Background Image for Blogger Template

With this guide, you would be able to add a background image or picture to your Blog, customize the position of your image, and have a static background image that stays in place when you scroll through the contents of your blog.You will need to create an image. Find a picture you like. If you need a free photo editing tool, you can either search the net for one or use Google's Photo Editing

Show popular queries on your site

Posted by: Matt Wytock, Software Engineer

We've just added the ability to show popular queries for your Custom Search Engine, so that your users can see what others have been searching for on your site. Popular queries are updated daily, and the code snippet dynamically shows the most recent data.

To show your CSE's popular queries, go to the "My search engines" page (after you've signed in) and click on the "statistics" link. Cut and paste the popular queries code where you would like them to appear on your website. You can also subscribe to the feed for your CSE popular queries using your favorite feed reader -- the link to the feed is also available on the statistics page.

Add Picture Banner Link to Blogger Header

Update:With the latest Blogger feature, there is an easier way to insert a background image to replace your Blogger Header. The image is also clickable and links to your Blog's main index page. The steps are discussed in the article Background Image for Blogger Header (New).However, by using the new feature, the image appears in the center, as a background to the title. For those who want

Add Digg button to Blogger or Blogspot

This is a step-by-step guide to automatically place a real-time Digg count and vote button to every single blog post. Digg is a social content website where your readers or you can submit content to. If you have a good story, members will 'digg' the post and write comments. As a blog owner, you may want to make it easy for and encourage your readers to submit and digg your articles.Automatic

Hide or Remove Navbar in Blogger

The Blogger or Blogspot Navbar is a default feature that appears at the top of every Blogger powered blog. It is a useful navigation tool which allows readers to search the blog for targeted content, mark the blog as objectionable, and randomly view other member blogs.The Navbar can be disabled for users who publish contents via FTP, but it will appear on all freely hosted BlogSpot blogs. While

Add Video Clip to Blog

Update: Blogger released a new Add Video feature which allows you to upload videos into your Blog posts. Should you want to know more about it, or resize or align the video, or put it into the sidebar, you may follow our guide in Customize Video Upload in Blogger.This is a step-by-step guide on how to add a video or movie clip to your Blog or webpage. There are many sites that offer free video

Language Translation Flags and Script

This tutorial explains how you can add a script to allow readers to view your English site in other foreign languages. As you can see on the right of this page, a reader needs only to click the relevant country flag to read this site contents in his preferred language.English is not the most popular language in the world. In fact, according to many reports, the Chinese language (Mandarin) is

Better branding part II

Posted by: Jennifer Hyman, Product Marketing Manager

In tandem with the search results branding changes, we've just updated and implemented new search box branding for CSEs as well. You can now select from 7 different search box branding options to fit the look and feel of your site. You'll find these different branding options on the Code page in your Custom Search Engine Control Panel. If you were previously using the watermark branding option that sits within the search box, we have automatically updated this logo to match the new updated branding.

We're always working to improve and enhance CSEs look, feel and functionality, and hope you agree that this new branding is a step in the right direction. To learn more about CSE branding, visit our branding guidelines. And as always, please keep the feedback coming.