Blogger Gadgets (Page Elements) and what you can do with it

This post is best read with a wide screen and at least 2 windows opened with one displaying this post and another displaying Investment, Money and Finance and minimize the 2 to display side by side, and perhaps either a third window or tab of a browser with tabbed browsing displaying screen shots of "gadget editors" for want of a better name.

I have previously written about the 19 Gadgets (Page Elements) together with a screen shot of those 19 Gadgets. If you want to see a demonstration of them excluding the Archives Labels Gadgets, have a look at the second right sidebar of Investment, Money and Finance

The Gadgets in the second (last) right sidebar of Investment, Money and Finance are in descending order:

1. My Blog List (a more elaborate version of Link List with choice of displaying in the list, an icon, post title, snippets (extracts), thumbnail and date, all of the most recent posts. When you click "Add a blog to your list, you will be prompted to enter the blog URL


2. Followers


3. Slideshow (I used the keyword "money" to display images from Flickr. You will get a choice to display slide shows of images from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket using keywords and Album using username using a feed, or select "Other" using a feed)


4. Subscription (for your readers to click on so as to be able to subscribe to your blog feed in a feed reader)


5. Poll


6. ListThis is almost link a link list because you can link the items on the list to a webpage by clicking on the link icon and then entering the URL of the webpage you want the item to be linked to. I used the title "BOOKS" for the list and link it to books at Amazon


7. Link List or another name, blogroll. I don't like to use this as this cannot be back uped. I prefer to use HTML/Javascript gadget and hyperlinks as this can be backed up. If you do not know how to do this, ask


8. PictureI did not add this in the demonstration blog. However, if you chose to add this, you can either chose the pictures from your computer or the web. I prefer to use HTML tag <img>


9. AdSenseRather than using this gadget, I also prefer to generate the script myself and use the HTML/Javascript gadget. If you do not know how to do this, ask


10. Text This TEXT gadget is practically a post editor as you will have icons to make the text bold, italic, set the color of the text, hyperlink it, block quotes, use HTML


11. HTML/Javascript This is the gadget I use most often as there is a great variety of things you can do with this even if you don't know HTML or Javascript, you only need to know where to get the codes and paste them into this gadget. It can also be easily backed up


12. Feed For your readers to click on and subscribe to your blog feed


13. Labels This is a list. Other blogging platform call this categories


14. Newsreel I added financial news in the demonstration


15. Video Bar I added video with keyword "Money"


16. Logo


17. Profile not added in demo


18. Archive not added in demo


19. Page Header This would be present in practicall all blogs

I will follow up with a post on backing up gadgets or page elements later.