73D41416194E8A7C390936971FB2B74B Chira Sathi: tips and tricks
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Add a reply option to blogger comments like Wordpress



STEP #1
Log in to Blogger, go to Layout -> Edit HTML
and mark the tick box "Expand Widget Templates"

STEP #2
Now find (CTRL+F) this code in the template:



<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/> </span>
Now copy one of the below codes and paste it just after the above line.




Code:<span><a expr:href='&quot;https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=YOUR BLOG ID HERE&amp;postID=&quot; + data:post.id + &quot;&amp;isPopup=true&amp;postBody=%40%3C%61%20%68%72%65%66%3D%22%23&quot; + data:comment.anchorName + &quot;%22%3E&quot; + data:comment.author + &quot;%3C%2F%61%3E#form&quot;' onclick='javascript:window.open(this.href, &quot;bloggerPopup&quot;, &quot;toolbar=0,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,scrollbars=yes,width=450,height=450&quot;); return false;'><img alt='Reply To This Comment' src='YOUR REPLY BUTTON IMAGE URL HERE'/></a></span>



Now, in the above code replace the texts in BLUE with your "Blog ID" and the texts in RED with the "Reply Button Image Url".

Now click Save Template




Important ! 
In order to make this work you must add your blog Id .
What is your blog ID??
Simply go to your layout page, posting page or any of the pages and copy your I.D. from the address bar at the top of the page.



Replace URL of image with any image of your choice or you can choose one from below- 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WvACVGW1iPE/S7WNVXEpzbI/AAAAAAAABBE/-oKIce3D_i0/s320/reply01.png

 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WvACVGW1iPE/S7WNYimWsdI/AAAAAAAABBM/n5b9btyk_jM/s320/reply03.png

 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WvACVGW1iPE/S7WNbaXMiaI/AAAAAAAABBU/TRjA89kouEw/s320/reply04.png

 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WvACVGW1iPE/S7WNjwI1_jI/AAAAAAAABBc/aZ0s2iB6aOU/s320/reply02.png

 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WvACVGW1iPE/S7WNmlf7dkI/AAAAAAAABBk/7muFjwSlGE4/s320/reply05.png

Add Floating Hover Text - Which Trails Mouse Cursor

If you want to show any text like "Welcome Here" or "Sign My Guestbook"or "Your Text Here", which follows the mouse cursor (trail text effect), like the one displayed in the image


STEP #1 Log in to Blogger, go to Layout






page-elements

Add a Gadget of HTML/JavaScript type. 



image
Then add this code in to it:.



<script language="javascript">





// ENTER TEXT BELOW. CAN *NOT* INCLUDE NORMAL HTML CODE.

var text='YOUR TEXT HERE...';



var delay=40; // SPEED OF TRAIL

var Xoff=0; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE LEFT OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO TO LEFT)

var Yoff=-30; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE TOP OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO UP)

var txtw=14; // AMOUNT OF PIXEL SPACE EACH CHARACTER OCCUPIES

var beghtml='<font color="#00436e"><b>'; // OPTIONAL HTML CODE THAT EFFECTS WHOLE TEXT STRING SUCH AS FONT COLOR, SIZE, ETC.

var endhtml='</b></font>'; // END HTML CODE. MOSTLY USED IF ABOVE SETTING IS USED.



//********** NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW HERE **********\\



ns4 = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && document.layers)? true : false;

ie4 = (document.all && !document.getElementById)? true : false;

ie5 = (document.all && document.getElementById)? true : false;

ns6 = (document.getElementById && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 )? true: false;

var txtA=new Array();

text=text.split('');

var x1=0;

var y1=-1000;

var t='';



for(i=1;i<=text.length;i++){

t+=(ns4)? '<layer name="txt'+i+'" top="-100" left="0" width="'+txtw+'" height="1">' : '<div id="txt'+i+'" style="position:absolute; top:-100px; left:0px; height:1px; width:'+txtw+'; visibility:visible;">';

t+=beghtml+text[i-1]+endhtml;

t+=(ns4)? '</layer>' : '</div>';

}

document.write(t);



function moveid(id,x,y){

if(ns4)id.moveTo(x,y);

else{

id.style.left=x+'px';

id.style.top=y+'px';

}}



function animate(evt){

x1=Xoff+((ie4||ie5)?event.clientX+document.body.scrollLeft:evt.pageX);

y1=Yoff+((ie4||ie5)?event.clientY+document.body.scrollTop:evt.pageY);

}



function getidleft(id){

if(ns4)return id.left;

else return parseInt(id.style.left);

