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Friday 3 July 2015

reddit is revolting


REDDIT IS IN revolt, and the front page of the Internet is essentially locked down.
Moderators have all but shut down more than 265 subreddits to protest the termination of Victoria Taylor, the site’s director of talent. She managed the site’s wildly popular “Ask Me Anything”’ interviews that have included celebrities ranging from President Obama to a guy with two penises.
The sudden revolt has thrown one of the world’s most popular sites into chaos. It wasn’t immediately clear why Taylor, who joined the company in 2013, was fired. But the response by moderators was as swift as it was ruthless. Within hours, the moderators of /r/IAmA took the subreddit private, effectively shutting it down. That started a cascade of moderators shuttering dozens of subreddits—/r/askreddit, /r/todayilearned, and /r/pics among them—that is still growing, crippling a site with some 160 million users. Many more subreddits, including /r/science, have expressed solidarity with Taylor but remained open.
Taylor was among Reddit’s most visible employees and a helpful resource for moderators across the site. (Conde Nast, which owns WIRED, has a financial stake in Reddit.) But her termination was especially tough on /r/IAmA, which was left struggling to manage several previously scheduled AMAs. Among other things, Taylor arranged the interviews, verified the identity of the person doing the interview, facilitated the Q&A, and helped the uninitiated navigate the world of Reddit.
“The admins didn’t realize how much we rely on Victoria,” wrote a user known as Karmanaut.
Taylor said she was “dazed” by the termination and “hopefully” will remain in the PR field, but there’s been no further word from her or site co-founder Alexis Ohanian on just what happened. Ohanian took “full responsibility” for the revolt in a post, admitted the situation was handled poorly and promised to work closely with moderators to address their concerns.
“Your message was received loud and clear,” he wrote. “The communication between Reddit and the moderators needs to improve dramatically. We will work closely with you all going forward to ensure events like today don’t happen again. At this point, however, the blackout has served its purpose, and now it’s time to get Reddit functioning again.”
The revolt may go deeper than Taylor’s departure. There has been a sense of frustration among moderators that the company does not respect or appreciate them.
There’s been some speculation that Taylor was terminated because of Wednesday’s AMA with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a hot mess of hostile questions and bizarre answers.
The revolt may go deeper than Taylor’s departure, however. There has been a sense of frustration among moderators—the unpaid volunteers who manage the site’s myriad and enormous communities—that the company does not appreciate or respect them. They complain about the quality of the moderation tools, and about recent changes to the site’s already bad search functions.
“As much as Victoria is loved, this reaction is not all a result of her departure: there is a feeling among many of the moderators of reddit that the admins do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits, which they feel is expressed by, among other things, the lack of communication between them and the admins, and their disregard of the thousands of mods who keep reddit’s communities going,” reads a detailed thread at r/OutOfTheLoopexplaining the ongoing revolt.
The revolt, which is being called /r/AMAgeddon, is the latest PR mess for the popular site. Last month, the site angered many users when it adopted a newpolicy against harrasment and shuttered five subreddits in a campaign to slay trolls. Many found the move arbitrary and noted that far more offensive sites remained untouched.

