How To Set DNS and Nameserver Blogger Custom Domain From GoDaddy

Today, I'm transfering my domain from another registrar to Godaddy. How to transfer domain from another registrar to Godaddy? Use this link to transfer it.

I face a little problem when I have to set up DNS and Nameserver on Godaddy. Fortunately, Godaddy provide complete step How To Set DNS and Nameserver Blogger Custom Domain.

Follow these step below.

To point your Blogger blog to your domain name, you set up domain name mapping, which configures your blog settings and domain name. You update your settings in your Blogger account and our Domain Manager:

1. Park the domain name you want to use with your Blogger account on our parked nameservers.
2. Edit the www CNAME record for the domain name you want to use with your Blogger account. This update tells the Web browser to open your Blogger blog when visitors enter your domain name's URL in the browser address bar.
3. Forward your domain name to use www. This step ensures your Blogger blog displays for visitors who go to your domain name with or without the www prefix. For example, it displays for visitors who entered both www.coolexample.com and coolexample.com
4. Configure your Blogger account to use your domain name.
   

To Park Your Domain Name

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
3. Select the domain name you want to use with your Blogger account, and then from the Nameservers, select Set Nameservers.
4. Select I want to park my domains.
5. Click OK.
6. Click OK again.
   

To Edit Your CNAME Record

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
3. From the Tools menu, select DNS Manager. The DNS Dashboard displays.
4. For the domain name you want to use with your Blogger account, click Edit Zone. The Zone File Editor displays.
5. In the CNAME (Alias) section, click the www record.
6. In the Points To field, type ghs.google.com.
7. Click Save Zone File, and then click OK.
   

To Forward Your Domain Name

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
3. Select the domain name you want to forward to your Blogger blog.
4. From the Forward list, select Forward Domain.
5. Select http:// or https://, depending on your server settings. For more information on HTTP and HTTPS, see HTTP vs. HTTPS.
6. In the Forward to field, enter the complete URL, with the www, you want to forward your domain name to. For example, enter www.coolexample.com.
7. To automatically update your nameservers to accommodate your forwarding changes, select Update my DNS setting to support this change.
8. Click OK.
   

To Configure Your Blogger Account

1. Log in to your Blogger account.
2. From the Settings tab, select Publishing.
3. Click Custom Domain.
4. In the Buy a domain for your blog section, click Switch to advanced settings.
5. In the Your Domain field, enter your domain name. For example, enter www.coolexample.com.
6. To specify another location in which to look for files, in the Use a missing files host? section, select Yes and enter the path. If not, select No.
7. In the Word Verification field, enter the characters as they display in the image above the field.
8. Click Save Settings.
   

Any DNS changes you make can take up to 48 hours to reflect on the Internet.

Source : Godaddy Help

Introducing Blogger Android Application

Blogger have developed and launched so many useful features on Blogger, such as Blogger template designer, email and mobile posting, mobile template, and many more. Blogger really know what user needs.

Yesterday Blogger have launched Blogger Android Application. Yes, this is Blogger Application on Android mobile phone. Have you ever wanted to write up a quick blog post from your phone easily and directly? Now there is an easy way to do this on your Android phone! Blogger have announced first version of the Blogger Android Application. Using this application you can easily compose a post, attach a photo that you just took with your phone, and either save it as a local draft for later or immediately publish it to your blog. If you are an Android user, you can start using the Blogger app today by downloading it for free from the Android Market.



Blogger Android Application embedded with useful features as on Blogger on desktop version.

Multiple accounts and blogs: Similar to Blogger on web feature, Blogger Android app also have multiple account access. You can easily switch between different accounts and blogs that you have author rights to. Simply choose your account and blog.




Write and save/publish: What you can do on Blogger web, you can do it on this application, such as write a post, assign labels, and then either save it as a draft or immediately publish it. Saving as draft is handy if you need to wait until you have Internet connectivity. So you won't lose your post.


Photos from camera and gallery: Maybe this is most favorite feature especially for photoblog owner. If you see something interesting, you can take a picture directly from the app and include it in the blog post. You can also browse your gallery to include the ones you like. Simply, take and publish.



Sharing to Blogger from gallery or browser: Blogger is one of the available sharing options. Find an interesting picture while browsing and want to share it, you can share the content to the Blogger app directly from the sharing menu. You also can share from your own gallery.



Share location: You can share your location by activating the location bar and selecting the correct location. This information will be included in your post.

I think this Blogger android app really useful and helpful especially for mobile person. You can post wherever and whenever you want, simply from mobile phone. For this time, this app is available only on Android devices but we hope it will support other smartphone platforms to allow more of Blogger users to easily post to Blogger on the go.

How To Use Custom Google Font on Customized Blogger Template?

On my previous post about More Fonts for Blogger Template, we can use this various fonts directly ONLY IF we use default template from Blogger Template Designer feature.

But most of Blogger user, use customized template so can not use this font directly. I'm sure you don't want to mess up your current blog design, but really want to change my fonts. This is step how to change fonts with Google fonts.

1. Go to Google Font Directory, choose the font you may interested in. For this example, I choose Crafty Girls Font Family.
2. Click on Use this font menu. To embed font into your web page copy the following code under every font. IMPORTANT NOTE : On Google font directory, the original code is <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Crafty+Girls' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> , remember to add "/" character before closed tag, so the result code is <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Crafty+Girls' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
3. Open Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML, then paste copied modified code put before <b:skin><![CDATA[/* on EDIT HTML template menu.
4. Simply use the font in your CSS font stack like any other font, for example, if you want to use it on Post Title, find h3 css code then insert the font family. For example : .post h3 { 'Crafty Girls', Arial, Verdana;} . Remember you can use this wherever you want, on sidebar title (find .h2) , on post body (find .post-body) etc
5. Click Save template button
   

How to Show Popular Post Using Blogspot Popular Post Widget/Gadget?

As a blogger or writer, of course we want visitors read our writing or posting. To facilitate the visitors looking the most popular posts, we can install popular post widget.

Long ago, Blogspot does not yet provide blogspot widget popular posts so that the user uses javascript. In this way a bit inconvenient because it requires javascript hosting.

Fortunately now been providing widgets popular bloggers post. Blogspot users simply add this widget in the sidebar and most popular postings will automatically appear.

How to install popular post widget/gadget on blog? Simply, go to Page Element, click add Gadget whenever you want. Choose Popular Gadegt and automatically displays a list of popular posts on your blog.



There's some options for this gadget :

• Choose time range All time, last 30 days, last 7 days
• Show post title and image thumbnail and also snippet or post summary

Blogger Template : Yoga Girl Health

At last, after such a long long time, here's new blogger template. Simple but it's suitable for your health blog. Dominated with pink and purple color, and sweet yoga girl as header image.

PREVIEW | DOWNLOAD

Set your own post label on link list gadget, and get Pages gadget automatically. Remember to back up your current template before upload this new template.

More Fonts for Blogger Template

A couple months ago, Blogger has announced some new fonts for template designer. Yes, a couple months ago it only can be accessed from Draft Blogger. Yesterday, Blogger not only launched Web Fonts to ALL Blogger users, but also announce that they have added an additional 35 fonts to the mix, for a grand total of 77 fonts!

Ready to get experience with this new fonts choice? Simply go into the Advanced tab of the Blogger Template Designer for your blog, select the type of text you’d like to change (Post Title, Blog Title, etc.) and click on any of the new Web Fonts for a preview. Don’t worry, nothing will change on your blog until you select “Apply to Blog”, and this means you can play around with all of the fonts and only make the switch when you’re ready.



If you use customized template, you can use this various font from Google fonts directory. Read the installation setting.