Adding page elements to a blog
You can add new page elements (sometimes called widgets or gadgets) to your blog. As you see here, our class blog has four page elements in the right hand column: Subscribe!, Class sites, Labels, and Blog archive. Note that you can reorder them by dragging and dropping.
You can edit or delete a page element by clicking on its "edit" button. You can add a new page element by clicking on (no big surprise) "Add a Page Element."
In creating our class blog, I used the following page elements:
| Element |
Element type |
| Subscribe! |
HTML/JavaScript |
| Class sites |
Link List |
| Labels |
Label |
| Blog archive |
Blog Archive |
Each type of page element has its own fields that you can edit. The "HTML/Javascript" element is most flexible. It allows you to enter a title and any HTML or Javascript. I used it to add the "Subscribe!" element to our class blog. Here is the HTML I entered to create the subscription links:
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<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cis471" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cis471" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe to this blog</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=25222"><img alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png"/></a> <a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=25222">Subscribe to an audio feed (podcast)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=163828&loc=en_US">Subscribe to this blog by Email</a></p>
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Note that I cut and pasted this code from Feedburner and Talkr when I created the feeds. I only had to make small changes to put the icons where I wanted them.