All the bloggers work very hard on their blogging skills, making their blog more interesting, profitable and good looking. But do you think concentrating on these aspects are enough? Well I don’t think so. I am an ethical hacker and found thousands of blogs hacked in last year and bloggers lose everything they had. Their hard work and their dreams, everything goes vanished.
You can prevent all these things just by keeping some little facts in mind and use the following simple tips for your blog.


1. Back up: -

The smartest blogger is the one, who keeps back up of his blog template, all post and all other secondary things. You need to back up your data every time you update your blog. Bloggers sites and sites provide you this facility. You have to use it intelligently. When you create back up, take it on CD’s, DVD’s or any hard drive. Don’t just keep on your hard drive store it and make copies of it if you are serious in your blogging.

Backing up your data gives you assurance if someone hack your blog and destroys your design you can restore all by using these backups you made. It costs almost nothing but they are very valuable if you are attacked by hackers.

2. Choosing host for your blog is very important: -

Your blog host should be choose very intelligently who should be always there whenever you blog have any problem. If your blog is hacked means server of your host is hacked so you have to make it sure that your host should be good enough to make you secure. Having a quality host who offers you personal and comprehensive help in those times when things go wrong is very important.

3. Update your blog Software:

You have to update your blog software’s every time possible minimum you have to update software in a month.
Software companies make their software more and more secure from all possible threats. So if you update the software regularly you can be safer definitely.
It’s a simple thing but everyone ignores this fact and you can lose your blog. So keep updating software.

4. Keep your blog active:

There are millions of blogs out there and many 30 % of them are dead. What I mean by dead is they are not active. They are not updated.
What I have observed in hacked blogs is many of them are dead blogs. So if you do not keep your blog updated it can be hacked easily.
Still if you don’t wanted to keep your blog active you just keep your blog software updated.

5. Passwords – Damn important thing

Make strongest possible passwords you can. You can get many password security tips on security sites. Follow them all.
And if you think you are secure enough don’t ever expose your password to anyone.
Don’t use obvious passwords. Like names and dictionary words.
Use combination of numbers, letters and special symbols.
Use password length at least of 8 numbers.



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when you are having a number of images in your posts , then it becomes difficult to mention the image size and width in each and every image. And also if you change the template which contains different width , then you need to edit the size and width in all images.

In order to get rid off those head-aches , just follow these simple steps to resize images in your blog. Even if you have declared different image size and width in that image code , this code will overwrite those tags and will change the width and size you mentioned in the style sheet.

First go to layout section of your blogger blog. Then navigate to EDIT HTML section. Now search for this tag there.

]]></b:skin>
Now add the following code above that code line.

.post img {float:center;min-width:560px;max-width:560px;max-height:260px;min-height:260px;padding : 10px;line-height : 2em;margin: 0 auto 10px auto;clear: both;}

In that above code , edit the max-height and min-width tags to suit your main container width and height.

Enjoy...!!!

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Since from the very beginning of this blog, I had in mind that most of people do not use Blogger just because of its "limitations", or whatever they think blogger has, so I have decided to creat unique templates that would blow people's minds not only because of their designs, but also for its many unique and out-of-the-box features.

Now I bring you a template that no one has never made for Blogger: a video template. Yes, now you guys can showcase your videos using blogger! ins't that awesome?

The fact is that I am very excited about this template, because this one may turn out in a revolution on Blogger templates, People will now see that Blogger is not as limited as they thought it was, believe me: I didn't even start describing its features yet.

I have been working on this template for the past weeks, finding a way to improve it each time I put my hands on it. The best thing was the help I have got from my gift-minded friends Abu Farhan and Aneesh (from Bloggerplugins.org). They are (seriously) the best and fastest Blogger developers that I have ever known, I am very lucky to get to work with this guys.

Now let me present you BloggerTube: A video template that creates a perfect link between Blogger (The best blogging tool in my opinion) and Youtube (The biggest and most used online video service on the internet).

There are many reasons for my excitement, but I can summarize them in two simple ones:
#1 - This template is totally automatic, anyone can use it, and even the most newbie guys will be able to post videos on it.
#2 - It is the first of its kind, So this will motivate me to release new version and implement new features each version.

Check out the live demo and you'll what I am talking about!



BloggerTube Instructions:

Note: A really nice user from our community (Thanks Mesothelioma) has just made this great collection of video tutorials for Bloggertuts, Please check it out, specially beginners. Make sure you watch them before asking for help!

- You'll only need 2 things: A post sample (Please download it here and save it as post sample under your Blogger settings) and a video URL from youtube.

2 - Go to Youtube.com and grab a video URL:



3 - Now head to your Blogger dashboard and create a new post, It will open up the posting page with your previously saved post sample:



4 - Note that you have 2 important elements:

- "endofvid" - Will be used to tell the template that your video URL has finished, you should paste your URL right before it, with no spaces!

- [starttext] and [endtext] - Those are your post content wrapper, so if you need to write anything, post any picture on your post, please do it inside these two lines. This is an important step, if you write anything out of these two lines, it will not be shown on your post.

5 - Here's how the your post should looks like:



I have highlighted the important elements just for your reference, but you should not do that on your posts.

How to install the "Recent Videos" widget"

Just go to your Page Elements section, click to edit the HTML/Javascript Widget called "Recent Videos" and paste the following code inside:

Automatic features on BloggerTube:

Once you have made your post, BloggerTube has taken care of it, let's check it out the awesome automatic features on this neat template:

Automatic video thumbnails on home page:

BloggerTube will automatically create a thumbnail out of your video, and show it only on your home page, in a nice and organized gallery style.

Automatic embedded video on post page:

You'll get your video automatically embedded on your post page, together with your description/post below it.

Automatic slider for the last featured videos

This one may be the most cool feature of this template, it is completely mind blowing, and you doesn't even to touch the code to get it, It's already installed and running for you!

BloggerTube Highlights

Custom star ratings from js-kit.com :



Recent videos widget from Bloggerplugins.org (adapted specially for this template):



Exclusive scripts from Abu-farhan.com created specially for this Blogger video template that makes it totally awesome and intelligent.

Note: if you are experiencing any problems with the page navigations, go to your Edit HTML pade, check Expand Widget models, and replace the following url:


for this one:




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