How to Remove Blogger's Navigation bar

Why do you want to remove a navigation bar? This is a question I want to ask you. I mean it is okay to 'remove' it. But I would like to understand why. Anyway, you can comment your reasons later. Let's see why you should or should not remove it.

Why should you remove it?

It looks more like a website than just one blog. Useful for those who has custom domains, the very reason you will want a custom domain is mainly because you are writing about your profession, or perhaps you are doing a topical blog. 

How to remove it?

It is very simple to remove it. Follow this steps below:

1. Login to your blogger dashboard.

2. Click "Layout"

3. Click "Edit HTML"

Then add in this code bold below, and add it in the the portion exactly to the position where the red box is:

#navbar-iframe {display: none !important;}

Once you are done with that, preview it first to see if the nav bar is gone, at the same time this is to check to ensure that you didn't accidentally mess up the HTML code.

What happens when I want to restore it?

Very simple, just remove that piece of code and the nav bar should be back. It is just that easy to remove and get it back.

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Having a unique blog can drive up visitors attention!

In this post it is all going to be about capturing people's attention! Sound simple? Not really of the case, if you would like to capture people's attention and let them stay with you, you have to be unique and today we will be talking about making your blog unique (yea just that I promise :D).

In order to make your blog unique, you can't just use the sort of template Blogger provides, those are more for personal bloggers! In fact some personal bloggers use customized template to express their feelings. Similarly, if you are doing a topical blog, you might want to choose a customized template that suits your blog's theme so when people visit your blog, they will be able to know what topic you will be talking about from one look of the template (Unless you choose template that belong to the classification of clean and elegant, otherwise your blog should have some nice colors to present to your audience.) From today onward, you can start to expect me posting some very nice and beautiful template that are... from WordPress. But don't worry, there are a lot of nice templates out there for you to choose from.

There is also something called audience retention, this means how long your audience stay on your blog.  Please also know that your audience hate to wait. You practically have about 20 seconds to capture your audience attention, shown by a survey. This also includes the time it takes to load the site.

Another thing to add to your blog's uniqueness is none other than your header image, that is really what separates you from a brand to another. You can easily customize your header image using Adobe Photoshop CS5.1, Fireworks, or Paint.net if you don't have either of these tools. Paint.net is free for download over here: Click Here

Just add some image if you would like and your blog's name together and it will look very good. Like my Twitter and Facebook profile page I have a profile picture that is designed in Adobe Fireworks. Some cool font and effects can really make your image stand out (Although I won't say mine is a very well done one...)


So in conclusion, having a good customized blog with your own blog name as your blog header, people can easily identify your blog! Not to mention the use of favicon. Favicon are icons that you find beside your blog's header title like the example below:

That is called a favicon, a small little icon that will represent your blog. You can generate your own favicon over here: Click Here 

Of course you must have your own image use first in order to convert into a small little icon. But remember, when making the image, it is recommended that you try to make it small as if you do big image size design, the favicon picture might be a little blurry when you resize it.

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Disable startup programs on Windows 7

Do you think that there is just too many startup programs when you turn on your computer? Wish that they won't run and make them run later when you actually NEED them? Well, wish granted, it is very easy to disable some startup programs.

1. Go to the start menu and search for "msconfig"

2. Then this window should popout

3. Now go to the startup tab and start to uncheck the boxes of programs that you don't want to startup and click apply, then ok.

4.After that it will prompt you to restart, you can choose not to restart as they are startup programs , so once you startup your computer again, these startup programs will not start until you manually start them.

Please beware that you know what you are doing when you are disabling services, some of these services are important to run a device or a program. If you disable them, you cannot start them by starting the program, you must manually re-enable the service through computer management. Won't touch on this now since it is not our main priority. Will go on to that the next time.

That's all for this post, if you have any queries please comment and I will see how I will be able to help you.

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Blogger Trick: Embedding PDF files, Powerpoint slides and more into blogger

Have you always wanted to add in your own PDF or powerpoint document and embed it into blogger? Well now you can with Scribd! 
Look below for an example of a embedded document of Microsoft word (This is used for my recent school research on Vatican City) :
Vatican City

This is how you add your documents regardless whether they are word, pdf or powerpoint and even more. They would all work. 

First, create an account with Scribd: Click Here 
Next, upload one of your document, it can be any of them.
Once you are done, you should see this page, click on the document name and you should see this:

See the button which I boxed? Click on it and copy the embed doc into your blog HTML as shown below:

Embed Document

HTML code

After you have done that, you can preview on your blog and see if it works for you. Although it should work as this is a fluid-sized embed. Meaning it can expand and contract depending on your blog's layout or dimensions.


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Some additional benefits of using this: There are a lot of people browsing Scribd for good reads. If your uploaded content has added a link back to your site and the readers likes them, they might want to visit your blog. This will result in an increase of views and visitors for your blog.


Enjoy!

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How to Check for your Website Speed?

Hello readers! Today I am going to show you how to check for your blog's loading speed. As you know, having a fast loading page can increase your Google search rankings. So, I am going to introduce to you an online tool that checks for your website speed.

Click Here to go to the page

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Free .in Domain for you website!

This is a top level domain called .in. Which means you are registering for India's domain name.
Of course this will naturally mean that this will only be available to India only. Quite tragic..., but there is a way around it which I will show you later. This is provided to you for free for one year, if you would like to renew you will have to pay.


Why would you want to have a top-level domain? This would be explained in one of my tutorials later.


Features for joining them:
- You will get to build a highly professional website
- Free .in domain name and hosting for one year
- Free email address (That will be done using one of hostgator's email service
- If you are  living in india then you will get free Rs 2500(50$) to publish your website

1. First thing first, head to this website: Click Here
2. Next, click on 'Yes, I want my free website!' as shown below:

3. Next you will click on the big green button similar to something like the one above that says 'Create my free website now!'

4. Enter your website name and click 'check availability'.

5. Next, fill in your information, as stated before, they are only available to India only and the way to ensure that you are a Indian is by checking you Pan Number. Something like an identification number in India, your way to get around that is to look around here for a list of identity and Pan numbers you can use. 

Click Here for the list.

6. All your information of your Username and Password would arrive by email.

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