SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010
Recover blog deleted as splog, TOS violation
Blogger is really going all out to delete blogs which are splogs (spam blogs) and those not confirming to their Blogger Terms of Service which unfortunately is resulting in many false positive (blogs deleted which are not splogs). I was a victim too when my very first blog - Enviroman Says - an environmental blogwas deleted for supposed "TOS violation" which it is not.
If yours too had been wrongly deleted, follow the steps below which I used to get my blog restored:
Step 1. You may have received an email informing you of the blog being deleted:
Your blog at http://enviromansays.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we've removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.
For more information, please review the following resources:
Blogger Terms of Service: http://blogger.com/terms.g
Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/content.g
Go to your Dashboard and scroll to the bottom where you will see that blog which had been deleted together with a linkRestore (see screen shot below):
Click on that Restore link and complete the captcha (word verification) in the resulting window to verify you are human.
Step 2. Submit an entry to the Appeal Spreadsheet and enter your blog URL into the appeal box (see screen shot below) and click SUBMIT:
Step 3: Post a report in Blogger Help Forum: Something is broken and wait 2 days. Remember to "Favorite"
that thread and/or copy-paste the thread URL into a Notepad file to save somewhere safe for future reference so that you can get back to that thread when you need to.
Step 4. If after 2 days your blog has still not been restored, go back to that thread and bump it up with an appeal to anyBlog*Star to help escalate it to a Blogger Employee and then wait and pray.
How to enable comments for pages
"I have created new pages and would like people to be able to leave comments"
To enable comments, go to Dashboard, click EDIT POSTS,then EDIT PAGES and you will see the pages you have added to your blog:
Click EDIT for the page which you want to enable comments, then at the bottom left corner of the resulting "page editor", click POST OPTIONS and in the options under READERS COMMENTS:
tick (.) Allow to allow readers comments, then clickPUBLISH.
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010
Tool - Cover live events with blog
Here is another very useful tool for blogger which will enable you to conveniently cover a live event such as a sport event, court trial proceedings, elections, disasters etc. This can be done either in person, invited panelists, Twitter accounts, XML feeds, readers comments so you have lots of choices for its content. That tool is CoverItLive.com which can either be a free toolwith ads or a paid for tool.
To see an example, surf over to Anil Netto: Live - Polling day for Sibu by-election. Apparently, one can select either chronological order (newest events first) like in the above or reversed chronological order (oldest events first) like this post which covers the same event - Bintulu.org: LIVE Sibu By-Election On Polling Day. And if you want to compare how different bloggers can cover the same event, see also Lina Soo: Sibu by-election live coverage (same event but content different among others, due to different feed).
To see an example, surf over to Anil Netto: Live - Polling day for Sibu by-election. Apparently, one can select either chronological order (newest events first) like in the above or reversed chronological order (oldest events first) like this post which covers the same event - Bintulu.org: LIVE Sibu By-Election On Polling Day. And if you want to compare how different bloggers can cover the same event, see also Lina Soo: Sibu by-election live coverage (same event but content different among others, due to different feed).
TUESDAY, MAY 04, 2010
Recover accidentally deleted post Part 2 with original permalink and comments
The earlier post How to recover accidentally deleted postdescribed 4 methods of recovering deleted post of which the first 2 methods are applicable if you happened to still have access to the computer where you had prepared the deleted post or you have not closed the browser or browser tab where you had viewed the the deleted post.
Method 3 of recovering deleted post require you to find a cached copy of the deleted post on the Internet and assume that you would be satisfied with reconstructing your deleted post from scratch using the information from the cached copy. You would not be able to restore the comments or recover the original permalink, but will end using the content from the cached webpage to reconstruct the post which will probablyhave a different permalink from the original.
Below is described a fifth method which can considered to be an improvement to the above in the sense that you can recover the exact post as it was before it was deleted together with comments and the original permalink. Credit should be given to Tom who blog at TED Image tests for hitting upon this method of recovering the post ID from cached copies to restore deleted post.
MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
Guest post: Animated gif images, Blogger and Photoshop
Welcome to Steve Wallet, Architect, Blogger Tips and Tricks first guest blogger with his post on working with animated gif images, Blogger and Photoshop. As for me, I only use freesoftware, namely Irfanview and PC Paint, so I hope Steve's post will provide useful information which I am not able to provided for those who like graphic heavy posts or blogs:
I saw Peter's article about adding .gif's to blogger (Uploading animated .gif images to Blogger post), and thought I'd give it a try. I wanted to make .gif's and post them directly to my blog, without all the complicated html and uploading from other websites. After much trial-and-error, I have created simple .gif's for my blog.
I use Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady, version 7. This article will make much more sense if you are familiar with Photoshop.
What I've learned so far.
I saw Peter's article about adding .gif's to blogger (Uploading animated .gif images to Blogger post), and thought I'd give it a try. I wanted to make .gif's and post them directly to my blog, without all the complicated html and uploading from other websites. After much trial-and-error, I have created simple .gif's for my blog.
I use Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady, version 7. This article will make much more sense if you are familiar with Photoshop.
What I've learned so far.
FRIDAY, APRIL 09, 2010
Blogger video upload icon and the old post editor
Many bloggers have asked why they cannot upload video via Blogger post editor anymore? Or they ask, what happened to the "filmstrip icon" which I believe is the Blogger video upload icon at the end of the toolbar you see in the screen shot below:
In practically every case, I have found that the reason their "filmstrip icon" disappeared is because they are using the new updated post editor which do not provide for video upload.
The solution is simple. Just go to SETTINGS > BASIC (the Basic tab is the very first "sub-tab" for SETTINGS which you will be in once you click the SETTINGS tab) and scroll to the bottom of the page. There you will see the options to select the new updated post editor or the old post editor:
Select the old post editor, save, go to your post editor and there you will see your "filmstrip icon".
SATURDAY, APRIL 03, 2010
How to embed webpage in blog with iFrame
Suppose you want to integrate a website or a particular webpage with your blog. Some possibilities, you may be auctioning some items on eBay and you want your ebay offering in your blog or perhaps you have an Amazon AStore and want to embed the AStore into a post in your blog. Click here to see a sample.
What you can do is to first obtain the URL of that webpage and put it in an iFrame as follows:
Note: Embedding a webpage in an iFrame in your own blog of website is equivalent to copying that webpage into your own website or blog so it is good to ask permission of that webpage you want to embed. In the example below, I uses my ownAmazon's Blogger's AStore Bookshop so there no copyright issue as it is my own webpage.
What you can do is to first obtain the URL of that webpage and put it in an iFrame as follows:
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