After providing thousands of gadgets to make your blogs beautiful, Blogger has changed the design of its Dashboard also. So, after you sign-in the Dashboard that appears looks as shown below :
Now, let us get to know how to add the basic gadgets from the Add a Gadget page to your blog. So, click on Layout to go to the Add and Arrange Page Elements page.
To Add a Blog List
1. Click on Add a Gadget.
The Add a Gadget window pops up
2. Click on Blog List.
The Configure Blog List window pops out
3. Title – will display the title of the blog list and not the title of the blogs that is to be included in the blog list. The default title is My Blog List. But, you can change it to anything more creative that you can think of, e.g. My Fav Blogs.
4. Sort – will display the blogs included in the list alphabetically by their titles or as the most recently updated blog list. The default is Most recently updated. Click on the drop-down menu to select Alphabetically by blog title.
5. Show – will display the full blog list or just 5, 10 or 25 while the rest are hidden. It’s better to display only 5 blogs if you have a long blog list and let your readers click on Show all if they want to see all the other blog titles on the blog list so that there is space to display other gadgets.
6. Icon – box is checked by default to display Blog icons before the blog titles in your blog list. Click to clear it if you do not want to display the icons.
7. Title of most recent item – is also selected by default and displays the title of the recent post – not the post from your blog, but from the blog that you have selected to include in your blog list – below the blog title in the blog list.
8. Snippet of most recent item – will display the first few words from the recent post from the blog listed in the blog list.
9. Date of last update – will display the number of days since the blog in the blog list was last updated.
10. Click on the Add a blog to your list link shown in the box.
The Add to your blog list dialogue box pops out
11. Type the blog address in the box provided.
12. Click Add.
13. For adding more blogs to the blog list, click Add To List button.
14. Repeat step 11 & 12.
Now, let us get to know how to add the basic gadgets from the Add a Gadget page to your blog. So, click on Layout to go to the Add and Arrange Page Elements page.
To Add a Blog List
1. Click on Add a Gadget.
The Add a Gadget window pops up
2. Click on Blog List.
The Configure Blog List window pops out
3. Title – will display the title of the blog list and not the title of the blogs that is to be included in the blog list. The default title is My Blog List. But, you can change it to anything more creative that you can think of, e.g. My Fav Blogs.4. Sort – will display the blogs included in the list alphabetically by their titles or as the most recently updated blog list. The default is Most recently updated. Click on the drop-down menu to select Alphabetically by blog title.
5. Show – will display the full blog list or just 5, 10 or 25 while the rest are hidden. It’s better to display only 5 blogs if you have a long blog list and let your readers click on Show all if they want to see all the other blog titles on the blog list so that there is space to display other gadgets.
6. Icon – box is checked by default to display Blog icons before the blog titles in your blog list. Click to clear it if you do not want to display the icons.
7. Title of most recent item – is also selected by default and displays the title of the recent post – not the post from your blog, but from the blog that you have selected to include in your blog list – below the blog title in the blog list.
8. Snippet of most recent item – will display the first few words from the recent post from the blog listed in the blog list.
9. Date of last update – will display the number of days since the blog in the blog list was last updated.
10. Click on the Add a blog to your list link shown in the box.
The Add to your blog list dialogue box pops out
11. Type the blog address in the box provided.12. Click Add.
13. For adding more blogs to the blog list, click Add To List button.
14. Repeat step 11 & 12.
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