Labels widget is a very important widget for Blogger, it helps a visitor to easily find their topic instead of searching or leaving your site. Blogger’s default label widget is very suck looking, it just shows list of your label or some floating tags. But this default widget is customizable through adding some custom CSS into your template. Here I designed 3 unique looking label widget, what will give your labels A fresher look, Cutting edge and trendy design most of all these widget is easy customizable how ever you want. Made with CSS3, CSS, Google Font, Flat colors. Let’s see how they look like and how to add them into your Blogger blog.
Color changing Label widget
Flat and trendy designed inspired by Thesis themes of Wordpress.
These label widget installing has 2 steps to go through, read on-
Step 1: Installing label widget
Log into your Blogger, select your Blog,
Go to ‘Layout’ tab, click on ‘add a gadget’ from sidebar.
From pop up menu select ‘Label’,
From ‘Label’ menu select you want to see this widget as ‘Cloud’ style,
Save widget then Save template
Step 2: Installing label styling
Go to ‘Template’ tab, Select ‘Edit HTML’,
Search (Using CTRL+F or CMD+F) for]]></b:skin>
Copy and paste above ]]></b:skin> any style you want.
Finally, Save template, preview your Blogger blog to see the change.
Customization (Little advance)
You can change label tags color easily. Go to any color picker, choose your color based on your choice copy the color HEX code, replace on default background color code. Example: If you want to change ‘Color changing Label widget’s tags color just change background:#F97C00; #F97C00 to any color you like. Rest label's color customization are same
You can change the tag cloud size by changing value of (font-size:16px;) and (.label-size a{height:18px; line-height:18px;) sizes
Compatibility
These label widgets are Compatible with any Blogger template. But custom made or highly customized template will not support it. Again in that case if you able to find those non-supported template’s ‘Label’s source code (should be inside CSS part, above ]]></b:skin>) that case change .label-size to that template’s ‘Label’s source code (Example: If your template have custom label CSS named .label li change my codes .label-size to .label li) that way you can get this design work.
All CSS3 effects are compatible with every web browser’s latest version (except-IE)
So don’t forget to mention what your thought about these custom label widget for Blogger. New designs will release soon stay touch and Goodluck…
