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The Last Post: Note to Followers 19 Jun 2009 2:36 PM (16 years ago)

I'm Bugging Out!This is the last of 228 posts. I never did like the Followers Gadget. The Followers (you and a few others) might have been very nice, but not via the clammy tentacles of Blogger's bug-eyed "friends" toy! All my "old friends" can testify that I'm pretty anti-social. So now that I'm abandoning MFBQ, I just thought I'd mention that this blog will still be here, but there will be no

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Remove Blogs You Follow from Dashboard's "Reading List" 6 Jun 2009 8:13 AM (16 years ago)

How to remove titles from "Blogs I'm Following" in the "Reading List" below the Dashboard list of your own blogs:Go to bottom of page under your blog titles that you're following.Next to "Add" is "Manage"--click it.You'll see a page called "Manage blogs I'm following".On the far right side of each title is the word "Settings"--click it.On the far right side of the new page you'll see "Stop

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WYSIWYG Instead of Preview 4 Jun 2009 6:17 PM (16 years ago)

Many Bloggers are unhappy about the Blogger notion of Preview. They do not like either the one in the template or the one in the html editor. Many are dissatisfied with the Compose mode of the Blogger Editor being only an approximation of the appearance of the published post. There is no "What You See Is What You Get", they think. So how does one wiggle past this problem? My solution is to

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When Header Image is Stuck, Won't "Remove" 29 May 2009 6:11 PM (16 years ago)

When the blog header image you decided you don't like after all won't let itself be removed, what are you supposed to do? People say their photo is stuck there and won't be removed! I believe them, but I've barely had it happen to me, so my experience has been of small proportions! I only had a stuck header image once. What did I do? I panicked, of course. WHAT was it doing? So I tried

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Template Corruption 28 May 2009 11:54 AM (16 years ago)

PROCEED WITH THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! Though it's not very hard to do, it may be like killing flies with a shotgun. Be aware that it may correct or change, not only the "broken" or missing item you're concerned about, but some other things you have forgotten that you changed or added! When the post template is "reset", some items you added in the post area (not content) may disappear and you'll

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Captioned Photos In A Small Table 27 May 2009 4:58 PM (16 years ago)

PICTURE1PICTURE2Caption1Caption2Caption1Caption2 Below in red is the code for the two small tables shown above. The style definition NOBR is invoked to prevent a pile of line breaks on top of the table, which is something I use for every table. There are also some artificial line breaks that had to occur in the long url's; this was done to prevent the table margins from getting wacky! <div

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Place Gadget Above The Posts? 25 May 2009 9:15 AM (16 years ago)

It's sometimes possible to create a page element and then slide it across (drag and drop) the blog and drop it above the posts. If that won't stick, you may have to find this line in your "edit html" (template): <b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1'> and change the maxwidgets number to 2. Don't neglect to Save template before you return to the

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Add Line or Divider Between Posts 23 May 2009 2:29 PM (16 years ago)

Directions, for white or black minima:Make a safety copy of your template as per the instructions on the "Edit html" page.I can't guarantee that all blog codes are going to look the same, but I did this on several of the Minima templates. I've done it on a couple of other template styles and they varied a little. So it might work right away or you might have to tinker! (Note: You can see the

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More than 20 Important Sticky Posts 12 May 2009 9:15 AM (16 years ago)

I tried to go back through the blog and find those twenty Most Frequent Blogger Questions and their answers, but I can't quite limit it that much! Some on this list may be of NO importance to you and certainly there are some good ones left out because they just aren't asked for very often. Maybe it's sufficient that this is a Short List compared to the more than 200 total! It is not in any order

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Linking to a Google Doc From Blogger 4 May 2009 2:22 PM (16 years ago)

If you make a file in Google Docs and Spreadsheets, this is how to link to it from BloggerIf you've created one document and saved it already, locate the url (web address) in the window above on your screen and copy it. Use the right-click button on your mouse and then the Copy on the small menu so that you don't make a typo.Then go back into the post or sidebar where you intend to keep the

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Remove a Message from Blogger Help Group? 1 May 2009 4:31 PM (16 years ago)

Yes, But Not CompletelySometimes you may "think better" and want to take your words back. Or maybe you solved it two seconds later and can't bear for the world to know how stupid you were. For any reason, good or bad, you can remove it. It is worth noting that those persons who have their membership options set to receive every message reply by email will still have gotten their copy and you

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Profile Views And "Real" Counters 29 Apr 2009 4:50 PM (16 years ago)

At present, a portion of the Blogger users are complaining that their "profile" numbers are not increasing or that they barely are. Blogger said that they changed it all due to problems such as hackers giving themselves all kinds of extra clicks. Anytway, the system was getting overloaded in some fashion. Evidently, it may now register numbers by larger increments, not one at a time. Whether

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NEW Undelete Button on Dashboard! 13 Apr 2009 8:41 AM (16 years ago)

