Removing Blogger.com Navbar
You are using Blogger.com services and you find the Blogger.com toolbar at the top of your blog somewhat annoying. And you want to remove it. Well, it’s easier than you might think.
Pay a visit to the Layout page, and click the Edit HTML link. You will see a text box below and in it a lot of mumbo-jumbo (or you might already know that it’s actually what HTML, CSS, and a bit of Blogger-specific XML). Within the mumbo-jumbo, you have to locate the part that looks like this:
body {
background:$bgcolor;
margin:0;
color:$textcolor;
font:x-small Georgia Serif;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
text-align: center;
}
Well, the text might not look exactly like that but something similar. Important characteristics are that there is some text, followed by a few lines enclosed in curly braces. Just above all that text, you have to include this:
.Navbar { display:none; visibility:hidden; }
And you’re done. Looks better without the toolbar, doesn’t it? I don’t know if it’s illegal to do so, so I leave it as an exercise for the reader to go through the terms of use and find out if it is.
Industry-Community Dialog
In a recent incident published on Slashdot.org, ScienceBlogs’ move to consider PepsiCo’s nutrition blog for inclusion resulted in a public uproar that was quickly picked up by Guiardian. Was there a better way to handle this? Maybe. But here, I’ll try to give my view on how this could have been handled by PepsiCo (and others who try to do the same thing).
