Twitter Celebrates Halloween

Everyone is in the mood to celebrate Halloween and Twitter couldnt stay far behind. So Twitter has celebrated Halloween in a wonderful way called "Trick or Tweet". All you have to do is to type #treat or #trick in your Twitter web profile and click the update button and wait for the magic to happen :)

This trick works only on the Twitter website and not on any of the clients. Check the pictures shown below to see the Twitter Trick or Tweet Halloween Special.

Type #treat

Type #trick

Don't forget to try this wonderful Halloween trick and do share this post with your friends. You can also check Collection Of 60+ Twitter Icon Sets or 16 Cool Sites To Get Free Twitter Backgrounds

Add A Stylish Font To Blogger Post Title

If you have seen the post titles of this blog, you must have understood that the font is different from the other blogs. Even you can change the font of your blog easily. Check the picture below to see the font that I have used for my blog post titles. 

To change the font of your blog post titles, visit the Layout of the blog template and click on Edit HTML option. Select the Expand Widget Templates option. Now search .post h3 or .post h2 , whichever is present in your template.

If .post h3 is present in the template, the code will be similar to the one shown below

.post h3 {
margin: 0 0 5px;
padding-bottom:6px;
}

.post h3 a, #content h1 a:visited {
color: #A0A2F9;
font-size: 18px;
font-family: Waltograph UI,trebuchet ms, tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0 0 5px;
padding: 0;
text-decoration:none;
text-align:left;
line-height:1.4em;
}

The main thing you should check is that font-family should be present in either  .post h3 or .post h3 a . Once you find font-family , just add the font that you want at the beginning just as I have added Waltograph UI in the beginning.

That's it, now click on the Preview button to check whether the font has been implemented or not.

However if .post h3 isn't present in the template, then search for .post h2 and apply the same steps as given above for .post h3

However some templates dont have the .post h2 code in the template. For that first search .post in the template and paste the following code just above it

 .post h2 {
    color: #A0A2F9;
    font-size: 28px;
    font-family: Waltograph UI,trebuchet ms, tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0 0 5px;
    padding: 0;
    text-decoration:none;
    text-align:left;
    line-height:1.4em;
}

Just replace Waltograph UI with the font that you want. You can change the code to change the size, colour and other characteristics of the post title.

Here are some examples for you

Font Name: Amelia-Normal

Font Name: File

 Font Name: PicoBlackAl

Font Name: Vanilla

If you want to download some awesome fonts, then check 20 Cool Hand Drawn Fonts . Now its up to you to decide which font you want for your blog. I hope that you found this post useful.

An Interview With Google

Hello friends, today is a great day for me as I am going to publish my interview with Google. I am grateful to Google to take out some time to answer my questions. Due to time constraints, Google could answer only some questions. I hope you love this interview by Google.

Cool Tricks N Tips(CT): Hi Google, thanks for agreeing to do this interview. How are you?

Google:

CT: What!!! I hope that you are not joking with me. Well lets go over to the next question. Everyone is very curious to know more about you. Tell us something that you like.


Google:

CT: Well that's funny. Next question: You move around the web indexing web pages, so you must have an idea about what everyone does online. So tell us whats happening on the web right now.

Google:

CT: Wow, thats quite odd. Moving on to the next round of questions. This is a Rapid fire round, I will give you the name of a site and you have to tell us what you think about it. Here we go


CT: Facebook


Google:

CT: Twitter

CT: Yahoo

CT: Orkut

CT: MySpace

CT: That was a great round. Got to know more about what you like and your opinion about other sites. Now for the last question. It would be great to know what are your plans for the future.


Google:

CT: I see, you want to do things as they come to your mind, or are you trying to hide something?? Anyway, it was a pleasure to interview you and I am glad that you answered our questions. Thanks.


Google:

CT: You are welcome in Portuguese ;)

Kickass Meta Tags For Blogger Blogs

Meta tags are a very important thing for your blog, if you want to get more traffic from search engines. Meta tags tells the search engines about your blogs and what do you blog about. Meta tags are very important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as it will help your blog to rank high in search engines.

However many bloggers who have posted tutorials on how to add meta tags to blogger blog have used the following code.

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

I suggest that if you are using this type of meta tags, then stop using it as it isnt proper. In this post I will show you the best way to add meta tags that will surely help your blog along with the limitations of the earlier code and its solution.

If you are using the meta tags given above, then the biggest problem you will face is that the DESCRIPTION  meta tags will be same for the blog home page and each and every post of your blog resulting in duplicate description meta tags.

