Introducing Blog`a`zine, a blogger's magazine

What is Blog`a`zine?

Blog`a`zine = Blog(ger) + Magazine.

Blog`a`zine - a blogger's magazine for blogger's. A magazine about blogger's, blogging tools, and blogger’s interview will be released every month. Magazine will feature articles / posts from the blogrtools blog. Magazine will be available for free in PDF format. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get to know more updates....

What will the Blog`a`zine contains?

Following are the list of items at present I have in mind for publishing every month. I will try to add more to the list as and when anything useful that comes to my mind. You are welcome to add more to the list which I will try to cover in next edition

• Interviews from blogger's,
• Tips written by me,
• Snippets,
• General Information's about blogging

If you would like to contribute to Blog`a`zine, please contact me via email. Lot more to come in the next November editions.... Meanwhile you can download the October edition here or view online here.

Technorati Tags: blogazine, blogging, blogger, blog, magazine, interivew, tips

Google Indic Transliteration

       Some days back, I wrote about Indic blogging where you can use Google Indic transliteration tool to type Hindi. now the tool has been expanded to other Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam.

you need to have proper Unicode fonts so that it displays properly in the browser. Go through this Wikipedia link to find more about Multilingual support.

Technorati Tags: Indic, Indian, Transliteration, google, labs, blogging

Live Writer Technorati Tagging Bug

Windows Live Writer has a feature of adding tags from various website's like Technorati, deli.cio.us, LiveJournal, and Flickr etc. When inserting the Tag links for Technorati like below

Technorati Tags: Live writter

The problem with the above is that it appends the '/' slash after the tag. i.e the above Live Writter links to

http://technorati.com/tags/live%20writter/

which is wrong. Because the Technorati tags does not have a 'tags' word and '/' in the end appended to it. the right way of doing is show below

http://technorati.com/tag/live%20writter

In order to generate like this, click on the Tags you have Inserted. on the right sidebar, you would see Tags Properties. Below that you would see the Options where your tags will be displayed. Below this, is the Tag Provider drop down. Select the (Customize Providers...). A dialog box with Tag providers list will open. select Technorati and click Edit button. You would see some thing called HTML template for each tag textarea which contains below text

<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/{tag-encoded}/" rel="tag">{tag}</a>

change the above text with the below one by removing the trailing slash '/' after {tag-encoded} text

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/{tag-encoded}" rel="tag">{tag}</a>

Press Ok and close. Re-Insert the Technorati tags. Now your Technorati tags will be properly visible as below

Technorati Tags: Live writer, bug, technorati, tools

Blogrtools got sandbox now!

Hello all,

I have been trying different blog editors and wanted to write about those. All my thinking is on the tools that a layman can use to write a blog which is the primary goal of this blog. For that to explain, I have created a Blogrtools Sandbox where you will see different posts using different editors.

Blogrtools Sandbox will be my playground where I will be able to show you how each blog writing tool behaves and how it posts. you will still continue to see the review in this blog.

Blogrtools Sandbox will not just contain the sample blog posts from blog writing tools, but will also help you in placing ads, some thing like blog mock up before you try that on your blog. this way, you will not mess up your blog.

Thank you!

Blogrtools

Technorati Tags: sandbox , blogr , tools , blogger

Live Writer + Blogspot

This Post is written using Windows Live writer. Its so cool that windows application automatically detects the blogspot blog and downloads the templates and provides a great user experience in writing blog.

Installation

• you need to have administrator privileges to install this application. If not, ask your system admin to install
• Download from here and open the setup and continue the Installation Wizard.
• Give your Blog URL, Username, Password. I suggest you not to save password.
• Wait for some time and it will ask you whether to download your blog template. Say Yes to it so that you will get a blogging feel. software industry say it as WYSIWYG abbreviating What You Say Is What You Get

User Experience

• Pretty Neat user experience from setting up blog and up to writing a blog post.
• Bit slower for me (I have 1 G RAM and Pentium M processor) when doing right click while writing posts
• No font selection on the toolbar. You need to traverse to the top Format menu > Font.
• you can author multiple blogs.
• Write blogs offline and save it as draft. once you are connected, you can publish it.
• You can add tagging for Flickr, Technorati, deli.cio.us and many...(check insert drop down)
• Have the option of including online / offline pictures and videos directly without any issues. Below picture is inserted from live writer.

Design

     Elegant Design. Will not look like typical windows application. Looks like Vista based application. Shadowing menus gives you a pleasant drop down experience.

Technorati Tags: live,writer,live writter,blogspot,blogging

Tip3: Using Feedburner and Sitemap together

Feedburner is a RSS Feed provider for blogs and other websites. It helps you to track your RSS Subscribers, its Statistics etc. you can even make money using them. they place ads on the RSS feed and share the revenue just like Google Adsense does for blogs / websites.

Google Sitemap is a tool that helps you to make your blog / websites, search engine friendly. it give you suggestions on the content, proper html generation and lots many ways.

How can i make use of both?

You can employ Feedburner in your blogspot administrator page > Settings > Site Feed. Sign up for feedburner and generate the Feedburner RSS url and update in blogspot. All of your RSS request on your blog will be redirected to Feedburner RSS. They provide you stats about your rss and tools like email subscriptions etc. You can try adding this blog which is powered by Feedburner. Feedburner is now owned by Google. soon we can see hassle free integration from blogspot.

Once you have added the rss, then sign up for Google Webmasters Tools (formerly Sitemap i guess) and add your blog url http://[your blog site]/rss.xml?orderby=updated. if you are not using Feedburner, you can simple add http://[your blog site]/atom.xml. In this way, Google crawler will get to know about your websites and the contents in it. It will start crawling within few minutes which depends on how Google resources are free. some times it may take an hour for your sitemap to be said OK. If you encountered any errors, please let me know. i can help you to kick of the error.

If all goes well, you would be able to see your blog crawled by Google Bot. Hope this helps to get you kickstarted with Feedburner and Sitemap.

blogr tools

why is this blog? this blogr tools is all about tools that helps bloggers in every way for easy blogging.

how this can help me? blogr tools helps you by providing suggestions, comments for efficient blogging in the internet. it also provides information about various blogging tools and its how to

just tools....? no. not limited to tools. i will discuss here beyond blogging...i.e making money, attaining popularity in internet, helping social cause etc.
is this exists before? yeah! there are lot but they all became messy. i am going to start from scratch and help you get started from blogging, blogging tools, blogging websites, blogging news, videos, podcasts, images..., monetizing the blog, making money, bringing revolution etc
why all of a sudden this blogr tools? what ever i wanted to do with my personal blog, i willing to share my knowledge with you all so that you too can achieve some thing. different people have different thoughts and wanted to bring those thoughts to the internet.

what are stuff will be covered? i will teach about blogging tools, writing code for development of blogging tools like wordpress, blog themes development, blog monetization, making money with blog, writing good articles