUp":changeSlideCSS($new,{top:currentHeight,left:0}),animateSlides([$current,$new],{top:"-="+currentHeight});break;case"slideDown":changeSlideCSS($new,{top:"-"+currentHeight+"px",left:0}),animateSlides([$current,$new],{top:"+="+currentHeight});break;case"overLeft":changeSlideCSS($new,{left:currentWidth}),animateSlides($new,{left:"-="+currentWidth});break;case"overRight":changeSlideCSS($new,{left:"-"+currentWidth+"px"}),animateSlides($new,{left:"+="+currentWidth+"px"});break;case"overUp":changeSlideCSS($new,{top:currentHeight}),animateSlides($new,{top:"-="+currentHeight});break;case"overDown":changeSlideCSS($new,{top:"-"+currentHeight+"px"}),animateSlides($new,{top:"+="+currentHeight});break;case"none":$new.css({"z-index":zPos})}setTimeout(function(){active=!1,resetZpos($new)},opts.speed)}},sectionClicked=function(){if(!active){var section=$(this).index()/2;return section===current?!1:($linkHeaders.removeClass("active").next(".content").slideUp(),$linkHeaders.eq(section).addClass("active").next(".content").slideDown(),animation(current,section,effect),zPos++,current=section,!1)}},playSlider=function(current){$linkHeaders.eq(getNextSlide(current)).trigger("click",sectionClicked)},stopAuto=function(){clearInterval(obj.data("interval"))},restartAuto=function(){clearInterval(obj.data("interval")),autoPlaying=setInterval(function(){playSlider(current,effect)},interval),obj.data("interval",autoPlaying)},leftNavigation=function(){$linkHeaders.eq(getNextSlide(current-2)).trigger("click",sectionClicked)},rightNavigation=function(){$linkHeaders.eq(getNextSlide(current)).trigger("click",sectionClicked)},getNextSlide=function(tempSection){return tempSection++,tempSection===sliderCount?0:0>tempSection?accordionCount-1:tempSection},resetZpos=function($el){zPos>3*sliderCount&&(zPos=2,$slides.css("z-index","1"),$el.css("z-index",zPos),zPos++)},resetLayers=function(){for(var i=sliderCount-1;i>0;i--)$slides.eq(i).css("z-index",zPos),zPos++};init()})}})}(jQuery);

//]]>
</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

    $('#slidorion').slidorion({
        autoPlay: true,
        effect: 'fade',
        hoverPause: true,
        interval: 3000,
        speed: 800,
        controlNav: false,
        controlNavClass: 'nav'
    });
  
});

//]]>
</script>
  
<style type="text/css">
@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Yanone+Kaffeesatz:400,200,700);

.slidorion {
    position: relative;
    width: 640px;            /* Set to slidorion width. Is equal to .slider + .accordion width */
    height: 350px;            /* Set to slidorion height. Is equal to .slider and .accordion height */
    background: #CBCBCB;
    padding: 10px;
    border: 1px solid #BBB;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 34px #bbb;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 34px #bbb;
    box-shadow: 0 0 34px #bbb;
    line-height: 20px;
}

.slider {
    width: 62.5%;
    height: 100%;
    position: relative;
    float: left;
    overflow: hidden;        /* Hides the animations */
}

.slider .slide {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

.accordion {
    width: 37.5%;
    height: 100%;
    font-family: Verdana;
    background: #eee;
    box-shadow: -3px 0px 3px -1px rgba(51,51,51,0.3);
    position: relative;
    z-index:999;
    overflow: hidden;
    float: left;
}

.accordion .header {
    padding: 8px 14px;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #333;
    background: #ededed;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ededed 59%, #dcdcdc 100%);
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ededed 59%,#dcdcdc 100%);
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ededed 59%,#dcdcdc 100%);
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ededed 59%,#dcdcdc 100%);
    background: linear-gradient(top, #ededed 59%,#dcdcdc 100%);
    border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.accordion .header:first-child {
    border-top: none;
}

.accordion .header:hover {
    background: #EDEDED;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.accordion .header.active {
    border-bottom: none;
    background: #676767 !important;
    color: #FFF;
}

.accordion .content {
    height: 208px;            /* This height needs to be changed as it depends on the accordion height and number of tabs */
    font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 20px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 16px;
    border: none;
    background: #d6d6d6;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #d6d6d6 0%, #ffffff 10%);
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #d6d6d6 0%,#ffffff 10%);
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #d6d6d6 0%,#ffffff 10%);
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #d6d6d6 0%,#ffffff 10%);
    background: linear-gradient(top, #d6d6d6 0%,#ffffff 10%);
    overflow:auto;
}

