The beautiful themes and control over the system of Word press blogs has made many switch to wordpress from their blogger/blogspot blogs or at least think of switching. If you are one of them, here is an easy way to do that.

1. Login to your Blogger account.

1. In Dashboard, go to your Settings > Basic > Blog Tools > Export Blog.

Click on the Image To ENLARGE it.

2. When you click ” Download Blog”, you get prompt to download an blogger XML file. Save it to your hard disk.

It would be something like : blog-MM-DD-YYYY.XML

3. Visit this site : Blogger2Wordpress Conversion Utility

4. Browse the .xml file that you exported from Blogger and click Convert. It’ll save as a .xml file as wordpress-wxr.XML.

5.  ***IMPORTANT – Browse to where you downloaded the file and RENAME THE EXTENSION AS A .WXR FILE***. The work do be done in Blogger part is now over.

6. Login to your Wordpress account

go to Tools > Import > Wordpress.

7. Now you have your blog backed up for Wordpress. Don’t do anything with the Blogger/Blogspot blog now.

8. When you switch the domains and update the DNS, the blog should work fine at wordpress but for the permalink structure.

9. The main difference between the permalink of Blogger/Blogspot and Wordpress is that:

i. Articles like “the”, “a”, and “an” are skipped in the url in Blogger/blogspot while wordpress maintains it.

ii. The url of Blogge/?Blogspot blog is truncated and restricted while in Wordpress it is much bigger. How big? I dont know. I haven’t seen any of my post urls truncated till now.

iii. By default the Wordpress url would be something like:

www.domain.com/?p=123

The Blogger/Blogspot url would be like:

http://www.domain.com/YYYY/MM/postname.html

10. The first thing we should do is to make the permalink structure same beofre going to further levels.

Goto “Permalinks” in your WordPress dashboard

Select -> Custom structure.

Input ->

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

and save it.

Now, your Wordpress blog will also have the permalink structure as:

http://www.domain.com/YYYY/MM/postname.html

11. To make it exactly similar to Blogger/Blogspot url sans the truncation effect and stuffs,

add the following code to the top of your .htaccess file which can be found in root directory of your wordpress installation.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)\.html$ $1/$2/$3/ [QSA,R=301,L]
</IfModule>

We are done.

Enjoy blogging with Wordpress.

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Any blogger when starts , 9 out of 10 times would choose blogger.com for trying out as it is free, simple and comes with your Gmail account. Blogger.com or blogspot.com blogs are the easiest and simplest of all blogging platforms.

It is free, simple,  and above all belongs to the almighty Google. There are some advantages of having your blog at Blogger/blogspot. As it is owned by googl it is very easy to add adsense and integrate it with your blogger/blogspot blog.

Though there are many new blogging platforms coming up every other day, blogger/blogspot remains the simplest of all for its ease of usability and the Mighty google link. It is belived that Blogger blogs get more easily and quickly indexed in Google search engine that any other blog. Must be!

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Whether you have a website, a blog or just a landing page for your sales, it is always mandatory and recommended to have a contact form for people to get in touch with you.The risk of giving away your e-mail as such can lead to spams and you will be reading more spam mails than the genuine ones in a weeks time from there.That is why, a contact form is very useful and that too with the hidden or encrypted mail id.That gets a bit complicated.

To overcome the complication and make it simple, we can instead use a Contactify Form for our contact page.Contactify provides free contact forms and other similar HTML forms which can be used as such in your site and blogs where people can fill in details and send you and contact you.Its all real people here, and no scammers.It is easy, simple and the best part is it is completely free.

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As a blogger, web developer, i am sure you would have gone through this phase.There are times when we browse through a site, like some colors and color combination from the site and want to make use of it on our sites/blogs but have no information about the color code ( Hex code).What will you in that case ???

