How to use Google Code to Host Scripts to use in blogger

Blogger is great platform for people to express their views, Despite there are many other free popular platforms like wordpress, typepad etc, Blogger still remains famous among bloggers for many reasons

1. Self hosted at google servers
2. Requires no primary domain to start with
3. Requires no technical knowledge to start blogging

For those who blog using blogger, if they use third party widgets created by some one else other than Google, there will definitely be a javascript file included the widget code hosted some where to make the widget work.

The problem is if the javascript file is hosted somewhere else, if the source becomes unavailable for some reasons the widget in your blog will not work.

To find where the script is hosted, find the <script></script> tag in your widget code, so in the script src =”SERVER Name” is the server where the file is hosted. So the above code is hosted at dropbox, If dropbox is down your widget will not work.

<script style=”text/javascript” src=”http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1362566/recentpostswiththumbnailsv3.js”></script><script style=”text/javascript”>

 

Also if there are heavy number of users using the same widget code, the amount of time required to load the widget in your blog will tremendously increase.

To overcome this difficulty you can download the particular javascript file and host in your own google code account.

The advantage of doing so is, You can improve the widget loading speed in your blog.

The following proceduce describes about how to host your javascript files using Google Servers

Step 1 :

Go to the link specified. You’ll need tocreate a new project. Fill in the necessary details and save

Fill in all required details on the Create a Project page and choose an appropriate Public Domain license from the drop-down list. All files you consequently upload to your project will adopt this same license.

The name chosen for your project will become part of the URL for your project’s home page (e.g.  http://code.google.com/p/NAME-OF-PROJECT) and should contain no spaces.

Step 2 :

Now click on “New Download” to create your download file

Step 3 :

The following screen appears. Now fill in the necessary details, Upload your file that is to be hosted on google server.

New-download-hosting-scripts-on-google-code-blogger

Step 3 :

Once you are done with the above step, Go to the download section, You’ll see the list of your uploaded files, click on the particular file. You’ll see the following

Step 5 :

You are done with hosting your file with google code, In the above screen just copy the link corresponding to your file name. That is your permanent public link to the hosted file.

You can use it anywhere in your blog.