Solution:

 Using the code given below will solve this problem as it will provide description only for the home page thus eliminating the duplicate descriptions

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Blogging Computers Internet N More Tips For Your Blogger Blog' name='description'/>
</b:if>

However, there wont be any description meta tags for your posts now. And if you want to add description meta tags, you will have to add meta tags manually for each post. But this will result in increasing the amount of code in the template. So you must add description meta tags only for the popular posts.

Solution:
To overcome this problem, will will add the following meta tags.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' name='Description'/>
</b:if>

This piece of code will use the name of the blog post as the description meta tag. As a result, now you will have description meta tags for each of your blog post without adding extra meta tags. However it will be better if you think carefully before adding the post title for better results as the post title will be the description meta tag for that post.

That's it, now we have got one of the best meta tags for blogger blog, which have overcome most of the limitations. Here is the complete meta tags for your blogger blog

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Add Your Blog Description Here' name='description'/>
</b:if>
<meta content='Add Keywords Here eg:Blogger,Templates' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Add Your Name Here' name='author'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' name='Description'/>
</b:if>

To add it to you blog, click on the Layout option and then click on Edit HTML option and paste the code just below

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Best Blogger Templates Released In September 09

Hi friends, I am back with another collection of cool blogger templates. Check out these amazing blogger templates for your blogspot blog. You can also check Best Blogger Templates Released In August 09 or 32 Beautiful Girly Blogger Templates for some awesome templates


The Art Blog
Template by Teknomobi
Features: 2 Columns, Black, Fixed width, Gray, Right sidebar

 Demo | Download



Marikit
Template by ThemeCraft
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Elegant, Fixed width, Gray, Premium, Right sidebar, White

Demo | Download



Woody
Template by ThemeCraft
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Black, Fixed width, Right sidebar, Rounded corners, White

Demo | Download



Gallery
Template by BloggerThemes
Features: 3 Columns, Black, Fixed width, Minimalist, Photolog, Right sidebar

Demo | Download



BloggerTube
Template by Dante Araujo
Features: 4 Columns, Black, Fixed width, Premium, Red, Right sidebar, Rounded corners

Demo | Download



BlueMania
Template by Teknomobi
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Blue, Fixed width, Right sidebar, White

Demo | Download



Zinfolio
Template by Cahaya Biru
Features: 3 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Blue, Fixed width, Right sidebar

Demo | Download



Another Undersea
Template by ThemeCraft
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Blue, Fixed width, Left sidebar

Demo | Download



Scrapbook
Template by Free Blogger Template
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Black, Fixed width, Gray, Right sidebar, White

Demo | Download



Creative by Nature
Template by BloggerThemes
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Blue, Brown, Fixed width, Right sidebar, Rounded corners

Demo | Download



Urban View
Template by ThemeCraft
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Fixed width, Green, Right sidebar

Demo | Download



Photoplus Light
Template by Dante Araujo
Features: 3 Columns, Fixed width, Minimalist, Photolog, White

Demo | Download



Flow
Template by Deluxe Templates
Features: 2 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Brown, Fixed width, Right sidebar, Rounded corners, White

Demo | Download



Chucky
Template by Anshul
Features: 3 Columns, Adapted from Wordpress, Blue, Elegant, Fixed width, Magazine, Premium, Right sidebar, Rounded corners, White

Demo | Download

40 Amazing Photoshop Text Effects

Check these awesome Text effects by some of the awesome design blogs. I have made a collection of 40 amazing Photoshop text effects. Hope you love it. You can also check my recent post 30 Cool Wallpapers For Your Desktop


Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

Text In Stitches

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

Grunge Type Photoshop Tutorial

Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop

Wood Inlay Text

Smooth Glass Effect

Icey Styles in Photoshop

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Spray Paint Text

Papercraft Text Effect

Watercolor Text

Candy Coated Photoshop Tutorial

Hell of Tutorial in Photoshop

Vanity License Plate

Bling Bling text

Moon Shine Text Effect

3D text effect - 2009

Paint Effect

Text effect

Retro Text

Design a Snowy Rock Text Effect in Photoshop

Stunning 3D effects in 30 minutes

Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps

Decorating Text

Blooded Mafia Text

Grunge Rubber Stamp

Shining Neon Text Effect in Photoshop

The new way to create 3D text

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

Vibrant Pop Text Effect

Advanced Glow Effects

How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face

Create Destructive Black and White Lettering with a Dramatic Splash Effect

Stylish Retro Text Effect

Writing message for your beloved in sand

Graffiti with Photoshop