Thursday, September 20, 2018

Best Methods To Add Categories in Blogspot Blogger Blog

What You Will Learn: After you read this post, you will learn:

Why category is needed afterall.
What is Label in blogger and what its function.
How to categorize blog posts to give your blog more professional and visitor friendly look.

Undoubtedly in many aspects of our lives (if not all), the more we can organize, the better we can perform.

This holds true also in blogging.

The main goal to organize (blog) site is to allow visitors or readers navigate and find posts of their interests without any difficulties. One sure fire way to lose your visitors is to have unorganized posts which they cannot find after they have come to your site.

So, either you are a professional or a beginner blogger, my recommendation is to rethink on how you will organize your newGoogle Blogger blog. If it is an existing Blogger blog, reorganize this.

And easiest way to think of organize blog posts? Organize by post category. For example, you have written many posts on how-to topics on blogging, search engine optimization (SEO). If you categorize those posts with “SEO” or “Blog Tips”, visitors will have easy time to find them under mentioned categories.

I am here to show you 2 easiest yet most effective ways on how to organize your Blogger blog by categories to give it more professional and quality look.
But at first, few words on ....

How Blogger Manages Categories

How To Add Categories in Blogspot Blogger Blog

Different blogging platforms use different way of organizing posts. InTypePad or WordPress, posts are directly organized by Categories. In Blogger, those are organized by "Labels". Labels are very similar to "Tags" on other blogging platforms. These are actually keywords which are linked to pages that show related blog posts. Labels help visitors to pick posts easily that they are looking after.

Labels are not used for SEO purpose, but only for humans for better browsing experience. So use Labels effectively instead of bombing huge number of labels per posts.

So to categorize your blog posts:

At first you need to define categories within your posts.
Then apply method 1 or 2 in this post to categorize your blog posts.

How To Add Labels To Blogger Posts

When you create a new post in your blogger blog, there is a place where you can put categories for your post. It is called Labels in Post settings(encircled in the photo). There you type up to 3 to 4 comma separated words. Press "Done" when you are finished. Next time, if you want to associate same category, you can find it in that Label box already existing.

For example, here I have put Blog tips and blogging in the Labels setting for this post.

How To Categorize Blogger Posts

It is possible to categorize posts either using Label Gadget or HTML script.

Method 1: Label Gadget in Blogger

A Label gadget will allow you to organize and display your posts on a sidebar.

Log in your blogger account.
Navigate to your Blogger dashboard.
Go to "Layout".
Select "Add a gadget" from any of the sidebars
That will open blog gadget window. Browse for "Label" and then click the + sign on its right (marked by 1 and 2 respectively).
This will bring up the Label gadget window with default options.
Type Categories in Title box (removing default title Labels).
At this point, you can do more customization if you want.
1. You can opt for either show all labels or selected labels. If you choose "Selected Labels" option, a box will appear from where you can select the Labels which you only want to show.
2. Sort either alphabetically or how often that label appears in posts.
3. Display the labels as list or cloud.
4. Choose to "Show number of posts per label" to display number of posts for each label.
Press "Save" once you are happy with the customization.
Below is how the gadget will show up in blog. I changed title from Labels to Categories, selected to show all labels alphabetically and in cloud display with number of posts per label.

Method 2: Category with HTML script

Don't panic! It is very easy to implement if you follow the workflow mentioned below:

Log in to your blogger account and navigate to your blogger blog.
Go to Layout option.
Select "Add a gadget" from a sidebar.
Look for "HTML/Java Script" and click on + sign.
This will bring up "Configure HTML/JavaScript" window.
Type in "Categories" in Title box.
Locate the Labels you made for a post by checking into Labels under Post settings in right side of any post in your blogger blog. For example, in this post I have labels: "Blog tips", "Setup your blog".
Construct URL for the labels. It should be in following format:
http://YOURBLOGWEBADDRESS/search/label/YOURLABEL
Replace YOURBLOGWEBADDRESS with your website/blog web address.
Replace YOURLABEL with labels assigned in the post. If a label consists of multiple words, use %20 in between words in the URL.

