Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 April 2013

How to Protect your Blog articles from Being copied?


stop plagiarismYesterday we shared a script about disabling right click on your blog to protect your content from newbies and thus today, we'll discuss about disabling text/articles from being copied by others. We'll use a simple JavaScript code which will prevent visitors even from selecting the text. Visitors won't be able to use either copy option or Select all option from their keyboards, because when they aren't able to select the text then how could they be able to do further. Using this way you can protect your articles completely from being copied by copycats. And this is very important in order to protect your blog content.

This script is very simple,  which can completely help you to away people from copying your text/articles. However, we sometimes provide codes in our tutorials i.e widgets, plugins, tricks etc. So we usually use <BlockQuote> tag for those codes, but this script interrupt with that and the codes inside <BlockQuote> will suffer and won't be selected. So you'll need to always insert your codes inside a <textarea> tag instead of <blockquote>. Now let's start installing this script on blogger platform.

How to disable copying text in blogger? 

Follow few simple steps to install a small piece of JavaScript code in your blog and get rid of copycats.
  • Go to Blogger
  • Layout >> Add a Gadget >> Select HTML/JavaScript Gadget
  • Now Copy below code and paste inside that HTML/JavaScript gadget
<script type="text/javascript">
var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]
omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|")
function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}
</script>
Save your template and view your blog for seeing the result. Just try to select any text and you'll see the changes. It will disable Select ALL CTRL+A and CTRL+C options on visitors keyboards. 

This was a really cool script which will work better for everyone one who wants to get rid of thieves. I'm also planning to use this script on my blog, but after changing my all codes to <textarea>, because I've published many codes in <blockquote> tag. 

Take care and let me know if something is not understood by you, comment below the post and keep in touch. Suggestions and recommendations are also welcomed.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

How to Insert Read More Link in Blogger Posts?


read more button in bloggerThe read more button or link is mostly designed in custom blogger templates however, you'll have to insert this link somewhere in your post in Blogger default templates and you'll have to designed it as well. Because there is an option in the post editor  called "JUMP BREAK" which you can use to insert a read more link inside your blog posts. This post will also teach you about how to change your Read more text to a beautiful picture like our blog. 

If you are using a default blogger template which I know doesn't have read more link designed by default. So you'll have to add the RM link by yourself to each of the post you publish. There are many custom templates which also don't have this option enabled. But we'll first add a jump break or RM link to our default template and then I'll teach you changing the Read More text to a picture. But one thing is to make sure that you need to use the jump break option in every blog post.

Inserting ReadMore link in Blogger Posts? 

While writing a post in blogger post editor there is an option called "Jump Break"which can always be used to insert the read more link anywhere you want in the post. See below image for exactly understanding it.
insert jump break in blogger

That option is actually used to insert the RM link inside a post in blogger. Just keep the cursor there, where you want to insert the RM link. Usually people insert it after the first paragraph.

How to Change ReadMore Text to a Picture? 

Now let's assume we've a custom template installed which is having the read more link by default and we want to change the RM text to a beautiful picture like our blog then simply follow given steps below:

  1. Go to Template >> HTML >> Proceed >> Expand Widget Template
  2. Now search for "Read More" and you'll find it once
  3. Upload your picture to your blog and save that in a draft post
  4. Now just copy the URL of the picture
  5. Insert it in place of "read More" by using <img> tag
  6. Save your template and everything is done!
I hope you have understood whatever I wanted to deliver, however, if you have questions regarding inserting or changing read More link in blogger then simply drop your comment below the post. 

Thursday, 7 February 2013

How to Find Free Images for your blog?


free images for blogs






I recently saw a great increase in images' searches. This is because an image is worth thousands words. But when it comes to online business then the same sentence should be changed a little bit and it should be written like this "An original image is worth 500 words". So basically using images in blog posts is a great idea and it increases the chances for getting more and more traffic from everywhere. But using original images (your own) in blog posts is more optimized way to publish images on the internet. Because I've seen now a days people just copy images from Google.com and publish them on their blogs without any prior permission or any changing. So therefore, today I've come up to remove all your confusions about free images and copyright images. 