Not only that.There may be occasions when you want to make some color changes to your own template to make it suitable for say adsense or other reasons and you will be needing the hexadecimal color code or that.If you want to get the hexadecimal color code value for a color from another site, you can and will probably view the page source of the website of interest and then through a trial and error method find the required color.It can get really tedious in a site with many colors and almost similar colors.
But, now there is a better option for that.
There is a site at colorcombos where you can get all the color information about a site by just entering the url of the site.It scans through the css and other styling information of the site and then gives you the color codes along with the actual colors which makes it much easier than the earlier mentioned method.

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If you had ever tried to put some HTML code in your blog post or your website, it will not show up as a code when posted.Rather, you will see the output in a different way which is actually the output HTML.
For instance,
if you type
< src=”http://www.blogger.com/image.gif”> , it will not be shown in the output.

For people who generously use such programming codes to explain others and for those who are into writing programming tutorials, this software will be very helpful.sHTMLc is a freeware that tweaks the HTML code and makes it possible to be shown in the body of the html document or web page as it is.

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A website needs a domain name for it to be accessed via the Internet.Thus, selecting a good domain name is always as important as the contents of your website and your service.If it is a website promoting your puppy clinic, you shouldn’t register a domain name like Technosavvy.com.The domain has to have some relevance at least to what you are going to write about and what the website is all about.It is well known fact that there are many domains that are already registered that you would want to buy.Buying an already registered domain is out of the scope of this post.

We will just see here the precautions and measures that needs to be taken before registering a new domain.

It is not that easy to find the domain name of your choice in the very first instant if it is a generic domain like, say Puppycare.com as in the example above.However, it is relatively easy to register a domain with your company name XXXX followed by puppycare , like XXXXpuppycare.com.care has to be taken that the domain name that you are going to register is easy to remember and also short.Some basic common sense has to go in selecting a domain name.You cannot expect people to type something like www.puppycareatyourdoorstepintheus.com.
It has to be of reasonable length and also easy to remember which will facilitate your visitors and customers.

So, in short the basic things that you have to consider while registering a domain name are:

* Select a keyWord oriented domain
* Select a meaningful and sensible name
*The name of the domain shouldn’t be too long.
*Though hyphen(-) and numerals(0,1,2,..9) are allowed in a domain name, it is always better to avoid them whenever possible.
*Above all, selecting a dot com domain, like www.domainname.com is always better and preferred for a general website.

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If you want to know the exact word count of a passage, paragraph, text that you have online, or even offline, Word Count Tool is for you.Word Count Toll is an online tool as the name suggests where you can have a count of the total words of a text passage.

Obviously, it is an algorithm that counts words and what are words in this program depends on how they are programmed.

What it counts:

# Words that are made of alphabets. ( Example: Technowpedia)
# Words that are made from a combination of alphabets and numbers. ( Example: 6Linkz, th3zone)
#Words that are with an apostrophe ( ‘ ) and a hyphen ( – ). ( Example: Brother’s, well-respected)

What it doesn’t count:

# Words that start with an apostrophe ( ‘ ) or a hypen ( – ). (Example: ’semis, -inclusion)
# Words made solely from numerals ( Example: 1234, 1234a)
# HTML tags ( Example: <src=”image.gif”>

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Favicon or favorite icon is a small icon that we see at the left side of the Upper url bar(address bar) where we type the url(web address) to visit, like www.orkut.com.

Many companies will have a favicon and logo for themselves and it is a trademark thing for the company.

is The favicon of yahoo.

We can also easily generate a favicon for our websites and blogs with a simple procedure using the favicon tool website.

The specialty about the FaviconTool website is that there are provisions to create a animated favicon with scrolling text.

visit Favicion Tool

http://www.favicontool.com/

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A picture is worth a 1000 words.That is why website owners and bloggers incorporate images in their blog posts.There are two ways to add images to a blog post or website. Firstly, you can download the image from the internet to your hard disk and then upload to your own server and host it on the site, else the free method can be used which is you can use a Free image hosting site like Imageshack.us and host your files for free.

