Tagged

1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your first thought be?

I will go blanck for long time.


2. If you can have a dream coming true, what would it be?

Grandmaster in Chess


3. What is the one thing most hated by you?

Taste of Karela


4. What would you do with a billion dollars?

Keep one million with me, 9 million for my family and friends(so if you want to be a millionair sometime, you need to keep me in good terms!) and donate the rest to Guruji !


5. Will you fall in love with your best friend?

ya

6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?

2nd. When someone loves you, you also start loving that person sometime or other!

7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?

until that person wishes

8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?

wait and watch!

9. If you like to act with someone, who will it be? Your gf/bf or an actress/actor?

Jim Carry

10. What takes you down the fastest?

temptations.... don't ask me which ones!

11. How would you see yourself in ten years time?

Check my post on "Life and afterlife of a research scholar"... Possibilities abound!

12. What's your fear?

that i might fall of some place or some road accident!

13. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?

sweet and simple

14. Would you rather be single and rich, or married but poor?

Rich, married or not doesn't matter!

15. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?

Big Yawn

16. Would you give all in a relationship?

whatever is needed to be given

17. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?

one who loves me!

18. Would you forgive and forget no matter how horrible a thing that special someone has done?

I will forgive, but not forget.

19. If you get to go back in time and fall in love all over again , would it still be with the same person?

Yes, very much.

20. List 6 people to tag.

Bawa n Dinesh
Rashmin

Kanasu

Akhilesh

Sabariram

Guys do it. Its fun!

And the difference is...

In the Post Title Font color and Post Title Font Size! Good guesses, and Bhawana got it right! I changed the Color of old Post title from dull black to the current one, and increased the font size from 135% to 175%... Previously it used to look like this,


And now it looks like this:


I was waiting for this change for number of days, only yesterday got the time to do it.

Here is how to do it. In Layout, Edit Html, Search for the following 2 things...


And Replace them with these....(change is only in the value associated with the font color and size)
I don't know the exact logic of numbering and colors, something to do with RGB Scheme... May be our techie friend Vivek can write an article on which number for which color. I just used LCS, Littel Common Sense, and changed the numbers till I got the right combo!
You can play like that with your blog layout quite easily. Don't touch the tags with <> and don't forget to save the copy of your current template before you tamper it!
If you like any blog template, or for that matter any web design, there is a simple way to know what lies beneath. When you open it ine your internet explorer or Firefox, go to View, Page Source. or View Source. Something like that will be there. Check out this website for html,or such similar websites, to understand the meaning of html syntax. Correlate the things in the source and those on the webpage... That way you can bring those changes in your blog. Its that simple. Happy troubleshooting HTML!

Find the Difference!

So, what's the new thing that I have done to my blog! Find out the difference! Its not so difficult, but it may not be so obvious also!

Top comentators and favicon

Just now added the Top Comenters widget from this article:
Add top commentator widget.

Apparantly this is common feature in wordpress, needs to be added separately for blogger.

Also added just now the recent comments widget from the Blogger templates website.

My friend Vivek runs an excellent blog on tech-solutions! Its about a number of technical solutions to many interesting things! He has written an excellent article on favicon change.

Favicon is that little image before the webaddress, on your web-address bar! So if you want some stylish emblem for your own web, then make a 16pixel by 16pixel image, and follow the directions of Vivek!

Technorati

I have joined a new site that deals with Blogging. It seems interesting, you can rate others' blogs and see where your blog stands on the blogosphere. Here is my
Technorati Profile
More coming soon...

Won a blog contest!!

Yahoo!!

I have won a blog contest:
Check Check:--- Bawa's contest results.


Tttock!
Looking forward for more exciting stuff in blogosphere...

Roaming in Blogosphere

How would I know that you visited my blog... and that you have a blog too!? And how would I be able to diplay an advertisement of my blog on someone else's blog, thereby attracting more readers to my blog?

These questions are answered by Entrecard. Once you are part of Entrecard community, surfing on blogosphere becomes easy and you get to know good blogs, and your blog becomes known to many people. Here is how to get started. Let's say you have read the previous article on blogging and got the Feed burner installed on your blog, and your blog looks something like this:

Visit Entrecard.com.

