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CSS are special tags allowing to improve the web page appearance. Standard Blogger templates make a large use of CSS tags as any other web site right now. However inside the Blogger template designer section is there the possibility to add custom CSS tags. This is a basic explanation about how to make this operation.

Using non official Blogger XML template could be happen very frequently you have some widget locked in the layout panel. Usually a widget can be moved in all the template available positions or removed definitively. A locked widget doesn't allow any of these actions. It is in a fixed position ad you can not remove it. However there is an easy way for switch the widget from locked to unlocked. Let's go to see how is possible.

Trying to load a new XML template for your blog could happen quite frequently that some widget you already have included or present in the template you just loaded become damaged with the result you can not remove it anymore. The practical effect of this damage is a blank page inside the window opened by click over the "edit" link of the widget itself. Blank page mean that no buttons are showed than is not possible to click over the "Remove" button for remove the current widget. Looking around I found a small trick that can help to get out of this unfortunate situation.

Is a common use in a lot of web site, like forums and similar, to ask for a valid email address during registration phase. The way how is possible to verify the email you inserted is a valid address is well known. The site send to the email address you provided an automatic message containing a link to visit for activate the account just registered. If no valid email is provided you can not activate the account. Some other big networks of Internet, like Facebook or Google, recently started to ask for a valid cell phone number to send an SMS containing a code for unlock or verify the account. If you want to avoid to hand in your personal info is there some tricks that, if you are lucky, can help you to keep your life a little more private.

Some blogs or web sites can have more than one feed sources mainly for allow visitors to stay informed only in specific arguments. Feedburner service is the best way for accomplish this goal since is easy to configure and offer some additional features very useful to have in the site. One of the most used feature is the email subscription service. This feature must be manually activated in the feedburner control panel and allow to create a sort of newsletter sent to all subscribers when a new feed is created.

Since I faced this problem installing a drop down menu and googling didn't help me a lot to find a fix for the submenu "cut off" problem I propose here my solution. It seem this problem happen only using "official" blogger templates. Official mean the template generated by the blogger settings panel. Hope that these information will be useful for someone who found the same problem. ;-)

Blogger platform make available a different kind of ready-made templates for the blog. It's also possible to customize some parts of these templates by using the integrate settings panel. However, if you need a more strongly customization, there is the possibility to have access to the template code and make all the modify you want. Here will show a short explanation as "starting point" for all other posts regarding Blogger template customization.