Widgets are always make your blog more attractive on the eyes of visitors.It makes your blog more active and make your visitor believe how big techie you are in the field of techie blogging.So people love to try various widgets on their blog experimentally.Wish to add an about author widget on your blog with a little customization?I bet it'll make your preference strong on your blog.
Take a look above demo screenshot and if like it,then directly move on to the tutorial below and add it onto your blog.
- First log onto blogger dashboard > Layout > Add a gadget > HTML/JavaScript
- Now copy the below Code and paste it into a gadget.
/*About Me Widget Customization From http://techtrickhome.com*/<div class="widget HTML" id="HTML1">
<h2 class="title">About Author</h2>
<div class="widget-content">
<!--[if !IE]> -->
<style>
#profiledeb{
border:2px solid #888; margin:2px 5px 0px 0px; padding:2px;
}
#profiledeb:hover {
border:2px solid #ccc;
cursor:pointer;
}
.opacity {
opacity: 0.5;
margin-left: 50px;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-o-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-moz-transform: rotate(7deg);
-o-transform: rotate(7deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(7deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(7deg);
transform: rotate(7deg);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(
M11=0.9961946980917455, M12=-0.08715574274765817, M21=0.08715574274765817, M22=0.9961946980917455, sizingMethod='auto expand');
zoom: 1;
}
.opacity:hover {
opacity: 1;
margin-left: 0px;
-moz-transform: rotate(0deg);
-o-transform: rotate(0deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(0deg);
transform: rotate(0deg);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(
M11=1, M12=0, M21=0, M22=1, sizingMethod='auto expand');
zoom: 1;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
}
</style>
<!--[endif]---->
<style>
#profiledeb{
border:2px solid #888; margin:2px 5px 0px 0px; padding:2px;
}
#profiledeb:hover {
border:2px solid #ccc;
cursor:pointer;
}
.opacity {
opacity: 0.5;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-o-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
zoom: 1;
}
.opacity:hover {
opacity: 1;
zoom: 1;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #000;
}
</style>
<img class="opacity" id="profiledeb" src="PROFILE PICTURE" align="left" /> Write Few Lines about yourself <a style="color:#888;" href="PROFILE LINK">...Read More</a><!--![endif]---->
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<span class="widget-item-control">
<span class="item-control blog-admin">
<a class="quickedit" href="blogID=10.......21&widgetType=Profile&widgetId=Profile1&action=editWidget§ionId=lowerbar1" onclick="return _WidgetManager._PopupConfig(document.getElementById("HTML1"));" target="configHTML1" title="Edit">
</a>
</span>
</span>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
- Now save it and you're done
Customization
Press CTRL + F and find and replace the following things.
A- deb and replace it with your name
B- blogID=10.......21 with yours one
C- Write Few Lines about yourself with your first few lines of your introduction
D- PROFILE LINK with your Google plus profile about link or if you have a separate page or post in your blog then replace with it.
E- You can also change the title of your widget by replacing About Author with a text which you want.
F- To change you profile picture replace Profile PICTURE with your image URL
And you can also play with colors of heading and description. If your profile picture is large or small in size, you can change it size in the blogger about me widget by adding following code in Blogger > Template > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS
.profile-img{height:124px;width:124px;}
Hope you like our tip of customization of About me Widget. Share you thoughts and if facing any problems feel free to ask questions in comments section. Thanks for visiting.
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This is something I want to learn to do in wordpress.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! I've always wanted to tweak the About Me part of my blog. :)
ReplyDeleteHope now you can do this :)
DeleteIs there a way to make the image link to a profile, rather than the Read More text at the bottom. Tried everything I know, perhaps I know too little.
ReplyDeleteNevermind, I'm an idiot. Got it working.
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