Can Dogs eat Green Peppers

Serena Williams

Heather Watson disagrees – because athletes hate to embrace defeat – but she might never reach a higher standard of tennis than that which she showed in losing to Serena Williams in three sets of incomparable drama on Centre Court at Wimbledon on Friday evening.
To lose the way she did, with quiet elan and sustained skill under intense pressure, leaving every sweat-drop of effort on court during two and a quarter hours against possibly the best player in the history of the women’s game – such a British defeat – was a victory in itself.
It inspired Andy Murray to Tweet: “Retweet if @HeatherWatson92 just made you feel effing proud! Favourite if she made you feel really effing proud!”
An hour or so after the match the latter outpointed the former 22,464 to 16,868.
Nevertheless the nation’s pride in her performance will not strike Watson as a reason to celebrate losing – and that is exactly the attitude to have if she is to build on this third-round defeat in her first match against the world No1, a player at the peak of her powers with 20 grand slam titles to her name.
“I was two points away from winning that match, so I’m pretty disappointed,” Watson said. “But the atmosphere on court was amazing. It really helped me and pushed me. I just wish I could have closed it out at the end – and, no, I wouldn’t call losing the greatest day of my career.”
She did surrender a 3-0 lead in the third set, having won six games in a row from the middle of the second, but her level hardly dropped. It was Williams who rescued it, not Watson who threw it away.
She did something that few players manage to do: reduced Williams to a shaking wreck, near tears and screaming in exasperation, before the world No1 regathered her fighting spirit and came back at her like a wounded lioness to win6-2, 4-6, 7-5. The American’s prize is a fourth-round match against her sister, Venus, whom she has not played since losing in the semi-finals in Montreal last year but who will do well to stretch her as far as Watson did.
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Venus beat the Serb Aleksandra Krunic 6-3, 6-2 in only 71 minutes on Court Two.
Two sets of numbers told the tale on Centre Court. Williams, straining at the edge of her strength and menacing power in nearly every shot, hit 53 clean winners – along with 13 aces – and 33 unforced errors; Watson, smaller, quicker, way less powerful and playing watchful, intelligent tennis, hit only 20 winners – with three aces – and only 11 unforced errors.
Yet the match was coat-of-paint-close, all the way to the final game, theatre of the highest order containing a standard of play matched by any other contest at these championships, men’s or women’s.
“I honestly didn’t think I was going to win,” Williams said. “I don’t know how I pulled through. [At 0-3 down], I was thinking what am I going to do tomorrow, find a dance class, hang around to watch Venus play? She just did everything so well and I wasn’t able to keep up. Obviously I keep fighting. She played unbelievable. She went out with the mind-set of winning.
“At the end, I was trying to get myself pumped up. I got a little slack. It was really intense today. The crowd were really vocal, between points and during points. They were rooting for their champion to do well. You can’t blame them. I’ve never heard boos here before but, hey, I’ve been through it all.”
Williams threatened to overwhelm Watson at the beginning, winning the first set pretty much as she pleased, with not a hint of the drama to follow.
Williams held to love at the start of the second set and came close to breaking at the first opportunity. The shouts of encouragement for the home player grew weaker and more sporadic. Williams kept her pinned on the baseline in nearly every exchange, one return off a first serve seeming to take Watson off her feet – but she held.
Watson got a couple of points up on Williams’s serve in the fifth game, prodding her into a loud and quite menacing response, her winning forehand ripped with all the intensity of a right hook in a world heavyweight title fight. Another followed.
Then Watson got a break point. To secure it would be a triumph in itself, surely – but Williams found another huge serve for deuce. When she hit long to give Watson a second look, there was further hope. A serve hit the net – and another. Her first double fault – and Watson, to the astonishment of everyone but herself, perhaps, led 3-2.
From that point it was a different match. Watson produced some delightful groundstrokes and leg-stretching defence to hold and take the second set before they embarked on the most fitting of conclusions to a great match.
Watson went 3-0 up and at 40-love looked to have the match in her pocket. Williams, however, landed a smash on the line at Watson’s feet, ground out the break and won the next three games. It was looking grim for the British No1 but she would not go away.
Her defence hit stratosphere levels at the start of the ninth game. Williams, plainly rattled, double-faulted then hit long on both wings after excellent rallies and Watson served for the match after two of the best hours of her career.
Williams dug into her extraordinary reserves to grab two break points and returned long on the first one; Watson hit the line to save the second. Williams got another chance – and Watson saved with her third ace of the match. Williams got a fourth break point and this time Watson cracked, netting her backhand.
Williams held to love but blew match point on Watson’s serve with a lazy forehand. She got another with a smash, then netted again. A third arrived at the end of a long rally and this time she benefited from another kind, but fair, line call when the ball landed at Watson’s feet

Adding New Google+ Badges In Blogger Rolled Out! unique



New Google+ Badges



These are the stylish and fully professional badges which are introduced recently. These are fully changed if we compare them with old ones. Old badges were having add to circle and plus one button but here you'll get the follow and plus one buttons only. Take a look of the below image.
In the above image, you can see the set of latest badges which are recently made. You can see that there are follow buttons instead of add to circle buttons. Another great thing is that, it also shows the total number of followers and we're unable to see the total number in previous badges.

Why To Use These Badges?

I'm strongly recommending you to use these badges because they will give huge profit to you. It will increase the followers or plus ones on your profile which will help you in getting improvement in author rank. They can also help you in getting Google authorship and newbies are eager in getting it. Last thing is that they will help in being more Google friendly that can help for better ranking. If you're already using old badges then replace them because in 90 days, old badges will be removed. So you've three months to do this.

