Blogger adds Pages

Slightly under the radar, but at last you can now add static pages to Blogger. Wordpress has had the feature for years.

I've had a bit of a quick play around, and added a page listing my waffles and reviews.

Not very tidy at the moment, but it was just a play around. You can add pages, via the posting screen and there are a couple of widgets, in which you can display your pages.

How to add a Retweet button to Blogger, and My top ten posts - so far....

As you can now see, there is a shiny retweet button at the bottom of my posts. This is courtersy of Tweetmeme

I did find the instructions on their site, here, a bit crap and instead followed the instructions over here at Blogger Resources

One thing I would add, is make sure, you add <br> in edit html to the natural end of your posts, so it displays correctly. I am not going to go back and do this for all ninety posts on this blog, but I thought I would make sure, my ten most popular pages were formatted correctly.

[EDIT]
 Check the comments for some advice on how to place this in the date/comment section


Add the following line

tweetmeme_source = 'tweetmeme';

Replacing tweetmeme with your twitter username, so the posts come up @yourusername when tweeted.

Out of interest, here is the countdown to my top ten posts - handy if you are after some hang over sunday reading.

10	Leeds Victoria Hunslet Mill
9	The Bhagavad Gita
8	Mazz in Leeds New Logo
7	Round House Leeds - Anyone Chuck any light on this ?
6	Shout out to my Fellow Brit FridayFlash'rs
5	A Bit of a Waffle on Twitter Followers Part II
4	The Grammar W'nker
3	A Bit of a Waffle on Flash Fiction
2.	A bit of a Waffle on Twitter Followers Part I
1.	How to Write the How to How to

Handy Widget For Blogger - Related Posts

Not quite perfect, but just discovered LinkWithin , a 'widget' for blogger, which show  related posts at the bottom.  On my wordpress sites I use Effective Related posts, which is pretty accurate in terms of its selections, which is where Linkwithin looses some points.

Still, I do find that people do tend to click on related posts and have been looking for something like this for blogger for a while.

More Crap Left Over from moving from Blogger to Wordpress

Following on from my post Crap left over... , I noticed on google webmaster tools that my site had been rescanned and along with all the new paths on wordpress , there is still old paths appearing.

having another look around the server, I did notice an old index file, which was renamed index-old.html.  'am wondering if google is scanning this...

Crap left over from Deleting A Blogger Site

My Smokeback site originally was on blogger, but at the start of November I moved it over to wordpress. After backing up the blog, I deleted the blog from the blogger dashboard and all that seems to do, is to remove it from ...  the dashboard.

On the server itself all the folders and files were still there, I deleted the folders but only noticed that I had left the old atom and rss files on the root the other day.

I have taken a drop of hits since moving over, and I was wondering why old urls were appearing in results as according to webtools, my site had been rescanned.  I am wondering if this might of been the cause...

Lend me your ears

Just added a few more posts to my drawing blog , including a drawing of one of the smallest bones in the human body, the stapes.

For a while the blog was using blogger, but I moved it over to wordpress a few weeks ago. I have seemed to have a drop of traffic in the move , but I think that is slowly beginning to pick up now. Main reason I moved it over to wordpress was to make it more user friendly with the following elements
1) Tag Cloud
2)Categories
3)Related posts

All of which can be done with much ease of wordpress.

How to Post Code in Blogger

Following straight after my last post; I came across this as away of posting HTML code snippets on Blogger Encode/Decode HTML Entities

Which I found on Fryan's Digital World

A note, there also seems to be something called syntax highlighter, which involves installing something. I haven't tried it, but might be worth a google