tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31969655276426498512012-02-22T13:18:19.325+01:00Articles about topics ranging from technology and software to scientific research. Occasional book reviews. Topics of general interest such as lifestyle, and nutrition. Exploration of blogs and the technical side of blogging.Benjamin Auffarthhttps://profiles.google.com/118440342400845052454noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196965527642649851.post-66836182883177151322010-12-30T21:36:00.009+01:002011-01-21T14:51:43.443+01:00

Apture toolbar with branding, share buttons, and search bar. Many websites have an interactive toolbar providing social and other instruments situated often on top or on the bottom of the page. Blogger has its Navbar, Wordpress has WordPress Bar, and there are many other toolbars with different functionalities that offer integration with basically any website. This article provides a comparison

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Flattr is a relatively new social bookmarking and micropayment (or rather: microdonation) platform. After Paypal, BAC, and Visa and Mastercard bent down to political pressure, Flattr is currently one of the very few options left for people if they want to donate money to wikileaks and consequently Flattr is getting a fair share of exposure. In this post, I explain what flattr is, how you can use

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One of the most appealing elements on a webpage are "popular posts". There are several possibilities to get popular posts, e.g. by number of comments or visitor statistics. In this post I present 5 widgets that display your highest voted posts from social websites. These widgets can serve to increase visitor involvement and as navigational element. Some of these widgets display a vote or bookmark

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Many blogs use a top navigation menu of main blog categories. To reflect your blog's focus you would usually create these menus manually and update them from time to time. An alternative is to have the menu automatically generated for you based on the frequency of the post labels (categories). This is what this widget does. You might want to try it out. This is a simple extension of the blogger

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You might have noticed a greeting message on this blog. You would see different welcome messages depending on whether you come from a search engine, twitter, or entrecard. This post describes how to install such a welcome widget in your blog or website. Installation is as simple as copy-pasting a code. Credits for a welcome message to Visitors from Entrecard and Twitter goes to Laura from

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There are several widgets for wordpress to show most popular posts, however, as far as I know, there is no good widget yet for blogger. In my last article, I explained how to set up a blogger widget that shows most popular posts based on feedburner statistics. In this post I explain how to create a widget for your blogger blog that shows most viewed posts based on google analytics statistics. The

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There are several widgets for wordpress to show most popular posts, however, as far as I know, there is no such widget yet for blogger. In this post I explain how to create such a widget for your blogger blog. A prerequisite is rudimentary knowledge of python. The installation is a little bit more intricate than other widgets on this site. I think anyone, with some patience should be able to do

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On some internet sites, you may be greeted with a message like this: You searched google for "Blogger Welcome Widget." On our site there are 500 articles corresponding to that query.I wanted something like this for this site. In this article I present a simple bloger widget that presents a short greeting message containing query and number of search results. Clicking on the message triggers a

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There are different blogger widgets for translation. They differ in look and functionality. In this post I compare some widgets and publish my own blogger widget code for translation. The standard google translation widget for blogger and other websites looks like this: A bit bulky in my opinion. At google translation tools you can build a pull-down menu like this one: Select the language

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There are different methods to list related posts in blogger. I have tried several of them and after reviewing, I think Yu-Jie Lin's blogger related posts is the best for several reasons. It is very fast and updates from feed once a day. Installation is very fast and can be done by installing the widget from Yu-Jie's blogger related post service and adding a code to your blogger template. However

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