Move your blog from Livejournal to blogger

Move or Transfer your blog from Livejournal to blogger 
Google Data Liberation team has started a new open source project named as Google Blog Converters, This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from Livejournal to blogger. Currently this project is being implemented in Python Libraries and Executable scripts which converts between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal.


Go to livejournal to blogger conversion(Google's service) hosted on appspot and Follow the detailed instruction to get your blog moving on blogger.
You will be asked to provide your live Journal Username and password do not worry you can surely trust this converter.
Read more abut this on google code

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Removing Automatic readmore hack from static pages-blogger

Most of the Blogger's now days are using automatic read more hack with customized thumbnail.Blogger in drafts have recently announced a great feature called static pages (standalone pages).
Previous version of the Read more script does not have necessary modifications for static pages.So if you are using blogger template with older version of read more than you need to edit the template manually to remove read more option from web pages.and letting your pages display as standalone pages.

Do check out my previous post Show post titles on Home page Only and Add reply option to blogger like wordpress

Follow easy instructions to remove automatic read more from blogger static pages -

Just Login To Blogger and Go To (Dashboard → Layout → Edit Html → Expand Widgets → Press Ctrl+F) and now search for below codes.

<div class='post-body'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'><br/>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

<div expr:id='"summary"   data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");
</script> <span class='rmlink' style='float:right;padding-top:20px;'><a expr:href='data:post.url'> read more "<data:post.title/>"</a></span>

</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><data:post.body/></b:if>

</b:if>

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

What you have to do is search for the code similar to this in your blogger template and code and add the red code in the same position as i have added to above code.

This will solve your problem by removing automatic read more hack from static pages

Blue

Inspired by the "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions" by Anna Atkins
Watercolor & white acrylic ink on Twinrocker paper. 10" x 14"

How to embed a google wave in blogger?Image based tutorial

I do not know if many people use it but we'll see how to insert a wave on a blog as a widget so that any visitor can use it. Tell them that this wave will only be visible and may be used by visitors using Firefox or Chrome.

How to embed  Google wave in blogger as widget?Image based tutorial

Step[1]Create a wave in your wave client by clicking on new wave button.

Click Image to enlarge

Step[2]You will be asked to add any email address to a wave

Step[3]Add public@a.gwave.com to the left most window and click Done

Step[4]Copy the url of the wave (the address which appears in the address bar of your browser) and go to Google wave element page. 

Step[5]Paste the copied URL, select the values you want to use as wide and high, if we want to have header and footer, etc.

On that same page it provide the code to copy and add in an HTML element on our blog.

If you does not know how to use Google wave or Need Google Wave Invitation comment below !!

Stone Collection

If you click on the photo it will take you to my Flickr stream
where I've put tags on each of the stones so you can see where they're from.
The crochet covered stoned are mostly made by my friend
Margie Oomen from Resurrection Fern.
The little porcelain pebbles are from Manos by Karin Eriksson.
The big white porcelain stone was handmade by Paula Valentim from Otchipotchi.

10+ free islamic blogger blogspot templates themes and xmls

Here you can download Top 10 Islamic Blogger Blogspot templates themes and xmls.If you are looking for football templates you can see my collection 16 football style blogger templates and if you are a music addict you can go through 33 music style blogger template.

Here are 11 islamic blogger(blogspot) templates ,themes,xmls :-

[1] Kaba Islamic blogger template

Features : Labels: Blue Color template , Classic Skin , general , Islam, 2 column, Right sidebar Download : kaba.txt

[2]Book Al-Quran  blogger blogspot template theme

Features : The inclusion of two verses of Al-Quran ((Surah Ali Imran: 2-3 and Surah an-Nahl: 89) can be replaced. But it must be noted in size, which must fit and match the size of the width of the image background / background. Demo    | |    Download : Al-Quran

