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Hundred and one

I can’t believe it!

I actually tried tracking them after reading a similar post from Czaroma. It was inspiring! But after a while, I got tired and thought that I’ll never achieve this because laziness keeps me company every now and then.

But lo and behold, I did it! Even if laziness strikes me from time to time, even when I cannot think what to post, even when I’m not sure what my readers think of my posts, I achieved it.

This morning, I checked my profile to see when I started with blogger. It said November 2004. I checked my old posts to verify and indeed, my first post was in November 11, 2004. In 35 days, this blog will turn 5 years old. Five years of memories, of friendship, of discoveries. I never realized that until I put up the blogoversary widget.

101 PostsI never thought it would be possible, but it is. I’m really thankful to all of YOU for inspiring me, for keeping this blog site alive. I am really overwhelmed by the visitors and comments I get everyday. I am thrilled to reply to them. I am eager to participate to weekly memes. Even if it is crunch time at work, I make sure I find time to blog and blog hop. I never felt so into blogging before until recently.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL OF YOU. This hundred and two post is for all of you. I hope you continue visiting this site, reading my blog and sharing with me your thoughts.

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Customizing the Newer and Older Post Footer Link

The other day, I was looking on ways how to customize the 0 comments label like the one below.


Silly me. I forgot that this can be done by going to Layout > Page Elements and click Edit found on the Blog Post section.

While searching for this, I found another trick which I used to customize my blog appearance. I modified the look of the Newer and Older links. These links are used to navigate between newer and older posts.


In the image above, I replaced three links with customized images. I created 3 different images for the Newer, Home and Older links, then I hosted these in an image hosting site like Photobucket.

Then in my blog, I went to Layout > Edit HTML to do the following:

  • Replace <data:newerPageTitle/> for Next Post with <img src=’YOUR-IMAGE-LINK‘/>
  • Replace <data:olderPageTitle/> for Older Post with <img src=’YOUR-IMAGE-LINK‘/>
  • Replace <data:homeMsg/> for Homepage with <img src=’YOUR-IMAGE-LINK‘/>

Make sure to Save your work and then view your blog to see your changes.

There are actually other ways to customize these post footer links. To know them, you may check out this post from Smart Bloggerz.

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