.accordion .content p {
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}

.slidorion .slidorion-nav {
    position: absolute;
    top: 200px;
    width: 16px;
    height: 27px;
    z-index: 9999;
    background: url('../img/arrows.png') 0 0 no-repeat;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.slidorion .slidorion-nav-left {
    left: 30px;
}

.slidorion .slidorion-nav-right {
    right: 310px;
    background-position: -16px 0;
}
</style>

Click Save Template button. Now its time to add the HTML, go to Layout >> Add a Gadget >> Scroll down and select HTML/JavaScript gadget from the list. Now copy the below HTML code and paste it in the empty widget box.
Note: You can add it anywhere you want

<div id="slidorion" class="slidorion">

    <div class="slider">
        <!-- slide images -->
        <div class="slide"><a href="SLIDE-1-LINK-HERE"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-gQlrQA5hV-SsImEJatyQ_KOwqOyRx7brsbR_4rso-9StvpSObmYK7amTn0TQ2AvrsIZwqGCx_EBgjwzWpF7yyK0chcDLnvqy5bRgdVnplYOaKFUcaHFssssuIA2n_7GCvjX3UH-555R/s1600/slide-1.jpg" /></a></div>
        <div class="slide"><a href="SLIDE-2-LINK-HERE"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSIUs2c55DZ3trvuYlLc-1cTwK5mJx-v7YENK5b_rPlfTglrw8DGql9frZDZfrcFGf1NgOOaq4n33eeWM82x0cS2s7-LeZmzgYLJJ0vNbbGrLc5iUamOC5GxXPo_UHLaGH_cY2bGcvjR-/s1600/slide-2.jpg" /></a></div>
        <div class="slide"><a href="SLIDE-3-LINK-HERE"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDffF8NFd5GuML29-oUJoBGfLsYJx4F690cqgDo1sADwF4Sk2eS4dhZcYDVWR5bMEFdFjpxMi6AyNtigHs_zYa9LiY9GsdEoSXnbdqgdQwiHlLMi1CgBAXXgSd2VoSfWUiBoI7OwJt0ZM/s1600/slide-3.jpg" /></a></div>
        <!-- slide images end -->
    </div>

    <div class="accordion">
   
        <!-- slide 1 content -->
        <div class="header">Slide Title 1</div>
        <div class="content">
            <p>Aenean sollicitudin, lorem quis bibendum auctor, nisi elit consequat ipsum, nec sagittis sem nibh id elit. Duis sed odio sit amet nibh vulputate cursus a sit amet mauris. Morbi accumsan ipsum velit. Nam nec tellus a odio tincidunt auctor a ornare odio. Sed non mauris vitae erat consequat auctor eu in elit.  </p>
        </div>
        <!-- slide 1 content end -->
       
        <!-- slide 2 content -->
        <div class="header">Slide Title 2</div>
        <div class="content">
            <p>Aenean sollicitudin, lorem quis bibendum auctor, nisi elit consequat ipsum, nec sagittis sem nibh id elit. Duis sed odio sit amet nibh vulputate cursus a sit amet mauris. Morbi accumsan ipsum velit. Nam nec tellus a odio tincidunt auctor a ornare odio. Sed non mauris vitae erat consequat auctor eu in elit.  </p>
        </div>
        <!-- slide 2 content end -->
       
        <!-- slide 3 content -->
        <div class="header">Slide Title 3</div>
        <div class="content">
            <p>Aenean sollicitudin, lorem quis bibendum auctor, nisi elit consequat ipsum, nec sagittis sem nibh id elit. Duis sed odio sit amet nibh vulputate cursus a sit amet mauris. Morbi accumsan ipsum velit. Nam nec tellus a odio tincidunt auctor a ornare odio. Sed non mauris vitae erat consequat auctor eu in elit.  </p>
        </div>
        <!-- slide 3 content end -->
       
    </div>
   
</div>

Customization:
  • Replace the text it Red with the Slide Links
  • Replace the text in green with your slider image URL's
  • Replace the text in yellow with slide titles
  • Replace the bolded text with slides description

Finally click Save button and you're done!

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How to Add Alexa Rank Checker Widget to Blogger

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Alexa is a traffic data and global ranking provider. It provides the ranking data for millions of websites. Alexa collects traffic data on daily basis from millions of websites using Alexa toolbar and other sources. In simple terms, Alexa ranks a website on the basis of its traffic, compared with all other websites on the internet. According to Alexa website, it provides traffic data, global ranking and other information on 30 million websites and as of 2015, Alexa.com is visited by over 6.5 million people monthly. If you want to add an Alexa Rank Check widget to your website. Don't worry, it's just simple, in this tutorial, we're going to share that How to Add Alexa Rank Checker Widget to your website.

