Remove the Blogger Brand

The PANMA Web 2.0 Shootout last Thursday was a blast. My presentation on Blogger was great success, or so I was told...The one point that was mentioned in conversation afterwards was the nagging Blogger brand that must always grace every Blogger Powered Blog(or so you thought!) Well, it turns out that completely removing the Blogger Brand is easier than you think.

1) How to remove the Blogger Bar:
Who knew that by simply inserting one simple line of code into the top of your template's HTML you can completely hide the Blogger headbar? Well, these guys did, so now I know how to also.
Simply add this line to the very top of your template:

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

To edit your template's HTML, simply click on 'Template' 'Edit HTML', paste the code as shown below, and then save the changes.


2) But what about the ".blogspot" domain?
That's easy! Blogger offers two options for you to have a custom domain name. You can either create a sub domain for your blog and change your DNS record to point to the google, or you can publish to your blog using FTP to your site. For more detailed information, check out Blogger Help.

3) Well, the favicon still gives away the fact that my blog is a 'mere blogger blog'
Truf, but have no fear! Simply tell your template where your favicon lives and wola!

link href="%27http://www.ascentive.com/favicon.ico%27" rel="'shortcut"
link href="%27http://www.ascentive.com/favicon.ico%27" rel="'icon'/"

Now you have a fully-branded blogging platform.