Before I started using Thesis WordPress theme for my blog I have to customize the theme a lot for a better look. It was really a challenging job for me. I have to make it look unique and also attractive with the Thesis theme coding and hacks which was totally different than customization in other wordpress themes. In the process I added the Sleek social media Icons in the theme just below each posts title which makes the Social Sharing much easier and also attractive. I got lots of requests from my blogger readers regarding this social bookmarking icons widget and so I am now here.

Well, Sleek Social media Icons is the social bookmarking widget for the Thesis Woordpress theme by Artofblog and now I have made it compatible for blogger blogs. You just need to follow the simple three steps below to add sleek social media icons into your blogger blog. This Sleek social media icons include a digg button, retweet button, facebook share button,  stumble button and a cute email this post link button.

Sleek Social media Icons

First of all search for the follow line of code in your blogger Template.

Now in second step replace the above line of code with the following block of code.

Now in third step add the following code CSS code to your Blogger Templates just above ]]></b:skin> to give the style to this social Media Icons.

Now after you perform the above steps, Save your blogger Templates and see the sleek social media icons displayed n each of your blogger posts.

As you all know that Twitter is among today’s top social networking site and microblogging site and there is great possibility of your site or Blog through twitter. To promote your products through twitter you must have have large number of twitter followers. There are many strategies to get lots of Twitter followers for your blog. So theme some are Making follow easy with the help of Tweetmeme Follow me on twitter buttons and Floating Twitter follow me and follow us badges on your blog.

So in this post also we are talking about the strategies to gain lots of twitter followers for your Twitter profile with the help of easy follow Option. Following are some codes for showing off twitter follow me badges below each of your blogger posts. This will surely make the follow easy.

To show the twitter follow me badge below each posts automatically, Search for the following line of code in your blogger template code and add the follow Twitter badge code just below it to show desired style Twitter Follow me below each of your blogger posts.

If you want to show in sidebar, you don’t have to do this step.Just copy the following code and paste it to your sidebar. This code works for every blogging platform supporting different websites too.

Remember to change YOURTWITTER with your default twitter username before you save the code. Here are just 10 styles of the twitter badges. you can show the more styles twitter badges by replacing the image link in the above code. you can get more badges by Googling Twitter Follow me badges.

Your Favorite Social Bookmarking hero Digg has finally landed new style of Digg buttons and Digg widgets for better social bookmarking for your blog.

The new version of digg buttons got many more features then the previous version of digg button.This new digg button is more stylish in looking and also loads faster and also more user friendly then the previous version of digg buttons.using digg for your blog absolutely free.So get Digg buttons for your blog today.

Likewise Digg has too brought new style of digg widget that has got more features than the previous version of digg widget.Now the links in the widget are directly linked to the publisher’s content not the digg permanent page.This version also got more customization options with editable Tabs and columns and also thumbnails of the post in the widget.You can get the digg widget free at Digg widget generator.

Moving Blogger blog to self hosted wordpress is also the most important decision made by a  blogger.There are many reasons that encourages a blogger to move their blog to self hosted wordpress but moving your blog during the early days of your blog is better than to move your blog after a long period of time because there occurs more errors during the move.

Some simple terms to be known before you proceed

• Moving your blog to self hosted wordpress is an important decision that you have made.
• Since Blogger and wordpress  are  different blogging platforms , many things and features differ from each other.
• You must have the concept about wordpress themes,wordpress plugins and other basic terms before you move your blog to wordpress.
• Once you move your blog to wordpress your original blogger blog will not get lost.
• In future if you like to rollback your upto date wordpress blog into blogger then its a really hard issue.

Some main Requirements

• A registered domain name like .com , .org  , .me which has got the feature of updating nameservers.
• A web hosting service that meets the requirements of wordpress.

1. Be sure and confident

First thing is you must be sure that you had made a wise decision of moving your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.You should too have confident that you can use wordpress in a wise way to develop and promote your blog.

2. Buy web hosting space

This is the most important thing and also the first thing to move your blogger blog to wordpress space.You must own your own web space to save the contents of your blog.So you must first get a web hosting space before you continue.

3. Update nameservers of your domain name

Nameservers performs the task of showing that your domain name is pointed to your wordpress blog.It takes around 12-48 hours to get your nameservers updated depending upon your domain name hosting company.You should enter the same addresses in your domain name nameservers as provided by your web hosting service.

To know whether your nameservers has been updated or not , take a frequent look of your blog in few gaps of time.If you blog address stops showing your old blogger blog then you can confirm that your domain name nameservers have been updated.

4. Login to your webhosting Control Panel

After you get your domain name’s nameservers updated login to your Webhosting control panel with the same data you signup with.To login enter http://yourdomainname.com/cpanel in your browser and signin with your Username and password.

5. Install wordpress from Fantastico

This is the most important step to be performed to get your wordpress account active.Take a look at the snapshots below on how to install wordpress from fantastico.

a. Click Fantastico from your Cpanal dashboard.

b. Click WordPress from the fantastico page.If you Cpanal already got WordPress button,you can directly proceed from there.

c. Now Click New installation from wordpress Page.

d. Now in 4th step enter data in the installation form as suggested in the snapshot below and click Install WordPress.

6.  Preview your blog

After you install the wordpress for your blog now its your turn to look at your blog once.If your blog URL shows the new wordpress blog with just a single post “hello World” then you can confirm that your wordpress blog is fully setup and you can now move to next step.