Adding New Google+ Badges In Blogger

So now you're going to implement these in your blog because they definitely are going to help you in many things. It is simple guys. Just follow the simple steps to implement it in blogger.
  • Go To Google+ Badges
    • First select the profile in the "Google+ User" area.
    • Choose What you want Icon or Badge in features.
    • Here in layout you've two types of layout. Portrait is vertical layout whenever landscape is horizontal. Choose which one you want.
    • Choose width of the badge which may set in the area where you want to implement.
    • Choose the color theme.
    • In the last there some other advanced settings which you can easily set there.
    • Finally, after setting the badge, You'll get the code in the right side below live demo 
    • Copy the code and save it in notepad.
  • Now Go To Blogger >> Layout >> Add a Gadget
  • Choose "HTML/JavaScript"
  • Paste The Code In Content Area.
    • Hit "Save Button" and That's it.

fixing Blogger Layout Page Messed Up unique style

Why and How Blogger Layout Gets Messed Up?

There are the several reasons that your layout is getting corrupted while creating the blogger template. The first reason is that you might don't have used the CSS properly and you don't have created the widgets properly. Try to make use of height and width properties in CSS. Sometimes, you edit the template and by mistakenly you removes or corrupt the widget code and in case the layout gets corrupted. If you're coding the template then you will need to concentrate on coding and sometimes you search hours for the error and that is the single semi colon which is missing. 

Fixing Blogger Layout Messed Up While CreatingTemplate



Those were the starting days of coding when I was learning how to code and how to create blogger template. I usually learn everything online in the home because I don't like institutes. While creating template, when I landed into the layout page it appeared messed up and I was shocked that why it get messed up. After the searching, I got the solution of this which I'm going to share with you below.

There is not any big tutorial to fix this but a little tip which I'm going to share with you and this will really help you to design the beautiful layouts. Actually, there is the additional field of CSS for blogger layout same like <b:skin>. And that is body#layout which you can use to rearrange the widgets and create cute layout.

To fix the layout widgets correctly or rearrange them, just go to your template, expand the<b:skin> and just in starting of that write the CSS coding. Let me guide how you can write that CSS to fix layout.

First of all write the additional tag body#layout and after the space write the .class or#id of that widget which you're going to rearrange. Simply, now start the middle bracket {and write the coding for that like width, height, padding, float etc. And in the last don't forget to close that with }. And by this you have to rearrange the every widget. After writing the code it will look like this.
body#layout #widgetID { The Properties For Widget In Layout Page Goes Here } 
body#layout #widgetID2 { The Properties For Widget In Layout Page Goes Here } 
body#layout #widgetID3 { The Properties For Widget In Layout Page Goes Here } 
body#layout #widgetID3 { The Properties For Widget In Layout Page Goes Here } 
After the writing the commands for each widget section save it and see your layout.
Remember :
  1. On #WidgetID you've to write the ID or Class of the widget section.
  2. These CSS Properties will only work in Blogger Layout Page.
  3. That's All!

Thursday 2 July 2015

BloggerCustom Robots Header Tags Setting

If you are using Blogger to manage your blog then you may probably know that few months ago Blogger engineers had introduced new interface which is having fantastic features. The main thing of that new interface is that there is 'Search Preferences' section added in the settings area. That section helps us a lot to make your blog search engine friendly and to gain handsome traffic from search engines. In our previous posts we discussed about some things of search preferences which were meta description tagsrobot.txt file and custom 404 error page but here we're going to discuss about custom robots header tags setting which is also a part of search preferences settings.


Basically, custom robots header tags setting is similar to robots.txt file because these both things are about to tell the search engine's crawler for which area they should index or not. But there is on difference. In robots.txt file we used to write the command and in custom robots header tags we'll need to tick mark some check box. If you tick mark correct fields then there is a chance of getting traffic even more from search engines. This will also help you to increase the visibility of your blog in search results. You can use custom robots header tags correctly with the help of below tutorial. So go and get it now.

Custom Robots Header Tags Setting



  • Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preferences
  • In The Crawlers and Indexing Section, Edit Custom Robots Header Tags and Tick "Yes" To Enable It.
  • Now A Long Box Will Appear Where You Have To Tick Mark The Fields. Tick Mark Some Important Fields With The Help Of The Image Below.
  • After Ticking The Fields Properly, Click "Save Changes" and You Have Done!
Can Dogs eat Green Peppers

Colorful Flat UI Labels for blogger Customized

Improving the appearance of blog like bringing awesomeness and professionalism to blog templates and themes is always best. Because there are several reasons for this like getting approval from big advertising companies such as Google Adsense and BuySellAds. There are several professional templates on the internet which we can use but it might not have uniqueness because they're made for public and everyone can use that. After theme or template, it's also important to have professional widgets such as Labels or Tags widget, Popular Posts widget, Social Sharing, Related Posts etc. If you're enough smart in web designing then you can easily bring professionalism to your widgets but if not then there are also already made awesome widgets for you on the internet. Today, in this post, we're going to do a tweak with our blogs which will beautify our blog theme a little bit. Just today, I've customized label cloud widget for blogger and below I'm going to share it with all.

