Google Apps Hacks

254 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

When picking a new class name, try to nd a word that describes what the element , rather than 

. The benet is that when you decide to make design changes later on, you will need to edit

the single stylesheet—but not all of your past posts! So, a class name like

footer or warning or externalLink

is more effective than a name like smallGray or redUnderlinedParagraph. However, sometimes juggling

dozens of different class names can become complicated, too. If you want to use a specic formatting for one

post only, you may also decide to use an inline style, like

<p style="color: red">...</p>. (Note that this

style will now show in every medium, even print—a potential downside to inline styles.)

HaCK 103:

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Go minimal on your blog design.

Every Blogspot blog by default receives a navigation bar on top, with buttons for switching to the

next blog, searching your blog and more, as shown in Figure 10-26. Some users may nd this

navigation bar useful, but you may still want to disable it—for instance, if you feel that disabling it

would improve the layout of your blog.

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The part reading “Via CNN.com” is all gray now

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The Blogspot navigation bar

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