7. Login to your WP Blog

After you’re done upto step 6 then now its your time to login into your wordpress blog.For that type  htttp://yourblogname.com/wp-login.php in your browser.You will be redirected to sign in page.From there sign in into your wordpress blog with the same username and password that you have entered in step 5 d.You will be redirected to your WP dashboard from there.

8. Import your Blogger Blog

This step will import the posts ,comments and categories of your blogger blog into your new WP blog.To import your blogger blog click Import under Tools tab.Click the Blogger Link from that page.The next thing is you need authorize the blog with your Blogger account.After you authorize you will be taken to Import Page.The page will list out all your blog hosted on that account.Now click import to that Blog which you want to import.The import will complete in some time depending upon your internet connection.

9.Update permalinks to the the Blogger Style Permalinks

At first the permalink of your posts seems different from your old blogger style permalinks.The default permalink will look like http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=123.So you need to update this permalinks like the default blogger permalinks http://www.yourblogname.com/2009/11/sample-post/Post-title.html.For this Click Permalinks from your Settings Tab.Now you will need to select different styles for your permalinks.To make your Permalinks same like the blogger , Check the custom structure filed and enter the following code in the custom structure field and Click save changes.

If you are doing well upto this step then you are done transferring your blogger blog to self hosted wordpress.But all the wordpress customization are not over here.You need to optimize your wordpress blog fro different search engines like Google.Yahoo,etc.
If you got some problem during this process or need support after this then you can easily contact us or communicate with the cute comment form below.Have a good day Bloggers!

While I was using my facebook account this evening I found an interesting thing on my Blogging Friend’s Wall.So I quickly post it here.Its about the search suggestion of Google search related to programmers.Check it out.

The number of subscribers make a much more difference for a developing bloggers like us.It takes couple of months and very hard task to increase our subscribers but it takes just a few time to get it very down.The first thing that help you increase your subscribers is the trust that the readers make to your blog and the thing that creates trust to people is the quality of the post and good communication/interaction with the readers.

Likewise the main thing that makes you lose your subscribers is due to your carelessness towards your blog and decrease in your post quality.The same thing happen to me too,I lost my 300 suscribers in just two days and that is due to my carelessness.

During the process of transfer my blog from blogger to wordpress self host I made a great mistake carelessly or I was unknown to it.When I update my nameservers the original blogger feed submitted to feedburner also get changed.I was unknown to it.Feedburner stops showing my feeds and the blog was also not completely setup.Due to this reason our many regular and unique visitors got confused.And another get problem is the permalinks of the posts also get changed so after installation too our many users get 404 error messages.This is really very bad.

But this mistake don’t go waste for me,It gave me a really very useful lessons which might be useful in future.From next time I will be planning before I do any new jobs for my blog.Best of luck  for me.

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I saw lots of contests on different blogs those days so I also got a plan to organize a similar contest in my blog.I organized a contest in my blog for twice distributing some cash prizes,Entrecard credits and other gifts by searching lots of sponsors.Though the contest was not so much successful but it helps me to learn some useful lessons that i must need to learn so that in future I could organize a successful contest in my blog and help other to organize successful contests.

1. Show the reason
Whenever you organize any contest you must show the clear reason that why are you organizing the contest or for what occasion you are organizing the contest.For example you may organize the contest on the occasion of increase in your Page Rank or other rankings.You may organize on the occasion of your happy birthday,some special festivals or on the blog’s happy birthday.If you show the clear reason of organizing other people will have the reason to believe you.

2. Search for less no of Sponsors or none
If you have got enough prizes with you then you don’t need to search for any sponsors or If you don’t have sufficient prizes to distribute or want to make your contest bigger then don’t search for large no of sponsors.If you get lots of sponsors in your contest then you will get lots of problems while distributing prize to the winner.It will be hard for you to contact with the sponsors again you may not be able to communicate with the sponsors which will ultimately may not fulfill the promised prizes.This will ultimately leads to decrease in the reputation of your blog.

3. Don’t make it too Lengthy
Here Lengthy refers to the time duration.Whenever you organize the contest don’t make it too lengthy because people will find it too boring to wait to the date of result and they may feel bore to participate.Therefore there must be small gap around 7-15 days from the day of announcement to the date of result in our organized contest.

4. Don’t make your Participants your Slave
This means you must not include lots of tasks to be performed by the participants to participate in your contest.Some contests include lots of task to do like posting about the contest,Subscribing to their feed,following them at twitter, favoriting them at technorati,Digging their post and many more tasks.If you include lost of tasks to be performed by your participants then you will probably get very less no of participants.

5. If you got then include cash Prizes
According to some posts in some blogs it says that 80% people do blogging for money.It clearly shows that people will love to participate in the contest which has got cash prizes other then entrecard credits,Ad slot for one month or free back .Therefore you should include cash prizes as the main priority in your contest.

These are the five main lessons which i have learned by organizing the contest for twice.If i organize the contest in future then i will surely try to overcome the problems and try to run a successful contest in future.Till then wait and see.

Retweetme is just a simple Javascript embedded bottom or widget that encourages your twitter fans to retweet your content on twitter.You can get this tool for your blog in two different styles. goes the code for two different Retweetme button along with the tutorial.

1. First of all Sign in into Blogger.
2. Then from the Blogger Dashboard goto Layout then check Expand Widget Templates.
3. After that search for <div class=’post-header-line-1′/> in the code section.
4. Now paste the widget code just below <div class=’post-header-line-1′/>.
5. After you paste the widget code Save your Template.Then you are done.

Big or Square Type:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url/>’;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”> </script>

Small or Rectangular Type

<script type=”text/javascript”>
tweetmeme_style = ‘compact’;
tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url/>’;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script>