Boost My Blog Friday - 4/29

Hi everybody and welcome back! Hope you all had a great Easter and you're ready to start the blogging fun together. And since today is Friday, that means it's time to catch up with Boost My Blog Friday here on Design It Chic!


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For those of you new here, it's very simple.. the only rule is: no rules!! That's right!! This blog-hop is supposed to be a boost in our blogs' asses... friends-wise:)!!
So just make sure you link with us, follow us as the host (and leave us a comment so we know you follow us and return the love back:) And then feel free to follow whoever you want to, leave nice comments, send them love notes and chocolate boxes *WOW scratch that last part:P* and don't forget to do the happy dance!

If you join with us on Boost My Blog Friday, please take your time and leave a comment, so we know you're participating with us and maybe pay you a visit:) Thanks!



And as always, today we have another question for you:
If you were to be invited to the big royal wedding, what would you bring as a gift for the wedded couple?

A gift certificate to Ikea! After all, they must be redecorating that huge palace of theirs, right?:P Oh and almost forgot the toaster.. yeah the toaster.. following Stanley's example(from The Office), one can never have too may toasters.. so in the name of that, let the toaster-raising-fun begin!!! hi hi Oh and don't forget to share your gift choice for Kate and Will and also find out what other fellow bloggers chose too:) Let's get this party started!

And, if you missed anything here at Design It Chic, you can now check the new Blog Tips section at the top of the page, if you need more tips on building up your blog, new blog design tutorials, search engine optimization tricks or all the easy steps to improve your blog's traffic! Happy Friday all!

Boost My Blog Friday - 4/15

Hi everybody! Today is Friday, that means it's time again to catch up with Boost My Blog Friday here on Design It Chic!


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For those of you new here, it's very simple.. the only rule is: no rules!! That's right!! This blog-hop is supposed to be a boost in our blogs' asses... friends-wise:)!!
So just make sure you link with us, follow us as the host (and leave us a comment so we know you follow us and return the love back:) and then feel free to follow whoever you want to, leave nice comments, send them love notes and chocolate boxes *WOW scratch that last part:P* and don't forget to do the happy dance!

If you join with us on Boost My Blog Friday, please take your time and leave a comment, so we know you're participating with us and maybe pay you a visit:) Thanks!



And as always, today we have another question for you:
What is one tradition you have around the Easter Holiday?

Well every year we do a themed version of the egg hunting, where instead of eggs we hide different objects depending on what theme we have that year. This year we're going with the "Bieber Fever" theme:) That's gonna be fun! Now feel free to share your Easter traditions here with us and also find out what other traditions our fellow bloggers have too:) Let's get this party started!

And, if you missed anything here at Design It Chic, you can now check the new Blog Tips section at the top of the page, if you need more tips on building up your blog, new blog design tutorials, search engine optimization tricks or few easy steps to improve your blog's traffic! Happy Friday all!

Boost My Blog Friday - 4/08

Hi everybody! Today is Friday, that means it's time again to catch up with Boost My Blog Friday here on Design It Chic!


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For those of you new here, it's very simple.. the only rule is: no rules!! That's right!! This blog-hop is supposed to be a boost in our blogs' asses... friends-wise:)!!
So just make sure you link with us, follow us as the host (and leave us a comment so we know you follow us and return the love back:) and then feel free to follow whoever you want to, leave nice comments, send them love notes and chocolate boxes *WOW scratch that last part:P* and don't forget to do the happy dance!

If you join with us on Boost My Blog Friday, please take your time and leave a comment, so we know you're participating with us and maybe pay you a visit:) Thanks!



And as always, today we have another question for you:
Sugar or Splenda(or any other sweetener)?

Well most of the times we use honey instead. It's just more natural and it's even recommended by doctors in so many affections. If we're out of honey we go for sugar, but the queen bee is much happier when we have some of that golden sweetness in our cupboard:) Now what's your story? Just share your sweetening deal here with us and also find out what other fellow bloggers opted for too:) Now let's get this party started!


And, if you missed anything here at Design It Chic, you can check the Blogger tutorial section for more blog tutorials, the SEO department for more tips to improve your blog's traffic or check out the Unclutter tips column for more tips on making your blog clean and easy to access! Happy Friday all!

Numbering Post Comments

Hi all! Are you ready for a new blog tutorial here at Design It Chic!?! Then let's get started! Without further ado, the topic for today is: numbering post comments. This is one of the most wanted tutorials that we've received requests for. Due to the versatility of it, we decided to finally present you the most updated version of this little trick.



There are many versions to accomplish this, depending on what blog template you use, but basically this tutorial is applicable to the majority of templates. In just a few easy steps, this little tutorial will help the ones who need an accountability of their comments for either their giveaways, contests with prizes, or for simply marketing purposes. Now let's begin this tutorial!

1. As always, before doing any changes, make sure you save your current blog's template by signing in your "Dashboard" and then go to "Design" and select the "Edit HTML" tab and press "Download Full Template".


2. After you saved your blog's current template, make sure you have your comments embedded below posts, and not the pop-up version. If you are not sure of that, you can change this by going to "Settings", click on the "Comments" tab, and third row down the line you will find this option. Make sure you check the "Embedded below post" bullet!


3. Now that we have everything prepared for the trick, let's begin the numbering comments process. You first need to go to "Design" tab then hit the "Edit Html" button. Make sure you check the "Expand Widget Templates" option and look for this piece of code as shown in the picture below, by either scrolling down or simply using the Ctrl + F (for Windows users) or Command + F (for MAC users) combination on your keyboard:

<dl class='comments-block' id='comments-block'>


4. Now that you found the code, paste this code immediately under it, as shown in the picture above:

<script type='text/javascript'>var CommentsCounter=0;</script>

5. Next step is to look for this piece of code:

<dl expr:class='data:post.avatarIndentClass' id='comments-block'>


6. And add this code immediately under it as shown in the picture above:

<script type='text/javascript'>var CommentsCounter=0;</script>

7. On the next step you need to look for this piece of code:

<dt expr:class='"comment-author " + data:comment.authorClass' expr:id='data:comment.anchorName'>


8. And add this attribute to the code immediately before the closing tag of the line, as shown in the picture above:

style='clear: both;'

9. Just a couple more steps and we're there, so now look for this code:

<data:commentPostedByMsg/>


10. And immediately under it add this structure of codes, as shown in the picture above:

<span class='numberingcomments' style='float: right; font-size: 20px;'><a expr:href='data:comment.url' rel='nofollow' style='text-decoration:none' title='Comment Link'><script type='text/javascript'> CommentsCounter=CommentsCounter+1; document.write(CommentsCounter);</script></a></span>

Preview your work, and if there's no parsing mistakes and everything works(even tough you probably won't be able to see the numbering in the preview), you can go ahead and click "save template". And your final result should be something similar to this:


That's it! Hope you guys enjoyed this little tutorial!:)

And don't forget, if you missed anything here at Design It Chic, you can check the Blog Tips button at the top of the page for more tutorials, tips to improve your blog's traffic or other amazing how to's, all presented on different levels, from beginners to the more advanced ones!
Have a great week everybody!