The specialty about imageshack.us is that there is a provision for uploading a image from the url itself thereby making our work a lot easier.In many such free image host, you will have to download the image of interest to your hard disk, upload it to the image host and then get the image code of the hosted image.Whereas, in image shack, using this feature, you can directly use the image url of the image of interest to get the url of the hosted image.This saves a lot of time for bloggers.

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We have already seen as to how we can add a search box in blogger which is plain and just serves the purpose.Now, we will see as to how we can add a search box in blogger/blogspot with a image , rather than a plain text button.

STEPS:

1. Layout -> Page Elements -> Add a Page Element -> HTML/JavaScript

2. Paste this code:

<p align=”left”>
<form id=”searchthis” action=”YOUR BLOG URL/search” style=”display:inline;” method=”get”>
<strong>NAME OF YOUR BLOG<br/></strong>
<input id=”b-query” maxlength=”255″ name=”q” size=”20“ type=”text”/>
<input id=”b-searchbtn” type=”image” src=”IMAGE URL” align=”top“/>
</form></p>

3. Edit the values in Blue and SAVE the widget and Template.

4.You are done.

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Though the Google bloggers template will have the default search functionality, due to the increasing number of users who are going with customized blogger templates, it has become mandatory that we have a special search functionality for the blogs.

This post will explain you how you can add a search bar for your blogger blogs.

1. Layout -> Page Elements -> Add a Page Element -> HTML/JavaScript

2. Paste this code:

<p align=”left”>
<form id=”searchthis” action=”YOUR BLOG URL/search” style=”display:inline;” method=”get”>
<strong>NAME OF YOUR BLOG<br/></strong>
<input id=”b-query” maxlength=”255″ name=”q” size=”20″ type=”text”/>
<input id=”b-searchbtn” value=”Search“ type=”submit”/>
</form></p>

3. Edit the values in Blue and SAVE the widget and Template.

4.You are done.

This is what you will see in your Blog.

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A blog also known as a weblog is nothing but a website that is maintained on the web and is updated regularly with generally issues and news that’s personal and surrounding someone.It is more of a personal diary.A typical blog will be written in a very informal way, not giving much to spelling and grammar, including images, media and seldom videos too.This is what a blog would look like a few years ago.This is what we call the traditional blogs.

The modern day blogs are different in many that a way from these traditional logs.The modern day blogs are more niche specific and more of marketing blogs.Most of the people who blog today are trying to find a space for themselves on the web and longing for reputation.Many are just trying to make a living online by blogging and there are many who have been successful in this paradigm.

The term blogs can be considered as synonymous to the word “Expression”.That is what it truly does, or rather did.But, the modern day blogs are just set up to earn affiliate revenue.It is sad, but it is true.I am not against affiliate marketing and such blogs, but just feel sad that there are no more genuine, quality blogsin the webosphere.

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Google Adsense is a powerful tool to make money online without having to leave the commodity of your home. Whether you don’t have information about this topic, I recommend that you find useful information in the internet and get the wonderful experience of make clean money during this New Year. You can start building your own personal blog and focus on a topic you can master. You can evaluate which are the niches that are profitable to write and that you can handle. All depends on you and your spirit of work.

The internet is full of dirty information lacking of meaningfulness which isn’t informative. The key is study all what you can and invest time to get the benefit you are expecting. Google Adsense is a great possibility to increase your revenue and get extra money. Also, you could consider use it as your main income source. There are too many people around the world that are using Google Adsense as their personal jobs or personal business.

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A few years ago, you would not have known that many people who blogged.In fact i knew about the whole blogging phenomena only four yeas ago.But now, blogging has revolutionized the internet since its inception as a serious business.Yeah, you heard that right.There are many people who do blogging as a profession.There is a stat that says that every day there are more than 8000 blogs being created worldwide.This is definitely a great success to blogging.

It is now a very casual thing to blog.Everyone has started blogging.There are even celebrities who have started blogging.Of course, that will be for fun and fun only.But, with new technologies raising their heads up and also social marketing coming into he bigger picture, blogging is here to stay and for long for sure.People have become celebrities by this strong, popular and vibrant media called blogging.

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