...how to post some links in left column of my blog? I'd really like to post links to some great blogs that I think everyone should read, and I am very particular about where they should go. I don't want to post them in a horizontal row, you see (otherwise I could put them underneath my title). And I don't want to just post them in an ordinary blog entry, because then they would just scroll on down the page with time and end up in the archives (gasp!). In order not to offend my aesthetic sensibilities, I really want to put these links in a vertical column, namely right underneath "Recent Posts" and "Archives" and that silly "I power Blogger" logo that clashes with my decor. Problem is, I don't know one single command in HTML. Do I need to?
Monday, November 15, 2004
Does anybody know...
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Go to ye olde Blogger Dashboard and click on the "Template" tab. In the cute little window that should appear, scroll almost to the bottom until you see the words, "This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar." Delete the placeholders aroud that and replace the "This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar." sentence with something like The World's Rulingestass Band!, ad nauseam until you've got all the links you want entered. Then click "Save template changes."
Can, as Dr. Jon Kammerer, M.D., would say, of corn.
(Correcting my error take 2, without the incorrect code-)
Whoops. Obviously typing in demonstration HTML just inspires blogspot to process said HTML, so there's just a link in the previous entry which is fairly unuseful in terms of Teaching Jess HTML Coding. I am apparently not smarter than a computer. Trying again -
Replace, again, "This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar," with <a href="[the URL of the site]">[Whatever you want the link to read</a> <br>
Repeat that over and over again (keeping the whole thing between the <p> and </p> that are already there) until you have all the sites linked that you wish.
Thanks, Charlie, and thanks to Brian too, who sent an almost identical email. You guys rock. Charlie, does Jon have a blog? If not, please tell him he should. (By the way, my sister gets to hang out with him for 6 weeks!) :-)
Wow. Y'all are FAST. I just read this today. Sorry I couldn't have helped out sooner. By my HTML method was far more complicated than the one you used. You're lucky these folks got to you first.
Hi Abba, thanks for wanting to help. I appreciate it! You rock too.
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