Finally i started blogging......

Hi,
I finally started blogging.
*need feedback on content,layout & theme
*howto track no. of visitors, tried Google analytics. i installed tracking code but after 3days there is no data

* should i install adsense code?
* any must-have widget i should install

Blog url:Gaurish Sharma Live

[edit]
Moved to a new address www.GaurishSharma.com

Get WP.

Subscribed to RSS feeds

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how do i comment, there is no option for independent websites ?

how to track number of visitors = *www.clustrmaps.com/

T159 said:
there is no option for independent websites ?

+1, why?

Can you please look in the header image?

Also I think you need some other theme!

T159 said:
how do i comment, there is no option for independent websites ?

Thats blogger!
you have use your Google Account,word press account,type pad account.

shift said:
how to track number of visitors = *www.clustrmaps.com/

Thanks, editing it now

gary4gar said:
Thats blogger!
you have use your Google Account,word press account,type pad account.

No. You can enable commentors to add their own name & website link. Check goobi's blog.

rohan_shenoy said:
Can you please look in the header image?

Also I think you need some other theme!

Please suggest something

iMav said:
No. You can enable commentors to add their own name & website link. Check goobi's blog.

if i enable that, then Anonymous users also get enabled :S

gary4gar said:
if i enable that, then Anonymous users also get enabled :S

Would be better for your blog if you enable it

Use captchas if you want, but not allowing people to use their names and most importantly link their blogs will only be a turn off.

Well that's just my opinion.

iMav said:
Would be better for your blog if you enable it Use captchas if you want, but not allowing people to use their names and most importantly link their blogs will only be a turn off.

Well that's just my opinion.

I would leave it enabled as a experiment and see if i get any spam.

changed the theme
how does it look now?

areey even this 15 year old still in school kid has a website

*www.hullap.com

I saw a three month baby's website. Well, her father maintains it, but hey, its still the baby's website!

^I will make a website for my baby, his baby, his baby and all my futrure generations. Will that beat it?

well what i meant to say is
gary should buy a domain name and host.

they sell soo cheap these days.

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
well what i meant to say is
gary should buy a domain name and host.

they sell soo cheap these days.

hmm,
money does not matter, but the main concern is to setup & maintain such a site.

so, once i get hooked on to blogging then i would buy a domain and use blogger hosting only. i think blogger has support for custom domain.

waise what the best place to buy a domain?

Well actually it will be better to start of with domain.

Later you will have real problems to change domain name.
Your traffic will drop. All effort put in xyz.blogspot.com will be a big waste of resources.

You will have to start the SEO and Linking and other stuff fresh.

Well, actually if i move to a custom domain, then blogger will redirect all current traffic from xyz.blogspot.com to custom.com

hmmmm they then good.
no problems.

but blogger platform as is not really powerful as wordpress.

but later after the domain and redirect everything is settled you can shift to wordpress.

does blogger /wp got any limit in content size?
congrats gaury

@praka
You always change my name, but i don't mind it

Changed the theme to a more techie & professional looking

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
hmmmm they then good.
no problems.

but blogger platform as is not really powerful as wordpress.

but later after the domain and redirect everything is settled you can shift to wordpress.

completely WRONG comparison. Blogger is a FREE service on the internet, and the BEST free blogging software there is. WordPress is free only in wordpress.com, which is waaaay too featureless compared to Blogger. The thing you must be comparing is paid wordpress, where you need to BUY hosting, BUY a domain name, etc.

There is NO way you can compare the two. One is a free limited service, the other is a service you must run YOURSELF. Obviously wordpress is better, but all this comes at a cost (pun intended).

The theme definitely looks a LOT better.

wonder why images are not aligning properly after theme change

anyone?

Where did you get your theme ? I am finding it HELL to look for new themes.

And I am glad to see that you used my search idea for making categories

@Gary
usr align="center" in image tag

lol...but theme is certainly better

MetalheadGautham said:
Where did you get your theme ? I am finding it HELL to look for new themes.

