For a long time, I always feel the official SEARCH BLOG button (at the top-left) is kind of confusion. Is that for searching a blog? or for searching a blog posting? or for searching a blog posting in this blog?
Though Blogger.com is one of the biggest blogging platform providers (Is it the biggest?), but that doesn't mean everyone understand each little part of Blogger. Some Blogger bloggers just add their own search box, which is obviously clearly. But why do we reinvent the wheel when there already is one search box?
I decided to make a simple background image to indicate where the search box is. The result looks like:
This background image used Inkscape to render the text, and GIMP to draw the arrow and to mix.
If you want to have same thing on your Blogger blog, you can go to your blog's Dashboard » Layout » Edit HTML, find body { in CSS section. Just right after that should be background:$bgcolor;, however, this may differ in different blog templates. Make it look like
Save your template, this should be working now.
If your blog already has background image, then you will need to edit it on your own. This may look terrible in IE6, I only tried this on FF3.
Updated on 2009-10-24: Modified image to match new Blogger navigation bar's layout.
Though Blogger.com is one of the biggest blogging platform providers (Is it the biggest?), but that doesn't mean everyone understand each little part of Blogger. Some Blogger bloggers just add their own search box, which is obviously clearly. But why do we reinvent the wheel when there already is one search box?
I decided to make a simple background image to indicate where the search box is. The result looks like:
This background image used Inkscape to render the text, and GIMP to draw the arrow and to mix.
If you want to have same thing on your Blogger blog, you can go to your blog's Dashboard » Layout » Edit HTML, find body { in CSS section. Just right after that should be background:$bgcolor;, however, this may differ in different blog templates. Make it look like
background:$bgcolor url(http://sites.google.com/site/livibetter/blog-files/searchthisblogbg-arrow-on-left.png?attredirects=0) top left no-repeat;Save your template, this should be working now.
If your blog already has background image, then you will need to edit it on your own. This may look terrible in IE6, I only tried this on FF3.
Updated on 2009-10-24: Modified image to match new Blogger navigation bar's layout.
I think so. Blogger reader may confused Navbar Search Box and how can search in this blog so I hide Navbar in my blog automatically and provide simple Search Box Widget instead of Navbar Search Box.
ReplyDeleteOh! Sorry.
ReplyDeleteAbove linked posts are in Korean but original source link in the posts is in English.
@zizukabi Thanks for the tip. However, I still want the navbar to honor Blogger, though it's not perfect.
ReplyDeleteWhy not create new blog, "Zizukabi English?", or some names like that?
Sidenote: In case someone has doubt about navbar's removal. It's legal to remove navbar from your template, but may be not legal to hide it using CSS. Because having navbar can give you small traffic via Next Blog » button. If you hide it, navbar is still there in rendered HTML, just we can't see it. Blogger may still send some random visitors to your blog, it doesn't sound fair, does it?
Why not create new blog such as "Zizukabi English"? Hummm. For Bolgger.com blogger in Korea. Ha Ha Ha :D
ReplyDeleteFrankly, my english comprehension and ability is not enough to write the blog posts in English. :(
And Bogger.com is not popular blog platform in Korea. Textcube.org (for independant user) and Textcube.com merged by Google Korea, Tistory.com or Wordpress are popular blog platform in Korea. I like blog and blogger.com and enjoy attempting blogger hack into my blog from other blogger provided. I think Korean blogger.com users may likes Blogger Hack translated from english in my blog and they are provided the hacks into their blog referring to my blog post. That's poor reason I wrote the post in Korean. :) Furthermore, I am poor in Englsih as said above.
I want and I have a thought I will write the post in english for private for increasing my englsih ability but not now.
Sidenote: I know the legal to NavBar as Unless you publish your blog via FTP, the Navbar cannot be disabled. but Google does not say "HAVE TO", "SHALL" or "SHOULD". Recently many blogger.com bloggers used NavBar as is or can be disappeared automactically or other method.I think Inflowing visitors via NavBar is another aspect.
I thank for your valuable BRPS and sorry for late reply.