Why has HostGator been so Populer?

Talking about web hosting industry, people may list HostGator in the first place. This is a continuously expanding web hosting company and has probably become the top players in the field. Probably not very well known to many people, HostGator started from a privately held industry in Houston Texas by its founder and current Chairmen Brent Oxley. He started the company from his dorm room while he was a student at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and recognized hosting provider with more than 7,000 servers under management.

As a technology and product innovator, HostGator is able to provide its more than 225,000 customers with innovative products and services designed to complement their existing businesses. HostGator serves customers ranging from individual freelancers to Fortune 500 companies in more than 170 countries.

In 2008, Hostgator was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. According to Inc. Magazine, HostGator is the 21st fastest growing private company in America, the second fastest growing private company in the "business services" sector, and the fastest growing private company in Texas. There are many other awards and recoginitions that have been gained by HostGator, for example:

• About.com 2010 Reader's Choice Awards: HostGator has been recognized by About.com's web design community as the Best in Reseller Hosting, Cheap or Free Web Hosting, and Best Linux/UNIX web hosting provider for their 2010 Reader's Choice Awards. (http://www.aboutrea.com)
• FindMyhost.com Editors' Choice Award: FindMyHost.com, established in 2001 judges hosting companies based on specific tested and proven guidelines to protect consumers and assist with making the best choice for web hosting.(http://www.findmyhost.com)
• Dedicated Server Directory #1 Reseller Hosting Award: With over 10 years of expertise, Dedicated Server Directory provides a neutral site for comparing and purchasing hosting products. Giving awards only to those that exceed industry standards. (http://www.dedicatedserverdir.com)
• Web Hosting Top Outstanding Host Award: Top Web Hosting is a web hosting community, unique by its website hosting content and simplicity. A pioneer in web hosting reviews worldwide. (http://www.web-hosting-top.com)
• and many more!

What is best about HostGator is that it is giving back! In addition to providing the HostGator Technology Grant to qualified non-profits, HostGator regularly donates to worthy causes such as M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and One Laptop Per Child. In 2008, HostGator donated over $125,000 to those two organizations alone.

As an industry web owner, you can consider to use HostGator as your hosting company. If you are a blogger, you can also register with HostGator as an affiliate.

Adcufon Dark Folioz | Adsense Ready Blogger Template

Adcufon Dark Folioz is another adsense ready blogger template. It is in a black color background, and this is beasutifully matched with clear color fonts.

The template comes with 2 navigation bars under the blog name which are easy to modify and there is a search box and button on the right of its upper navigation bar. The main are consists of a posting area which is design in a magazine like template. Postings made will first appear broadly in the home and then will collapse fully in a new windows when your reader hits the read me button just on the bottom right corner of each post. Two more collumns are available on the right of the posting area, one is narrow and another one is wider than the middle collumn. The 2 collumns are goode for you to place your adsense confirming this Dark Folioz as a adsense ready blogger template. For example, you can see in the live demo that a 160x600 Skycrapper Google adsense (text only) is placed on upper part of the middle column. This was done with matching font colors making the adsense more attractful to readers. You can have another adsense on the right, that is on the wider column, and you can select an adsense of 250x250 for that space (text only or both text and images). I leave that to you to decide!

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How Install Breadcrumb in Blogger Blog

I have just found this, so it is new (to me) and I think you also want to know about it and how to have one installed in your blog, whether or not you are using an adsense ready blogger template.


So, what is a breadcrumb? I don't want to explain much about it to you, but you can have look to this image below.

Right! A breadcrumb is actually a line that displays in which page of your blogger blog your readers are now and position of that page in relation to its label and homepage. Maybe not quite right, but you know what I'm trying to say. It is like a directory!

So, how you can have in your Blogger blog?

1. Log in to you Blogger and in the blog you want to have a breadcrumb in, click Layout | Page Element | Edit HTML
2. Search for this code: 

]]></b:skin>

3. Replace the above code with the following one:

.breadcrumbs {

padding:5px 5px 5px 0px;

margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;

font-size:95%;

line-height: 1.4em;

border-bottom:3px double #e6e4e3;

}

]]></b:skin>

4. Then, search for this code:

<b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>

5. Replace that code in #4 with the following on

<b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>

<b:include data='posts' name='breadcrumb'/>

6.Again,  search for this code: 

<b:includable id='main' var='top'>

7. Replace the code in #6 with the code below:

<b:includable id='breadcrumb' var='posts'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl == data:blog.url'>

<!-- No breadcrumb on home page -->

<b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<!-- breadcrumb for the post page -->

<p class='breadcrumbs'>

<span class='post-labels'>

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl' rel='tag'>Home</a>

<b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>

<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>

<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>

<b:if cond='data:label.isLast == "true"'> »