}



function getidtop(id){

if(ns4)return id.top;

else return parseInt(id.style.top);

}



function getwindowwidth(){

if(ie4||ie5)return document.body.clientWidth+document.body.scrollLeft;

else return window.innerWidth+pageXOffset;

}



function movetxts(){

for(i=text.length;i>1;i=i-1){

if(getidleft(txtA[i-1])+txtw*2>=getwindowwidth()){

moveid(txtA[i-1],0,-1000);

moveid(txtA[i],0,-1000);

}else moveid(txtA[i], getidleft(txtA[i-1])+txtw, getidtop(txtA[i-1]));

}

moveid(txtA[1],x1,y1);

}



window.onload=function(){

for(i=1;i<=text.length;i++)txtA[i]=(ns4)?document.layers['txt'+i]:(ie4)?document.all['txt'+i]:document.getElementById('txt'+i);

if(ns4)document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);

document.onmousemove=animate;

setInterval('movetxts()',delay);

}

</script>



Now click Save

Monday, October 10, 2011

Scrolling Title in Browser title bar for blogspot



One of the most common uses of JavaScript is to create a scrolling message in the browser's status line. You can create a scrolling message using the string methods you have learned in this hour.
To begin, you'll need to define the message to be scrolled. You will use a variable called msg to store the message. To begin the script, initialize the variable (feel free to choose your own text for the message):



Steps to follow:

STEP #1
Log in to Blogger -> Layout -> Edit HTML and select the tick-box Expand Widget Templates
Then, find (CTRL+F) this code in the template

<head>

And immediately before it, paste this code:

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
msg = "
==>triml.blogspot.com<==";
msg = " .................................. " + msg;pos = 0;
function scrollMSG() {
document.title = msg.substring(pos, msg.length) + msg.substring(0, pos); pos++;
if (pos > msg.length) pos = 0
window.setTimeout("scrollMSG()",200);
}
scrollMSG();
//]]>
</script>


Now click Save Template 

Friday, September 30, 2011

Create Bootable ISO for Windows Setup Using WBI Creator Portable Utility

After installing Windows Operating system on your Computer, You mostly keep the backup of the Windows disc in your hard drive for the future use. Later while creating another bootable windows disc with the same folder, it won’t work. The thing is, either you must know how to create a exact bootable disc or you are lost. WBI Creator is a free windows software that allows you to create bootable ISO image of Windows XP, Vista and 7 which can be burned using any disk burning software or using Windows 7 built-in Disk image burner tool. Since it is a portable application, you don’t need to install it, simply extract the zip file after downloading and open the exe file to run.
wbi creator
Select the OS type, assign any desired name of the ISO file, select the folder containing windows setup files, select the target older for the output ISO file and you are do. It will take only few time to create the bootable ISO image of Windows and it can be burned on disc using any CD/DVD burning software. You can alaso burn it to USB drive using ISO to USB windows freeware.
Download WBI Creator | via Askvg

Customize The Color Scheme Of Wordpress Mp3 Flash Player

wordpress mp3 player Wordpress Audio player is a beautiful mp3 player and thanks to Mindy McAdams we can now actually make it work in blogger and can even change the entire colour scheme of this mini player! I hope you already now how to make it work with blogger if not read this post –> Flash Mp3 Player 
Today I will let you know how to change the colour scheme of both versions of these useful mp3 players. Before we may begin check my customized player below,

This tutorial again consists of two parts,

  1. Adding the JavaScript Inside Blogger
  2. Adding The HTML Code For Mp3 Player To Appear
I have already explained both these parts in my previous post but this time we will work only on the second part i.e Adding The HTML Code For Mp3 Player To Appear
The HTML Code for our simple Mp3 Players looks like this,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf>
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&amp;soundFile=URL of your MP3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

And The HTML Code For Our New Customized Mp3 Will look like this,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf>
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&
bg=0xf8f8f8&
leftbg=0xeeeeee&
lefticon=0x666666&
rightbg=0xcccccc&
rightbghover=0x999999&
righticon=0x666666&
righticonhover=0xffffff&
text=0x666666&
slider=0x666666&
track=0xFFFFFF&
border=0x666666&
loader=0x9FFFB8&
loop=no&
autostart=no&
soundFile=URL of your MP3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

The Green part is the portion responsible for the color scheme. View the image below to understand each code,
player-sketch
where,
rightbghover=0x999999&     and   righticonhover=0xffffff& refers to the color change on mouse hover. The red part in between the green text is the hexadecimal colour code. To change the colors according to your preferences use our colour chart

