Linking a picture in your post to a website

This article shows how to change a picture in your blog, so that when it is clicked, it opens another blog post, or even a totally different website.

Working with HTML in Blogger's new (2020) Post-editor

This article looks at how HTML is viewed and edited in the new version of Blogger which was introduced in June 2020.

Telling Google, and visually-impaired people, about the pictures in your blog

This article is about why and how to attach keywords and related text to the pictures in your blog posts.  This is helpful for both search engine optimisation (SEO), and for making your blog accessible to people who use screen-reader software.

How to center gadgets in Blogger

This article is about centering gadgets from 3rd parties that you install onto your blog.

Getting the HTML code to put a picture into your blog's sidebar, header or footer

This article explains how to use Blogger's Post Editor to get the HTML code that you need to put a picture into your sidebar (or header or footer, or anywhere else a gadget can go).

Putting pictures side-by-side in a blog post or gadget

This article shows how to put pictures side-by-side in Blogger (or any other website) using HTML, in a way that works for visitors using mobiles (smartphones and tables) as well as larger screens.

Find things in your blog-posts' HTML by using temporary "marker text"

This article shows how to use "marker text" to help find things when you need to edit the HTML code behind one of your blog posts.

Blogger and valid HTML code

This article explains the issues faced by Blogger users who try to see if the HTML in their blog is valid - and why this doesn't matter in most cases.

Where to get the HTML code for popular gadgets in Blogger

This article explains where to find alternative code for many of the gadgets provided by Blogger - and why you might want to do this, and how to back up your HTML gadgets.

Google's guide to HTML and CSS styles

Google have released their own style guide for HTML and CSS code.

It will be interesting to see how much of it they apply in future changes to Blogger templates

But for Bloggers who do a lot of modifications to their own template, there might be some useful tips. I especially like the one about putting CSS rules into alphabetical order for maintainability.

Doing this would mean adding CSS rules manually rather than than through Design > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS

And it will be harder to do a code-compare to see the difference between our customized template and the current standard-issue ones.  But storing like-named rules together appeals to me more than just tagging new ones on the end.

Set all the links in your blog to open in a new window - except if you use AdSense!

You can set your blog up so that all clicked links open in a new page.  But this is not a good idea if you are an AdSense publisher - this article explains why.

Post.snippet and post.thumbnail: tools for summarizing your blog

The snippet and thumbnail attributes now appear to be available for all Blogger posts, even though they're not documented in Blogger's official list.  This article documents what I've found out about them. 

Putting email-links into your blog

This article is about how to show an email address in your Blogger blog.

Installing code into your blog

This article is about how to install code into your blog.

Putting text and a picture side-by-side in blog posts

This article is about lining up text and pictures side-by-side in your posts - and about how to add a "break" so that some text goes beside a picture and some goes underneath it.

Stopping pictures on your blog from being "clickable"

This article is about how to stop people who read your blog from clicking on a picture and seeing a full-size copy of it.

Putting HTML from a outside sources into your blog

This article is about how to put HTML or Javascript code from 3rd parties into your blog.

Creating a button that links to your blog

This article is about how to make a button for your blog that other people can put on their blog or website.

Displaying a gadget only on static pages - or on everything except static pages

This article is about how to set up a gadget / widget in Blogger so that it is only visible on the "static" pages in your blog.

Understanding the email address that is shown in your blog

This article explains what email address(es) are shown when someone is reading your blog - and why you don't have to worry if you see your own address even if you didn't ass it..