[3] Purple, My Days  Islamic blogger template

Features : View : Live Demo Dwnload : purple.txt

[4] My Blog - XML Skin Another  Islamic blogger template

Features : View : Live Demo Download : my-blog.txt

[5] Ottomans blogger template

Features : View : Live Demo Download : Ottomans

[6] Black Muharram Template blogger template

Features : Download Live Demo

[7] Ka’bah islamic blogger blogspot template themes

Features : Download Live Demo

[8]Ramadhan Islamic Blogger Template

Features : Download Live Demo

[9]Islamic 1 Blogger Template

Features : Download Live Demo

[10]Islamic 1 Blogger Template

Features : Download here or here Live Demo

[11]Allahu Akbar #3Blogger Template

Features : Download Live Preview

Flower Pattern

Playing around with some flower doodles I drew with a micron pen.
These pens are my all time favorite to draw with & to write on my journal.
I always buy the 005. I love the precision of the ultra thin line.

ELBOW ROOM

There are artists who make great big pictures of great big subjects:


Albert Bierstadt's "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains" is 12 feet wide.

And there are artists who make tiny little pictures of tiny little subjects:


A page from a gothic illuminated manuscript (circa 1494) at Peacay's superb Bibliodyssey blog.

But it takes a special talent to make tiny little pictures of great big subjects.

Observe how som of the masters of the graphic arts-- Mort Drucker, Leonard Starr and Noel Sickles-- squeeze a feeling of great space and weight into pictures that are not much larger than a postage stamp.


Here you see the difference between digital compression by a computer and artistic compression by a true draftsman. Mort Drucker had a mere 3 inches to convey a school bus crossing a yawning chasm. His radical foreshortening of the bus and his condensed treatment of the bridge preserve our sense of perilous height despite the miniature scale.



Look at the wonderful clarity in this small drawing. Drucker conveys the great distance between the two planes, and the even greater distance to the ground below. His description of the ground contains just enough information to explain our altitude, but not enough to confuse or distract us from the men performing various complex functions. This is an amazing example of visual problem solving.




In Leonard Starr's On Stage, the artist convincingly portrays a huge snowball rolling off the side of a cliff.


In just a few inches of space, Noel Sickles gives us the feeling of immense heft of a battleship listing.

All representational artists create the illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional plane. However, it requires an excellent draftsman to convey great scale under such extreme limitations.

These are artists who have slipped the bonds of space limitations. You get the feeling they have the technical ability to implement anything their mind can conceive.

Felt birds WIP

Working on some felt birdies I was working on two Xmases ago :p
I had totally forgotten about them.
I modified this cool pattern to make my birds.
And I bought the beautiful vintage wool from my friend Carlene.

We cannot go back

Maybe art, maybe some art, maybe this art, maybe some of this art, serves turning the absence opaque, that is, making it at once palpable and impenetrable, so we cannot go back, so we are stuck in the appreciation of this strange, utopic now, and any attempt to overcome it, to look for the actual empty space, meets the opacity of an object, an image, a substitute, substitute not of a reality, but of what ceased to be, of the void that hence remains beyond us, happily or unhappily, hard to say, replaced by the fundamentally meager and helplessly sublime moment of a hesitant, aesthetic, experience, too private to be credible, too credible to be intimate, and yet ours, because we want it to be, because we claim it as such, because we know we inherited it from the silence that came before.

The picture - entitled (...) - is by Marek Wykowski. (Found by Gocha)

Sketch

Watercolor and .005 micron pen

A Clean Slate

This is what my journal/planner looks like before I fill in each day.
I sit down every two weeks and collage/draw/paint on it
making sure I leave some space for writing each day.
I'll show you what it will look like after filling it all up.
Hope you have a great week!
Thanks Sofia for the beautiful bits from New Zealand
that are now part of my journal :)

SimplexTube A Video Blogger Template

So here is new Video blogger template named SimplexTube . It's a template for personal blog , support video and video thumbnail ,not a video gallery .
You can see the screenshot here

Live Demo | Download

How to install simplex tube video blogger template?
Download template . All images are uploaded s to ImageShack and scripts to Google code ,ImageShack and Google code are unlimited bandwidth services at this time .
Upload template to Blogger .
Go to Dashboard  > Layout  >  Page Elements .

