Add a Stylish Three Column Footer in Blogger

It is pretty common that you might have seen all the professional blogger templates would possess a three column footer where in, they add details about their site or an about me widget and lots more. I recommend you to add this feature in your blog to make it more professional. You may scroll down the page to have a look at the bottom of the page to have a look at this widget which contains Popular Posts, Useful Resources, Blog Archive and Recent Comments. Hope, you got an idea about what a three column footer is.

To add this stylish three column footer to your blog, just follow these simple steps. As we always ensure safety, the first step would be to back up your template. To do this, simply navigate to "Design->Edit HTML and make a backup of your template clicking on the "Download full template" link at the top of the page. Once the back up is over, follow these simple steps.

1. Search for the following text in your blogger template. To fasten your search, use "CTRL+F".

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2. Download the following text document : Three Column Footer One. Just paste the code in the document above the line mentioned in step 2.
3. Search your template for the following text.

</body>

4. Paste the following piece of code above it.

<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<div id='lower-wrapper'>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar1' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar2' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='lowerbar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='lowerbar' id='lowerbar3' preferred='yes'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</div> </div>

(Note: You may paste the above code in the place where you want the footer to appear. It is ideal to place this section before the credits section in your blog.)
5. Now, save your template and your ready with the footer section. Add any widget you want. Feel free to comment or contact me via Email for any assistance that you need to install this feature. I would be happy to help you!! See you soon in my next post!!!

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Solving/Fixing "Another blog is hosted at this address" Error

 I recently shifted my blog, Everything About Blogging, from the default blogspot domain to a custom domain (www.newbloggingtipz.com). I had a lot of confusion whether to shift my blog to WP or just buy a domain & stick to blogger. I consulted my friend & he simply said, "Be it blogger or wordpress, if you have good content, you can reach great heights". So, I chose to stick with blogger but preferred a custom domain. UPDATE : New article can related to this topic can be found here - SOLUTION. 

Fine. Let's get to our work. After all the initial setup with CNAME and A records, when you try to enter the URL through blogger for your custom domain, that is, when you transfer your blogspot domain to custom domain, you will encounter the error saying "Another blog is hosted at this address". I know how annoying it is to see that kind of an error. Don't panic. It is very simple to solve this problem. Just few minutes of work and your error is fixed!!

Follow these simple steps.
1. Login to your Google Apps account.
2. From the dashboard, hover to Service Settings and then select Sites under the menu.
3. Choose the tab Web address mapping instead of General as shown below.4. Now, you will be able to see www address in that list. Select and Delete it. Just proceed with the warnings and confirmations.
5. Once you finish this, move on to your blogger dashboard. Navigate to Settings – Publishing – Switch To Custom Domain - Advanced Settings from the dashboard. Now, enter your custom domain URL with "www" before the domain name. (Eg: www.newbloggingtipz.com)
6. Now, save your settings and the error is fixed. Still if you face problems, then use this form called "Magical Custom Domain Form" and let the blogger help forum fix it.

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Review On UserReport - A Free Web Analytics Service

This is my second sponsored post about a web analytic service site namely, "www.UserReport.com". If you don’t know what is web analytics, then to be precise, it simply means a detailed report about the visitors to your site. This site “UserReport.com” is quite promising to me because of the service, they provide. They get you detailed statistics about your site, your visitors and in turn help you build a better site. It is simply like they do the job for us. They find what our visitors want and make our job pretty easy. So, for bloggers like you and me, our only job is to concentrate on the quality content.

Let me now highlight the services that they offer to webmasters like us. They provide demographic statistics about the visitors of your website in multiple languages(nearly 20). More over, they don’t just believe on statistics like time spent on website or the bounce-rates alone, their major strength lies in asking the audience directly about our website on key areas like design, content, navigation, etc.. I feel it will certainly build a better relationship between the visitor and the moderator to understand better about the site.

They got another beautiful service called Crowdintelligence, wherein you get to discuss with your users. You can use this tool to post any question to your visitor and stimulate daily responses from him. They help you compare your site with other subsidaries and help you know where you stand and how you can improve. Above all, the services that they offer you are completely free. So, what you waiting for? Just give it a try!!!

