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Sleek and Cool Search Boxes for Blogger

I recently shared simple yet cool search boxes for blogger. Now its time for something new, cool, beautiful and sleek.

So here comes sleek and cool search boxes for blogger/blogspot. It’s using simple image and css, HTML. Actually these are PSD source designed by Design3edge. I work hard in converting this to Blogger for YOU. Hope you enjoyed with this!

 Update: For WordPress Version Click Here!

sleek search boxes by allbloggingtips

Adding Add Cool Search Boxes For Blogger

  1. Login to Blogger Dashboard   => Design tab  => Page Elements .
  2. Click on Add a Gadget where you wish to place this Search Boxes.
  3. Choose HTML/JavaScript from the List.
  4. Place any one Search Box code in to it and Save the Gadget.

Style 1

search boxes

<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vGjST2sX6Ts/T88uy-eRYUI/AAAAAAAAAog/xhJ2A0nGnpw/s1600/black.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 2

search boxes

<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hxd1468RbE4/T88u0xTfk1I/AAAAAAAAApQ/BZ1WB9VG_3g/s400/whitez%2Bby%2Babt.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 3

search boxes

<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_Bf8C64sWs/T88uy_rLu3I/AAAAAAAAAow/EcYyd6sKjxA/s400/bluez%2Bby%2Ballbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 4

search boxes

<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T2F6d51MVw8/T88u0v_kIqI/AAAAAAAAApE/pB5bbugoVoM/s400/transparent%2Bby%2Ballbloggingtips.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Style 5

search boxes

<style type="text/css">
#abt-searchbox{
border-radius:5px;
background:URL(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D98wjamWcwk/T88u0dnSPuI/AAAAAAAAAo4/U4Oy3x-zhRg/s400/pinkz.png) no-repeat scroll center center transparent;width:307px;height:50px;disaply:block;}
form#abt-searchform{display: block;padding: 10px 12px;margin:0;}
form#abt-searchform #s{padding-left:16px !important; padding:7.5px;margin:0;width: 235px;font-size:14px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
form#abt-searchform
#sbutton{margin:0;padding:0;height:40px; width:44px;vertical-align: top;border:none;background:transparent;}
</style>
<div id="abt-searchbox">

<form id="abt-searchform" action="/search" method="get">
    <input type="text" id="s" name="q" value="Search..." onfocus='if (this.value == "Search...") {this.value = ""}' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search...";}'/>
    <input type="image" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif" id="sbutton" />
</form>
</div>

Credits

This is again a first time shared tutorial guide by AllBloggingTips. These scripts, widget and style sheets are provided only by ABT  therefore if you wish to share this tutorial with your readers and friends then kindly link back to this post as the only favour in return. :D

That’s all!. We hope you enjoyed this Cool Search Boxes. You can also subscribe  us to get our next tutorial in your inbox ;)

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HOW TO: Increase Traffic To Your Photography Blog

So, you have a photography blog and you’ve been posting pictures for a long time and you’re still not getting enough traffic. The same happened to my friend. Traffic means a lot especially for blogs. It’s easy to manage a photo blog, but when it comes to traffic it may be difficult to get it. In this article I’m gonna show you how to increase traffic to your photo blog making the best use of the social networking sites.

Photography

1. Use Watermarks while sharing your pictures

One of the best way to increase traffic to your photo blog is to share your pictures with your blog URL watermark or use some text like this on the image – “For Full Size Visit This Website – [YOURBLOG].com”. You small size pictures while sharing, and tell them to visit your site for the full size images.

2. Join Photography groups on Facebook

There are many groups on Facebook for photographers, you can find them in the search bar in the Facebook homepage, then there you’ll find some posting there, send a friend request to anyone of them, and then, after he accepts the request, tell him to add you to the group. And then post your images(which should have watermarks). And then wait for a few days, you’ll see the increase traffic to your blog!

3. Pin your Images

Pinterest is the largest growing social networking site. You can drive large amounts of traffic from Pinterest, if you have good amount of followers. You may google it to find tips and tricks about how to increase followers and repins. Here are a few tips to get more followers –

  • Keep pinning regularly
  • Don’t pin only your (blog’s) images, but also keep pinning other awesome pics.
  • Comment on others images to gain exposure
  • Follow as many as you can, so that you’ll gain exposure, since they’ll see you in their notifications and may follow you back!

4. Add your images in Flickr

As you know, Flickr is one of the largest image sharing sites. Add some images in Flickr with a watermark text(make sure your blog URL, is in the watermark text.)

5. Optimize your images for search engines

SEO is the best way to increase traffic for any kinda blog. This is the same for photo blogs too. Here are few tips to optimize your images for search engines

  1. Use keyword in file name

For example, let us think you’ve bought a new Mercedes, and you want to post that image in your photo blog, then the image with file name my-new-mercedes.jpg would get a better ranking in search engines than IMG00010.jpg
So, it’s better to use a keyword in a file name, to get a better ranking.