Google has now more advanced system for images' search and Google's algorithm closely filter the images and the meta data inside them, so now copying images from Google and directly publish them on your blog is not a good practice, however, I'll give you some tips to make them useful.

How Google Indexes Images? 

Google's spiders actually didn't know about the fact within an image, however, now the system has been improved and Google now can identify images from its meta data and other tags. And meta data is actually the data when the image was either captured or created by someone, so you can't easily change that data, that data means the camera or software name by which the image was created/taken, the dimensions of the image, the keywords within the image, the type of the image and more. 

Now if you downloaded the same image from Google.com and uploaded that to your blog then Google won't easily index your image, because it already has that in their index. So what you need is to change the image's data a little bit and make it unique.

Which kind of Images you can use?

Now few questions are here, first of all I would recommend you to only create images by yourself using a photo editor like Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D Xara etc, but if you don't know these software and want to use Google images then make sure, you don't publish those images which are either having copyrights or water-marks within the images. After these all, if the image is not having the water-mark then you are welcome to change that image and use for your blog. 

How to change Images Data? 

Now everything is clear, so you can use free images for your blog. But again, if you downloaded the image and uploaded to your blog as same as it was then that wouldn't be indexed, so you've to change the following things in images: 
  • Change the Name of the image
  • Change the ALT tag of the image
  • Change the Title of the image
  • Re-size the image in Photoshop or Paint [Important]
  • You can also change the content of the image
Having done above changes now the image will be unique one and search engine will also index it, because it's data is now different than that image which was downloaded earlier. 

Conclusion:
This is just my point of view and according to my experience and logic, I've given this idea to you. Also, first try to create your own images, if you can't then use Google's images but at least change them as I told above, and re-sizing the image is must in order to make the image unique. 

Another thing is; that the celebrities' images are free for use such as Cricketers, Footballers, Actresses, actors and so on, but make sure someone has not added the water-marks to the images. Water-marked images can't be used in any case.

Thursday, 31 January 2013

How to Change Time to Date Below Post Title in Blogger?


how to change time in bloggerThe Blogger custom templates are designed by different designers from around the world. Many out of these templates are coded by professional designers and they are good from all prospective's  But indeed, there are also many poor coded templates are there. Unprofessional templates sometimes create troubles for newbies who want to easily customize their design with their own needs. So therefore, you must select a well-coded template for your blog. However, today I will let you know about changing your blog time which appears exactly after post titles in blogger. There should be date and author name instead of time alone. But in most blogger custom templates only time is published with author name. So we will change this respectively. 


before going straight to the tutorial please have a look at below image when the time after post titles in Blogger appears


This appears because the designer has set the time with author name in their custom template. So it isn't good for SEO, we will have to change it to date. our blog's template devil's workshop had also time with author name, so we promptly changed that.


How to replace time to date in Blogger?

Now the process is quite simple and you just need to replace a single word with another one, follow given steps in order to do so: 
  1. Log-in to Blogger Dashboard
  2. Template >> HTML >> Proceed >> Check the Expand Widget Templates
  3. Now carefully search for this code
<data:post.timestamp/>
Just replace the above code with below one:
<data:post.dateHeader/> 
Save your template and you've changed time into date for all of your posts. Now your look after post title will be like below image:




Sunday, 27 January 2013

How to Remove "Powered By Blogger" Attribution from Blogger?


As many of you know that Blogger is completely developed in XML (Extensible Mark Up Language). Blogger has its own XML codes which you can use to add elements or to remove elements. Those who make Blogger templates must know XML. There are many attributes or links on default blogger templates which sometimes people don't want to see on their blogs. And one out of those links is "Powered By Blogger"Attribution which appears in every blogger default template at the footer. You can see the attribution link in Below picture. So today, we will find the easiest and quickest way to remove this link.

remove powered by Blogger4
When you visit your blog the above attribution appears mostly in footer also it appears at left sidebar on some templates. You can find its widget by visiting blog layout page and there you will see its widget with a name of Attribution. [See below screen shoot for Example]


remove powered by Blogger3


In above picture when you click the edit button, a box appears same as showing in below picture. You can observe; there is no removable link for this widget. But we will make it removable after some changes in our template HTML section. continue reading the article.
remove powered by Blogger1


How to Remove "Powered By Blogger" Attribution from Blog?

