Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Thursday, May 17, 2012

How to set Google language option (esp for expats)

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A frequent complaint of bloggers/surfers when currently not in their own country is Google automatically resetting their language option and displaying on the browser a language they do not understand and/or want.

Solution is simple. Sign into your Google Account and click the LANGUAGE tab in the left sidebar to get

Google language settings and select the language of your choice:

Google account settings language option

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Display images in larger sizes

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"why is it that my images are big but when i upload them they become so small?"

When you use Blogger's photo upload icon to display images, you can chose 3 different default sizes - large, medium and small. If your image is very large, Blogger will shrink it to a smaller size for display. However, if you are in the COMPOSE mode, you can use your mouse to grab the edge or the side and drag-drop it to create a displayed image that can be larger or smaller than the default.

Alternatively, you can use the HTML image tag <img src="photo URL" /> to display it in the original size or use that tag with a width attribute <img src="photo URL" width="some number" /> to display it in whatever size you choose.

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

How to change language if you are an expat in a foreign country

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There have been complaints of people whose mother tongue is, for example, English, but is living in a foreign country, eg. Japan. When they log into their Blogger Dashboard, it is all in that foreign language and they have problems understanding it. For such cases, it is easy to change the language even if you are living in a foreign country. Sign into Dashboard, then at the top right hand corner of the Dashboard is this:

new EDIT PROFILE with drop-down menu for language choices

Right at the bottom is a section "Language" with a drop-down menu. Click the down arrow and a long lists of available languages will be shown. Selectg your preferred language and your preferred language will automatically be saved.

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There is also another setting you can do. In the Dashboard, for the relevant blog, click SETTINGS, then click the FORMATTING sub-tab. Somewhere in the middle of the page will be a drop-down menu to set the language for the blog:

FORMATTING SETTING  language drop-down menu

Click the down arrow and select your preferred language. Then at the bottom of the page, click "Save settings".

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If that still didn't get the effect you want, you may have to change the language option of your browser.

For FireFox, in the menu bar at the top of the browser, click TOOLS > OPTIONS and in the pop up, click the "Advanced" tab . Then in the "Languages" section, click "Chose":

Firefox Tools Options Advanced Languages Chose

In the second section which is a drop-down menu for "Select a language to add...", click the down arrow and select your preferred language. Once you select the language, the "Add" button will become active. Click that. The rest, I have never tried because I have no need to change the preferred language of my browser, and you are on your own from there.

BTW, if you are like the majority of surfers who only have Internet Explorer, you should seriously consider getting the FireFox browser. I would highly recommend it, and if you go to FireFox with Google toolbar, you will see a screenshot of a section of a page from Blogger Help where Blogger recommend Firefox.


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