Removing Pencil And Screwdriver And Wrench Icons

I wanted to do this on a few blogs because sometimes you just need to see exactly what is going on with how your blog looks. I agree, that the screwdriver and wrench icons in blogger blogs are handy for on the spot editing of added gadgets but they do however interfere with the actual spaces between sidebar gadgets and what not. The only way you can view your blow how everyone would see it would be to preview it or to log out of blogger and then see your blog. What if you just never want to see the icon at all... well I read an article on Blogger Tips And Tricks that had the solution to removing the screwdriver and wrench icon.

Here is the link to the article:

Removing Pencil And Screwdriver And Wrench Icons

You will also find a tutorial on removing the quick editing pencil icon. Though I never found a reason to not want it yet. I find it very useful. I guess it's always best to have options.

Displaying Codes In Blogger

I found myself in a situation where I had to display a piece of code on one of my post here. It was on my Navigation Bar post where I needed to display some code. No matter if you type it in html mode or compose mode, Blogger will detect code and not show it as-is in letter and character form. I did a search on Blogger Buster and found an article about how to display code properly in your blog posts! With the use of character entites described by Amanda in her post, we can find a workaround to this issue. Hopefully, one day, Blogger will have an option to compose codes and display them as-is on our posts. For the meantime, this is the way I found easiest to work with.

Updating Website Thumbnails and Screenshot Previews

I am not sure how relevant this is in terms of webcrawling and that sort of stuff. I am sure I will learn more about it in time.

Here are a few links that offer thumbnail and screenshot updates of your websites for free:

• Thumbshots
• Buzzdroid - more information on this topic

I'll try to update this post as I find out more.

Chitika & Adsense

A few days ago I saw this in a forum-

Question: Can you put Chitika’s eMiniMalls ads on the same page with Google Adsense?

Answer: Yes. But you have to use non contextual Chitika ads (Just as is the case with using non contextual Adbrite ads with Adsense).

Adsense also backs this up here.
Chitika also backs this up here.

Some notes:

• I have tried using Chitika eMiniMalls ads and its fairly easy to use and you can really key into whats being displayed on the ad units by specifying a set of 'keywords' in the script that they provide.
• Have noticed a slight decrease in Adsense earnings when put together with Adsense but both Chitika ads and Adsense ads were still able to earn regardless.
  

Label Cloud In Blogger

You may have noticed recently that some of the blogs featured here at Bloggers Vault have implemented the Label Cloud instead of a list which could eventually grow into a very long list over time. Adding a Label Cloud to Blogger blog or any site for that matter makes navigating through content a bit more organic. Some like to use them, some don't. So since I'm beginning to experiment with implementing Label Clouds on a few blogs, I wanted to post the links I ran into while researching on how to use these clouds on my Blogger blogs and share them with you.

I'll update this list if I run into other resources or if any other resource is suggested on this post... so feel free to comment or suggest!

1. Phydeaux3's Method: Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud
2. Aneesh's Method: Label Cloud Widget - simplified version of Phydeaux3's Method
3. Amanda's & Roy's Method: Animated Label Cloud - example can be seen on this blog - right column under 'Label Cloud'

All these methods for implementing the Label Cloud in Blogger blogs work great (given the installation worked smoothly). Hope this list helps!