5 New Official Dynamic Blogger Templates

Today Blogger has introduced five new dynamic blogger templates. Using the latest web-technologies, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, these templates deliver a host of benefits to you and your readers:

* New layouts: different views suited to different types of blogs
* Infinite scrolling: (like Twitter/Facebook wall) read more posts without having to reload or click to a second page
* Speed: download images as you view them, not all at once in advance
* Interactivity: there are now more ways to experience and engage with blog content



And the best part is, you don't lose your current template, to use these new dynamic templates.
For example, right now you can view BloggerStop in all these five templates:

3 Blogger Business Card Templates - Your Online ID Cards

In the this highly competitive 21st century, you must have your unique online identity, which can be accessed from anywhere in the world. By registering your own name as a domain name you get an edge over others during interviews and business deals. So make sure that you do have your unique domain where you can host your profile, achievements etc.


To make a business card like website, all you need is a domain with your name in it and a webhost where you can host your website. As it is highly possible that your name has been already registered, so try some different combinations of your name like these:
yourname.com or your-name.com (around $10 per year)
yourname.me or your-name.me (around $10 per year)
yourname.im or your-name.im (around $11 per year)
yourname.name or your-name.name (around $9 per year)

Design Your Own Blogger Templates!

This post will help you to design your own templates by using the newly launched feature by the Blogger Team - Template Designer.

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Image © Terence J Sullivan

There are several hundred, in fact thousands of Blogger templates available for free to download and use. But most of the bloggers usually do not find everything they want in these templates and to avoid the hectic tweaks and coding stuff, they finally settle for a template that covers the maximum number of their requirements and compromising on some other features.
But now you can yourself design a complete template for your blog;
To design a unique template for your blog, you have to focus mainly on four aspects of the template:

Blogger Template - For The Artists Out There...

This template is based on Minima, loads quickly and has a customizable background.

Demo | Download

CSS styling is done by TemplateMO and has been bloggerized by BloggerStop.Net
Template loading time: 1.7 seconds (without content).

With a width of 775 pixels, the template is optimized for all screen resoultions (from 800x600 to 1024x768 and larger).

To change the top menu-links, find and edit this code in the template:

<ul>
<li><a href='#'>HOME</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>ABOUT</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>SERVICES</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>GALLERY</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>CONTACT</a></li>
</ul>

For search engine optimization, meta tags are already added, but you have to manually edit them to fill your details. Find these tags in the template and edit them according to this tutorial:

<!--META-TAGS-STARTS-->
<meta content="ALL_KEYWORDS_HERE_SEPARATED_BY_COMMAS" name="keywords"></meta>
<meta content="YOUR_OR_AUTHOR'S_NAME_HERE" name="author"></meta>
<link href="mailto:YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS_HERE" rev="made"></link>
<meta content="INDEX,FOLLOW" name="ROBOTS"></meta>
<b:if cond="data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl"> <!--AVOID-CONTENT-DUPLICATION-->
<meta content="GENERAL_DESCRIPTION_HERE" name="description"></meta>
</b:if>
<!--META-TAGS-STOPS-->

Read this tutorial to change templates without losing any of your widgets.

NOTE: This template is free to use, share and modify under CC 3.0

Share your views on this template.

7 Blogger Gallery Templates - Showcase Your Images !

There are a number of photoblogs in the blogosphere. With less text and more images, these blogs mainly target the social networking sites over search engines for traffic. But that doesn't mean, you cannot expect huge traffic from Google or any other search engine if your blog is a photoblog. Some simple SEO tweaks to your images can bring hundreds and thousands of visitors to your blog everyday from Google Image Search. Remember that Google Image Search stands at #3 according to the traffic stats from Alexa among all the sub-domains of Google.

Once you have optimized your images for search engines, next you should focus on the traffic coming from social networking sites and other referrals. This optimization simply aims to make your blog more attractive for your visitors, i.e. a creative and professional template:

1. PhotoPlus+
By Dante Araújo

DEMO | Download & Instructions

2. PhotoPlus+ Light
By Dante Araújo

DEMO | Download & Instructions

3. ShowCase
By Dante Araújo

DEMO | Download & Instructions

4. Gallery (Updated)
By Blogger Themes

DEMO | Download & Instructions

5. BloggerPress
By Insight

DEMO | Download & Instructions

6. Hybrid Gallery
By Insight

DEMO | Download & Instructions

7. sGallery
by Anshul

DEMO | Download & Instructions

*Update

Monetization of your PhotoBlog

I think this is the correct time to introduce a relatively new type of advertising technique called In-Picture Advertising [By Image Space Media]. Similar to In-Text ads these ads are shown as overlay adverts when someone hover their mouse cursors over the images.

This service can be used in any blog, but will work best in blogs completely focused on images, like photoblogs.