Adding a Widget to Your Sidebar (e.g., March Madness) (Testing and Procedures)

** NOTE ** The instructions below will not work as displayed with the Firefox browser. If you are using Firefox, in the actual code change all you see an "ampersand"lt to < and all "ampersand"gt >.

So you want to add links to your sidebar, in their own widget. Using the March Madness bloggers as an example, let's go through the steps.

From the Main Menu of your blog, click on templates.

Next click on Modules

Next click "Create New Template Module"

Under "Template Name" type, "Widget: March Madness"

Then, in the Module Body, copy and paste the code below and then click "Save"

<div class="module-archives module">
<h2 class="module-header">March Madness Bloggers</h2>
<div class="module-content">
<ul class="module-list">
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/sandrac" target="_blank">A Journey of 1000 Miles … Begins With too Much Luggage</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/robertrainey" target="_blank">Beyond the Lunatic fringe-Travels with Robert</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://fizzybeverage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blonde Momentos</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/amy" target="_blank">Destination Anywhere</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://jdeq.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Jerry's Thoughts, Musings, and Rants!</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/deborah" target="_blank">Old Shoes, New Trip</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.divinacucina.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Over a Tuscan Stove</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/palma" target="_blank">Palmabella's Passions</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/marta" target="_blank">Postcards From the Trail</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/girasoli" target="_blank">Shave Ice and Gelato</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/bge" target="_blank">That's My Story...And I'm Stickin' to It</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/chris" target="_blank">The Best Trip Ever</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/tuscanartist" target="_blank">Vagabond Artist</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/kim" target="_blank">What I Really Think</a></li>
<li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://whistlestopcooking.blogspot.com/index.html" target="_blank">Whistlestop Cafe Cooking </a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

The above is a list of the March Madness Bloggers. If you want different links, change the URLs, and names to the corresponding websites. Delete which links you do not use, or add links if you need to. For more information on this see: Adding Links to Your Sidebar section.

Now click "Templates"

Page down, and click "Manage My Widgets"

Click "Slow Travel"

See where it says "March Madness" in the right hand column, click on that and drag it to the left as in the following screens. I put mine above the "My Links" section. You can tell where the widget is "going to land" by where the line appears in the second screen below.