How2Blog: Adding Code to Sidebars

Karen Rani — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:51:12 -0600

Please note that the large screenshots required to illustrate the points in this post, are all hosted at How2Blog, so feel free to read the entire article there if you need the visual aids.

First off, thank you to everyone that wrote in to How2Blog with their questions. An even bigger thank you to Mir at Want Not (and of Woulda Coulda Shoulda Fame) for spreading the word. Many of the questions came in from that helpful site. Thanks, pretty lady!

There are many questions to get to, but some of you wanted to know the simplest of things, and what did Julie Andrews sing in The Sound of Music?

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with A, B, C
When you sing, you begin with Do-Re-Mi

And then she broke into song. Again.

Many of you wrote asking about how to add links, how to add images, and how to add links that are clickable images to your sidebars.

Laurie from Not Just About Cancer wrote:

When I switched to blogger beta, I lost all the buttons on my blog, including sitemeter, which I really miss. Is there a way to get them back or do I have to start all over again?

Laurie, allow me to let you in on a little secret: never, ever sign up for anything Beta. I can't tell you the number of times I've signed up for Beta and lost everything, including my mind trying to make it work.

Needless to say, Blogger Beta is now The New Blogger, so what's done is done. So the sad fact is, yes, you need to re-install the codes for all of your sidebar fun.

Go to Site Meter and sign in, get your html code and plug it in where you want it. (The code at Site Meter is found under the Manager tab, and although there is an option for adding the code to your Blogger blog, among others, we're going to do this the old fashioned way.)

So here's a sample code from Site Meter:

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