Read More Trick

Read more is one of the trick in blog with have purpose to show a half of the articles are displayed. When visitors are interested in our article and would like to know more, they can read full article by click the "READ MORE" button option. But why we need this in my blog? Sometime we are make a long article. This will make our blog become long too, it caused a person who visited must scroll down their mouse if they want to know all about our blog. How if we have some important information for example adsense in some area....say it Footer Area, and our visitor won't to scroll down their mouse? I think our visitor will not see our information. Caused of this reason, i used this trick in my blog....... it become like this......

To use this trick, we are need several things to do.

1. Sign in to your blogger account.
2. Go to your layout.
3. Click "Edit HTML" button.
4. Cek Expand Widget Templates box.
5. Look up for this code
<div class='post-header-line-1'/> <div class='post-body'>
6. Add some code just below that code. The code that must be added are:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style> <p><data:post.body/></p> <b:else/> <style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>
7. After you added that code, just below it, there are code like this
<p><data:post.body/></p>
add this code after that.
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More</a> </b:if>
8. Save your template.

One thing that most important to use this trick are when you make an article, you must make it like this one.

1. Use edit HTML method when you type your article.
2. Make article like this format,
your article that want to be appear <span class='fullpost'> Last article until finish </span>

Now, you can use "Read More" trick on your blog.

Enjoy it
One-4-All