Customization

This is the most important part and I want your full concentration here. You can observe that the green part is the main portion consisting of 12 options to change the color scheme of the Mp3 player. Once you have finalized all your colors using our CSS Color Chart there is only one thing required to successfully dress up this player. You observe that the green portion of the code looks like this,
bg=0xf8f8f8&
leftbg=0xeeeeee&
lefticon=0x666666&
rightbg=0xcccccc&
rightbghover=0x999999&
righticon=0x666666&
righticonhover=0xffffff&
text=0x666666&
slider=0x666666&
track=0xFFFFFF&
border=0x666666&
loader=0x9FFFB8&
loop=no&
autostart=no&
You need to align all this vertical code into a single line like this,
bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&
righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&
track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&loop=no&autostart=no&
Now your code will look like this,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value=http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf>
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&
righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&
track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&loop=no&autostart=no&
soundFile=URL of your MP3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>
Make sure you replace URL of your MP3 with the link of your Mp3 file. For example the URL for my Mp3 file looks like this,
http://stcmustafa.fileave.com/lastbreath.mp3

Some Players With Different Flavors

Masked Red

The code for this player is shared below,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&bg=0xffffff&leftbg=0xFF0000&lefticon=0xffffff&rightbg=0xFFCCCC&rightbghover=0xFF0000&righticon=0xffffff&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0xFF0000&slider=0xffffff&track=0xFF0000&border=0xFF0000&loader=0xFF6666&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=URL Of Your Mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object>
Masked Purple
The code for this player is shared below,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&bg=0xffffff&leftbg=0x660033&lefticon=0xffffff&rightbg=0xC74988&rightbghover=0x660033&righticon=0xffffff&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x660033&slider=0xffffff&track=0x660033&border=0x660033&loader=0x660033&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=URL OF Your Mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object>

Masked Black

The code for this player is shared below,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer1&bg=0xffffff&leftbg=0x000000&lefticon=0xffffff&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999& righticon=0xffffff&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x000000&slider=0x666666&track=0x000000&border=0x000000&loader=0xffffff&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=URL OF Your Mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object>
And the code for the first Mp3 player used in this post as Green and Blue is shared below,
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xffffff&lefticon=0xffffff&rightbg=0x0080ff&rightbghover=0x289728&righticon=0xffffff&leftbg=0x289728&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x0080ff&slider=0xffffff&track=0xffffff&border=0x289728&loader=0x0080ff&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=URL Of Your Mp3"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </object>
I hope you like them. For Using more than one player as I have done read my previous post on Wordpress Mp3 Player
The players that you see above are the first version and if you want to use the second version then simply replace http://www.mdn.fm/files/87478_pfe4i/player1.swf with http://www.mdn.fm/files/87479_wv3lp/player.swf  A second version Player will look like this,
I hope you will like this post :>

Stylized Page Navigation Widget For Blogger|Blogspot blogs – MBT Church Theme Style!



Page-Navigation-Widget-for-Blogger As mentioned in the download page of MBT Church Theme that it has a Page Navigation Widget that is an alternative to Recent Posts, Home and Older Posts links at the bottom of blogger hosted blogs. In order to add the stylized version of Page Navigation Widget created by Mohammad Rias to your MBT Church Theme, follow the steps below,


