Adding A Favicon - 2018
One easy way to make a blog more visible is to add a favicon. A favicon makes a blog easy to find, in a typical browser window, with lots of open tab…
Dashboard - Layout
Blogger Magic - Resequence Pages Buttons / Links
Some blog owners add pages - dynamic and static - to their blog, then discover that the Pages gadget lists them in the wrong sequence. We see an occa…
Blogger Magic - Using "Add a Gadget"
One of the most useful features of Blogger is the ability to add many different accessories, to a blog. There are accessories, for every blog - and f…
Share Posts, From Private Blogs, By Email
Owners of private blogs have, periodically, lamented the lack of options for distribution of comments and posts. We've seen a few queries, in Bl…
Diagnose FaceBook Gadget Problems
Adding a FaceBook developed gadget is - or should be - just like adding any HTML / JavaScript gadget . Sometime, though, adding a FaceBook gadget ju…
A New Blog Feature - Featured Post
Last week, Blogger Engineering announced their latest feature, "Featured Post" . Whether you’d like to re-share that delicious holiday reci…
Adding A Pinterest Pin To Blog Photos
I've been seeing the Pinterest "Pin It" hover icons, in various blogs, for a few weeks. Today I decided to try adding an icon to this b…
Several Ways To Add HTML Accessories To Your Blog
If you have a malicious or misbehaving gadget in your blog, one of the easiest blog cleanups is removal of a malicious HTML gadget . Unfortunately, t…
Adding AddThis Social Media Buttons To The Blog
A few folks have asked me about my social media toolbar, that I added a couple months ago. It took very little work, to develop and install this gadg…
Blogger Magic - Repositioning Sidebar Gadgets
One of the more challenging limitations of Classic (HTML based) templates involved the template packaging. Each template provided a combination of ba…
Blogger Magic - Adding A Pages Index
One of the most versatile ways to organise a blog is by using a Pages index. Long ago, the only possibility, for indexing a blog attractively, was a …
Blogger Magic - "Configure Page List"
The "Configure Page List" wizard is an extremely useful - yet obscure - feature in the dashboard Layout page. Not every blog owner sees th…
Confusion From "Add external link" In Pages
The recently redesigned Pages gadget and wizard has been with us for just over 3 months. We are occasionally seeing some confusion from people who c…
Dynamic Templates, And Problems Editing The Layout Pages Gadget
Ever since the new Pages wizards have been in use, we've been seeing reports from blog owners, who have problems with adding, deleting, and re s…
Renaming The Home Page, Using The New Pages Gadget
The recent Blogger redesign of the Pages list / Pages gadget has caused some confusion. How do I create a "Web address" page? and How do I…
Confusion Over The New Blogger Dashboard Pages Wizards
A week ago, Blogger redesigned the dashboard wizards, that are used to setup and maintain pages . The most visible change involved a complete redesig…
Layout: Add A Gadget
We add gadgets using the dashboard "Layout" wizard. From the "Layout" wizard, find any link to "Add a Gadget". Choos…