Tuesday 12 March 2013

How To Backup Your Tweets


We all have some good tweets stored in our Twitter, which are really important to us. Shawn Michaels has replied to me three times, which is a great honor for a Wrestling fan like me. Twitter will only save your most recent 3,200 tweets. And your tweets are only searchable for roughly a week and a half.

Don't worry, you can backup your valuable tweets for free. Twitter is in process of releasing a new “Export Tweets”. The Export Tweets feature is in the process of being rolled out to all Twitter users. Until then, we'll use another great service call TweetBackup to backup our tweets.

TweetBackup runs over the internet, meaning there's nothing to install and no work required on your part. The only thing we require, is to follow @tweetbackup. As of writing, TweetBackup has 425,862,240 archived tweets!

Monday 11 March 2013

Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger


This widget is inspired from Social Subscription Scrolling Slider Widget. It's feed subscription form, which will slide out after scrolling the page little bit. It's based on jQuery, so don't forget to remove jQuery from our code, if your blog already has it.

I created this widget past Saturday for my blog but then I thought that I should share this with you all. As of writing, this widget will appear on our blog as you scroll down a little bit.

Add This To Blogger:

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
  • Paste following code and click on Save:

<!-- Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger by BWidgets -->
 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">$(window).scroll(function(){if($(document).scrollTop()>=$(document).height()/4)$("#bwsocialslide").show("slow");else $("#bwsocialslide").hide("slow");});function closebwsocialslide(){$('#bwsocialslide').remove();}</script>

<style>
#bwsocialslide{
  background:#f3f3f3;
  -moz-box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  padding:12px 14px 12px 14px;
  width:250px;
  position:fixed;
  bottom:13px;right:0px;
  display:none;
  z-index:3;
  height:65px;
}
.bw-email{
  padding:5px 0 0 5px;
  float:left;
  font-size:1.4em;
  font-weight:bold;
  margin:0 0 10px 0;
  color:#686B6C;
}
.bw-emailsubmit{
  background:#9B9895;
  cursor:pointer;
  color:#fff;
  border:none;
  padding:3px;
  text-shadow:0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
  font:12px sans-serif;
}
.bw-emailsubmit:hover{
  background:#E98313;
}
.textarea{
  padding:2px;
  margin:6px 2px 6px 2px;
  background:#f9f9f9;
  border:1px solid #ccc;
  resize:none;
  box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  -moz-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  -webkit-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  font-size:13px;
  width:170px;
  color:#666;
}
</style>

<div style="display: none;" id="bwsocialslide">
<a style="position:absolute;top:14px;right:10px;color:#555;font-size:10px;font-weight:bold;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return closebwsocialslide();">(X)</a>

<div class="bw-email">
Subscribe via Email <form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" id="feedform" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=widgetcraft', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
<input gtbfieldid="3" class="textarea" name="email" onblur="if (this.value == &quot;&quot;) {this.value = &quot;Enter email address here&quot;;}" onfocus="if (this.value == &quot;Enter email address here&quot;) {this.value = &quot;&quot;;}" value="Enter email address here" type="text" />
<input type="hidden" value="widgetcraft" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
<input class="bw-emailsubmit" value="Submit" type="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class='clear'></div>
<!-- Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger by BWidgets -->

In above code, replace widgetcraft with your feed id. You are free to share this widget with your fans and friends. Please attribute the credits back to our blog as the only favor in return. Don't forget to leave a comment.

Sunday 10 March 2013

Easiest Way To Make Money From Social Media

There are actually many ways to make money from social media. However, you need a strong fan base to make it work. In this post, we will discuss about some ways, which could help you to earn some money from your social media.

Twitter is a great way for people with same interest to connect and share their ideas and thoughts. You may know some Twitter accounts with some large number of followers. They just tweet funny things and some links. It's hard to accept but they are probably making some big amount of money with their tweets.

Just like them, you can also earn some money with your 140 chars. You may have to tweet, blog, tout, post, upload or pin. Here are some ways to use your social media power:

Social Media Manager:

A social media manager is the person responsible for managing a brand or company’s social media presence. Social media management doesn’t require a lot of education or experience as you may already have the skills to start doing it right now.