A simplest method is being shared here to remove Blogger default attribute from any of your blog. So follow the few steps and get rid of this:

  1. Log-in to Blogger Dashboard
  2. Template >> HTML >> Proceed >> Check Expand Widget Templates
  3. Now search carefully for this code Attribution1 
  4. Near Attribution1 you will find this code: locked="true" 
  5. Just change the true value to false
  6. Save your template and all steps are done! [see the screen shoot below for example]

remove powered by Blogger
After doing all above steps, come back to the blog Layout page and edit that widget which didn't have the removable button before, now it will be having removable link and if you want to remove it then click button and remove it. You will no longer see this attribution on your blog. [see the image below for example]
remove powered by Blogger

Friday, 25 January 2013

How to Remove "Subscribe to: Post Atom" Link from Blogger

In Blogger, there is a link namely "Subscribe to: Post (Atom)" which appears below every post sometimes at left side or at center. It also appears on Blog'e home page. By clicking this link a visitor can subscribe to your RSS feeds. but instead of this unnatural link, there are many other awesome ways to give visitor the opportunity to subscribe to your blog feeds.




Mostly people, especially new blogger users dislike this link. They want to make their blog more beautiful and shiny. So and therefore, they want to remove this link as quickly as they find a solution for it. There are many tricks have been shared on the internet about this issue. But the one I'm going to share, is the easiest method to remove this link from your blog. Let's now come straight over the way.

How to Remove Subscribe to: Post (Atom) Link on Blogger?

You can remove this link by using many tricks, but this is the simplest & quickest method, because by using this method we will just hide it from our blog by using CSS property. You'll have to add just one single CSS line to your blog's style sheet and that's all. Now follow the steps to do this:
  1. Log-in to your blog
  2. Template >> HTML >> Proceed
  3. Search For this code ]]></b:skin> (tip: Use CTRL+F)
  4. Now Just above/before ]]></b:skin> insert following code
.feed-links { display:none !important; }
Save your template and view your. Feed Atom link no longer be there.



Thursday, 3 January 2013

Custom Robots Header Tags in blogger New interface


If you are using blogger.com for your blog then you probably know that blogger few months back changed its interface to a completely new one. Also blogger added a new section to its tools which is called "Search Preferences" and which is only to make blogger more SEO friendly. So that option was the most awaited one which is now helping all blogger users to create more SEO friendly blogs. 

I previously, published many posts on this blog which described the new added features into blogger new interface such as meta description tag, 404 not found page,robots.txt file and custom redirection in blogger. And the last part of that page iscustom robots header tags which I'm going to explain today through this article.

How to enable robots header tags in blogger? 

in order to know more about this feature you should first learn how can you enable this feature for your blog, so for doing so kindly follow given steps and we'll discuss them below:

  1. Go to blogger Dashboard
  2. Now go to Setting >> Search Preferences >> Custom Robots header tags >> Edit >> yes and check the boxes as showing in below screen shoot



In above page we only checked the necessary options for our blog, the rest are not important for a personal or small blog. We checked the All & Noodp for the home page and noindex & noodp for archive and searched pages. Also for single posts we checked the all & Noodp options which I'm going to explain what basically all of them are:

  • All: the all attribute means that all content inside the webpage should be crawled and indexed and this attribute is always added by default
  • Noindex: this attribute means or it tells the search engine bots; that do not index the entire web page. 
  • Nofollow: this attribute means to tell the bots that do not crawl any link inside the web page
  • None: it seems like noindex, but tells the bots that neither index the page nor the links inside the page
  • Noarchive: this attribute is used for not crawling the pages which searched either on Google or remain in the Google cache
  • Nosnippet: this attribute means to not show or index any snippet that was remained in the cache
  • Noodp: this attribute means; Do not use the metadata from open directory project [Dmoz] and also do not show the titles or snippets from there
  • Notranslate: this attribute tells the robots to not show translation option 
  • Noimageindex: this attribute is specefically used for not indexing the images in search engines
  • Unavailable_after: this attribute tells the search engine that this page won't be available after a specified date
So the above are the explanations for each attributes which are now available in blogger new interface, however, I'd recommend you to use only use the attributes which are mentioned in above screen shoot. However, you can also use noindex attribute if you want to hide any irrelevant page from the search engines. 