CAUTION: Labels are case sensitive, so make sure you enter correct letter case.

For example, URL of my label "Blog tips" will be: http://www.joydeepdam.com/search/label/Blog%20tips(DON'T CLICK on this LINK, this is for example purpose only)
Write the code from Content box below. Replace yoursiteaddress and yourlabel as applicable for your site and label name.
"Save" the gadget. Now "Categories" will appear in your sidebar of your blog. You can add as many as URLs in the HTML script gadget you like to enlist all the labels.

An Important Final Note

So above are the 2 methods to implement Category in your blog. And both of them are easy to implement.

The thing is, to give your blog/site a professional look and make visitor friendly, I will highly recommend to categorize your blog posts. The most important part in categorizing your blog posts, is to keep your visitor in your site, as it will be easier for them to navigate and find their choice of posts.

Let me know how things go with you to categorize your posts. And if you face any problem, don't hesitate to drop a comment below. I would be happy to assist you.

Monday, September 17, 2018

Man filmed using toddler to steal toys from claw skill-tester game

Police have released video showing a man using a toddler to steal prizes out of a shopping centre “claw” skill-tester game.

Several witnesses recorded video of the crime at a US shopping mall on Friday evening, which the Salem NH Police Department later shared in a bid to identify the man involved.

Salem US man uses child to steal toys from claw skill tester. — Several witnesses recorded a man appearing to using his toddler to steal toys from a skill tester machine. Source: Salem NH Police Department

The man had the small girl climb into the bottom of the Key Master machine, where prizes are dropped for winners, police said.

The child was tasked to reach up and grab various items and hand them to the man.

The clip shows a man retrieving items from the bottom of the skill tester machine, as an excited little boy watches on.

It was pixelated to protect the identity of the children, however the clip appears to show a small child’s head emerge from the prize window.

Police say the man then left the area of the shopping centre at Rockingham Park in Salem, New Hampshire, with the children and stolen items.

It wasn’t clear what the items were, but such games often offer valuable electronics and gift cards.

How To Build A Gaming PC - FULL Beginners Guide

This may come as some surprise to you, but we here at PCWorld are pretty big fans of PC gaming. Shocking, I know. And so please, all ye console believers, factor in whatever amount of bias you’d like to the following statement:
PC gaming is the most affordable it’s ever been—and for a lot of people it’s also the best value for a multitude of reasons. Yes, Microsoft’s powerful Xbox One X console delivers a surprising amount of bang for your buck. Hardware costs are just part of the equation, though.
Here’s a handful of reasons why PC gaming is a better value than consoles.

Price

First let’s talk about the elephant in the room: raw initial dollars. That’s normally where the PC’s fallen behind in the past, compared to consoles. “Yeah, I could spend thousands of dollars on a PC or $300 to $400 on a console.”
PC gaming is still more expensive, at least up front. That hasn’t changed. If you can build a gaming desktop for $400, you’re either a wizard or extremely good at snagging discount parts and waiting for sales. More power to you.
But the PC isn’t that much more expensive at this point. You’ll can build a console-beating Ryzen gaming PC for under $550, or a much more powerful gaming rig for $850.

Prices have come down a lot—graphics card prices especially. A 3GB GeForce GTX 1060 will only run you $200 on Amazon, which is incredible. Max out graphics at 1080p resolution and you’ll still hit 60-plus frames per second in basically every modern game. For only $200. And a more future-proof version with 6GB of on-board RAM only costs $260, and that’ll let you game at higher 1440p resolutions without problem.
Now, finding graphics cards at their recommended list price can be hard these days, but the point is that companies want PC gaming to be accessible. They want enthusiasts buying GPUs. Competition has made the PC more affordable than ever before.

And that $200 graphics card is better than what’s inside the PlayStation 4 Pro. Here’s a comparison of raw TFLOPS power, courtesy of PCWord’s graphics guru Brad Chacos. Nvidia’s 3GB GTX 1060 offers roughly equivalent gaming performance as AMD’s RX 570, while the 6GB GeForce card performs like AMD’s RX 580:

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