Page Navigation Widget For Blogger Hosted Blogs

  1. Log into your blogger account and go to Layout > Page Elements
  2. Then Click on Add a Gadget
  3. Amongst the Blogger Featured Widgets Choose HTML/JavaScript Widget html-javascript blogger widget
  4. Inside the HTML/JavaScript Widget  paste the code below,
    <style type="text/CSS">
    .showpageArea a {
    text-decoration:underline;
    }
    .showpageNum a {
    text-decoration:none;
    border: 1px solid #7AA1C3;
    margin:0 3px;
    padding:3px;
    }
    .showpageNum a:hover {
    border: 1px solid #7AA1C3;
    background-color:#F6F6F6;
    }
    .showpagePoint {
    color:#333;
    text-decoration:none;
    border: 1px solid #7AA1C3;
    background: #F6F6F6;
    margin:0 3px;
    padding:3px;
    }
    .showpageOf {
    text-decoration:none;
    padding:3px;
    margin: 0 3px 0 0;
    }
    .showpage a {
    text-decoration:none;
    border: 1px solid #7AA1C3;
    padding:3px;
    }
    .showpage a:hover {
    text-decoration:none;
    }
    .showpageNum a:link,.showpage a:link {
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#7AA1C3;
    }
    </style>
    <script type="text/JavaScript">
    function showpageCount(json) {
    var thisUrl = location.href;
    var htmlMap = new Array();
    var isFirstPage = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.length-5,thisUrl.length)==".com/";
    var isLablePage = thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")!=-1;
    var isPage = thisUrl.indexOf("/search?updated")!=-1;
    var thisLable = isLablePage ? thisUrl.substr(thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")+14,thisUrl.length) : "";
    thisLable = thisLable.indexOf("?")!=-1 ? thisLable.substr(0,thisLable.indexOf("?")) : thisLable;
    var thisNum = 1;
    var postNum=1;
    var itemCount = 0;
    var fFlag = 0;
    var eFlag = 0;
    var html= '';
    var upPageHtml ='';
    var downPageHtml ='';
    var pageCount = 2;
    var displayPageNum = 5;
    var upPageWord = 'Previous';
    var downPageWord = 'Next';
    var labelHtml = '<span class="showpageNum"><a href="/search/label/'+thisLable+'?&max-results='+pageCount+'">';
    for(var i=0, post; post = json.feed.entry[i]; i++) {
    var timestamp = post.published.$t.substr(0,10);
    var title = post.title.$t;
    if(isLablePage){
    if(title!=''){
    if(post.category){
    for(var c=0, post_category; post_category = post.category[c]; c++) {
    if(encodeURIComponent(post_category.term)==thisLable){
    if(itemCount==0 || (itemCount % pageCount ==(pageCount-1))){
    if(thisUrl.indexOf(timestamp)!=-1 ){
    thisNum = postNum;
    }
    postNum++;
    htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = '/search/label/'+thisLable+'?updated-max='+timestamp+'T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results='+pageCount;
    }
    }
    }
    }//end if(post.category){
    itemCount++;
    }
    }else{
    if(title!=''){
    if(itemCount==0 || (itemCount % pageCount ==(pageCount-1))){
    if(thisUrl.indexOf(timestamp)!=-1 ){
    thisNum = postNum;
    }
    if(title!='') postNum++;
    htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = '/search?updated-max='+timestamp+'T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results='+pageCount;
    }
    }
    itemCount++;
    }
    }
    for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){
    if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) && p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
    if(fFlag ==0 && p == thisNum-2){
    if(thisNum==2){
    if(isLablePage){
    upPageHtml = labelHtml + upPageWord +'</a></span>';
    }else{
    upPageHtml = '<span class="showpage"><a href="/">'+ upPageWord +'</a></span>';
    }
    }else{
    upPageHtml = '<span class="showpage"><a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ upPageWord +'</a></span>';
    }
    fFlag++;
    }
    if(p==(thisNum-1)){
    html += '<span class="showpagePoint">'+thisNum+'</span>';
    }else{
    if(p==0){
    if(isLablePage){
    html = labelHtml+'1</a></span>';
    }else{
    html += '<span class="showpageNum"><a href="/">1</a></span>';
    }
    }else{
    html += '<span class="showpageNum"><a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ (p+1) +'</a></span>';
    }
    }
    if(eFlag ==0 && p == thisNum){
    downPageHtml = '<span class="showpage"> <a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ downPageWord +'</a></span>';
    eFlag++;
    }
    }//end if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) && p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
    }//end for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){
    if(thisNum>1){
    if(!isLablePage){
    html = ''+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
    }else{
    html = ''+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
    }
    }
    html = '<div class="showpageArea"><span style="COLOR: #000;" class="showpageOf"> Pages ('+(postNum-1)+')</span>'+html;
    if(thisNum<(postNum-1)){
    html += downPageHtml;
    }
    if(postNum==1) postNum++;
    html += '</div>';
    if(isPage || isFirstPage || isLablePage){
    var pageArea = document.getElementsByName("pageArea");
    var blogPager = document.getElementById("blog-pager");
    if(postNum <= 2){
    html ='';
    }
    for(var p =0;p< pageArea.length;p++){
    pageArea[p].innerHTML = html;
    }
    if(pageArea&&pageArea.length>0){
    html ='';
    }
    if(blogPager){
    blogPager.innerHTML = html;
    }
    }
    }
    </script>
    <script src="/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=showpageCount&max-results=99999" ; type="text/javascript"></script>
  5. If you are using a domain other than .blogspot.com or .com, then kindly change  the bolded red text .com with your domain extension. For Example if your domain ends with .info or .biz than replace .com with .info or .biz . But if you are a BlogSpot user than leave the code unchanged.
  6. Once you have pasted the code inside the widget, simply drag your HTML/Javascript widget to the area just below your posts and drop it there, as shown in the picture below,
Page-Navigation-Widget-For- blogspot blogs

That’s All!
Hope you enjoyed it. Let me know if anything is unclear.
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