Saturday, April 14, 2007

Making "About Me" a single line that link to full profile

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Received a request to make "About Me" a single line which when clicked takes one to the full profile. This can easily be done.

First you need to get the URL of your full profile. Sign into Dashboard and in the top right corner are details of your profile. Right-click on the "VIEW" link and choose "Copy Link Location" to copy the URL of your full profile into clipboard. If you wish, you can open Notepad and paste it there in case it is cleared from clipboard, then you can get it from Notepad.

Blogger Profile URL

Then click "Layout" in the Dashboard and click "Add a Page Element" and you have a choice of either choosing "Link List" or "HTML/Javascript" in the pop-up. In the demonstration blog Furniture Center, I have chosen "HTML/Javascript" as I will then have a choice of whether to make the link open in the same window or a new window. The "About Me" link is at the bottom of the left sidebar of the demonstration blog Furniture Center. Click on it and see what happen.

I then typed <a href="profile URL" target="_blank">About Me</a> into the HTML/Javascript window and licked "Save to Blog". If you don't want the Profile to open in a new window, you can leave out target="_blank" from the above HTML.

I have also created another demonstration blog Alternative Medicine to demonstrate another way of doing it. The "About Me is also at the bottom of the left sidebar. Click on it and see what happen.

In this case, I chose "Link List" rather than "HTML/Javascript" and made a special blog for a purpose written Profile which give me more flexibility to format the profile in whatever way I want. Again, I will have to copy the URL of the purpose created profile blog from the address bar (or VIEW from the Dashboard) to the clipboard. In the Dashboard for the Alternative Medicine demonstration blog, I clicked "Add a Page Element" in the Layout and clicked "Add a Page Element". In this case, I selected "Link List" and thus don't have to bother with writing my own HTML. I just paste the Profile blog into the field for the URL, then typed "About Me" in the field for the "New Site Name" and click "Save to Blog". The disadvantage of using Link List is that you have no choice over whether the link open in the same or new window. It will open in the same window.

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