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If you use Google Latitude , you can now display your current location on your blog using a Google Public Location Badge. Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps which, should you choose to enable this, allows selected friends and family members to see your location. You can also give permission for Latitude continuously update your location in the background. The Public Location Badge is a gadget which you can easily add to your Blogger blog to provide readers with your current location. This feature may be especially useful for travel bloggers or personal bloggers who wish to share their location with friends and family members. How to add a Public Location Badge to your Blogger blog In order to add a Public location badge, you will need to use Google Latitude. If you have a compatible mobile phone, you can install the latest version of Google Maps on your handset and use this application to update Latitude with your current location. Those who do not have a compatible ha...

Favicon Back in June last year, the Blogger team enabled Blogger users to upload their own favicon to replace the default Blogger icon. Initially favicons could only be uploaded if they had been converted into .ico format, though it's now possible to upload a square-shaped favicon in .png.gif or .jpg format as long as the file size is below 100kb. I prefer to use this built-in feature instead of the methods I'd previously used to add favicons to my Blogger sites, particularly as the icon is hosted on the root of our domain (*.blogspot.com/favicon.ico or custom-domain.com/favicon.ico). Since I have updated my icon as part of updating my Blogger template , I've documented my method (and troubleshooting) for others who are updating their Blogger templates. Creating your favicon To replace the default Blogger favicon with your own, you will need a square image (or favicon) which is at least 16x16px and under 100kb in size. I opted for a 100x100px .png image o...

Adding a Google+ badge to our Blogger templates enables readers to easily connect with our Google+ page. This can be achieved in just a few simple steps by adding a Google+ Badge gadget; it's also possible to customize the badge and change the display effect. As part of updating my Blogger template , I added a badge to the sidebar which enables readers to directly connect to the a Google+ Gadget which we can add to our Blogger layouts in just a couple of clicks. To add this gadget to your layout, click on the Layout link in the left hand side of your dashboard and choose to add a new gadget in the section where you would like it to appear. Select the Google+ Badge gadget from the list of official gadgets (this currently appears near the very top of the list. You'll need to paste in your Google+ Page ID in the appropriate section of this pop-up window, like this: Press "enter" to update the preview, and select whether you prefer a light or dark colour s...

After curating DailyGraphics.info for quite some time, I was disappointed at being unable to find an infographic celebrating my favourite blogging platform. So I decided to create my own! For your enjoyment, here is my "All About Blogger" infographic. It is a rather large image which is best viewed at full resolution, so you ma want to click the graphic and view in the lightbox mode or right-click to save to your computer. Feel free to share this infographic if you like it! Since this is the first information visualisation I've designed, I appreciate your comments or suggestions for future (Blogger-related) designs.