Entre card is similar to a visiting card. And more colorful, picturelike a visiting card, more people will it invite. Entrecard site requires you to have a logo of your page of the size exactly 125pixels by 125 pixels. To do this, I found a nice image in google image search, and re-sized it to 125x125 pixels using paint. It has an option to stretch and skew an image. If you don't get a suitable image right now, you can come back later to it, and have a text EntreCard to begin with.
Fill in various details, if you have an image ready, upload it, else select Text only entry card option.

Once you are in, go to Get Code. Select any size shape of your Entre Card you would like to have. I like the Vertical ones. They save space on your website, and kind of trendy!

Copy the highlighted code. Goto your blog, sign in, goto customize, Edit Html. Look for the place where you put your Feed burner code. Next to the place where "About Me" is located.

Paste your code above (or below if you wish), and click on preview. Ooops! If you have done everything correctly so far, then you should be getting this message:

I spent my few precious night hours on this bug, a week ago. Then I gave up and typed in google, " The reference to entity "type" must end with the ';' delimiter." Google was helpful, and gave me this answer: http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=63199

In XML files, the ampersand will cause an error, unless it's part of a valid entity reference, such as ""." Please use "&" instead of "&" to indicate an ampersand. Aah, what a relief!

So go back to your Edit Html window. find out the "&" symbols, and replace them with "& amp;". And click on preview. Wow! Your Ecard should be on your website! Don't forget to save the template before exiting... :)

With your EntreCard ready, you can start roaming on Blogosphere. Find someone's blog with an EntreCard first. You can visit mine! Click on the "drop" and notice the window changing to "Thanks!" :) Follow some more blogs through the clicking on the image on the EntreCard.

Having done this, come back to your EntreCard Dashboard. You would see some stats there. For each visit and drop, you get one E-credit. For advertising the widget on your site(which you just did) you get 8 ec. And so on. Soon people would advertise on your website(get a picturesque entre card) and by sanctioning their advertise on your website for 24 hours, you earn more ec s.E.g. The owner of the site the peanut butter blog sent advertise to my dashboard. I liked the blog, so I approved his ECard Advertise. Now, the logo on my site changes to his logo, and his site will be advertised on my page for next 24 hours:

When you have sufficient ecredits in your account, you can go publicize your blog by advertising it on other pages.
Further info on EntreCard website should tell you how to earn money from EntreCard usage!

Happy roaming on blogosphere!

ps. This is my second article entry for Bawa's Blog Competition!

Troubleshooting in html

Ok. So, being a reader of Blogsutras I am sure you would have opened a gmail/ blogger account, got a blog template, and started blogging! So let's say you have got these basic things done, and your blog looks something like this:

Now those who happen to visit your fresh blog may not visit again, but if they like the first post, they might want to be able to get updates automatically. Utilities like Google reader get the new info on any sites and give it to the reader. To make it easy for your readers to subscribe to any such utilities, you need to have a feed on your site. Go to feedburner.com. Give the url of your blogpage, and click next. Choose RSS and click next. Give username password and email address, and Activate your feed. Click next until you get a page like this:

Go to Publicize your feed, and click on friendly graphic link. Choose standard feed icon. Now comes the tricky part... Go to the box where you see the html text to be copied to your template. It will be something like this:

Copy that html... Dont need to understand much, though its not much difficult! To put it in your template, open a new browser window, sign into the blogpage, goto manage layout and Edit Html. There will be a jungle of html syntax and instructions! Don't get baffled. Click on the editing window, and with Ctrl+F or from Edit-> Find, search for `About me'. You are likely to get a result like this:

Check the enlarged view of above image for better clarity. Insert your html as shown below:



Click on preview, and hurray! You will see the Feed icon on your blog page:



Don't worry if you don't see the icon at the expected location below "About me", just change the location of your feedburner text so that it doesn't come in way of <> pairs.

p.s. This is my article entry to Bawa's competition on Blogging tutorial!