And I am glad to see that you used my search idea for making categories

I got my theme from *www.eblogtemplates.com/passion-duo-blue-blogger/

And I am glad to see that you used my search idea for making categories

buddy, what was your idea?
i have now clue now, what i am doing

@Gary
usr align="center" in image tag

what should i use to fix it?

go to html view while editing

then
search for tags starting with img
e.g
<img src="*somethin.om/pic.jpg">

just add a align="center"
e.g
<img src="*somethin.om/pic.jpg" align="center">

other values of align can be "right" or "left"

see if that helps

M

MetalheadGautham said:
The thing you must be comparing is paid wordpress, where you need to BUY hosting, BUY a domain name, etc.

Who said we need to buy only? There are lots of free web hosts and they can do nicely for moderate traffic. And domain name is a totally different thing, it doesn't matter in the comparision.

T159 said:
go to html view while editing

then
search for tags starting with img
e.g
<img src="*somethin.om/pic.jpg">

just add a align="center"
e.g
<img src="*somethin.om/pic.jpg" align="center">

other values of align can be "right" or "left"

see if that helps

i tried, Still no change
here is image code for this post

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="*bp2.blogger.com/_wMAC6frBFdw/SFGwHOlLlEI/AAAAAAAAAFs/qY-Va1iYOIQ/s1600-h/orkut_logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="*bp2.blogger.com/_wMAC6frBFdw/SFGwHOlLlEI/AAAAAAAAAFs/qY-Va1iYOIQ/s320/orkut_logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211139882063991874" border="0" /></a>

this problem happens only with images uploaded on blogger, rest render properly:S

mehulved said:
Who said we need to buy only? There are lots of free web hosts and they can do nicely for moderate traffic. And domain name is a totally different thing, it doesn't matter in the comparision.

But then they are highly unreliable

, so after some time you have to shift to paid hosting
but wordpress and blogger have almost zero downtimes, for free

gary4gar said:
wonder why images are not aligning properly after theme change

anyone?

use a offline blog editor to do all the formatting WYSIWYG. 2 editor that i liked were WLW and Post2Blog - use WLW. ie assumin u got windows in sum partition

praka123 said:
does blogger /wp got any limit in content size?
congrats gaury

no limit on text/bandwidth. bu if you uploading pics to blogger, it will automatically link it to picasaweb meaning 500 images limit

WLW[plugin]/Post2Blog allow uploading to Flickr = unlimited pics [almost]

any Linux versions?
i don't wanna boot into windows just for writing a blog post

M

drivel - *www.dropline.net/drivel

Also, Kblogger and blogtk

4 linux u cud try Bleezer, BloGTK, Gnome Blog, Thingamablog

M

Seems drivel works best with the new Atom API but it has problems with images. BloGTK does nice work there but it doesn't have support for the new Atom API, you have to make do with old Blogger 1 API which will be deprecated soon.

I am also thinking of getting a domain, please suggest
will get a .com domain only. and please suggest where to get them?
which one looks easy to remember

Code:

gssays - gs(stands for my name) says
gaurishsharma - my full name
WHOISGAURISH - who is gaurish
gaurishsays - gaurish says
jaipurboy - jaipur boy

suggestions welcome

^^let it be lesser than 6 digits

now confused between......
gssays.com or gaurishsharma.com

which one is better?,

If buying from godaddy a good idea, i need full control over domain name?
its giving me quote of $7.05
i would be paying via CC, so currency conversion charges would also apply.

any idea how it would?

remove the repetition of s
may be this will be more easy
garysays.com

consider *whost.in
ravi provides some good service

a starter plan will be enough for you. Later upgrade it depending upon your need.

T159 said:
remove the repetition of s
may be this will be more easy
garysays.com

but then it would be non-personnel.
i need something which directly points to me,
people should know, "hello, i am the owner of this site"

but garysays sounds cool
gssays is vague

gssays is a bad domian name.
garysays equally bad.

