Show profile image beside comments

In this post, i want to discuss on how to display profile image beside comments we post in our blog or people’s blog. Of course to do that we have to upload our profile picture to Blogger beforehand and that profile photo we uploaded will be used to display next to our comment. Here’s how:

• After sign in to your Blogger, go to Settings and click on Comments tab.

• Scroll down below and find “Show profile image on comments” and set it to “Yes”.

• To disable profile image function in your blog’s comments, just simply set it again to “No”.

This feature is actually enabled automatically in all Blogger blogs, its only that if you have not upload your own picture or image, Blogger will display a default image which is the Blogger’s logo or icon next to your comments.

Add Blogger & Youtube profile photo

Here are two simple steps on how to add your photo to Blogger and Youtube profile.

To add profile picture or photo to Blogger:

• Sign in to your Blogger with your ID and password.

• Click Edit Profile next to your profile icon on top left.

• Scroll down until you find Photograph section.

• Click to mark at the radio button and browse to where your picture is located to be uploaded to Blogger profile.

• If you are finish uploading, scroll down to bottom of the page and click “Save Profile”.

• You are done.

Note: your Blogger profile picture will also be displayed automatically when you post a comment on a Blogger blog (depending on the blog’s settings). Click here to enable or disable that feature.

To add profile picture or photo to Youtube:

• Sign in to your Youtube account with your ID and password.

• Click “Account” from a drop down menu at the top right of the page.

• Click “Profile Setup” on the left of the screen.

• Click “Change Picture” button and browse to find your picture in the computer to be displayed as your thumbnail profile icon.

• Click “Save Changes” to save your update made to you Youtube channel.

• You’re done.

Create Tag Clouds or Label Clouds to Blogger blog

A tag clouds or some call it label clouds, is a visual depiction of list of items or a way to show your readers the topics your posts fall under. It is a list of links that will change in weight and size (sometimes colour too) depending upon some measurable attribute. Tag clouds is used typically to describe the content of websites and as a navigation menu. Tags can be arranged in any order but normally they are arranged alphabetically. You will often see tag clouds on blogs. Creating a tag clouds for your blog is as easy as A, B, C. Previously you need to use Javascript and extensive customizations to be able to display labels in cloud format, now Blogger supports this feature and you can show it on your sidebar without resorting to any third party hacks. Follow these easy steps to add tag cloud to enhance your keyword tags and the search engines will like it, therefore it might help your site rank for those keywords.

• Login to your Blogger and click “Layout” from the dashboard.

• On the “Page Elements” tab click “Add A Gadget” and a pop-up box will appear.

• Scroll down the list from the box until you see “Labels” and click on it.

• Configure your Labels gadget, put the title you like, choose how should your label be shown, alphabetically or by frequency, display it in a list or cloud and etc.

• Click save when you’re done configuring the labels and the labels gadget will be added to your blog, drag it to the desired location.

The Difference Between Classic and Layout Template

The Difference Between Classic and Layout Template.

Classic

Layout

HTML Old blogger version To make substantive changes, you had to get more into the nuts and bolts of the CSS and HTML affecting your Blogger template. Doesnt have “Layout” and “Page elements”, all of the customization options are found in what is called the “Template”. Blogger needs to change the HTML code directly in the template in order to change the page elements. On the dashboard, we will find option like this: Manage : Posts, Settings, Template If we click on Template, there will be option like this: Edit HTML Pick New Customize Design Adsense. There are no Previous Post, Home and Previous Post navigation links at the bottom of the posts.

XML New blogger version Allows you to make changes using a more push-button type approach. More user-friendly especially for those with no HTML or programming background. No need to republish, everything publish immediately. On the dashboard, we will find option like this: Manage : Posts, Settings, Layout If we click on Layout, there will be option like this: Page Elements Font and colours Edit HTML Pick New Template. With this template we can easily move any element by using drag & drop. Data separate from template code. When loading a new layout, widgets data not transfered along with widgets code so that you have to enter widgets content separately. Cannot be used on ftp blogs as it need to be hosted on Blogger server.

