TechnoBlog : open your blog.

Go to the "advanced design" section ("Design" header") and edit your Stylesheet template.

Locate your "body" style (should be the first one) and update it as shown below in strong caracters :


body {
margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #008da8;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000;
font-size: 120%;
word-spacing: normal;
text-align: center;
}


You may edit the font-size as you wish, to reduce it insert a percentage < 100, to increase it insert a percentage > 100.

As you may have noticed, Blogspirit China and Blogspirit Taiwan are now open. It appears that the caracters size of Blogspirit blogs is too small for Chinese caracters, the Blogspirit team will work on this problem and offer a solution for this great community. By now Austin has already found a solution, you may find it here. I can't really say if the solution is good as Idon't speak chinese at all but Austin shows screenshots of his Stylesheet and It seems clear. I have just noticed that some titles such as "About Me" are still too small, however the main content is OK.

Thanks Austin !

Want to decorate your blog ? Want to add some feature to your blog ?

Here is a list of ideas for the new Blogspirit feature, the custom blocks.

Ad Sense : good to earn some incomes with your blog (in fact the best solution), Google AdSense smart banners that print sponsored links according to the web page content. The more people click on your sponsored links, the more you will earn... But be careful, there's no way to be a rich man with Adsense !

Bloglet : This web-service give syndication with email with the help of Rss Syndication. A useful service if you think you visitors won't use RSS.

Bot-a-blog : Same kind of service. You may have an account with all your favorites RSS feeds and be alerted to each update.

Google Search Engine : You have to get it ! More information here.

Music Background : Much people like this feature, here is a how to.

Referers : My favourite ! This service let you display on your blog the last links that bring you visits. Really useful to understand how your visitors read you and to offer a link to anyone speaking of your blog !

Sitemeter : A small stats service thaht can be used with Blogspirit stats. You have to know you will never get the same results : a webservice like Sitemeter can't read your RSS/ATOM visitors and your Photoalbums ones too. A funny feature : your traffic prediction !

Statcounter : Same service as Sitemeter, Statcounter looks more for professionnal use as you can have multi-project (one for each blog !) on 1 account and get more "visible" graphics.

Please, if you know other webservices to include in a Blogspirit Custom Block, tell me ! I would like to make this list as rich as possible...

Finally !

A new Blogspirit version is born with the following new features :

- Custom Blocks that will let you insert HTML or Javascript code for any feature you may find on the Internet such as multimedia modules, search motors or sponsorised links. ("Columns content" section)
- Trackbacks. Did you ever want to comment a post directly on your blog ? Trackbacks let you do that, you'll find this new feature in the "new post" -> "advanced settings" sections. More is coming soon about Trackbacks on Technoblogs.
- Security from "evil links" and spamming. Blogspirit has already a system to protect every blog from spamming, you will now have a security level on your own blog by closing automatically comments and trackbacks on old posts after 1 month, 2 weeks or 3 days... ("Post Settings" section).
- International Bloging : chinese blogs will now have an blog administration in chinese ! Blogspirit supports any language from any country for bloging.

New features mean new tips that will be soon available on TechnoBlog !

What you need to do to get all these new features. :

Restaure ONLY the following templates (Design-> Advanced Design) :
Index
Archive
Categories
Comments
Permalink
About Page
List Item
Album Templates : all
Atom
Syndication

NB : You may restaure these templates by ticking each template and clicking on "Restaure original version", don't forget to not tick the "Style" template and the "Calendar" template (you could have mean surprises on your blog...)



If you have already modified your templates by yourself, you will need to check the differences and edit your templates. (Leave a comment for help if needed and I will post something on it).