Placing adsense code manually into new blogger layout

There is a problem with placing some third party code into the new blogger layout. If your adsense code doesn't look right when you place it manually, then you have to use escape characters to make it right.

Here is how it is done:

Trick to Add AdSense, AdBrite and Other JavaScript Ad Code Directly to Blogger HTML Template

Edit: Another Link which is more useful. A small online application to convert your code: http://www.eblogtemplates.com/blogger-ad-code-converter/

When Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site, the cause might be sitemeter

If you suddenly see this error when you want to reach your blog on blogspot, the first thing you have to check is whether you use sitemeter site statistics service on your blog.

This is what happened to my other blog moodr yesterday. I googled about it and I saw a post on Google Groups (about blogspot issues help group) and there was this suggestion. I removed sitemeter immediately and voila! My blog was back on Internet Explorer too.

Since you cannot reach your blog when using Internet Explorer, you have to either go to your dashboard which is blogger.com or to take the long way home, you can download and install Firefox. The second option will be a new era in your life if you haven't used Firefox before.

Anyway, now I don't use sitemeter on any of my blogs and I hope they will pay attention to solve this problem.

Anonymous blogging on blogspot with your current Google / Blogger account

Edit: I investigated the issue a little more further and found out that there is no way anybody can identify you with this method. You can stay truly anonymous. Of course Google will know who you are since Blogspot is their business but anyway, this is no problem unless you publish anything illegal.

Edit 2: Problem with feeds... The publishers e-mail address can still be seen in the feed. However, I have also checked another Google account with no e-mail address in the feed. That's interesting but it renders my trick useless. That means no 100% anonymity.

I wonder if there is a way to do just that. I don't think that you can be fully anonymous unless you sign-up for a different Google account and blog with that account.

However, there are some other options for being at least virtually anonymous. Go to the Layout section under your control panel. Then go to blog posts section and click on edit. Next, untick the box near "posted by Your_Name" and save.

Next, on the left, you will see a box named "About Me". Here is a link to your blogger profile. Click on edit on this box and then click on remove in the pop-up window that will be opened. After you click remove, you will then have the About Me section of the blog removed.

You are now virtually anonymous. This can never provide you a full anonymity but it will prevent everyday people (who are not paranoid enough to find who you are) from understanding that this is your blog.

If you will use this, one thing would stop your game, this thing is commenting. You cannot comment without displaying a link to your blogger profile. To prevent this, you can also go sign-up for an open-id and use that to comment instead of your usual blogger account.

I don't know why anyone would need all this but anyway, this is a nice way to learn about what you can do with blogger and not. You are also learning about customization of this.

Why?

I need a blog where I can test the latest developments in blogspot as well as any property of it that can be customized.

I know that there are tons of blogs on the web about the same subject. However the difference here will be that I will test anything that comes to my mind here and will immediately blog about it.

For instance, I wonder if it is possible to blog with a different author name than you normally use in blogger. I'll start with that.