  2. Descriptive Alt Tags

The alt attribute describes the contents of an image file.(You can read about the importance of alt attribute in the image publishing guidelines). An image with alt attribute is market up as follows –

<img src="my-new-mercedes" alt="My New Mercedes" />

  3. SEO Friendly Images WordPress Plugin

SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress Plugin which automatically updates all images with proper alt and title attributes. It makes your SEO for images easy. Read more about this plugin here – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/

You can read more about optimizing images for SEO here – http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114016&ctx=sibling

Some website which increase your photo blog’s exposure –

Hope you find this article useful :)

Elegant Style Drop Down Menu With Hover Effect

elegant style menu small iconWe already shared many drop down menus and now its time for Elegant Style Drop Down menu with smooth hover effect. This drop down menu use Css3, HTML. No Images no jquery.  It is compatible for almost all browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome etc but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered properly. So without wasting anytime lets move on to create Elegant Style Drop Down Menu With Smooth Hover Effect for Blogger or WordPress..

Before we continue have a look at our other drop down menus.

Elegant Style Drop Down Menu With Hover Effect Preview

elegant style drop down menu

Live Demo

The CSS

Below is the css of menu. You can add it to your main site css file. Like If you are using WordPress than paste CSS below in your style.css file and If you are using Blogger/Blogspot than go to Design>Edit HTML and place CSS give below just before  ]]></b:skin>

 

/* main and secondary top-level navigations */
#nav {
float: left;
font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}

#nav ul {
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;

}

#nav ul li { -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
float:left; 

    background: url(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQjMkefe9n4/T8xGVbAMgyI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/H9ngLuwgkcc/s320/menu-link-bg.png) bottom center no-repeat;
}

#nav ul li a { 

  width: 100%;
       float: left;
    color:#fff;
    padding: 10px 19px;
    text-decoration:none;

  background:#3C4042;
     background: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.09, rgb(59,63,65)), color-stop(0.55, rgb(72,76,77)), color-stop(0.78, rgb(75,77,77)) );
    background: -moz-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(59,63,65) 9%, rgb(72,76,77) 55%, rgb(75,77,77) 78% );
    background: -o-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(59,63,65) 9%, rgb(72,76,77) 55%, rgb(75,77,77) 78% );
    border-left: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05);
        border-right: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
     text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

     -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;

}

#nav ul li a:hover,
#nav ul li:hover > a {
        color: #fff;
        background:#3C4042;
    background: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.09, rgb(77,79,79)), color-stop(0.55, rgb(67,70,71)), color-stop(0.78, rgb(69,70,71)) );
    background: -moz-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(77,79,79) 9%, rgb(67,70,71) 55%, rgb(69,70,71) 78% );
    background: -o-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(77,79,79) 9%, rgb(67,70,71) 55%, rgb(69,70,71) 78% );
        text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2), 0 -1px #000;

}

#nav li ul a:hover,
#nav ul li li:hover > a  {
    color: #fff;
      background: #5C9ACD;
    background: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.17, rgb(61,111,177)), color-stop(0.51, rgb(80,136,199)), color-stop(1, rgb(92,154,205)) );
    background: -moz-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(61,111,177) 17%, rgb(80,136,199) 51%, rgb(92,154,205) 100% );
    background: -o-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(61,111,177) 17%, rgb(80,136,199) 51%, rgb(92,154,205) 100% );
        border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
        border-top: 1px solid #7BAED9;
        text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
}

#nav li ul {

        background:#3C4042;
        background-image: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.09, rgb(77,79,79)), color-stop(0.55, rgb(67,70,71)), color-stop(0.78, rgb(69,70,71)) );
        background-image: -moz-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(77,79,79) 9%, rgb(67,70,71) 55%, rgb(69,70,71) 78% );
        background-image: -o-linear-gradient( center bottom, rgb(77,79,79) 9%, rgb(67,70,71) 55%, rgb(69,70,71) 78% );
        border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;
        -moz-border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;
        left: -999em;
        margin: 35px 0 0;
        position: absolute;
        width: 160px;
        z-index: 9999;
        box-shadow: 0 0 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) inset;
        -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) inset;
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) inset;
        border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}

#nav li:hover ul {
        left: auto;
}

#nav li ul a {
        background: none;
        border: 0 none;
        margin-right: 0;
        width: 120px;
        box-shadow: none;
        -moz-box-shadow: none;
        -webkit-box-shadow: none;
        border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;
        border-top: 1px solid transparent;
}

#nav li li ul {
        margin: -1px 0 0 160px;
        -webkit-border-radius: 0 6px 6px 6px;
        -moz-border-radius: 0 6px 7px 6px;
        border-radius: 0 6px 6px 6px;
        visibility:hidden;
}

