If you are developer or Design maker, you definitely needs color picker tools. Here is top 5 color picker which helps you lot to make your design more attractive and for CSS coder, it helps a lot to make blog more shiny.

1. colorschemedesigner

2. Colorcombos

3. Colorpicker

4. ColorLovers

5. ColorExplorer

6. ColorHunter

Many users have personal blog and even I do have one. Yesterday, I was making personal blog for my friend and He wanted to add flickr image slide show in one of his blogger blog. So, I though to make post here on  my blog. It is very easy process. You even don’t need account in flickr. Click here to see DEMO. You will see title “Flickr Slideshow” on right side in sidebar.

Simple step for adding Flickr in Blogger

1. Go to Flickr.com

2. On main Page, search for anything you want. For instance, Country, Bridges, or Natural.

3. It will redirect to another page. You will see small sideshow written on Right hand corner. Click on it. Refer to Image (Red lines).

4. On next page you will see share option on right hand side at upper corner.Click on it and you will see an option “Copy to clipboard. Click on it. Refer to below image.

5. Go to Blogger.com and sign in using your username and password.

6. On Dashboard page, click Design . Click on Add gadget. It will open another small window. Click on HTML/JavaScript. (Refer to images)

7. Press CTRL + V in Blank field and give title according to your choice.

8. You are done. Enjoy…!

iPhone and iPod touch brought revolution in surfing. As blogger, we see it as our prospective that what can I do to use that media to display my product. If you are using wordpress and want to show your blog on mobile devise instead of full view page, you can use WPtouch wordpress plugins. You can see how does thetricks.net look on iOS devises at the end of post. I attached screen shots.

WPtouch doesn’t support only iPhone and iPod touch, but it support Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices too.

Features of Plugins:

- Automatically transfer full view to mobile if you open in iPod touch or iPhone

- Ajax loading articles and effects

- Setting page to play around with lot of options. (Screen shot below)

- Adsense Support

- Switch between full view to mobile view (Mobile view is default)

- iPad support is coming on next update

- Show specific number of page

- Assign different icons for different pages

- Show/Hide Excerpts

- Many more (View settings screen shot)

Thetricks.net and Setting page screen shots:

Link: WPtouch WordPress Plugins

Social media is best way to get traffic. Many user share your post to many social networking site such as twitter, digg and faebook. You might want more people to do it by adding buttons, which capture their attractions. I have seen different way, at the bottom of post, starting of post or in widget, but what if you can float that buttons as visitors goes up and down in post.

Here is example how does it look when you use our tutorial. Even though, visitors are at the middle of page, visitors can see social networking buttons, which help your post to be shared on more social networks.

Step 1:

Sign in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance >> Editor. Make sure that Style.css file is open. (You will see when you click on Editor.)

Step 2:

Copy following code and Paste it in style.css.

#sharebox {
background-color:#fff;
border:1px solid #ccc;
bottom:45px;
left:30px;
position:fixed;
}

#sharebox .float {
padding:5px;
}

Step3:

Save it.

Step 4:

Open Single.php file and seach for <div class=”entry”> and paste below code after <div class=”entry”>.

<div id="sharebox">

<div>
<script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_source = 'letmebuzz';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script>var fbShare = {
url: <?php the_permalink() ?>,
size: 'large',
badge_text: 'fff',
badge_color: '1B1112',
google_analytics: 'true'
}</script>
<script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script>
</div>

<div>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];
s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.async = true;
s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
})();
</script>
<a></a>
</div>

</div>

Step 5:

Save it and you are done.

Important:

Red text in css file can be changes as your theme colors. If you want no color, then just write transparent with out # sign.

Recommended Tricks:

- Floating ‘Subscribe’ Button at right Center of Your Blog

- Add sexy social Bookmark to your Blogger

- Floating soical networking button – Worpdress

What’s Next?