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

How to Get a Custom Domain name in Pakistan?


If you are willing to start blogging for a long time then don't waste your time in creating free .blogspot blogs, take a step ahead and either purchase a custom domain name for your blogger blog or buy web hosting for your blog and start blogging by using WordPress. Because Word Press has more potential than blogger blogs. So in my today's tutorial, I'll be guiding you about getting a custom domain name in Pakistan and the advantages of using custom domain. When you purchase a custom domain, you can then set up it on blogger with your existing blog and the .blogspot extension will no longer be there. Blogger will still host your all data in Google's servers, however your blog will be looking more professional after having custom domain. 

Having purchased custom domain, the setting up process is quite easier and doesn't take more than 12 hours. In this included the DNS setting and propagation time. In blogger, it just takes few minutes to set up the custom domain, but the actual time is taken by the domain name provider, who make setting for your domain name and point it to Google's server IPs. Because Google will be your host if you're using blogger platform for blogging. Now let's talk about the advantages and benefits of custom domain.


What are the Advantages of Custom domain? 

There are countless number of advantages you can take by using a custom domain for your blog. The few advantages but are not limited to, here is the list of advantages:
  • Google Adsense gives more importance to top level domains than .blogspot extensions
  • You can apply for many Advertisement companies, who only accept top level domains and don't support .blogspot such as BuySellAds.com And others
  • Custom Domain is better for SEO
  • There are many SEO tools and servies which only support top level domain
  • Top level domain looks more professional than the .blogspot extension
  • A custom domain brings clients and customers to you
  • Custom domain can get direct advertisements even with low traffic
  • Guest posts of Custom domain's author are accepted everywhere
  • Custom domain get guest authors in very short time
Some of the advantages of custom domain I explained. However, these are not limited. And do you know, how much it will cost you? just 850 Pakistani rupees or $10 per year. So I think it isn't a bad deal.

How to Get Custom Domain name for Blog? 

Domain can be purchased from any company such as bluehost.com or godady.com or from hostgator.com. But all of them use payment options as follow: 
  • Credit Cards
  • Paypal
And The problem in Pakistan is: Paypal doesn't support Pakistan and Credit Card is not affordable for most of the people living in Pakistan. So in this case, you will be looking for a company which is based in Pakistan.  And I'll recommend to a company you which is my favorite web hosting and domain name provider company only in Pakistan. I'm recommending it because it accepts payments via EasyPaisa, UBL OMNI, Bank Deposit and whatever way you want. The company name is hosterpk and you can get a domain name from them or web hosting at reasonable price. Here is the link that you should click in order to purchase anything there.

This company provides you any kind of web hosting account including PHP web hosting, WordPress web hosting, Joomla Web hosting and so on. It's web hosting supports all web languages i.e PHP, ASP.NET, PERL and many more. The customer support is indeed great and you can get their support any time if you need. They provide you support via email, phone, mobile and by using their direct online chatting system. 

How to Change Blog's Mouse Cursor with CSS?


This is a very small tip for those who want to change their website or blog's mouse cursor. I came across many websites and blogs who have changed their cursors either to different styles or to images. So simply they use CSS property to change the mouse cursor. It is easier to change the cursor for the entire website or for a part of the website. So here in this tutorial I'm going to teach you about this.

As you know CSS is the most beautiful web language to style websites and any kind of webpage. And CSS3 new properties has changed the entire concept of web designing. Now you'll no more need of using jQuery and Flash for your websites, because CSS3 does the job for you.

Changing Mouse Cursor with CSS

The default mouse cursor is something like an arrow which many newbies want to change to something else. So here is the CSS code which you can use to change the pointer of the mouse, there are some values defined in CSS3 standard, however by using the URL property you can add an image, see below example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Changing Cursor</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/1055.gif);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The example above will be replacing the default arrow with an image which is stored online in a website 123cursors.com. So if you copy the above code and paste inside notepad and save it with .html extension then visiting the page on your browser, so the cursor will be replaced with an image.

