February 12, 2007
If you had noticed from my last entry, the source code of my "Name Bastardizer" is hosted on punzki.com. Yes, I have finally gotten around to purchasing my own hosting and domain!
Right now, there's absolutely nothing on it, except for links to Fantasy Sports Live (which I'll be moving to punzki.com in the future), and the new the RubeTube's new address: http://blog.punzki.com. Blogger's custom domains are awesome; your blog will still be hosted on Blogspot, but you can have it displayed on your own domain or subdomain. In other words, you get your own URL while still eating up Blogspot's storage and bandwidth. The old address, http://punzki.blogspot.com, will still work and will redirect to the new one (go ahead, try it!). http://www.punzki.com/blog is another alternate address.
Aside from the RubeTube and FSLive, punzki.com will play host to whatever projects I come up with in the future. Also, I have yet to think of an official "title" and tagline for punzki.com, so suggestions are very much welcome! Submissions for an official logo are also needed.
(Many thanks to my host, Philhosting.net, and their really cheap Windows hosting. Just check out their "Economy" hundred bucks a month plan... what a steal! And it's pretty fast, too.)
Right now, there's absolutely nothing on it, except for links to Fantasy Sports Live (which I'll be moving to punzki.com in the future), and the new the RubeTube's new address: http://blog.punzki.com. Blogger's custom domains are awesome; your blog will still be hosted on Blogspot, but you can have it displayed on your own domain or subdomain. In other words, you get your own URL while still eating up Blogspot's storage and bandwidth. The old address, http://punzki.blogspot.com, will still work and will redirect to the new one (go ahead, try it!). http://www.punzki.com/blog is another alternate address.
Aside from the RubeTube and FSLive, punzki.com will play host to whatever projects I come up with in the future. Also, I have yet to think of an official "title" and tagline for punzki.com, so suggestions are very much welcome! Submissions for an official logo are also needed.
(Many thanks to my host, Philhosting.net, and their really cheap Windows hosting. Just check out their "Economy" hundred bucks a month plan... what a steal! And it's pretty fast, too.)
Labels: :D, Blogger, Philhosting, Punzki, punzki.com, RubeTube
August 26, 2006
This handy-dandy tip is for Blogger users who want to get rid of the Blogger NavBar that pollutes the top of your blog. If you've decided that you simply cannot live without the NavBar, then turn away before things get messy.
Edit your blog's template and add the following HTML code in between the <head>...</head> section of your template. It should be near the top.
For Blogger beta users, use #navbar-iframe instead of #b-navbar:
If you already have an existing CSS stylesheet, then simply add the above rule for #b-navbar (#navbar-iframe for beta users).
BTW, I am not saying that you should remove the NavBar. I believe that you should have a choice in whether or not you want a NavBar on your Blogger blog, especially if you think that it affects your site's aesthetics (like I do). Consider that having a NavBar can be a benefit to your readers, especially to those who like to blog-hop.
Also, another thing to consider. I'm not a lawyer, but after carefully reading through the Terms of Service, I don't believe that removing the NavBar counts as a violation. Take a closer look at point #10, which states that you can't remove Blogger's advertising. I don't think the NavBar counts as advertising; they don't make any money from having it displayed. However, be a nice fella and provide a link or a button back to Blogger somewhere on your blog.
Edit your blog's template and add the following HTML code in between the <head>...</head> section of your template. It should be near the top.
<style type="text/css">
#b-navbar { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }
</style>For Blogger beta users, use #navbar-iframe instead of #b-navbar:
<style type="text/css">
#navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }
</style>If you already have an existing CSS stylesheet, then simply add the above rule for #b-navbar (#navbar-iframe for beta users).
BTW, I am not saying that you should remove the NavBar. I believe that you should have a choice in whether or not you want a NavBar on your Blogger blog, especially if you think that it affects your site's aesthetics (like I do). Consider that having a NavBar can be a benefit to your readers, especially to those who like to blog-hop.
Also, another thing to consider. I'm not a lawyer, but after carefully reading through the Terms of Service, I don't believe that removing the NavBar counts as a violation. Take a closer look at point #10, which states that you can't remove Blogger's advertising. I don't think the NavBar counts as advertising; they don't make any money from having it displayed. However, be a nice fella and provide a link or a button back to Blogger somewhere on your blog.
Labels: Blogger, Blogger Beta, hacks
August 15, 2006
It's been a while since Blogger's had any new features. There's good reason to believe that Google's been ignoring the Blogger community while the rest of the blogosphere (e.g., WordPress, LiveJournal) has been steadily moving forward.
Google has recently rolled out "Blogger Beta". Check out the new features here: a blog designer, more feed options, and of course, labels (didn't I predict they would use the term "labels"?). Kudos to Google for listening to their users and finally getting back on track in the free-blogs competition.
Like any Google beta, not all existing Blogger users have been given an invitation to migrate their blogs to Blogger Beta. However, unlike your usual Google beta, anyone is free to try it out.
Thank you once again Google, for all your hard work, but where's my invitation?!?
Google has recently rolled out "Blogger Beta". Check out the new features here: a blog designer, more feed options, and of course, labels (didn't I predict they would use the term "labels"?). Kudos to Google for listening to their users and finally getting back on track in the free-blogs competition.
Like any Google beta, not all existing Blogger users have been given an invitation to migrate their blogs to Blogger Beta. However, unlike your usual Google beta, anyone is free to try it out.
Thank you once again Google, for all your hard work, but where's my invitation?!?
Labels: Blogger, Blogger Beta
August 02, 2006
Tags. The feature that is number one on every Blogger blogger's wishlist. If it is not at the top of your list, then please tell me what could possibly be more important in this Web 2.0 world we live in. And I don't want to use some silly hack like this or this, I want built-in support.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
Labels: Blogger, del.icio.us, rant, Web 2.0