It was easy, wasn’t it? This works in some themes. If your theme provide custom function file, then this trick can’t work.  Need more help? Leave comments…

Few days back Thesis Theme 1.8 came out with lot of functions. Thesis theme is most customizable theme out in blog world. I strongly recommend you to buy it before price goes high. Here is 24 best Free thesis skins for thesis wordpress theme.

Thesis Bare

Thesis Bold

Straight Shooter

Fresh company

Simple Life

Network News

Tweetish

Affiliate skin for thesis

Simplicity

Exhibit

Cutline plus

Ready Pro

Neoclassical + Thesis

Kristarella Cappuccino Thesis Skin

Kristarella Mini Thesis Skin

Sharp Thesis Skin (8 Colors)

A Bright Idea

Minimal thesis skin :

wufoo Skin

Simple orange

Reputation

Looks Good Naked

Thesisready MIN

If you are using free web hosting or cheap one, which give you limit on web space and bandwidth. So, you may not want to use your web space on lot of images. Instead of that, you prefer to host them on other image hosting sites, but which one is good. Here is top five image hosting site with detail information.

1. Imageshack.us

Imageshack is best image hosting site with lot of features and options. I will recommend you to use imageshack, not just because I love imageshack, but I used all other and didn’t like much. They give you hotlink, so you can use them on your blog using IMG html tag. They have some of cool features such as uploading multiple files at one time, resizing option and make sideshow of your images. Of couse you need account, if you want to keep files forever. You can use application to upload files from blueberry, android and iPhone.

2. Photobucket.com

Photobucket is good but not the best. Unlike imageshack, they are more complicated. It take while to get used to photobucket. Photobucket give you option to upload as many image you want from url, while you can’t from imageshack. Most important feature of photobucket is that you can upload image using email, phone by personal email address provided by photobucket. They have application only for iPhone and iPod touch.

3. upload house:

Uploadhouse give you permission to upload up t0 2MB file. You can protect file giving password to it. You can resize image using their tools. You can upload image with out making account. They also provide direct link. You can also get link for thumbnail image.

4. Imgplace.com

Most important thing about imgplace is they allowed 5MB image file size. Imgplace lack many features such as uploading image from url, you can’t make account to keep track of your images. Imgplace is powered by imageshack, so I prefer to upload on imageshack. I love this because I can upload file up to 5MB size.

5. Imagehosting.gr

You can upload file from computer and url, but temporary, these feature is disabled. You can resize image and make it private too. Water mark on image is their unique feature. You can make watermark using top, bottom and middle options wherever you want on image.

Youtube is best video sharing website on earth. Every one have visited youtube at least one time in their life to watch video or listen music. Few days back, youtube also extended their 10 minute limit to 15 limit which is good news for many music and movie producers. You might want to download any youtubevideo in different formats but don’t know which tool is perfect for it. It is so easy  using  Firefox add on . You can download Firefox from “Firefox’s Official Website“

Easy youtube video downloader Firefox plug in can do it easy for you. You can download youtube video in four different format: mp4, mp3, flv and 3gp in one click.

Once you install Firefox, Go back to Mozilla.com and Click on Add ons. You can refer to below image.

You will see page. Seach “Easy Youtube Video Downloader” You will see list of add on. You can select first one. Click on Add to Firefox. (Refer to Below image).

You will see install add on windows. You need to wait for 3 second. After that click on Install. Restart your Firefox Browser.

Visit to youtube.com and Search for your favorite youtube video. Click on video and start playing it. You will see small download button options. (Refer to images).

Click on any type of video and download it. If you want to download it in mp3 format, then it will redirect you another page where, they convert it in mp3 format. Choose either standard quality or high quality as you want and click convert. You can see percentage of  video converted. After 100%, you will see Page will look like below. Once it will convert, you will see download link andyou have it in mp3 format.

Enjoy!