Colorful Flat UI Labels Cloud Widget

These days Flat UI and Metro designs are mostly trending in web designing. Today, when I came to update Blogger Yard and was about thinking about the topic. I thought why not today I do some customization with Blogger widgets and share it here. Then just started choosing the widget for customization and I came to know that labels cloud widget has been old looking on all blogs so I started doing something new to it. And made this colorful Flat UI label cloud widget. 

So, This is colorful Flat UI label cloud widget in which tags or labels are having multiple colors. That's why we've put "Colorful" word in its name. After this, It's look is inspired from Flat UI designs which is mostly famous these days. The colors which we've used in this widget are also Flat UI colors. Another specialty of this widget is that when someone hovers the mouse on any label it will give a beautiful effect on hover. This widget is customized using pure CSS3 and we've not used any JavaScript or any other heavy programming language which means that it will not affect on the loading speed of your blog. You can have its live demo by looking in the right sidebar of this blog. We're also using it here. So, let's start the tutorial on how can we implement this colorful Flat UI label cloud widget for Blogger.

Step 1. Adding Labels Cloud Widget

  • Go To Blogger >> Layout >> Add a Gadget
  • Choose "Labels" Widget.
  • Make Settings Like The Below Image & "Save" It.
Now the widget has been added into the blog and let's customize the label cloud widget.

Step 2. Customizing Labels Cloud Widget

  • Go To Blogger >> Template >> Backup Your Template
  • Click Edit HTMl and Find For ]]></b:skin>
  • Copy and Paste The Following Code Above ]]></b:skin>
/* Flat UI Labels Cloud By Www.BloggerYard.Com ---------------- */

.sidebar .label-size {
  position:relative;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-decoration:none;
  font-size:13px;
  font-family:Open Sans;
  color:#fff!important;
  }

.sidebar .label-size a {
  color:#fff!important;
  font-weight:bold;
  padding:8px 10px;
  margin:0 6px 6px 0;
  float:left;
  display:block;
  -moz-transition: all 0.4s ;
  -o-transition: all 0.4s;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ;
  -ms-transition: all 0.4s ;
  transition: all 0.4s ;
}

.sidebar .label-size-1 a {background:#1abc9c;border-bottom:3px solid #127F69;}
.sidebar .label-size-1 a:hover {background:#16a085;}
.sidebar .label-size-2 a {background:#3498db;border-bottom:3px solid #226693;}
.sidebar .label-size-2 a:hover {background:#2980b9;}
.sidebar .label-size-3 a {background:#2ecc71;border-bottom:3px solid #1F8C4C;}
.sidebar .label-size-3 a:hover {background:#27ae60}
.sidebar .label-size-4 a {background:#9b59b6;border-bottom:3px solid #74398E;}
.sidebar .label-size-4 a:hover {background:#8e44ad}
.sidebar .label-size-5 a {background:#e74c3c;border-bottom:3px solid #922C20;}
.sidebar .label-size-5 a:hover {background:#c0392b}
  • Click "Save Template".
  • Congratulations! You've successfully customized colorful Flat UI label cloud widget in your blog.

you can Create Professional 404 Error Page in blogger

As we're discussing on Blogger's search preferences setting today here I'm back with another amazing tutorial and a professional 404 error page. After reading the title of the post, You've known about our today's topic. So let's begin the discuss. In the past with old Blogger interface we're unable to create a custom error page but now it's possible because now that option is also available in search preferences settings. In the past when someone enters into a not found page, The blogger used to show a message which was extremely different from original blogs. Well, These are old things which are now modern. Those who don't know about 404 Error page can read the below passage to understand it.

What is 404 Error Page ?

It is a web page which is being used by all websites to show the error when someone enters into a broken or not found location. In other words, when you enter an incorrect address then that page appears. Basically, In that page the error message and some options are added for better navigation. Got it ?

Professional Error Page

So, here I've brought a professional 404 error page or not found page for all Bloggers. This page is professional because of it is designed with CSS3 and it contains some great options for better navigation. First of all have a look on it.

