How To Add A Search Box For Your Blog

Simple - add the Search Box as a gadget in the "Layout" tab of the Blogger dashboard. It's the latest addition to the gadget list. You have the option to search:-

1. your blog
2. the pages you've linked to
3. the Web


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How Best To Transfer Draft From Words to Blogger

I always start the draft of my posts in Words. God knows how I need my writing to be checked in terms of spelling and grammar. And the thesaurus tool is a life saver.

I used to transfer my draft directly from Words into Blogger. But the formatting doesn't always come up right. The reason, I think, is because there are a lot of "hidden" formatting characters in Words.

Nowadays, I would copy the final draft in Words into Notepad first. When the draft is pasted onto Notepad, most formatting characters will be filtered, leaving only the text. Then I would copy the draft from Notepad into Blogger. Only then I'll do the formatting like bold, italic, colors, etc before publishing.


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How to Change Case of Text

For some reason, Blogger forces all text into upper case.

I use the "Minima" template of Blogger. To turn off this setting, go to the sub-tab of "Edit HTML" of the "Layout" tab and delete, or comment out, the following statement:

text-transform:uppercase

in corresponding sections of the template.

To comment out the statement, insert "/*" at the beginning of the statement and "*/" at the end of it, like this:

/*text-transform:upprecase*/

For the text of the title, look for the following block of codes:

#header h1 {
margin:5px 5px 0;
padding:15px 20px .25em;
line-height:1.2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
font: $pagetitlefont;
}

Delete the statement "text-transform:uppercase;" or change it to "/*text-transform:uppercase;*/".

For the title description perform the change at #header .description (

For the sidebar, at h2 (

For the footer of the post, at .post-footer (

For the comment page, at #comments h4 (

For the footer of comment, at #comments-block .comment-footer (

For the profile, at .profile-data (

For the profile link, at .profile-link (


Press Ctrl-F to search for the relevant keywords within the codes.

Click "Save Template" to save your changes.

For the font family, style (bold or italic), and size, you can change it at the sub-tab of "Fonts and Colors" at the "Layout" tab.


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How To Cross Out Words

A crossed out word or words can add a twist of humour in your writing.

To display word/words with a line crossed in the middle:

1. In front of the word/words that you want to displayed crossed out, insert <strike>, or simply <s>
2. At the end of the word/words, insert </strike> or </s>

And you have a crossed-out word/words display in your piece of shit masterpiece.



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