Spice Up Your Blog Threaded Comment Style For Blogger

I have received a lot of Emails and comments over the last year or so asking about the comments we use here on Spice Up Your Blog.When Blogger introduced threaded comments early last year I wanted a bright looking comment section with the authors comments easy to distinguish from readers comments.

The solution we came up with using some simple CSS adds some cool style to the comment and avatars as well as showing the author comment (That would be your comments on your blog) in a different color.We also overlap the commenter name with their avatar.All unique features for Blogger comments and originally for Spice Up Your Blog but so many have copied it without permission I though we might as well share it with all our readers.

The comments are almost the exact same as you see here on SUYB with some subtle differences so you can see exactly how it will look on your blog by checking out the demo below and scrolling to the comments.

Add Comment Style To Your Blog

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Six Life Lessons Your Parents Taught You About Blogging

Guest Post - Our host is Gerrid Smith, who makes an interesting comparison between the lessons we learned as children and how we can use them as bloggers.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

It’s a very frustrating reality in life as we age when we realize that we are more like our parents than we think. The life lessons our parents taught us while growing up that we denied as truth seem to start flowing out of our mouths later in life to our own children, and we begin to take the advice as actual wisdom.

Some of these ideas and concepts can be applied to your blogs marketing approach as well! Let’s take a step back, look at our marketing techniques and make sure that we’re behaving the way our parents wanted us to:
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Top 5 Backlinks Checker Tools For Your Blogs

Guest Post - Our host is Gagan Masoun, here he has a collection of tools to keep an eye on the links your blog is receiving.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Google will penalize all sites making backlinks with black hat techniques. So, always create backlinks with good methods mainly posting great content people will naturally link to.But you can boost your links with white hat methods like: blog comments, guest blogging, forum posting etc. They are most important factors in determining your blog’s page ranks. There are two type of backlinks; Do follow and No follow. Today, in this post we will provide you information about "Top 5 Backlinks Checker Tools for Your Blogs". 

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Choosing The Best Type Of Web Hosting For Your Blog

We have covered the Best Blogging platforms in previous posts and this list included CMS platforms like Wordpress.So we have also listed The Best CMS and if you choose to go with paid blog hosting you will need to choose the type of hosting you want or more importantly need.Unfortunately choosing the hosting that fits your needs perfectly is not as easy as you may think.

In this post that is what we will focus on, the four main types of hosting and which best suits you.
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Keeping An Eye On Your Blogs Health: Google Analytic Dashboards

Guest Post - Our host is Marcela De Vivo, Marcela shows us how to utilize Google Analytics to keep a check on your blogs health.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

By utilizing custom dashboards, you can keep an eye on specific aspects of your blogs health. Doing this will give you a greater overall picture of how your site is performing, as well as how it may need to be improved.

The real benefit of using multiple dashboards is that you can easily segment the data, making it easier to understand and digest. Using custom dashboards, you’ll be able to see a spike or loss in traffic, whether or not your landing pages are performing well and if your social mentions have increased from a social campaign, and much more.

There are several dashboards available to use, but these five should give your site an immediate boost if you use the data they provide properly.

(Note: To use the links make sure you’re logged in to Google Analytics, or the links will appear broken!)
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Are You A Mozart Or A Beethoven Type Of Blogger ?

Guest Post - Our host is Harry Heijligers, Harry makes an interesting comparison between how the legends of classical music composed their masterpieces and how you write your blog posts (Also Masterpieces !).See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Writing articles or Blog Posts is often tough work.. For everyone. And the funny thing is: the more simple an article looks, the more hard work it was for the writer ! As for most creative work there are most of the time two ways to approach this kind of work.

As a kid I had six years long classical piano lessons. Besides learning to play the piano I also was interested in learning about all kinds of music related stuff such as the classical composers. It was then that I learned about guys like Beethoven and Mozart and that their approach of composing their music and symphonies was totally different.

Ludwig von Beethoven was a German composer who lived from 1770 till 1827 and he is seen as one of the most important and influential composers who shaped the music culture of the 19th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer who lived from 1756 till 1791. He invented a whole new musical concept in his time and had great influence on later composers such as Beethoven.

Beethoven -V- Mozart Creative Styles

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Giveaway : 3 Annual Subscriptions To PixelKit Premium UI Kits And Design Resources

This week we have another great Giveaeay for our readers this time for PixelKit, providers of amazing design resourses.Below how to take part and win free membership is explained by the PixelKit team.

Important - This Giveaway is completed look out for more Giveaways in the future.

The winners were :

Rachel Edmundson, Marawan Alwaraki and Rob Clarke.

The readers of Spice Up Your Blog are being given the opportunity to win one of the three Annual Membership Subscriptions our PixelKit team has made available. Is it your day to get lucky?

All 3 winners will be allowed to access an Annual Membership Account right at PixelKit.com. UI kits are the focus at PixelKit. They provide solutions that web designers need through thousands of unique graphics. You are given the opportunity to use sliders, icons and buttons through everything they make available to you in their UI kits. You can create the necessary controls for navigation, app screens and just about anything else you need right here.

Your voucher is waiting for you.

All you have to do is enter when you:

• Comment on this post and describe how you would use your UI kits.Add your Email address to the comment so we can contact you if you win.
• Let your Tweet be heard: Win a free @PixelKitcom Membership Account from @paulcrowepro Click Here To Tweet.Leave a comment to let us know you Tweeted and add your Email in the comment.
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Top 10 Mistakes Beginner Bloggers Make With Social Media

Guest Post - Our host is Chad Goulde, here Chad takes a fresh look at some of the Social Media Mistakes bloggers make be making.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Today, there are so many social media sites, which all operate completely different from one another. For beginners, choosing the right one for your blog marketing can be very confusing. What’s even more confusing for beginners is figuring out how to use these various social media networks effectively.

Social Media Mistakes for Beginners to Avoid

There are some pretty common mistakes that social media beginners tend to make. Avoiding them from the beginning could help save you time, money and frustration in the long-run. Plus, your networking efforts will start to reap great results right from the start. Here are 10 common mistakes beginners should avoid when using social media as a marketing tool:
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