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As Google Video will be discontinuing uploads bloggers will now have to turn to Youtube to showcase their videos on their blogs.

Uploading videos directly to Blogger can also frequently cause errors like this :

"Sorry, there was an error uploading your video. Please contact support and include the following information: Blog Id:******* Video Id:68e2ght***" "

Now YouTube allows you to create a customizable video player like this one :

This video player is a collection of Official Blogger Help Videos on Youtube. To create a video like this one.............

1. Login to your Youtube account.

2. Upload your videos from PC.

3. Or open the videos you like and click the Favorite link below the video player to Add that video to your favorite videos.

4. Go to Youtube Custom Player Creator page.

5. Choose the various options to customize the player.

6. Click My Videos to load your videos or My Favorites to load your favorite videos and click Select button.

7. Click Generate Code button and copy the code provided.

8. Login at Blogger.com

9. Click New Post button on Dashboard.

10. In Post Editor click Edit Html tab in upper right corner.

11. Paste the code in Edit Html tab of post editor and click Publish Post.

12. Click View Blog to enjoy your video.

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Blogger offers a great method to change your blogspot address to a DOT COM address by buying a Custom Domain for only 10$ US.

Using a Custom Domain gets your blog a brand new address without losing traffic, search engine position or Google Page Rank (Page Rank is only lost temporarily).  Your blog is still hosted by Blogger free of charge with unlimited storage (for posts) and unlimited bandwidth and no security worries.

Your new domain is managed by Enom.com or GoDaddy.com and the 10$ US is paid to them. Blogger does not manage domains..........

Email From Google Apps.

After successfully completing the transaction for buying the domain you will get a confirmatory email from Google Apps. This is what it will say (For domain XYZ.COM) :

Hello Abcdef xyz,

Welcome to Google Apps!

Congratulations on completing your purchase of XYZ.com. Your new domain has been registered with eNom/GoDaddy and will expire on Month  Day, Year. Your domain will be automatically configured to work with the Google Apps services you select. We're excited to help you offer powerful communication and sharing tools to all your users.

If you haven't already created an administrator account for your domain, click the following link:

https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/setup/XYZ.com/BIG_NUMBER?hl=en

Once you have set up an admin account for your domain, you will have access to the Google Apps control panel. Here you can monitor the status of your services, manage your user accounts and email lists, create web pages, and customize the interface and services to your organization's needs. Through the control panel, you can also view and edit all your DNS settings, update your WHOIS information, and renew your domain before it expires. Please keep your WHOIS info up-to-date so that eNom/GoDaddy can contact you with important domain registration information. To access the control panel in the future, you can bookmark :

https://www.google.com/a/XYZ.com.

Your services will be activated shortly. You can now create user accounts to give your users access to all the great services you have signed up for, including email, IM, and calendar. As services are activated, your users can immediately start sending email and setting calendar appointments. It's that easy.

At any time, if you get stuck or if you want to tell us about your experience with this service, you can find more information and get in touch through our help center :

(https://www.google.com/support/a).

Sincerely,
The Google Apps Team

First Login at Google Apps.

To change your CNAME and A records for your domain you have to first create a Google Apps account. To do this click the link in the above email :

https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/setup/XYZ.com/BIG_NUMBER?hl=en

You will get the login screen at Google Apps :

For Username and Password enter the same as those you used for login at Blogger.com when you bought the domain.

Then select a username and password for your administrator account, and review the Terms of Service.

If you cannot login go here to reset the password.

Login to Domain Manager.

After successfully logging in at Google Apps. Dashboard click the Domain Settings link and then the Domain Names link. Lastly click Advanced DNS Settings to find the information to login to your GoDaddy or Enom.com account.

After login at GoDaddy or Enom.com change the CNAME and A records for your domain.

Free Google Apps. Goodies.

Google Apps. is free for use and offers the following goodies for Bloggers :

1.  Free Gmail email for your domain. For example I created one at  vin[at]blogdoctor[dot]me.

2.  A Start Page for your domain which is an iGoogle personalized page. Here is my start page.

3.  Google Sites.

4.  Google Talk :

To chat with me click above button and add :

 

as contact.  To add such a badge to your blog go to :

http://www.google.com/talk/service/a/MYDOMAIN.COM/badge/New

Replace 'MYDOMAIN.COM' with your actual domain.  Customize the badge and copy and paste the code in a Html page element in your blog.

You can also add the Google Talk Gadget to your blog :

To add this gadget go here, customize the gadget and copy and paste the code given in a Html gadget or in Edit Html tab of Post Editor.

Now visitors to your site can chat directly from your web page.

Enjoy!

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The Blogger slideshow gadget does not give the user many options like adjusting the size and style. Google AJAX Feed API (See Related Article link at bottom of this post)provides the full code behind the slideshow gadget and also the opportunity to customize it as you like.

You can edit the code directly to adjust the size and style and then paste it in a HTML gadget................

The gadget code loads the slideshow using AJAX Feed API and Javascript. Within the code a location on your page is defined to show the slideshow and style the dimensions. Lastly Javascript is used to create a slideshow control on your page. The full code is shown below :




Custom Slideshows.

In the above code replace "PUT FEED URL HERE" with the link of the RSS feed of your pictures album at Flickr/Photobucket/Picasaweb as shown below.

The next step is to provide a stream of pictures to the slideshow. To provide this first create an account at Flickr.com or Photobucket.com or Picasaweb.google.com. Then upload all the photos you want to show to this account.

After uploading pictures you will get the RSS feed from the album created at Flickr :

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne
?id=USERID&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

Replace USERID with your actual userid at Flickr.com.

RSS Feed from Photobucket.com :

http://feed266.photobucket.com/albums/ii244/USERNAME/feed.rss

Replace 'USERNAME' with your actual username.

RSS Feed from Picasaweb :

http://picasaweb.google.fr/data/feed/base/user/NAME/
albumid/NUMBER
?kind=photo&alt=rss&authkey=KEY&hl=en

Replace NUMBER, KEY and NAME with actual values.

Then copy the full feed url and paste in the code given for the slideshow gadget instead of "PUT FEED URL HERE".

To customize the slideshow modify the gadget code as shown below :

To Change Number of Images modify this line in gadget code and change the number to what you want :

numResults : 8,

To resize images add this line immediately below the numResults line :

scaleImages : true,

The images will be resized according to original aspect unless you add this line also :

maintainAspectRatio : false,

To change how long images are displayed modify the number in :

displayTime : 2000,

To link the images to their source add this line :

linkTarget : google.feeds.LINK_TARGET_BLANK,

To show images in medium thumbnail size use this line :

thumbnailSize : GFslideShow.THUMBNAILS_MEDIUM,

For small size thumbnail images :

thumbnailSize : GFslideShow.THUMBNAILS_SMALL,

Lastly to increase width and height change this code :

#picasaSlideshow {
width: 250px;
height: 200px;
.....
}

Decrease width number to fit in your sidebar width. You can get the width of the sidebar from your blog template code :

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 220px;
...
}

After modifyng and customizing the slideshow code as shown above :

Login at Blogger.com
Click Layouts link on Dashboard.
Click Add Gadget link on Layouts--->Page Elements subtab.
In Popup window scroll down and click on HTML gadget.
Paste the modified code in Contents window.
Save gadget.

Enjoy!

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