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Delete, change or re-format the "Showing posts with label" message.

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This article explains options for deleting, or changing the content or formatting of Blogger's "Showing posts with  LABEL.  Show all posts" message and it's ugly grey box. If your blog has a Layout or Designer template , then when a person who is reading it chooses a label value, Blogger displays a page with (a summary of) your most recent posts with that label. If there are more posts that Blogger is willing to show on one page, then there will also be "older posts" and "newer posts" links at the bottom of the page. And - unless you have removed it - there will also be a message at the top of the page saying "Showing posts with label yourLabel. Show all posts " Reader actions that cause a visitor to see this message include: Clicking a value in your Label gadget Clicking a label value that is displayed in your post header or footer (unless you have turned them off in the Layout > Blog Posts edit option). Clicking a link that you have...

How to show AdSense ads that are non-standard sizes

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This QuickTip is about AdSense's new custom-size-advertisement option, which lets you choose the height and width of each advertisement that you show on your site. Today, AdSense announced that we can now make ad-units in any size that we want - within certain restrictions.   They don't use the phase in the text of their announcement, but the post-URL for their says that this feature is  " the-next-evolution-of-responsive-ads " - so I guess it can be seen as part of the efforts to cater to mobile-readers and mobile site-publishers, even though these ads themselves don't adapt to according to the size of your visitor's screen. What will custom-size text ads look like: For text ads, AdSesne, will work out the best number of text ads to show in each ad-block, and the individual ads will be shown the same way they that the look inside the standard ad-sizes. Note that they say "For unique ad unit sizes, our system will need some time before it can optimize th...