My post titles now come ahead of my blog titles when I open posts on the blog, but the search engine results still have the blog title first.  Will that take time to update?

Any suggestions for keeping the HTML neat?  Mine's starting to look like a big mess and I've forgotten how to make comments.

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The Single Saver said:

FamilyMoneyValues said:

I was searching the forums on 'get comments' and came across this thread.  I too am using Blogger - at least for now.

Welcome to the "Blogger group!" 

I was searching the forums on 'get comments' and came across this thread.  I too am using Blogger - at least for now.

Welcome to the "Blogger group!" 

Start looking at your site's HTML and you will start to be able to make more sense out of how it is made up.  For instance, each widget's code will be contained within the <widget>.... </widget> tags.  Anything between those tags deals ONLY for that particular widget.  Also, you may notice on my site that I have a lot of widgets without names (like the "Advertise here" graphics) because I don't want a title to appear above them.  However, if I want to work on their HTML I will addign a temporary title as it makes it much easier to find them in the code.  For instance, I may name it TEMPWIDGET and then I can go to the HTML and search for TEMPWIDGET and immediately find the code.  I make my changes and then go back and remove the title. 

If you look at my site there is a lot of customization.  Some is easy and some is hard.  The hardest thing I did was diding the harder into two boxes - sorry, I don't think I could help you with that as it still confuses me!  The rest of the custom stuff was pretty easy, though.  it just takes time and patience.  Anyone here will be happy to help if we can, I am sure. 

Maggie

Here are a couple questions/steps (follow in order presented):

1.) Have you tried using a different browser (for instance, Firefox instead of Internet Explorer)?  I have heard Google Chrome is especially bad ... go figure!

2.) Are you feeling daring enough to get back into the HTML?  If so, then go to your code and expand the widgets.  Search for the title of one of your widgets (such as 'About Me' or 'Total Pageviews').  Now, within that widget's code, look for the following: " locked='false' ".  If it is there, never mind... if it is not, see if " locked='true' " is there and if so, change it to " locked='false' ."  If this is the case you will need to make this change in the next widget down, too, and then go back to the design view and try to flip their positions.  If the code is already at false than... NEVER MIND!

3.) Check out the Blogger help forums... you can see if anyone else has had this problem or pose a new question.  it could be a Blogger error though I have not heard anyone else talk about it.  http://www.google.com/support/.....#038;hl=en

Keep me posted! 

I feel like a complete idiot, but I will try again with the switching the blog name and the post title as soon as I calm down a bit more.   I really appreciate all your help! 

Maggie

So weird.  I never put that road there!  I'll have to keep working on it to see if I can fix it.  I wouldn't mind the road so much, but I still  can't move things around on the side bar.  That's aggravating, &  I wonder what else is damaged.  Thanks so much for looking at it again!

Maggie

Maggie, if you haven't done a lot of customizing you can try choosing a new theme.  You will lose any html changes (so if you set things up to show only on specific pages or switched the blog/post titles, for instance, you will have to start over) but it might be worth a shot.  Just download the HTML before you do it so you can put things back if you want to.

I have a few code-related changes i want to make on my site... have been stalling because I don't want to have any headaches.  Let me just say, the ability to load saved html templates has saved me many times!!!!