From the example above, you would be able to identify what the current template you use.

How to revert to classic template	How to migrate to layout template
Sign in to your Blogger. Click Layout. Click Edit HTML. Click “Revert to Classic Template”. If dialog box appear just click Ok. Done.	Sign in to your Blogger. Click Template. Click Customize Design. Click “UPGRADE YOUR TEMPLATE” Select your desired template and click SAVE TEMPLATE. Done.

How to use name tags (Facial Recognition)

Seems Google’s Picasa Web Albums has successfully made people amazed by their new technology. Picasa now has built-in face-matching technology (face-recognition feature) which could identify people’s faces by comparing facial features in photographs so we can easily add name tags to the people in our photos.

Picasa Web Albums now can scan our photos of what it believes are faces, allow us to identify a person we know in the photographs, and scan the rest of our pics for the same person allowing us to quickly tag them too and organize our photos. It automatically groups pictures containing similar faces so we can label a number of pictures at once.

Lets get started, here’s how to begin:

• First sign in to Picasa Web Albums.
• Click Settings in the upper-right corner.
• Click Privacy and Permissions.
• Check the first box labeled “Use name tags to name people in my photos” and then click Save changes (done).

After you’re done, Picasa Web Albums will automatically scan all of your photos for faces. Click “Add name tags” in the sidebar on the right side and Picasa Web Albums will start showing the groups of all the similar faces and ask you to name it one by one.

If you found something not related you can always uncheck it, skip or mark selected faces as Ignore or Not a Face. You can link their tags to their email address if it is in your contact list. If you have tagged all of the photos, try to put your mouse cursor over any photo, their name will appear to show you who they are.

How to use tags to label photos in Picasa Web Albums

Picasa Web Albums lets you tag your photos. By putting tags to label your photos in Picasa Web Albums, you can easily locate specific photos when searching. It is just the same as when you label your post in your blog or label your email in Gmail. You will find the option in the sidebar.

• Sign in to your Picasa Web Albums using your Gmail username and password.
• Select which photo you want to tag.
• Click the tags button on the right side of the page.
• Fill in the name of the tag inside the text box, enter a space separated list of tags, for example: “Wedding Flower” “Birthday Flower” Flower.
• When you’re done simply click Add and done.

You can search your photos, your friends’ public photos and certain gallery. Google indexes tags, captions, album tiltles, album locations and album descriptions. To search for a photo with a tag, simply type the tag inside the search box provided in the upper-right corner of the page. Your search result will appear in the ‘My Photos’ section.

How to use Google's Picasa Web Album

Many Bloggers do not know that images they uploaded are automatically stored to Picasa. Google’s Picasa program allows us to put our photos online and easily sharing them over the web. Each account gets 1GB of free storage (enough to share or post around 4000 standard resolution photos).





Learn how to use Google’s Picasa Web Album:

1. Sign in using your ID after created a Gmail account.
2. Upload your photos using the software’s “Web Album” button, you can also use your normal web browser to add images. You will be asked to make a new album for categorizing your images. If you choose to designate your photo album as unlisted, that means your online photo album can be viewed only for those who receive your invitations.
   
3. You can start sharing your photos with anyone, select which album of yours that you want to share. Instead of attaching your photos one-by-one to send in an email, you actually can create and send a link to a photo, an album or even your entire online gallery and you can do it without leaving the Picasa Web Albums site.
4. If your friend shares an album with you, you can download his/her album into your Picasa rather than simply viewing another’s photographs.
5. You also can give your photo and your friend’s photo comments and add captions. If captions already given to your photos in Picasa, the same captions remain after you upload them to the web. Captions and comments added on Blogger or Picasa Web Albums will only be visible on that site.

To optimize your image is to tag and activate public display of images in picasa Web albums. Normally these images are held as unlisted and private. You can make them public by going to any album > Edit > album properties > Now choose public and save. You can label every images in the album section for better SEO.