CSS core values for changing mouse cursor

Here is the list of the all values which has been defined in CSS core programming. You can use one of the below listed values to change the pointer/cursor of your website:
  • cursor:crosshair;
  • cursor:e-resize;
  • cursor:help;
  • cursor:move;
  • cursor:n-resize;
  • cursor:ne-resize;
  • cursor:nw-resize;
  • cursor:pointer;
  • cursor:progress;
  • cursor:s-resize;
  • cursor:se-resize;
  • cursor:text;
  • cursor:wait;
  • cursor:url(image.png);
All of the above values are the part of the CSS. You can use any of them to see the effect on your webpage.

Now here is the live example of changing the mouse pointer by using CSS, just hover your mouse over below green bordered area to see the effect:
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!

The example above shows how the pointer is changed. We just used this CSS property in an HTML DIV:
<div style="cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/6890.gif); border:4px solid green; padding:15px;"> Content Goes Here</div>
You can also copy the above code to check it by yourself. However, if you want to change the cursor of your entire blog or website then you must add the CSS cursor property inside <body> tag.

You can download a numerous number of free mouse pointers by visiting below websites:
You can use any image for the pointer as you want, but the smaller sizes are pretty much better than larger images. So do implement today's trick and let me know if you have something to say.This is a very small tip for those who want to change their website or blog's mouse cursor. I came across many websites and blogs who have changed their cursors either to different styles or to images. So simply they use CSS property to change the mouse cursor. It is easier to change the cursor for the entire website or for a part of the website. So here in this tutorial I'm going to teach you about this.

As you know CSS is the most beautiful web language to style websites and any kind of webpage. And CSS3 new properties has changed the entire concept of web designing. Now you'll no more need of using jQuery and Flash for your websites, because CSS3 does the job for you.

Changing Mouse Cursor with CSS

The default mouse cursor is something like an arrow which many newbies want to change to something else. So here is the CSS code which you can use to change the pointer of the mouse, there are some values defined in CSS3 standard, however by using the URL property you can add an image, see below example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Changing Cursor</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/1055.gif);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The example above will be replacing the default arrow with an image which is stored online in a website 123cursors.com. So if you copy the above code and paste inside notepad and save it with .html extension then visiting the page on your browser, so the cursor will be replaced with an image.

CSS core values for changing mouse cursor

Here is the list of the all values which has been defined in CSS core programming. You can use one of the below listed values to change the pointer/cursor of your website:
  • cursor:crosshair;
  • cursor:e-resize;
  • cursor:help;
  • cursor:move;
  • cursor:n-resize;
  • cursor:ne-resize;
  • cursor:nw-resize;
  • cursor:pointer;
  • cursor:progress;
  • cursor:s-resize;
  • cursor:se-resize;
  • cursor:text;
  • cursor:wait;
  • cursor:url(image.png);
All of the above values are the part of the CSS. You can use any of them to see the effect on your webpage.

Now here is the live example of changing the mouse pointer by using CSS, just hover your mouse over below green bordered area to see the effect:
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!

The example above shows how the pointer is changed. We just used this CSS property in an HTML DIV:
<div style="cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/6890.gif); border:4px solid green; padding:15px;"> Content Goes Here</div>
You can also copy the above code to check it by yourself. However, if you want to change the cursor of your entire blog or website then you must add the CSS cursor property inside <body> tag.

You can download a numerous number of free mouse pointers by visiting below websites:
You can use any image for the pointer as you want, but the smaller sizes are pretty much better than larger images. So do implement today's trick and let me know if you have something to say.









This is a very small tip for those who want to change their website or blog's mouse cursor. I came across many websites and blogs who have changed their cursors either to different styles or to images. So simply they use CSS property to change the mouse cursor. It is easier to change the cursor for the entire website or for a part of the website. So here in this tutorial I'm going to teach you about this.

As you know CSS is the most beautiful web language to style websites and any kind of webpage. And CSS3 new properties has changed the entire concept of web designing. Now you'll no more need of using jQuery and Flash for your websites, because CSS3 does the job for you.