A social media manager manages their client's social presence across all the social platforms. As a social media manager, you'll be represent your client across all the social platforms that they intend to use like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest…etc.

It's your duty to interact with your brand's audience, reply them, build social media strategies, keep it clean, and more. I bet that you already know how to do most of the things. According to Mashable.com, a social media manager’s salary could go beyond the $100k mark depending on their location and expertise.

Advertising Products:

If you have a strong fan base then you can also use your social media profile to advertise a client's products or websites. Your client will pay you for tweeting or posting his product on your social networking profile. It could be a tweet, blog post or even a YouTube video.

Get started by contacting local dealers and new websites who want to get out into the market. It's just like putting a banner on your blog. Twitter and YouTube are the best way to advertise your client's products.

You can also promote and recommend certain products or services to your followers. You can also use some pay-per-click services that allows you to earn by tweeting their products.

Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

Your affiliate host will provide you with your personal affiliate link. You can always track your link by using url shortening services, such as bit.ly. So whenever a follower clicks on your link, it is considered as a referral on your behalf, and you will get some percentage of that sale.

For example, if someone is asking your advice on the best domain registrar, you can refer them to your domain registrar via your referral link. The amount varies with different affiliate programs.

That's all for this time folks. Remember, you can earn with all above methods but keep it clean and spam free. In some future posts, we will be focusing on Money Blogging.

Saturday 9 March 2013

Combine Multiple Feeds Into One


Using web feed is a way of providing content to the user's browser or desktop in an efficient and easy way. In this post, we will not talk about creating a feed or anything like that. It's always hard to track every single feed, so we'll combine them into one.

By combining feeds you'll be able to put a variety of content into your website or favorite rss aggregator with a single rss feed by merging RSS feeds.

We don't need to download any crappy software, plugin or extension to combine our feeds. Last night, I searched and used bunch of services to combine/merge/mix feeds into one. Finally, I found three great services to do this, which are following:

RSS Mix: Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! To create a new RSS Mix, copy and paste the URLs of the existing source feeds into the RSS Mix and hit Create! No signup required!!!

Feed Killer: The service is extremely simple and it is completely free! Enter the URLs of the feeds you want to merge Specify how many stories/entries from that feed you would like to have in your custom feed. No signup required!!!

Feed Combine: Feed combine can mix your feeds and combine RSS, RDF and Atom feeds into one feed-format! Just register, combine your favorite RSS feeds and subscribe the easy-to-use RSS feed URL.

That was easy....Don't forget to leave your response.

Friday 8 March 2013

Twitter Followers Box Widget For Blogger


Facebook provides us a Like Box widget, which is great way to get more likes to your Facebook page from your blog/site. While Twitter developers were just too lazy to create something like that, Mark Carey created a Twitter Fan Box, which works just like the popular Facebook Fan Box, with a few small differences.

Twitter Fan Box displays the 10 most recent followers, which encourages people to follow your Twitter account. When someone clicks the "Follow" button, a popup appears for them to login to their Twitter account or authorize Twitter Fan Box.

Add Twitter Fan Box To Blogger:

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
  • Paste following code and click on Save:

<!-- Twitter Fan Box -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s.moopz.com/fanbox_init.js"></script><div id="twitterfanbox"></div><script type="text/javascript">fanbox_init("HardeepAsrani");</script>
<!-- End Twitter Fan Box -->

Don't forget to replace HardeepAsrani with your Twitter handler. You can test this widget by following me:

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Choosing A Perfect Name For Your Blog

Choosing a perfect name for your blog can be one of the most hardest and important thing. You want a name that portrays whatever your blog is about in a clear and concise manner. You can choose two types of names for your blog, relevant or something outside the box. Below are things to consider when choosing a blog name:

Related To Your Niche:  Make sure your blog's name is related to your blog's niche. It should give your visitors an idea about your blog. It's recommended that you focus on the main topic of your blog.

Easy To Remember: It must be easy for your visitors to remember. Be creative with your name but make it short and easy. Don't choose a ten word name for blog, which would look a bit awful. Stick with easy to remember names. Always try to pick a name with two or three words. Bored Panda is an epic name!!