^^OMG

then suggest some

gary4gar said:
now confused between......
gssays.com or gaurishsharma.com

which one is better?,

If buying from godaddy a good idea, i need full control over domain name?
its giving me quote of $7.05
i would be paying via CC, so currency conversion charges would also apply.

any idea how it would?

godaddy sucks.
its governed by these utterly sick us laws.
stay away from it and buy from an Indian registration host.
you might want to try out wordpress.com to get used to WP.
later, you can import content from there to paid hosting WP effortlessly.

F

Glad to see you start blogging Gary. Putting you in my feed list

so now keep the content coming or I'll start a revolt!

I learned from Qwertymaniac that Oxymoron are kind of the in thing for Blog names. Really had no clue about what to pick so I let him do the honour

. Try that .

FilledVoid said:
Glad to see you start blogging Gary. Putting you in my feed list so now keep the content coming or I'll start a revolt!

I learned from Qwertymaniac that Oxymoron are kind of the in thing for Blog names. Really had no clue about what to pick so I let him do the honour . Try that .

Content would come, but now frequency is slow as my exams are going on...

you seem obsessed with oxymoron stuff

you mean i should select something like HONEST-CHEATER.COM,PAID-VOLUNTEER.COM,SERIOUS-CLOWN.com :lol:

my suggestion : gauri.com

gary4gar said:
any Linux versions?
i don't wanna boot into windows just for writing a blog post

Why don't you try ScribFire.

praka123 said:
my suggestion : gauri.com

GAURI.COM is already taken.

maybe you brought before me

subratabera said:
Why don't you try ScribFire.

It crashes with blogger

You found a Blogger error.

Please contact the author at cfinke@gmail.com and give the following info

TypeError: theTitles[0] is undefined"

gnome-blog ?

Description: GNOME applet to post to weblog entries
gnome-blog is a panel object (aka applet) that can post to weblogs using
bloggerAPI, advogato API, MetaWeblog API or LiveJournal API
.
It notably works with Blogger.com / Blogspot.com, Advogato.org, Movable Type,
WordPress, LiveJournal.com and Pybloxsom.
Python-Version: all

gary4gar said:
It crashes with blogger

Dont know why???

But I am using it for quite some time without any trouble.

F

you seem obsessed with oxymoron stuff
you mean i should select something like HONEST-CHEATER.COM,PAID-VOLUNTEER.COM,SERIOUS-CLOWN.com

Lol yeah but otherwise good luck getting a single word domain

. you could of course try some words in other Languages like for Example Technos / technikos means technology in Greek I believe. Check that

Personally I like domains which are Oxymorons Othrwise I could give you the same domain name I gave amitava

www.crouchingdonkeyhiddenllama.com

M

praka123 said:
my suggestion : gauri.com

People will mistake him for a girl then. Not a bad idea to get traffic

^exactly what I thought before suggesting

not bad,he will get xxx ads running allover the page

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
areey even this 15 year old still in school kid has a website

*www.hullap.com

lol, i used to think that no one expect the IRC ppl know about my site

and
@gaurish
get Flock, it supports blogger and is quite nice

Brought a Domain,
New Site address: www.[B]GaurishSharma[/B].com

Question: how do i remove blogger favicon & use my own favicon?

@gary
upload the favicon to some location.
Go to Edit HTML and include this between the <head></head> tags

<link href='location where the favicon is uploaded' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='location where the favicon is uploaded' rel='icon'/>

including the quotes

slugger said:
@gary
upload the favicon to some location.
Go to Edit HTML and include this between the <head></head> tags

<link href='location where the favicon is uploaded' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='location where the favicon is uploaded' rel='icon'/>

including the quotes

Okay, i changed it, but still its showing blogger favicon

can you check at your end?

its probably got sumthin to with the favicon being hosted on googlepages. I uploaded it in my axspace account and tried it out in my blog. it worked

use this link
*uploads.shubhspace.co.cc/gary.ico

slugger said:
its probably got sumthin to with the favicon being hosted on googlepages. I uploaded it in my axspace account and tried it out in my blog. it worked

use this link
*uploads.shubhspace.co.cc/gary.ico

Yeah....that works.
Thanks, your your favicon only, please don't delete it

don't worry. the favicon will stay there

let me know if you want to replace the favicon with a different one