#nav li li:hover ul {
        visibility:visible;
}

#nav ul ul li:last-child > a {

    -moz-border-radius:0 0 6px 6px;
    -webkit-border-radius:0 0 6px 6px;
    border-radius:0 0 6px 6px;

}

#nav ul ul ul li:first-child > a {
    -moz-border-radius:0 6px 0 0;
    -webkit-border-radius:0 6px 0 0;
    border-radius:0 6px 0 0;
}

 

The HTML

You can add this HTML code in any place of your site/blog. If you are using WordPress than add below HTML code in your header.php file and If you are using Blogspot than add below code in header gadget (widget)  ;)

<div id="nav">
<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.allbloggingtips.com/">Home</a></li>

 <li><a href="#">Tutorials</a>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">HTML / CSS</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">JS / jQuery</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">jQuery</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">JS</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Resources</a>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">By category</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">XSLT</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Ajax</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">By tag name</a>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">captcha</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">gallery</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">animation</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>

   <li><a href="#">Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Android</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Android Apps</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Android Games</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<li><a href="#">Linux</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">RedHat</a></li>
<li><a href="#">CentOS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Fedora</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Ubuntu</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Debian</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Linux Mint</a></li>
</ul>
</li>     

                  <li><a href="#">About</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>

        <li><a href="#">Back To Tutorial </a></li>

</ul>
</div>

 

Confused or Need Help?

If you need some extra help in removing rows or columns then please feel free to post your questions. You can discus it as much with me as possible. This will help others to better understand on how to make further changes.

Credits: This Elegant Style Drop Down Menu With Smooth Hover Effect is first shared on AllBloggingTips. Bloggers are requested to link back if they are going to share above menu with there visitors.

How to Make Thesis Theme Responsive ?

responsiveFinally, DIY Themes officially announced that now we can easily make thesis theme responsive with  “Responsive Skin + Child Theme Starter Set” for Thesis Theme.  All this work is done by Alex “the kid” Mangini. ;)
 
The starter kit is free. Here are thing which you need to make thesis theme responsive. 

Some of you may be confused what is responsive design? Well, below I am writing a short info about what is responsive design!

What is responsive design?

Responsive design is, the design that will automatically adjust your website/blog/ based on width of device. You can say In the simple words, your blog will work perfectly on all the mobiles/smartphones/tablets without any mobile version WP plugin.

make thesis responsive

Now without wasting anytime. Let move on How to Make Thesis Theme Responsive ?

How to Make Thesis Theme Responsive ?

Below I am mentioning 2 simple ways you can do to make thesis theme responsive! If you are confused at any step just leave comment below :D

  • Manual Method.

Just download the thesis starter set and delete the current “ custom_functions.php ”  and  “ custom.css ” files  (remember to keep the backup of both the files in case if something went wrong ), then upload the custom_functions.php and custom.css files that you download recently from this link :) .

  • By Installing child theme easily !!

If you don’t want to manually upload the files, you can also use a child theme, instead. That won’t take much efforts from your side but it will only work with the fresh installations.

If you face any problem in installing that you are most welcome to ask any question in below comments. I will help you for sure :D

Stylish Followers Counts Widget for WordPress Using SocialBox

Today I was searching for good widget that adds Stylish Followers Counts Widget to wordpress and I landed to CodeCanyon.net one of the best website that provide scripts, tutorials, plugins, widgets. I chooses SocialBox Plugin for WordPress to add Stylish Followers Counts Widget with ease.

With  SocialBox Plugin for WordPress. You get an absolutely very easy to use WP Plugin that enables you to add a sleek social widget to any WordPress site or blog.  It all top social networks and displays current numbers of Counts for your Facebook Page Likes, Twitter Followers and YouTube Subscribers and Feedburner Feed Subscriptions. You can easily customize it as per your needs for just 4$ ;)

SocialBox preview

Live Demo   |   Download   |   More Info

Features of Stylish Followers Counts Widget Using SocialBox

  • Social Box Displays the number of:
    • Facebook Page Likes
    • Twitter Followers
    • YouTube and Feedburner Feed Subscribers
  • You can easily Rearrange and disable any of  social networks that fit your needs.

social box widget setting

  • Stylish Buttons and Look
  • Awesome Background that attract visitors
  • Automatic update notifications.
  • Full support for all major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer
  • Free future updates to support even more social networks with many more additional features.

What’s More?

With social box plugin you can easily attract visitors to like your FB page, follow you and subscribe to your feed. Really easy to use plugin just for 4$ isn’t that too good ? you are getting awesome plugin just for 4$ ? :P

I personally not tried this Stylish Followers Counts Widget plugin but I am sure it will help you to increase your like, followers etc. All I can say you that you can get awesome Stylish Followers Counts Widget for WordPress Using SocialBox just for 4$.

SO what you are waiting for?  Visit SocialBox plugin page and buy it now and rock your wordpress blog. Before you go to buy make sure to use our affiliate link. So that we will get some bounce if you buy through our affiliate link. :)