Getcher Blog Back!--MaybeThere has been an astonishing development in Blogger--it is, to me, at any rate! Until recently, there was no official feature with which to retrieve or recover a deleted blog. Now we can undelete those blogs that we accidentally deleted! Someone is always having that problem for all kinds of reasons, some of which are pathetic and some of which are our own fault, but

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Where's My Questions in Blogger Help Group? 8 Apr 2009 8:41 PM (16 years ago)

Is There A List of Questions?How do I find ALL the questions I have asked in BHG? Right up there where you just asked that question (when we're in one of Blogger Help Group's conversation "threads"): There's your Forum "name" and to the right of it is a link, "View profile", which will show some biographical info from your BHG Profile and it includes "Recent Activity", which will list every

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Text Indenting in Paragraphs 31 Mar 2009 7:31 PM (16 years ago)

See the post after this about Blogs Disappear to see more results of using the text-indent. Step One Occurs In The TemplateEvery once in a while, someone asks how to indent a paragraph and overcome the habit HTML has of not recognizing more than one space in a row! In your template's CSS, place this line:.p2 p {text-indent: 25px;}Don't ignore the "." in front of p2 above; it's only needed that

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Blogs Disappear 30 Mar 2009 7:18 PM (16 years ago)

Like Socks In The Dryer? Come Back, Black Sheep!One of the silliest and yet one of the most efficient ways of "losing track of a blog post" happens when one is not quite paying attention. It has happened to me three or four times now and even now that I know to suspect it, it still mostly catches me by surprise. What It Is, Is Butterfingers, Bubba!Sometimes as I “publish” and exit the program

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Where To Find 3 or 4 Column Templates 23 Mar 2009 1:57 PM (16 years ago)

If You Want More Than 1 Sidebar!This is just a place-holder for me for now in case I someday have something to say about the damn three and four column templates. At present, I haven't even read all of the posts that our friend Peter has written about it, listed below in these template posts by Peter.

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Screenshot of Settings 13 Mar 2009 1:54 PM (16 years ago)

This is the screen you see after you click "Settings" from the Dashboard.

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Speaking To A Newbie About Blogger Support 6 Mar 2009 4:48 PM (16 years ago)

Don't take it seriously. I took that tone (in Blogger Help Group) because so many who have done it in the past (written multiple copies of a single post, filling every category) turned out to be monsters of ego who always felt personally slighted by the lack of help. There are still some, I imagine. Others, like me, have grown weary of the Newbies who have great outrage at Blogger's lack of

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Have Two or More Blogger Profiles 21 Feb 2009 2:47 PM (16 years ago)

Make Your OwnPlacing direct information and a photo into the sidebar to replace the Blogger "About Me" Profile OR because you want more or different info/pictures in your profile! You may desire to put hyperlinks or other items there which you cannot place in the official Profile.For different reasons, some people even want to be able to have a different Profile on different blogs on the same

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Can I Print My Blog To Paper? 20 Feb 2009 4:40 PM (16 years ago)

You can print your entire blog, including posts and comments, to paper if you wish. I never have done it and have no familiarity, so I'm sending you to NITECRUZR, my next-door Expert.

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Can I Save My Blog? 20 Feb 2009 7:24 AM (16 years ago)

The Export/Import FeatureYou can save all, including photos, comments and posts, but excluding the template or Gadgets, by Exporting. This could also be viewed as a different form of BACKUP. I've only done this export/import 4 times so far, but it seemed pretty easy by just following the instructions under Settings --> Blog Tools. The shorter blogs copied very quickly, though the long one (more

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Body (Or Background) Color 18 Feb 2009 11:21 AM (16 years ago)

The background color for your blog is not located with the other color changes in "Fonts and Colors". Oddly enough, to change the blog's background color requires going into the template--you'd think it would be among the other clickable changes. Some new bloggers may not like the idea of revising the template code, but eventually you will want something bad enough to dare! When the time comes

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Blogger Has N0 Email or Phone Support! 14 Feb 2009 2:54 PM (16 years ago)

WELL, DON'T GET BROKE UP ABOUT IT! Blogger does not provide email-based support beyond the automated messages or give out telephone numbers. Not at Blogger Help Group (BHG) or much of anywhere else. [There is a fax number at Google's page about digital copyright and infringement. I assume if you fax them about off-subject concerns that those faxes may end up in the trash.] BHG is almost

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Search for Blog Topics In Your Own Language 13 Feb 2009 6:48 PM (16 years ago)

How can users of NEXT BLOG solve the language problem? Many people only speak their own language and, while that is unfortunate, Next Blog is just wasting our time if it keeps sending us to what amounts to "foreign" language blogs to us! We should use the Google Blog Search for exploration instead of Next Blog. At the top of the page is the "Search" box.To the far right of "Search", you'll

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