Features

This page has some good features which I've listed below.
  • Full Page Width : This page has full width which will hide your sidebar widgets section and that is what which makes this page more professional.
  • User Friendly Message : It contains a user friendly message which will tell your readers that they have entered into an error page.
  • Go Back Link (JavaScript Link) : Go back link is also added so that if your readers was reading an article then accidentally he/she clicked on any broken link and with the help of Go back link he/she will get your article back easily.
  • Report Problem To Us (Link To Contact Page) : The reason of adding contact page link is that if any page of your blog is deleted then the user may report to you for better service.
  • Go To Homepage (Link) : So this is a common homepage link for better navigation.
  • Stylish Search Box : We've added an stylish search box in that page you that if your visitor is about to find something then he/she may search it easily with that search box.
  • Big 404 Logo : In the last, this page contains a big 404 logo by which let your readers know that they have landed on a broken link or not found page.

How To Install This Page ?

Well, After reading about that professional error page now everybody may want to install it in their blogs. So this is free for everyone and you can easily install it by following the simple steps below.
  • Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preferences
  • In the Crawlers and Errors Section, Look For Custom 404 Page and Click on "Edit".
  • Now a box will appear where you have to paste the following code.
<!-- Blogger Yard 404 Page -->
  <p style='line-height: 30px'><strong>
<font color='#ff0000' size='5'>
Oops!
</font> <font color='#666666'>
Looks like you either clicked a broken link or a page that you were looking for doesn't exist. <br/> Kindly do one of the followings:
</font></strong></p>
  <ol style='line-height: 25px'>
    <li><a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'>&#171; Go Back</a> </li>
    <li>Report the Problem to us by <a href='CONTACT PAGE URL'>Clicking Here</a>&#160;&#160;&#160; (<em>This will help us serve you even better</em>) </li>
    <li>Go To Homepage by <a href='HOMEPAGE URL'>Clicking Here</a>
      <br/></li>
<li>Search Anything Using Below Search Box</li>
  </ol>
<br />
 <center><form _lpchecked='1' action='/search' class='search-form' id='search_mini_form' method='get'>
<input id='searchinput' name='q' onblur='if (this.value == &apos;&apos;) {this.value = &apos;Type Here & Hit Enter&apos;;}' onfocus='if (this.value == &apos;Search the site&apos;) {this.value = &apos;&apos;;}' type='text' value='Type Here & Hit Enter'/>
<input id='searchbutton' style='vertical-align: top;' type='submit' value='Search!'/>
</form></center>
  <p>
    <br/>
    <br/>
    <br/></p>
<p align='center'><font size='5'>Page Not Found!</font></p>
<br /> <br /> <br />
<p align='center'> <font style='font-size:150px; font-weight:bold;' color='red'> 404 </font></p>
<style>
.status-msg-wrap {
    font-size: 100%;
    margin: none;
    position: static;
    width: 100%;
}
.status-msg-border {
    display:none
}
.status-msg-body {
    padding: none;
    position: static;
    text-align: inherit;
    width: 100%;
    z-index: auto;
}
.status-msg-wrap a {
    padding: none;
    text-decoration: inherit;
}
#sidebar-wrapper, #midsidebar-wrapper, .gapad2, .blog-pager, .post-header-line-1, .post-footer , #rsidebar-wrapper { display:none !important;} #main-wrapper { width:98%!important;} .post { width:98%!important; }
#searchinput {

background: #FFF url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jdvuG1j-W1XyRzpPX3pB4LjGFom7J51HkJDvCVeigGoAgZ0B_bYrTPZCl_5GLd3kvg38nagCuHGkvSEkc0GJmj6p6xZKhV1JQWu8TX0B_mz-8qJVe0TEwOxSAxNHbR8L6p7RmbT_8lvl/s0/search.png) no-repeat 7px 8px;
background-color: #FFF;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
color: #A0A0A0;
display: inline-block;
font-family:arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
height: 24px;
width:300px;
margin: 0;
margin-top: 5px;
padding: 5px 15px 5px 28px;
vertical-align: top;
}
#searchinput:hover{
border: 1px solid #bebebe;
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(5, 95, 255, .1);
padding: 5px 15px 5px 28px;
}
#searchbutton {
background:#444;
color:#fff;
height:35px;
border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;
box-shadow:1px 2px 1px 1px #ABABAB;
border:1px solid #fff;
margin-top:3px;
padding:8px;
}
#searchbutton:hover{background:#555;}
</style>
  • Replace "CONTACT PAGE URL" With Your Contact Page Link
  • Replace "HOMEPAGE URL" With Your Homepage Link 
  • Click "Save Changes" & You Have Done!