Removing the Blogger Navbar

Many teachers have expressed a desire to remove the Blogger navbar from their blogger blogs. This wish is based on the fact that by clicking on the "Next Blog" link can lead students to blogs with unsuitable content.

It is possible to completely remove the navbar - read on:

I took the following css suggested here and added it to the template on a test blog of mine, so far it works:

#navbar-iframe {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
}

Ning in Hebrew

I spent a very intensive 3 days translating Ning to Hebrew, so that hopefully I will be able to use it in school. It's more or less done, bar some new privacy features which came out after I received my version of the code and a few gliches caused by the neccessary RTL directionality for Hebrew. If anyone with a good understanding of css is reading this post, I could really do with a helping hand. For my part as soon as the translation is 100% I will make it available to the ning community and of course will credit those who helped make it possible http://inhebrew2.ning.com

For those of you who may not know Ning, it is an "online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds."

RTL aligned wikispace wiki for Arabic and Hebrew

Wikispaces provide free, ad-free, password protected wikis for K12 educational use.

Until now anyone needing to align their wiki from right to left (Hebrew or Arabic) had to add a special tag around the RTL text. Not any more!

With the help of Dominic Bellizi of Wikispaces, I have created a CSS template which sets a wiki up for RTL languages.

The template and help files including screencast of CSS setup are available at:
http://rtl.wikispaces.com

The above wiki is in English Language and so is not itself aligned RTL but a working wiki based on the RTL wiki CSS can be seen on the Hebrew demo/help site :
http://hebwiki.wikispaces.com

I am hoping to find the time to translate wikispaces help pages to Hebrew - any collaborators would be welcome!