Search For Available Domain Names:  This point is often ignored by people, probably because it's really hard to find a domain name of your choice that has not been registered yet. Always choose .com, .net or .org for your blog. If you're blogging about yourself then .me or .name is also a good choice.

Don't Be A Copycat: Copying a famous website or blog's name is not a great idea. You don't want to copy one of your competitor's blog names, so don't forget to Google a name before choosing it. Picking a famous website's name is also not good for your reputation. People will look your blog as a copy, even if it's not. Make sure it’s a name that will not get confused with other products, or services for that matter.

That's all for this time. These are just some few tips from me. In additional, asking your family and friends is also a great idea.

Rest In Peace ~ William "Paul Bearer" Moody (April 10, 1954 – March 5, 2013) ~ Greatest Pro-Wrestling Manager ~ Reason behind The Undertaker's success.... Miss yea Uncle Paul :'(

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Hiding Links Inside Blogger Comments


Good News!!! The percentage on SPAM has not increased since the last year. Great, you know how high was the percentage last year? 100%!!!

Spam everywhere on your blog comments? Well, it's hard to find and delete every single spam comment from your blog. Even in Blogger, spammers will always target your blog's comment form to spread spam. Blogger's inbuilt spam filter will stop almost every possible spam comments but this will not solve the problem.

Last year, I shared a nice way to reduce email spam. Prayag Verma came up with a simple jQuery powered hack that hides any clickable link and just displays its text.

Code:

<script src='https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js'/>
<script> 

$('.comment-content a[rel$=nofollow]').replaceWith(function(){return ($(this).text());});

</script>

Add it just before the </body> tag in the Edit HTML. If you want to completely remove the links from the comments , then use this code instead:

<script src='https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js'/>
<script> 

$('.comment-content a[rel$=nofollow]').hide());

</script>

This works for the Threaded Comments in Blogger, incase you want to make it work for the old Comments in Blogger , then the code is as follows:

<script src='https://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.js'/>
<script> 

$('.comment-body p a[rel$=nofollow]').replaceWith(function(){return ($(this).text());});

</script>

Hope this will reduce some spam from your comments. Don't forget to leave your comments...

Saturday 2 March 2013

3D Flipping Menu For Blogger

Here is a pure css based menu with 3d flip concept. Menu items will flip on mouse hover. Menu is inspired from bunch of flipping menus, and is created by David Walsh. Seriously, David is one of my favorite web developers.

You can download or check a demo of this menu at this link. The HTML structure consists of a list with links. The animation centers around transitions and transforms.  The actual A element wont move -- the parent SPAN element will.

Adding This Menu To Blogger:

Finally, it's time for me to begin the tutorial, which is not much tricky. We're going to add this menu to blogger in two steps. Time for the first one:

  • Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Click on "Proceed"
  • Search for ]]></b:skin>
  • Post following css just above ]]></b:skin>:

        /* 3d flipping menu by BWidgets.com */
        .block-menu {
            display: block;
            background: #000;
        }

        .block-menu li {
            display: inline-block;
        }

        .block-menu li a {
            color: #fff;
            display: block;
            text-decoration: none;
            font-family: 'Passion One',Arial,sans-serif;
            -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
            -moz-font-smoothing: antialiased;
            font-smoothing: antialiased;
            text-transform: uppercase;
            overflow: visible;
            line-height: 20px;
            font-size: 24px;
            padding: 15px 10px;
        }

        /* animation domination */
        .three-d {
            -webkit-perspective: 200px;
            -moz-perspective: 200px;
            perspective: 200px;
            -webkit-transition: all .07s linear;
            -moz-transition: all .07s linear;
            transition: all .07s linear;
            position: relative;
        }

            .three-d:not(.active):hover {
                cursor: pointer;
            }

            .three-d:not(.active):hover .three-d-box,
            .three-d:not(.active):focus .three-d-box {
                -moz-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
                -webkit-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
                -o-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
                transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
            }

