solom056

This article shows you how to put the options and controls in the Google search results page into the language that you actually speak, rather than the official language of the country you (or your Internet Service Provider) are in. Tonight I noticed that Google's search-results are still in English, but the option links and controls (eg Next-page, Images, Videos) are all showing in the Irish language (known as Galeic to some people) presumably because I'm in Ireland, and it was (until a couple of hours ago) St Patrick's day. This is nice of Google. But unfortunately many people here - yes, even thought who learned Irish at school for 14 years - don't actually speak Irish. And personally I didn't even go to school here, so I can't even say "Please may I go to the toilet" (the first Irish-language phrase learned by many an Irish child). So putting these words back into English is pretty important to me: I can guess where Images / Videos / Next ...

This article explains how to remove the semi-transparent image that is shown at the back of the Travel theme (template) provided by Blogger. I like Blogger's Travel template (now called a theme) - it's clean, and lets me control lots of things.  But I don't like the semi-transparent image that you can see underneath parts of blog-header, navigation bar and perhaps the post header and body. By itself, this image looks like this (I suspect it's supposed to be represented a scrunched-up piece of travel diary paper of similar): Underneath one of my blog's header it's like this - see the lightly shaded area to the left of the red arrow: Do you see the grey shading? You can possibly ignore it - until you do something like show an ad-unit with a genuine white background in that really shows up the difference. Then it just looks scruffy. I'm sure that with some major template changes, it could be eliminated altogether - but luckily there's an easier way w...