How to use SimplexTube

This template has two sections ,Video and Blog . Video for showing videos ,and Blog for showing normal post
1.To create a video post ( mean a post with video and text description for that video ) ,post with structure bellow :
 your-youtube-video-url-endofvid
[starttext]
text description goes here
[endtext]

For example ,I want to create a video post with youtube video at this address : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wfYPXAjl8 ,here is what I do :
Go to Dashboard - > Posting ->New Post
and enter post content like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wfYPXAjl8endofvid
[starttext]
Textdescription .....blah blah blah ...
[endtext]


add the label 'video' in Labels field .
Click Publish Post . Ok ,we finish posting a new video to blog

2.To post a normal article ,go to Posting ->New Post and write your content as normal . But remember to add label 'blog' at Labels field . This label will mark post as normal blog post and it will show your post in Blog Post style ( Not Video Post style ).

3. To show your post in slideshow at the top of homepage,add one more label 'feature' to the post .

At this time, Simplextube template support only Youtube video

Bouquet

Flowers for you.
Digital collage using my illustrations.
It will be available as a print soon with the Lizards,
the Echeveria and the Japanase Paradise Bird.
I'll let you know when they're in my shop.

Use Google Font API for decorating your Post Title and sidebar title

Google announced their new Font API yesterday, including a font directory and preview tool to make open sourced fonts  available to everybody on the web.You can get more such blogger tricks directly to your mailbox os you can subscribe to my RSS feeds.
Some more Tutorials on This Blog-

• Add Reply to comment Option to blogger Like Wordpress
• Adding Animated Gif's to blogger

Steps for Adding Google Font to change Blogger Post Title 

Step[1] Choose Your Font
Just go to the Google Font Directory and pick the desired font there are already prety nice font and will be expanded with the popularity and time.
Use preview tool to Test different Fonts with all available options.You can Capitalize,Lower Or upper your text.Use this preview tool to check how your text look with letter spacing,line spacing,and word spacing.And don't forget to check the shadow option.

Step[2] Get Code
Once you have selected Font from Google Font Directory click on Get Code .

just copy it and paste between your <head> and </head> tags. Like this:
 <head> 
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> 
</head>    

Cantarell was selcted by me.

Note-This code will not be excepted by blogger and might give you an error to close the link tag, just add a little "/" in the end like this:
 <head> 
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/> 
</head>  

Step[3] Decorate your Post Titles
From Your Dashboard. Go to Layout > Edit HTML And Expand Widget Templates.
Use your Browser search to find .post h3 or .post h2 which ever present in your template.This post h3 or h2 defines your post Title properties.

Look for Font-family in your post h3 and add the font name you have selected from Google.

font-family: 'Cantarell',Tahoma,Verdana, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;

Click on Save Template

This Is It.

Do you like this tutorial? Do you like Google Font ? Use below comment form to send your suggestions or queries to me.

Lizards

Brenda Dumont, one of my lovely blog visitors wrote to me this week suggesting I should paint some lizards. I thought it was a great idea, so I did & here they are :)
Thank you Brenda, I had lots of fun painting them!

And the winner is...

Congratulations!!!
Her favorite color is saffron.
Poorvi, please email me your address so I can send you the book & print.
Thank you all so much for participating,
I really wish I could send everyone a little gift!
Have a great weekend :)

33 music style blogger templates layouts and xmls

There are not many music style blogger templates but here i have tried to collect the best and different blogger templates for every type of user from personal music blog to professional music blog.Previously i have collected 16 football style blogger templates And 11 clean white blogger templates.

[1] Blog rockero

Features : Pink color, Black background. Music Blogger Templates 2 column, Right sidebar It’s nice template with very good header, cool navigation bar… This template for Music blogs

[2] Dream time blogger template

Features : Blogger Two Column Music Blogger Templates New Blogger Templates, Pink, Simple Blogger Templates, White, Black, Blogger Two Column, Abstract, Animals, Best, Music, Web

[3] marilyn monroe blogger template

Features :  dark music celebrity   feminine   adfree

[4] The beatles blogger layout

Features : Simple Music Blogger Templates Ads free the beatles blogger template For Beatles fans

[5]Feel The Music (animated) Layouts

[6]Music Makes The World Go Round Layouts

Features : Keywords: music, rap music, rapper, rappers, slim shady, eminem, relapse, punisher, em,Description: A layout of rap artist Eminem.