        .three-d-box {
            -webkit-transition: all .3s ease-out;
            -moz-transition: all .3s ease-out;
            -ms-transition: all .3s ease-out;
            -o-transition: all .3s ease-out;
            transition: all .3s ease-out;
            -webkit-transform: translatez(-25px);
            -moz-transform: translatez(-25px);
            -o-transform: translatez(-25px);
            transform: translatez(-25px);
            -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
            -moz-transform-style: preserve-3d;
            -ms-transform-style: preserve-3d;
            -o-transform-style: preserve-3d;
            transform-style: preserve-3d;
            pointer-events: none;
            position: absolute;
            top: 0;
            left: 0;
            display: block;
            width: 100%;
            height: 100%;
        }

        .front {
            -webkit-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
            -moz-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
            -o-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
            transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
        }

        .back {
            -webkit-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
            -moz-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
            -o-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
            transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
            color: #FFE7C4;
        }

        .front, .back {
            display: block;
            width: 100%;
            height: 100%;
            position: absolute;
            top: 0;
            left: 0;
            background: black;
            padding: 15px 10px;
            color: white;
            pointer-events: none;
            -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
            box-sizing: border-box;
        }

  • Save your template.
All done with first step....Now it's time for part - adding our html mark-up.

  • Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
  • Paste following mark-up:

<ul class="block-menu">
<li><a href="#" class="three-d">
Home
<span class="three-d-box"><span class="front">Home</span><span class="back">Home</span></span>
</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="three-d">
Demos
<span class="three-d-box"><span class="front">Demos</span><span class="back">Demos</span></span>
</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="three-d">
Deals
<span class="three-d-box"><span class="front">Deals</span><span class="back">Deals</span></span>
</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="three-d">
About
<span class="three-d-box"><span class="front">About</span><span class="back">About</span></span>
</a></li>
</ul>

  • Save widget....All done!!!!

Customization:

Replace all # with your custom links. You can add another option on menu by adding following code above </ul> tag:

<span class="three-d-box"><span class="front">Title</span><span class="back">Title</span></span>

Having troubles? Don't forget to leave a comment....

Friday 1 March 2013

Top 5 Ways To Promote Your Blog


As of 16 February 2011, there were 156,000,000 blogs on the internet. One new blog is created every second and millions of active. Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject.

It's 2013 - blogs are now widely used by huge groups and companies to promote their work. As the blogosphere grows, it gets much harder for bloggers to grow their readership. Below are five easy and free tips to promote your blog:

1.Use Social Media: Take advantage of social media sites, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and more, to promote your blog. If you're short on time, you can also automatic publish blog feeds to social media using dlvr.it. As of February, Facebook has 1.06 billion monthly active users and 680 million mobile users.

Share your blog on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Also, don't forget to create your blog's brand page on social networking sites.

2.Promote With Videos And Images: You could create a mini video or some images for your new blog post. Just let people know about your blog and content. Then take your media and upload it to image or video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. Don't forget to leave a link to your content in description.

3.Use Social Sharing Widgets: Make use of social media sharing widgets on your blog, which will allow your visitor to share your content on their favorite social media sites. It takes less than one second for your visitor to share your blog with sharing widgets.

Social sharing grows your site's referral traffic by enabling users to share content and activities with their friends or group on social media sites. If your website visitors like your content and want to share it, why don't we help them?

4.Guest Posting: Guest posting is the most effective and safe link building method available today, which helps you to boost your ranking and helps in building relationships with the clients.

Write guest posts for other blogs to promote your blog. You'll also get a backlink to your blog in your guest post. Also, if you're interested then you can write a guest posts for BWidgets by clicking here.

5.Submit Your Blog To Blog Directories And Bookmarking Services: Promote your blog is by submitting your blog to blog directories, RSS directories, bookmarking sites and more. Create a Pinterest board around your blog’s niche and pin an image from your posts.

You can get maximum views from bookmaking sites, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, or Reddit. Also, submit your blog's sitemap to Google and other search engines.

That's all for this time. Now it's time for your to work on all five tips. Happy Blogging...

Thursday 28 February 2013

10 Stylish CSS Blockquotes For Blogger


Blockquote element defines "a section [within a document] that is quoted from another source". Earlier today, I spent several hours to find and create these 10 stylish blockquotes. Some are created by me and rest are from bunch of sites. Demo and download of this project is available at this link.

How To Add Blockquote Styling On Your Blog:

Before I post styling, you should know how to replace these stylish blockquotes with your template's default one.

