Today's progress...

Working hard (ish) today on my blogs.

Look on the side to see my progress.

I played around with Gadgets (customize => layout => page elements => add a gadget) and added a subscription link and got that pesky technorati badge in its correct position.

I also edited my html to remove my navigation bar.

Above is what it looked like before with the blogger navigation/search bar fully intact. If you look above now, you'll not find it. Woo hoo. (Did I mention that this is not a professional tutorial. Lol.)

I just attempted to add FeedFlare to the bottom of my post but I think I screwed it up and, thus, I am putting it on the back burner for now. However, I did get the Kontactr form on here but its too bad the darn thing got cut off on the side. Looks so ugly.

The only things that identify this as a blogger blog is that I need to purchase my own .com and I need to design a favicon and remove the orange/white B and I will be good to go.

I'm still debating adding tabs and changing to a three column format. I'll keep you posted!

~Ms. Katrina

Techorati Badge

So, I finally progressed to adding my Technorati Badge to my blog. Yep, that's blog, singular as I'm kind of tired from a very long day. I'll do the rest of them tomorrow or some other day.

Mostly, I just wanted to see how hard it is to put in the html. Actually, with blogger, it wasn't hard at all.

Sum it up:

* Go to Blog

* Click in Customize

* Click Layout

* Click Edit HTML

Now, like I said, the hardest part is trying to figure out where you want to put it. Especially if you are as unfamiliar with html as I am.

First, grab the tag for the technorati badge that goes with your blog.

Steps?, you ask

* Enter your account on Technorati

* Click on your Claimed Blogs

* From here you can either go straight to the widget clicking, you guessed it, Widget or you can both edit your blog information and grab a small widget by clicking Edit Settings.

* Either way, grab the code. (I assume you know how to copy/paste, right?)

* Go back to blogger

* Post the code where you think you want it to go in your (I did a search for the word "follow" to find where blogger put the google friend connect.)

The beauty of working with blogger is that you can click "preview" before you make permanent changes to your blog. And if you made an oopsie, you can always just click "Clear Edits" and your blog instantly goes back to the way it was.

After you've found your ideal location, simply click "Save Template" and you're done.

After much sleepy struggling, I got the badge to show up on the bottom of this blog but I much prefer it on the side such as on my CrazyLazyMother Blog. Maybe I'll try to move it to the side after I get some sleep. Possibly not. Lol.

Hey, I'm not coining the phrase Crazy Lazy Mother for nothing!

~Ms. Katrina

Technorati

Signed up for technorati today. Wow, is there ever so much to learn. Doesn't seem to be too difficult though. Mostly, I just added my blogs to be "claimed" as they put. Seems to take about an hour to complete the process. On the other hand, blogger is part of OpenID so adding each one of my up-to-date blogs was really simple. You should be seeing the cute lil' Technorati badge on the side bar soon.

Oh, and the reason why technorati is important is hard for my sleep-deprived mind right now but the jist of it is that technorati will ping you blog and raise your page rank and find you followers. Followers are important. After all, what is the point of a money-making blog if no one is reading it. Save that for your personal, non-money-making ones! Lol. Ok, that was funny in my head but maybe because I'm soooo sleepy.