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Are you tired of dealing with HTML and CSS every time you want to change the look of your blog? Well, it turns out that there's an easier way. With the Layouts feature, you can drag-and-drop to move parts of your page around, and choose new fonts and colors with easy mouse clicks. Newly created blogs will work this way automatically, but for blogs without this feature, you'll need to upgrade your template. Here's how.

1. Find the name of your blog on your dashboard, and click the Template link next to it. If this link says Layout instead, then it's already upgraded and you can skip the rest of these steps.

2. On the Template page you should see the standard window of HTML code. Now look in the navigation links for the tab that says Customize Your Design and click it.

3. You'll get a message explaining that Blogger will make a backup of your current template and replace it with an upgraded one. The backup will be made available indefinitely, so you can revert back to it later if you need to. Click the Upgrade Your Template button to continue.

4. Choose one of our default template designs. You'll be able to modify it all you want, once you pick one of these as the starting point. Click Save Template when you've made your choice.

Now you're all set. You'll end up on the new Page Elements tab, where you can start arranging things however you like. If you want to know more about using these new features before you dive in, you can read about them here: Layout Guide and Fonts & Colors. Have fun!

At Google, gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other apps, including Blogger.
Every Blogger blog is a gadget container. Moreover, every blog is an OpenSocial gadget container powered by Friend Connect. That means as a gadget developer you can leverage social APIs to build engaging tools for bloggers and their audience.
When you build a gadget for Blogger, it becomes available to millions of active bloggers. Just submit your gadget to us, and it will immediately surface in Blogger.com where users can easily browse, configure, and add your gadget to their blog's sidebar.
So now that you know Blogger is a great distribution platform for your gadget, what are you waiting for? Get started building gadgets for Blogger now! Find out how to build your own Blogger gadget here!
Once you've throughougly tested your gadget, and followed Blogger's Best UI Practices, you're ready to submit your gadget.

Many designers tend to insert some flash animation contents such as flash intro, flash advertisements, flash fun games, etc to make their website more attractive and interesting. However, many visitors to the website might not buy the idea. Users might find the flash contents on the site annoying and disturbing. To get rid of the flash element from appearing in the website, Google Chrome offers users a filtering option via its flash content filtering extension, namely FlashControl.

FlashControl is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that allows users to have control over the flash contents by blocking the Adobe Flash players from loading the contents. With this extension installed, users will find there is a control panel to each flash player embedded in a website. Users can turn on/off the buttons on the control panel to allow/disallow the flash player from functioning. By default, FlashControl blocks all flash contents from running on a site. Users can control manually using the control panel to enable the flash contents. FlashControl also offer users the option to identify certain websites that allow flash contents. Users can add these websites address to a whitelist so that the browser extension will not block the flash content from these sites.

Generally FlashControl offers users a very flexible way to control the flash contents from the website. Users can selectively run the flash contents at their own discretion when they want. It will be pretty also very useful for users to have this extra control features to Adobe Flash players especially when the flash content are disturbing them or the interest speed is low, they can turn off the flash player conveniently.

Note: This article assumes you're using a customized classic template. If you're using Layouts or a default classic template, set the Show Link Field option to Yes to enable the link field.
The Link field can be very useful if your blog posts are frequently about other articles, and you want the links to these articles visible on your public blog.
To enable the Link field:

This is in no way a science or guarantee; it's simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success.
Set your blog to Send Pings. When this setting is activated, your blog will be included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as other blog-related services.

Once you've logged into Blogger you'll see your Dashboard, showing your list of blogs. Click the blue 'New Post' button to create a new post:

A URL is the location of a file on the Web. Some examples of URLs include http://www.blogger.com/, or http://myblog.blogspot.com/
The URL you select will be used by visitors, or yourself, to access your blog.

Post templates help save you time by pre-formatting the post editor. Some users like their posts to be formatted in a certain way; here's an example where the user links to an article on the first line, then quotes it below:

The Mail-to-Blogger feature turns any email account into a blog-posting application. In Settings | Email you can create a Mail-to-Blogger address which you will use to send posts via email to your blog: