[Blog Tips] Cool web counter widget showing total, today, here

bPopulr provides a good web counter as below,


Above widget is just for this page. You can see the installed widget on right of this blog.

It shows total hits, today hits and here now.
You can get the Free button code here.

Additionally, you can see the referred links of your website and graphical statistics if you click the widget.
And bPopulr home shows the today popular web sites.

All of this good service are free and easy to use. (via coping & pasting the free code)

Let's use Search Box of Google Blogger

If you want to provide "search" to your visitors in case of Google Blogger, let's use the "Search Box" element.

It is easy to install and its design is cool.
Moreover, the whole page is not refreshed to show the result. Only the area for the result is reloaded.
I think that such a different way as AJax make it possible.

You can see the look as below or search using this blog's Search Box on the right.

Installation on your Google Blogger

It is very easy.

After go Dashboard / Template / Page Elements, click "Add a Page Element".
Then select the following Search Eelement.


Cautions!
You should access the Draft Dashboad of Blogger via http://draft.blogger.com/home.
At time of writing this post, only the Draft version provide Search Box element.
(The default dashboard URL is http://www.blogger.com/home)

If you want to check if you are on which dash board, check the log as below,

In case of Draft

In case of Default

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Widgetbox provides many useful widgets for your blog.

There are many useful and fun widgets for your blog or your web site in Widgetbox.
Almost Widgets are based on Flash. So they are smart, cool and pretty.

The widgets are well categorized on the left frame.
(Blogosphere, Communication, Fun & Games, Interests, Information, Money Makers, etc)
You can sort them by "Subscriptions" or "Top Rated" or "Data Added".

In case that your blog is powered by famous blog service such as Google Blogger, MySpace, FaceBook, you can directly install the widget on your blog.

Among widgets, I show some widgets as below,

Crystal Clock







Flash Web Counter






YouTube Videos 2.0
Display a user's YouTube videos, favorite videos, or a specific videos with a certain tag on your website or blog.

















cyber-pet
interactive cyber pets!







Google Site Translator
Open your blog or site up to readers from around the globe with Google Site Translator.




















See the Widgetbox, and get the cool widget for your blog~

Funny. How much your blog worth?

Business Opportunities Weblog provides a funny widget.

They've made a little application by using Technorati API.
It show the worth of your blog by US dollar.

They used both Tristan Louis's research and Technorati score which is related to how many other sites link to it.
Tristan Louis's research show the value of each site of Weblogs Inc with its Technorati score.

Simply, access to the post and type your blog url.
Then you can get the result as below,

Above result is my korea blog's. Because this blog is newbie the value is 0$ :)

Good recent comments widget for the new version (XML) Goolge Blogger

In Blogger-Templates blog you can get the recent comments widget for the new version XML Blogger.

After access the page of Blogger-Template, and just fill the following edit box.
The "Apply" button takes you to the Page Element page of your blog.