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WordPress users have an advantage of plugins and lot of hack to make their blog attractive. In my previous post on New look to thetricks.net using Killer Thesis 1,8, you noticed that I added admin info at the end of my each post. WordPress user can add author info at…

.author_info {
float: left;
width: 533px;                 /* Set Width of Widget As you want */
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #a1cb26;    /* Border of Widget */
margin-bottom: 15px;
margin-top: 15px;
background: #F0FDC6;          /* Background Color of Widget*/
}
.author_info h3 {
font-size:17px;
color:#001530;                /* Text color of "This Post is Written" by */
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.author_photo {
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 0 5px;
}
.author_photo img {
border: 3px solid #ccc;       /* Border color of Image*/
 height: 100px; width:100px;  /*Height and Width of Avatar of Author */
}

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div class='author_info'>
<div class='author_photo'>
<img alt='author' src='http://a.imageshack.us/img62/9461/thetrickslogo.jpg'/></div>
<h3>This post is written by:<a href='http://thetricks.net'>Nandupatel</a> </h3>

<p>I am Nandupatel and write trick on blogger, wordpress and different hacks. <a href='http://www.thetricks.net/about'>Click Here</a> to Know more about Author.</p><p>If you like This post, you can follow Thetricks.net on <a href='http://www.twitter.com/thetricks'><b>Twitter</b></a> or Be fan on <a href='http://www.facebook.com/thetricks' target='_blank'><b>Facebook</b></a>.</p>
</div>

</b:if>

Blogging is an optional way to spend lazier time for some or it can be passion for others. It help you keep active. Blogging help you to think critically and making new online friends and building community. If you are planning to start blogging, you need to know something about your interest, social networks. Here is 5 most important thing you need to know before starting blogging.

Your Interest Vs Reader’s Interest

What’s reader’s interest is as important as your own interest. If you like more about sport, then it is easy to write and attract more readers at same time. On other hand, if you have interest to write on stuff, which are boring to other such as writing on only particular topic. For instance, you can’t get more reader if you write on only pool or snooker. Rather, it is good idea to write on all playing activities. You can write on any topic as long as you stay focused on what you really started to write.

Read other blog on Daily basis

Reading other blog give you some ideas to write on your blog. When you start blogging, You can’t catch up topics as well as professional blogger. Keep bookmarking different blog which are similar to your niche, so you can keep track on it. You should subscribe to their blog, so you can read that blog regularly. You can also keep notebook with you, so you can take notes on different topics while you do other stuff. For instance, you are reading book about sport and come up something in your mind which you want share on your blog. Take note, so later on, it help you to make post, when you start blogging.

Marketing on Social Networks

Oh ya, Social networks help to drive a lot of readers on your blog. Go ahead and make some account on different social networks such as twittter, facebook, digg. If you have account before stating blog and have a lot of friend on facebook, then you got chance to attract more readers.

Do you give up?

Ask  this question to yourself before starting blogging. If answer is no, then you are good to go ahead and start blogging. When you start blogging, then only option available is to be patient. If you think, that you will get 1000 visitors on third day of blogging, then don’t start blogging. It takes while to reach visitor number in four figures.

Which blogging platform?

Last but not least. Have you though about any blogging platform? In market, there are many more option is available. You can choose blogger, wordpress.com or self hosted wordpress. I will recommend you to start blogging on self hosted wordpress, if you can spend $100 – $125/year.

Recommended Links

- Blogger vs WordPress

- Self Hosted wordpress Vs Free WordPress.com

- Step by Ste guide to Install Self hosted wordpress

If you need help, we can help you to set up your wordpress blog.

Blogger is coming with new feature occasionally. Blogger announced two new widgets for their user which are pretty much most required widgets. Popular post widgets shows most popular articles on your blog which all blogger want to display for SEO purpose and stat is another most important for blogger to keep track on visitors. It is time for blogspot user to party.

To Access you need to Log in using Draft.blogger.com

You might want to take look to new widgets:

Popular Posts:

Feature of Popular Posts:

- Choose between all time, Last 30 days or Last 7 days.

- Show/Hide Image thumbnail

- Show/Hide Snippet

- Look at screen shot

Blog’s Stat:

- You can choose 4 different stat counter image with style option.

Did you like new Widget?