Mashable author Sean just released a good resource for blogger blogs.It mainly consists of the blogger templates and some additional blogger tools .Check it out below :
Friday, January 16, 2009
How to track blog visitors or add a counter to blogger blog
Histats is one of the cool sites that tracks site visitors.It provides a script and when pasted in our blog it could track every site visitor we get – it would tell us how many visitors came per hour and how many page views we have received .There are more cool features that would be helpful to you.So lets add a counter to our blogger blog.
STEP 1 :
visit this site :
Fill all the required details in the registration form and register .
After clicking on continue , you will be given a series of options – select which counter you need and click on it.For example in the figure below i have selected ANIMATED COUNTERS .
There will be 2 more steps in which you need to click on continue – in the fifth step you will be given a counter code to be added in the blogger blog which looks like below :
copy the code presented above and save it in a notepad file or just have it in the clipboard – it is also possible to hide your counter in case you want others to restrict seeing your stats – this can be done by selecting “HIDDEN TRACKER CODE” option as shown below :
STEP 2 :
Our job is over in the histats website – just have a small job in the blogger before we get that cool blogger counter to track visitors.So login to blogger blog and goto “EDIT HTML” section of your blog.
Remember the code you copied in the histats website paste it here [ in the place as shown below ] :
After giving a title for your widget click the save button.Thats it.You now have a cool counter in the blogger blog tracking your blog / site visitors 
.
Hope the tutorial was clear to you.Bye .
Top Blogger templates – Best themes available currently for blogger
Blogger has been the top preference for all bloggers.The wordpress platform is the best but the problem is that advertising is not enabled in the free wordpress blogs.But if you are going to develop a professional blog then you have to learn how to use wordpress,A big disadvantage in the blogger blogs is that there are only a few blogger default templates – although there are so many of them being released everyday ,i find most blogger blogs using the default templates.Iam not sure why – but maybe they are unaware of the availability of cool blogger templates.So iam giving you a big list of blogger templates here .Make sure you backup your blogger template file in notepad or wordpad before you do any changes .
http://mashable.com/2007/09/13/blogger-templates/
http://mashable.com/2008/05/17/70-plus-new-and-beautiful-blogger-templates/
http://www.eblogtemplates.com/top-rated-blogger-templates/
The blogger template of my blog [thanks to Mr.Antonio , the designer of the blog template ] :
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/10/daily-inspired-blogger-template.html
http://www.falconhive.com/search/label/Blogger%20Template
You can learn about how to add a new blogger template here :
How to create “read-more” link in blogger blogs
I just came through a great blogging resource where this particular feature to add a read more link in blogger blogs had been explained.I dont think there is a need to recreate the article here because the article is already well written and hope it is very clear to all my readers.But if it causes you any problems do not mind sending me an e-mail stating your problem.So here is the link :
http://www.eblogtemplates.com/how-to-add-the-blogger-read-more-expandable-posts-link/
This is one of the best Blogger How-To’s i have seen .By doing this blogger trick you will be showing a few lines of excerpts in the main page.So that will help in giving you a short hint to your readers about what your blog posts are.