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Introducing the "Free high-quality picture search" tool

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This article introduces the Free High Quality Picture Search tool which has been added to this website . Today I've added a new feature to Blogger-Hints-and-Tips . The Free High Quality Image Search tool is available from the menu bar. It is a tool to help you locate free, high-quality pictures to use in your blog posts or other website projects. It is based on a Google-custom-search engine , and a carefully selected set of websites that offer images you can use for free on your blog, even if it is "commercial" (ie you have advertising or any other way of making money from it). The difference between this and the images that you can get from a general-purpose search using the Creative Commons image and multi-media search tool is the resolution of the images that are found and/or their photographic quality. How to use the Free-image-search tool Choose it from the menu bar on this blog, or navigate directly to it at   http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/p/free-i...

How to add a badge to a blog made with Blogger

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This article is about how to add a badge that someone else gives you to a blog made with Blogger. Sometimes, blog-owners run a blog-a-thon or a similar circle-of-blogs event. One aspect of taking part is by showing a badge for the event on your own blog , so that your visitors are invited to take part and to view other participants' blogs too. Usually who-ever is hosting the event gives you the code for the badge, and tells you to install it into your own blog.   Sometimes they even tell you how to install it to your Wordpress blog - like this . Fortunately, installing a badge to a blog made with Blogger is equally easy. Installing a badge to Blogger Decide where you want to put the badge.   Traditionally badges go into the sidebar, but you could choose to put it into the header or footer, into the space above or below your posts, or even into an individual post. Get the HTML code for the badge. NB   If the other party doesn't give you the code, or if their code is nei...