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a>

</b:if>

</b:loop>

<b:else/>

»Unlabelled

</b:if>

» <span><data:post.title/></span>

</b:loop>

</span>

</p>

<b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>

<!-- breadcrumb for the label archive page and search pages.. -->

<p class='breadcrumbs'>

<span class='post-labels'>

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Archives for <data:blog.pageName/>

</span>

</p>

<b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>

<p class='breadcrumbs'>

<span class='post-labels'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageName == ""'>

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » All posts

<b:else/>

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a> » Posts filed under <data:blog.pageName/>

</b:if>

</span>

</p>

</b:if>

</b:if>

</b:if>

</b:if>

</b:includable>

<b:includable id='main' var='top'>

8. Save your template.
9. Done! Your blogger blog now has a breadcrumb!

Adcufon Phyto | Adsense Ready Blogger Template

This is another template that I highly recommend to Blogspot template, especially those who are looking for an adsense ready blogger template. This template is called Phyto and it was designed by Web Design Lessons and then converted to Blogspot users by Theme Craft. The strong point of the template lays, at least, on its colors which are smartly selected and combined perfectly.

The Phyto template has 3 columns and also 3 footer columns. Blog header is backgrounded with a darker area, and above this there is a navigation tab with a nice background color. Below the header there is a tab which contains rss and social networking buttons. These buttons are easily seen by your readers which may give a better change for them to spread your blog contents.

This is a really adsense ready blogger template and in the live demo I have given 3 Google adsense formats that you may consdier as examples. The first one is below the header with color that matches the blog template in general. You can keep this Google adsense but you have to replace the publisher ID with your own. The second adsense is a Google Search box and a 234x60 Half Banner with background and border color of #f9f3eb. This color for adsense background and border is similar to that of  the sidebar background where the adsense is being placed. The most right sidebar is too narrow for the 250x250 Square but too wide for the 120 wide vertical banners.

And don't forget the 3 column footer widgets which are also beautiful!

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Adcufon Liliya | Adsense Ready Blogger Template

This is another adsense ready free blogger template created firstly for Wordpress by New WP Themes and then converted to blogspot users by Theme Craft. Liliya comes with a dark grey background for its blog header and light grey background for the body area. The main area itself is white making this template clear and convenient to your readers' eyes.

This adsense ready blogger template is a 3 column one with side bars are placed on the right of the post. You can use both sidebars for your adsense or any other ad formats based on your liking. Banners of 125x125 pixel may be also placed in any of the side bars but they have to be arranged from top to bottom. A 250x250 adsense may perfectly inserted in the post are, that is just after the post title and its author and label links.

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Adcufon Acusmin | Adsense ready blogger template

This template is laid down on a grey background, but the post and the sidebar areas are in clear white background color which give a perfect color combination between the background and the template itself. This was called Acusmin and designed originally for Wordpress by Alexandru Cosmin and then for blogger by Deluxe Templates. I transformed the header fonts with cufon which makes it more beautiful.

The template has a wide area for its header and below the header there is a page tab which you could filled with your own pages. On the right hand side of the tab there are twitter and rss button that can easily be catched by your readers eyes.

The main area consists of a post area of 650px width and on the right hand side of the post area there are two columns, each sized about 125px and a single column sized of about 250px. These types of sidebar size give you higher flexibility on how to make use of them. For example, you can put Google Search Box right fromn your Add Gadget on the 250px box and put a 120x600px Google Adsense in one of the 125px wide columns. You may preferably put you 120x600 Skyscrapper Google Adsense into inner column and leave the outer one for your label, for example.

I have put a 300x250 Google Text Only Adsense just after the post heading on the left of the post which is the most preferred form of adsense placement by most bloggers. When you use this, do not forget to replace the ID publisher with your own code. When you adjust the coloring in your Adsense setup use 019de6 as the code for the light blue color used for Adsense title and url. This template use this color code for its headings (post heading in particular), and you better use this for your adsense so they are perfectly matched.

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Adcufon Digidigi | Adsense Ready Blogger Template

If you are after a beautiful and simple yet strong blogger template, you may consider using this one. This template is called Adcufon Digidigi, created with a name of Digidigi by Ourbloggertemnplates.

This templates has 3 columns in the middle at the right position and 3 footer columns.  The smaller column in the middle of about 120px size is just on the right of the posts, and in fact it is sorrounded with a border box together with the posts. The columns I think is perfectly suitable for the 120x600 Skycrapper Google Adsense. As you can see I think it is better to put the 120x600 text only than an 120x600 image as this may distruct the reader. On the right of that narrower column, there is a wider column you can put your Google search, label, archives, etc. You may consider to put another Google Adsense of a bigger square size in this column. And you can put your 125x125 banners here too, or your Facebook fan page.

Down on the bottom in the footer, there are three columns which you can use for things such as rss of your other blogs, recent comments, etc.

I have replaced the header and post title as well as sidebar title fonts with cufon which make this template looks very clean and beautiful. I highly recommend this template if you are thinking about adsense. You can easily install the adsense code through Add Gadget facility in your Blogger Layout.

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