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Review On "DebtGuru.com"

Hey guys!! This is my first sponsored review about an exciting site - "DebtGuru.com", you know why I said exciting?? Simply because, you get free your debts and I mean it!! DebtGuru represents the American Credit Foundation that provides you services for improving your financial status. Just have a look at this site here – “DebtGuru.com”

DebtGuru provides you practical and effective advice for managing your debts. Moreover, being a non-profit organization they offer help and various other services at free of cost. As far as I know,their major strength lies in reducing monthly payment by 25-50% and consolidating all the bills into one low payment, thereby, eliminating your debts.

The next question that comes in to your mind would be, am I secure enough to provide my financial details?? Yes!! Of Course, you are!! DebtGuru has been accredited by the following organizations: NFCE, AADMO, ANSI-RAB and BBB. This shows you how secure your financial details will be. Moreover, you may have a look at the testimonials page in their site. To know how the debt management program exactly works, just check out this page – “How debt management credit system works?”

To sum up with my review, DebtGuru is a solid organization that will truly help you reduce your monthly expenditures, interests, manage your monthly earnings and reduce your debts to the zeroth level in few months. So what you waiting for??? Fill out the form and get free your debts now.

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TextLinkAds(TLA) Review

It's been long since I had made a post here. I hope I post more frequently than before from now. Anyway, this post does not contain any referral link to TextLinkAds and I am not here to promote them either. Meaning to say, don't think it is a sponsored post. I just express my views about them in this post. In case you want to show TextLinkAds that Everything About Blogging sent you, then please use the 125 x 125 banner ad in the sidebar.

It has been few months since TextLinkAds accepted bloggers(sites hosted through blogger.com) in them. I never gave them a try simply because I earned quite good with LinkWorth and did not mix up various ad units in my site. In the month of February, I lost the advertiser through LinkWorth. I waited for some other opportunity through them but never found one. So, I thought "Why not try out TextLinkAds??? " And I signed up with them.To be very frank, I got an advertiser requesting me to put his ad on the second day of joining. That shows how big the advertiser database is.Let me straight away highlight the advantages and disadvantages. Let us go about the advantages first. Initially, TextLinkAds did not accept sites that are hosted at blogger but now, they have started accepting them. So, that is an advantage. Next, they got a very huge database and once you are accepted, it is guaranteed that you will make money with them. Thirdly, you will not have any confusions about the Publisher Control Panel. They are very simple and user friendly. The next advantage would be that, they support various modes of payment and as always, it is pretty comfortable for us to choose PayPal. Lastly, a very fast and efficient support center that will answer your queries within 24 hours.

Now, the disadvtages go this way. They accept sites that have pretty huge amounts of traffic and not the beginners. This reduces the morale of the blossoming bloggers. Secondly, they do not support other multiple advertisment agencies. For example, if you are publisher and you serve ads for LinkWorth and you want to do the same with TextLinkAds, it is not possible. Thirdly, the commision they take is quite high(50%) when compared to LinkWorth(only 30%). Overall, it is a good site to try out to add a litle more penny to your PayPal accounts (Conditons Apply: Your blog should posses a pretty decent traffic :) ).

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Free Premium Blogger Templates - ProPress

It has been months since I posted here. So, I did not want that to continue for years. So, here I go with a post on a template which I found would be very appealing and may be to my other fellow bloggers too. The template name is "ProPress Template" and is available for download on "theblogtemplates.com", you may take look at the following link for customizing the blogger template - Customize ProPress Blogger Template. The template was designed by John Smith, but later decided to release it for free through "theblogtemplates.com".

Download ProPress Blogger Template For Free

To start off, ProPress is basically a two column blogger template. It has great features which includes a three column footer, a navigation bar and beautiful combinations of colors for the template. It looks very professional. I love this template simply for its professional look. Just take a look at the following three column footer (taken from widgetsforfree), so that you are able to understand what I mean by professional look.

The template provides an unique combination of colors for the background as well as for the widgets. However, I feel the comments section of this template looks a bit unprofessional when compared to the whole blog look. I don't mean to say it is completely odd but lacks a bit of professional touch. So, if you are good in coding HTML or CSS, you can change the way it looks. Any way, I have tried this template with my test blog and it looks pretty perfect. So, why not you give it a try and who knows, you may like it too!!! Hope I make more posts from now on!!!

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