Changing Mouse Cursor with CSS

The default mouse cursor is something like an arrow which many newbies want to change to something else. So here is the CSS code which you can use to change the pointer of the mouse, there are some values defined in CSS3 standard, however by using the URL property you can add an image, see below example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Changing Cursor</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/1055.gif);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The example above will be replacing the default arrow with an image which is stored online in a website 123cursors.com. So if you copy the above code and paste inside notepad and save it with .html extension then visiting the page on your browser, so the cursor will be replaced with an image.

CSS core values for changing mouse cursor

Here is the list of the all values which has been defined in CSS core programming. You can use one of the below listed values to change the pointer/cursor of your website:

  • cursor:crosshair;
  • cursor:e-resize;
  • cursor:help;
  • cursor:move;
  • cursor:n-resize;
  • cursor:ne-resize;
  • cursor:nw-resize;
  • cursor:pointer;
  • cursor:progress;
  • cursor:s-resize;
  • cursor:se-resize;
  • cursor:text;
  • cursor:wait;
  • cursor:url(image.png);
All of the above values are the part of the CSS. You can use any of them to see the effect on your webpage.

Now here is the live example of changing the mouse pointer by using CSS, just hover your mouse over below green bordered area to see the effect:
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!

The example above shows how the pointer is changed. We just used this CSS property in an HTML DIV:

<div style="cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/6890.gif); border:4px solid green; padding:15px;"> Content Goes Here</div>
You can also copy the above code to check it by yourself. However, if you want to change the cursor of your entire blog or website then you must add the CSS cursor property inside <body> tag.

You can download a numerous number of free mouse pointers by visiting below websites:

You can use any image for the pointer as you want, but the smaller sizes are pretty much better than larger images. So do implement today's trick and let me know if you have something to say.This is a very small tip for those who want to change their website or blog's mouse cursor. I came across many websites and blogs who have changed their cursors either to different styles or to images. So simply they use CSS property to change the mouse cursor. It is easier to change the cursor for the entire website or for a part of the website. So here in this tutorial I'm going to teach you about this.

As you know CSS is the most beautiful web language to style websites and any kind of webpage. And CSS3 new properties has changed the entire concept of web designing. Now you'll no more need of using jQuery and Flash for your websites, because CSS3 does the job for you.

Changing Mouse Cursor with CSS

The default mouse cursor is something like an arrow which many newbies want to change to something else. So here is the CSS code which you can use to change the pointer of the mouse, there are some values defined in CSS3 standard, however by using the URL property you can add an image, see below example.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Changing Cursor</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/1055.gif);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
The example above will be replacing the default arrow with an image which is stored online in a website 123cursors.com. So if you copy the above code and paste inside notepad and save it with .html extension then visiting the page on your browser, so the cursor will be replaced with an image.

CSS core values for changing mouse cursor

Here is the list of the all values which has been defined in CSS core programming. You can use one of the below listed values to change the pointer/cursor of your website:

  • cursor:crosshair;
  • cursor:e-resize;
  • cursor:help;
  • cursor:move;
  • cursor:n-resize;
  • cursor:ne-resize;
  • cursor:nw-resize;
  • cursor:pointer;
  • cursor:progress;
  • cursor:s-resize;
  • cursor:se-resize;
  • cursor:text;
  • cursor:wait;
  • cursor:url(image.png);
All of the above values are the part of the CSS. You can use any of them to see the effect on your webpage.

Now here is the live example of changing the mouse pointer by using CSS, just hover your mouse over below green bordered area to see the effect:
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!
Hover your mouse here on this area to see how the pointer is changed with css!

The example above shows how the pointer is changed. We just used this CSS property in an HTML DIV:

<div style="cursor:url(http://www.123cursors.com/freecursors/6890.gif); border:4px solid green; padding:15px;"> Content Goes Here</div>
You can also copy the above code to check it by yourself. However, if you want to change the cursor of your entire blog or website then you must add the CSS cursor property inside <body> tag.

You can download a numerous number of free mouse pointers by visiting below websites:

You can use any image for the pointer as you want, but the smaller sizes are pretty much better than larger images. So do implement today's trick and let me know if you have something to say.