Go To Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Search for following code:

.post blockquote

 or

.post-body blockquote
Now replace whole CSS with our custom styles, you can find them in next heading. Here is an example of your template's default blockquote:

.post blockquote {
 Some CSS HERE
}

10 Stylish Blockquotes:

Below are our 10 CSS blockquotes examples and their code, which is quoted in it:

.post blockquote {
font: 14px/22px normal helvetica, sans-serif;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 50px;
padding-left: 15px;
border-left: 3px solid lightblue;
}

.post blockquote {
margin: 0 20px;
padding: 10px 20px 25px 20px;
border-left: 5px solid #fce27c;
background-color: #f6ebc1;
}

.post blockquote {
margin: 0 20px;
padding: 10px 20px 25px 20px;
border-left: 10px dotted white;
background-color: #f6ebc1;
}

.post blockquote {
background-color: transparent;
border-top: 3px double #DC143C;
border-bottom: 3px double #DC143C;
padding: 5px;
font-style: oblique;
font-size: 1em;
margin-left: 5%;
margin-right: 5%;
}

.post blockquote {
border: 2px solid rgb(255, 204, 0);
padding: 8px 10px;
font-size: 120%;
color: black;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);
border-radius:20px 20px 0 20px;
}

.post blockquote {
margin : 0 20px;
padding: 10px 20px 25px 20px;
background : #9FCFFF;
color : #484848;
border: 5px dotted #fff;
}

.post blockquote {
background-color: white; color: #845424;
background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jnDnBoyZDiWmuYBXmkI2_KKm57rxsFD7H1NRVivHFhIw30uuj9gkzvht_ZJIzKNcX1CXw5RrrcqrE8YzePhkLKswF6UnhP9aJKjBgqFjyIHi-1A90LAHlpbWAsP4kQNqwbFLKMQo-do/s1600/Orange.gif);
background-position: 0% 10px;
background-repeat: no-repeat repeat;
border-width: 2px;
margin: 0px 20px;
min-height: 30px;
padding: 20px 20px 10px 45px;
vertical-align: baseline;
}

.post blockquote {
background: #484B52 url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI_W6dLh-v_qgQPO2Xx_hhesEVf6mSv8FvTKJMEOWZEwTYjtddxuDlljJWzdoQmZAnNeYKpOx-WYMhLH8_UujrTdXldh8lnX9S4SzAmYCcYyX3fnldQhG3jKxk5xPkNFjRWBZfZf1Bfzg/s1600/green-black-side.gif) ;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
margin: 0 20px;
padding: 20px 20px 20px 50px;
color:#C7CACF;
font: normal 0.9em Helvetica, verdana, serif, Georgia, "Times New Roman";
}

.post blockquote {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZ0tc4O01L8FHeBD7XO5CSG1-FIUgh9SCrszkweGWKCCkKy0B4ZIGsZysn0N9UhoU1A-Nl02_kWS6hS2zHntob85sPFBuBW-WOyGNpv8qPjEGCIbg8kyLhkeDzCZ6xLZxXLhGJYP8eR4/s1600/blockquote.png) no-repeat scroll 0px 0px transparent;
border: medium none;
margin: 5px 5px 50px;
padding: 25px 30px 5px 70px;
color: rgb(153, 153, 153);
font-style: italic;
}

.post blockquote {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3eAY10jiNGHiJ542LdD3eCpfZQdyVCWYyDcfKBNyhSWj5LxaHcOB0F3H4qP7mk785JV97m7Io0gwlKgWL_P0QdrvUYaYzAXYqdrboRYzZwkEhLYLdTXijb5x1AzBuTUQX5OFO3MxGI74/s1600/note.png) repeat-y scroll 0 0 transparent;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-ms-border-radius: 3px;
-o-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #808080 inset, 0 0 1px #FFFFFF;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #808080 inset, 0 0 1px #FFFFFF;
-ms-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #808080 inset, 0 0 1px #FFFFFF;
-o-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #808080 inset, 0 0 1px #FFFFFF;
box-shadow: 0 0 3px #808080 inset, 0 0 1px #FFFFFF;
margin: 10px 13px;
padding: 21px 45px 14px;
line-height: 1.65em;
font-famliy:georgia,sarif;
font-size:13px;
}

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