Krasen Markov

Have you ever looked at your Blogger template and thought it looks a bit…Boring? But then you go to change your template and none of the available options seem to have the features you want. You scroll through Blogger’s list of extra features and widgets and still just can’t find what you need. You may find yourself wondering, “How do I make my blog stand out from the crowd and properly engaged the user?” Blogs are designed to be “clean” and provide a distraction-free reading service, but sometimes the specific purpose or mission of your blog demands something a bit more dynamic and interactive. However, building an entire website of your own from scratch to accomplish what you want would be impractical, or maybe impossible for you due to the amount of HTML , Javascript , and other coding languages involved. Luckily there is a kind of middle ground. Blogger allows you to create and add bits of HTML and Javascript to your Blogger blog, so that you can insert the kind of functions y...

As many of you may know, Google is continuously releasing updates in order to improve its services, particularly in the area of generating better search results. In Jan 31, 2012 Google started to implement Country-Specific url redirects to Blogger. What is that mean? In simple terms, if you are viewing a blog with an address such as example.blogspot. com from France (FR), then you'll be redirected to a .fr domain: example.blogspot. fr . Similarly, if you are viewing from United Kingdom it will be redirected to example.blogspot. co.uk . This might sound like no big deal—who cares what a blog URL ends with, right? Wrong. Google’s motives are something any serious blogger should care about in this case; this is happening so that Google can easily block any content which is not appropriate for a specify country according to the law of that country, and can easily serve that same content in another country without any issues. This is an act of “selective censorship” being perpet...