How to Add Alexa Rank Checker to Blogger

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

<form method="get" action="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details" target="_blank">
<input name="url" maxlength="255" size="35" type="url" placeholder="Enter an URL..."/>
<input value="Check Alexa Rank" type="submit"/>
</form>

Click Save button
And that's it!

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How to Create an Animated CSS3 Drop Down Menu in Blogger

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A Navigation Bar or Drop Down Menu is one of the most essential elements of a blog. A drop down menu makes your blog user-friendly, allowing your visitors to easily navigate your blog by simply choosing their desired category from the menu. Apart of all these advantages it also gives your website a new unique and professional look. Almost all the website either its a top website or a newly created are using Drop Down Menus. Recently we shared an article on How to Create a Drop Down Menu in Blogger. The design of that menu was simple and the one we're going to share today has a stylish and professional look with eye catching CSS transitions. Lets begin:
How to Create an Animated CSS3 Drop Down Menu in Blogger

How to Create an Animated CSS3 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, press Ctrl+F to search and search for the ]]></b:skin> tag. Now copy the below CSS code and paste it just above/before the ]]></b:skin> tag

a, #navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav li {
 transition: all 0.7s;
 -moz-transition: all 0.7s;
 -webkit-transition: all 0.7s;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper {
 pointer-events: none;
 opacity: 0;
 filter: alpha(opacity=0);
 top: 0;

 transition: all 0.4s cubic-bezier(1,-5,0,0) 0s;
 -moz-transition: all 0.4s cubic-bezier(1,-5,0,0) 0s;
 -webkit-transition: all 0.4s cubic-bezier(1,-5,0,0) 0s;
}
#navigation li:hover .sub-nav-wrapper {
 pointer-events: auto;
 opacity: 1;
 filter: alpha(opacity=100);
 top: 30px;
}
#navigation {
 position: relative;
 text-align:center;
 margin:0 auto;
 background-color:#fff;
 border-bottom: 2px solid #009999;
}
#navigation li {
 position: relative;
 list-style: none;
 display: inline-block;
 padding: 5px 20px;
}
#navigation li a {
 padding: 5px;
 display: block;

 font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
 font-weight: 700;
 color: #3b3b3b;
 text-align: left;
 text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.25);
}
#navigation li:hover .main {
 color: #ee4e1d;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper {
 display: block;
 position: absolute;
 z-index: 30;
 margin-left: -16px;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav {
 width: 150px;
 margin-top: 6px;
 background: #fff;
 border-top: 1px solid #fff;
 padding:0;
 box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.35);
 -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.35);
 -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.35);
}
#navigation li:hover .sub-nav-wrapper {
 display: block;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav li {
 list-style: none;
 display: block;
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 text-align: left;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #009999;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav li:last-child {
 border: none;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav li a {
 display: block;
 padding: 11px 20px;
 font-size: 12px;
 font-weight: 600;
}
#navigation li a:hover {
color: white;
}
#navigation li .sub-nav-wrapper .sub-nav li:hover {
 background: #009999;
 border-bottom: 1px solid #009999;
 color: #3b3b3b;
 text-decoration: none;
}

CSS done, its time for HTML. Search for the <body> tag. Copy the below HTML code and Paste it Just below/after the <body> tag.
Note: You can add HTML wherever you want.

<ul id="navigation">

    <li>
        <a href="index.html" class="main">Home</a>
    </li>
   
    <li>
        <a href="#" class="main">Blogger</a>
        <div class="sub-nav-wrapper"><ul class="sub-nav">
            <li><a href="#">Tips</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Widgets</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Traffic Tips</a></li>
        </ul></div>
    </li>
   
    <li>
      <a href="#" class="main">Services</a>
        <div class="sub-nav-wrapper"><ul class="sub-nav">
            <li><a href="#">Blogger</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Logo</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">Banner</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Wordpress</a></li>
        </ul></div>
    </li>
   
    <li>
      <a href="#" class="main">Tutorials</a>
        <div class="sub-nav-wrapper"><ul class="sub-nav">
            <li><a href="#">Logo</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">HTML/CSS</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Design</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Illustrator</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Web Design</a></li>
        </ul></div>
    </li>
   
    <li>
      <a href="#" class="main">About</a>
        <div class="sub-nav-wrapper"><ul class="sub-nav">
            <li><a href="#">Website</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Our Team</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Our Mission</a></li>
        </ul></div>
    </li>
   
    <li>
      <a href="#" class="main">Contact</a>
    </li>
   
</ul>

  • Replace the Categories with your own and replace # with their links

Finally click Save Template button and you're done!

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