Auto Scrolling Links or Marquee Links

Many a timed there is a need to show a list of long links it may be your list of blogs, A list of others blogs if you are participating in a traffic exchange or it could be your monthly archives if you have been blogging for long.Having a long list of links on your sidebar gives it a shabby look so here’s a simple solution to the problem. Display auto scrolling links in a pre defined space. You have all the customizing options too at your disposal.

Once you have copied the code you can modify the below options if require or leave it as it is ( U NEED TO ONLY CHANGE THE CONTENT IN “ ” BETWEEN THE COMMA’S ) Marquee Direction “ UP” – This defines the direction of scrolling you can change it as Down, Left or Right

Width “ 200 ” – Change to suit your blog ( If required ) Height “ 200 ” – Change to suit your blog ( If required ) Scroll Amount “ 2 ” – This defines the speed of scrolling (Smaller the no slower the speed,Greater no will increase the speed e.g 3,4,5… )

After you have done the necessary customization you can change my blog address http://sheikhsarfras.blogspot.com/ to say http://yourblog.blogspot.com/ and Title “ Blog ” to say “ My Blog”. 

Copy the below code and edit the links to increase as many as you like.

<a target="_blank" href="http://sheikhsarfras.blogspot.com/">Blog</a><p>

I would request you to leave the first link Blog widgets so more people can find this blog but you are free to remove it.

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Copy and Paste the below code in your blog or webpage <div class="textwidget"> <marquee direction="up" width="200" onmouseover="this.stop()" scrollamount="2" onmouseout="this.start()" height="200" align="left"> <a target="_blank" href="http://gadgets4blog.blogspot.com/">Blog Widgets</a><p> <a target="_blank" href="http://sheikhsarfras.blogspot.com/">Blog</a><p> <a target="_blank" href="http://365goa.blogspot.com/">Goa</a><p> <a target="_blank" href="http://iblogdweb.blogspot.com/">Web Review</a></p> </p> </p> </marquee></div>

United States ZIP code lookup widget

United States ZIP code lookup. Complete information for city name, alias city, state code, phone area code, city type, county name FIPS, time zone, day light saving, latitude, longitude, elevation, MSA, PMSA and Census data.

Copy and Paste the below code in your blog or webpage <script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.zipcodeworld.com/gadget/us.xml&synd=open&w=320&h=200&title=http%3A%2F%2Fgadgets4blog.blogspot.com%2F&border=%23ffffff%7C1px%2C1px+solid+black%7C1px%2C1px+solid+black%7C0px%2C1px+black&output=js"></script><form> <select onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')" name="menu" size="1"> <option/>-Get More Widgets- <option value="http://gadgets4blog.blogspot.com/">Go Get it ! </select></form>

Source : Google Gadgets

How to display recent posts widget for blogger

Check out this very easy method to display your recent posts widgets to your blogger.

Just log in to your blogger account and then go to Layout.Then click on Add a Gadget. Choose the Add content from an RSS or Atom feed to your blog.

When you add it it will ask for the feed url. Copy the rss feed of your blog and paste it in this and click on continue .Here you can rename the Title say as “ RECENT POSTS “ and then Save it.

Simple isn’t it ?

How to use Google Analytics for blogger ?

Sign Up with Google analytics with your Gmail account

http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html

You will be displayed with the get started screen. Click on the sign up button to get started.

Next you will land on the general information page and here you will have to submit yourWebsite’s URL, Account Name ( You can give any name and if you have multiple blogs you can write the name of your blog here and add more sites once your account has been set up ),Time Zone Country and finally your Time zone

After entering this info click on Continue

Next the contact information page will open up where you need to enter your Last Name, First Name & Phone number ( It is NOT MANDATORYthough to enter this info) But you need to enter the Country or territory to continue. After selecting the country click on the continue button.

Here the user Agreement Page will open.You can read it and select the checkbox Yes, I agree to the above terms and conditions.

Then click on the Create New Account button

Next you will move on to the page where the code for inserting in your blog will be displayed. Login into your blogger account.

Go to Layout. Click on Edit HTML

Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it. Just click on the download full template and choose a location and save it.( Just in case you mess up anything you can always choose this file and upload it and things will be back to normal )

Now Scroll to the bottom of the template and you will find </body> tag.Copy the code displayed and paste it immediately before ( above ) the </body> tag.

After this Save the Template.

Go back to the Google Analytics page and Click on the Continue Button and you will be finally on your Dashboard.

Now just sit back and relax as Google Analytics take care of the rest. Note you will need to wait for 24 - 48 hours before your stats start building up.

For more details on how to add multiple blogs, How to remove your own visits to give more realistic and correct stats and much more visit my blog by clicking the below link http://sheikhsarfras.blogspot.com

Links in Drop Down Menu

Many a times displaying a long list of links can take up quite some precious display area of your blog.So here i s a smart way to display your links in the form of a drop down menu.See the below example and click on any below link.

Now to customise it for your own blog you can change the words " DROP DOWN MENU " to anything you like ( e.g/ Blog list,Check this out !... )

Now for Changing the links you go to
WEBPAGE URL and change the address with the link desired
You can change the LINK 5 ( This is a text to whatever you desire .This will be displayed on the webpage )

To have more links just keep copying the code as shown below and change the address and text to display ( LINK1,LINK2 ... ETC )

LINK 1  to LINK 4  are links to my blog you may retain it or remove it but I recommend you to keep atleast LINK 4 which is a link to this blog so it will be easy for you and others for easy access to this blog.

- DROP DOWN MENU - LINK 1LINK 2LINK 3LINK 4 LINK 5

Copy the below code and paste it in your blog or webpage

<br /><form> <select onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')" name="menu" size="1"><br /><option/>- DROP DOWN MENU - <br /><!-- change the links with your own --><br /><option value="http://sheikhsarfras.blogspot.com/">LINK 1<br /><option value="http://365goa.blogspot.com/">LINK 2<br /><option value="http://iblogdweb.blogspot.com/">LINK 3<br /><option value="http://gadgets4blog.blogspot.com/">LINK 4<br /><option value="http://WEBPAGE URL.com">LINK 5<br /><br /><br /></select></form> <br /><br />