Last night Marcos Almeida, a Software Engineer from Google announced that Google has introduced LightBox with Blogger.
Lightbox is a whole new way to interact with photos. When clicked, the images on your blog would now expand into a shiny new overlay that displays them at their full size for optimal viewing. Once an image is opened in the LightBox view, any other images from the same post will now appear as thumbnails along the bottom, which can be easily browsed by clicking the arrow keys on the left or right side of the LightBox.
Marcos said that the LightBox feature is automatically enabled for all blogs, which means you can see the LightBox view in action right now by clicking one of the images below.
Although if you have custom-coded your image HTML so that images function as hyperlinks, then the LightBox view will not display and your original image hyperlink will work as expected just like it is on The Chronicles of R.
Your images never looked better!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Blogger Introduces LightBox
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Emily Strange Widget to Increase Your RSS Subscribers
Here is an interesting way to welcome visitors on your blog and at the same time, increase the number of your blog followers and RSS subscribers. Welcome every visitor on your blog with this Emily Strange widget.
With this widget, Emily Strange would welcome your visitors and would ask them to follow your blog from the left or right lower corner of your blog, or you can also make her welcome them on the sidebar. You can see this Emily Strange widget live in action on my other blog.
I am sure you would love it. Installing this widget on your blog is pretty simple. Fire up your Blogger dashboard page. The click on Design link on your blog dashboard. On the Design tab, go to Page Elements if you are not there already.
To display Emily Strange on the left bottom corner of your blog, please select and copy the following code:
To display Emily Strange on the right bottom corner of your blog, please select and copy the following code:
To display Emily Strange on the sidebar of your blog, please select and copy the following code:
Now click on Add a Gadget link on the sidebar and select the HTML/JavaScript widget. In that widget paste the code that you have copied from above, save the widget and voila! Look at Emily Strange welcome your visitors and urge them to follow your blog.
Isn't that great!
To get more such fun stuff and widgets for your blogs, don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed for The Chronicles of R. In case you face any challenges while trying to install this widget, feel free to drop me a line and I would help you to sort the issue.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Another Blogger's Meet in Calcutta
Time for another Blogger's meet, seems Calcutta is in for Blogger's meet this year.
This time it's WebReps.in, in association with INFOCOM, has arranged for a Blogger's meet. The details for the same are given below. To attend all you need is to have a blog or a passion for blogging (in case you are a micro-blogger). As I was informed, there would be some eminent Bloggers from The City of Joy to join us there. You too can promote, speak or share your ideas.
Venue:
Salt Lake Stadium
Date and Time:
17th-20th February 2011 (time was not mentioned)
To attend this Blogger's meet all you need to do is to click here, it would take you to their Facebook events page. There you need to click on the button "I am attending" and you are all set to go. You can also send invitations for the same even to your friends and fellow Bloggers.
Hope to meet you there. Till then, enjoy!
Monday, February 07, 2011
Blogger Meet at Calcutta (courtsey Indiblogger and Akshaya Patra)
Finally, Calcutta gets it's own Blogger's meet. Thanks to Indiblogger and Akshaya Patra (partners). The details are given below.
Venue:
CII
DC-36, Sector - 1, Salt Lake City
Kolkata - 700 064
Landmark: Behind City Centre
Date and Time:
Sunday February 20, 2011 - 12:00 PM, Kolkata
End Time: 5:00 PM
We already have 44 attendees as of now, hopefully the number would increase soon. Even Renie Revin (from Indiblogger) would be attending the meetup, so you would get a chance to talk to him in person.
The best part is that this meetup is on a Sunday, so I guess many of us would actually be able to turn up, unless we are too busy planning for Valentine's Day.
If you are planning to join this Blogger's meet, you can register yourself here. If you intend to promote this even, you can do so by either posting about this on your blog, tweeting about it with the hashtags #AkshayaPatra and #IndiCal. I am sure we all would have a gala time over here. Now only if Renie and the Team would relieve us from this nail-biting suspense and reveal the agenda for the Blogger's meet.
I would attending this meetup. If you would like to, you can contact me through my email (rajtilak.bhattacharjee@gmail.com), or by adding me on GTalk (rajtilak.bhattacharjee), or by sending me a tweet @rajtilak, or last but not the least, you can leave a comment on this post.
Hope to see all of you there on Sunday!
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
I Own www.rajtilak.com, Finally!
Yes, today I went ahead and bought the rajtilak.com domain. Although you won't find a new blog there, rather it would redirect you to the same rajtilak.net url and thus to this very same blog. But then it means more visibility, and ofcourse I always wanted to own the rajtilak.com domain. So in this new year, its a dream come true!
Thanks to all of you for making The Chronicles of R a success. When I had bought rajtilak.net for the first time, I never really thought that it would be such a big success. 500+ RSS subscribers, 2500+ readers per day, nice figures huh!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Blogger Stops FTP Support
According to Blogger, FTP remains a significant drain on their ability to improve Blogger. And only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of engineering resources devoted to support FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of that, critical infrastructure that the FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which means that they would have to completely rewrite the code that handles the FTP processing. So they have decided that they will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010.
Although Blogger has provided a number of alternatives for the FTP bloggers to make this transition as seamless as possible.
They are building a migration tool that would help users to migrate from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users in the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations. They would also provide a dedicated blog and help documentation to provide as much information as possible to help guide users through the migration off of FTP. Moreover, Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.
So all the FTP users, start packing your bags and prepare to head over to your new home. And if you need any help you can always contact me.