[7] Piano blogger layout

Features : White text, Black background. Music Blogger Templates Left sidebar Template for piano blogs

[8] guitar blogger layout

Features : guitar blogger template Stationary background image left sidebar

[9] hero rocks blogger layout

Features : Another guitar template Awesome background image 2 column, Right sidebar Black body background Dark red text color

[11] soft music blogger template

Features : Soft music template Music Blogger Templates Nice header image Left sidebar Clean layout

[12] Dance through the Music

Features : Left sidebar,right sidebar Fixed width 3 column

[12]gramophonica free blogger templates

Features : Fixed width LEft sidebar 2 column White

[15] music lover blogger template

Features : 3 column Fixed width 3 column, Right sidebar Left sidebar

[16] night club blogger template

Features : Dark background. 2 column, Right sidebar Full color customization Fixed width

[17] Another music template

Features : Music Template  3 column Layout Left And right sidebar Red dark background image Large blog header

[18] cassette table blogger template

Features : Cassette taple blogger template Personal blog Yellow background color Right sidebar 2 column

[19] Music Blog (2 Columns Blogger Templates)

Features : Cassette taple blogger template Compatible with: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome Labels: 2 Columns Blogger Templates Music Blog (2 Columns Blogger Templates) 2 column

[20] Eminem Rap Artist Music Blogger Template!

Features : Keywords: music, rap music, rapper, rappers, slim shady, eminem, relapse, punisher, em,Description: A layout of rap artist Eminem.

[21]Dj In The House

Features : Blue color, Black background. This template for Music, Personal blogs  Music Blogger Templates  Fixed width, 1 sidebar. 2 column,  Left sidebar It’s cool template with Search box, Left sidebar, Nice header iamge…

[22] SpeakerBlog

Features : Music Blogger Templates 2 column, Right sidebar  This template for Music, Personal , blogs  Fixed width, 1 sidebar. Colorful color, Gray background.

[23] Musica 01

Features : Music Blogger Templates  This template for Music, Girly, Love , blogsFixed width, Left sidebar.  DarkViolet color, DarkViolet background.2 colums, 1 sidebar

[24]Gramophonica

Features : 2 column, left sidebar. top navigation menu,rss feed iconsearch box, abstract music banner. web2 music blogger templatesweb2 blogger template with pink buttons, wordpress look and vector banner

[25]Music Press Blogger Template!

Features : A girly personal template for music themed blog. Features include two column, left sidebar, widget ready, social bookmark ready, pink, brown

[26] Piano Template

Features : 2 columns,blogger template,Fixed width,keyboard,keys,Left sidebar,music,piano

[27] Rock Music Blogger Template!

Features : Black, Blogger Two Column, Elegant, Green, New Blogger Templates, Photo Picture, Premium Blogger, Red, WpThemesFreeCategories: Design, Font, Music, Nature, Small

[28] This Is It Blogger Template

Features : Properties: Adapted From Wordpress, All Color, Blogger Three Column, EZwpthemes, Elegant, Gray, Left And Right, Premium BloggerCategories: Best, Design, Music, Personal

[29]Spanish Guitar Blogger Template

Features : Properties: Adapted From Wordpress, Blogger Two Column, Elegant, Fluid Width, New Blogger Templates, Premium Blogger, Red, WPThemesCreator, WhiteCategories: Background, Best, Music, Small, Vector

[30] Musique Blogger Template

Features : Properties: Blogger Two Column, Blue, Elegant, New Blogger Templates, Premium Blogger, White, WpThemesFreeCategories: Background, Music, Small, Web

[31]We Love 80s Blogger Template

Features : Properties: Adapted From Wordpress, Black, Blogger Two Column, Elegant, New Blogger Templates, Premium Blogger, WPThemesCreator, WhiteCategories: Modern, Music, Unique

[32] Anime Music Template

Features : Download | Preview

[33]Violin Music

Features : Download | Preview