Add Widget to Header | Add Widget to Post in Blogger

I was working in blogger and wanted to add AdSense to it in specific places. By default, I can add a html/javascript widget to the side bar, but there was no way to add a widget to the header or to the post. Wassupwidat?

I tried editing the HTML directly, but the AdSense ads wouldn't show. I didn't want to use the built in AdSense monetize featured because that doesn't allow for channel tracking. So I poked around a bit and found they way to do it.

Add widget capability to the header

Go to the edit html and look for

<b:section class='header' id='header'>

There might be some other stuff in there, but regardless you want to edit it to read:

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='3' showaddelement='yes' preferred='yes'>

After you do that, when you go to the layout screen you'll have an Add Widget section. Now you can put in a html/javascript widget and put your adsense in there (or anything else).

Same thing for the post section. Look for something like:

<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>

And replace it with:

<b:section class='main' id='main' maxwidgets='3' showaddelement='yes' preferred='yes'>

Use the maxwidgets setting to control how many widgets you want to add.

RetroWebDev Blog Update & Social Bookmarking Tool

With my intent to chart my progress through the Sargasso Sea of .Net development, I decided to update my blog with the new templates/features now offered by Blogger. I'm now taking advantage of the hand-dandy gadgets that are so easily installed, and have integrated the AdSense ads between the posts. (Not that anyone ever clicked on the old AdSense ads, but hope springs eternal.)

One of the things I wanted, and operating under the delusion that people might actually find certain posts here interesting and want to share, was an easy way for visitors to do the social bookmark submission thing.

A quick search took me to AddThis, where I quickly and easily got hold of the handy bookmark button now seen below all posts. You do have to register to get the tool, but heck, I'm registered on a gajillion sites already anyway. What's one more?

So welcome to RetroWebDev's slight new look.

Archive Calendar for Blogger Blogs

After I'd gotten numerous posts in my RetroWebDev blog, I noticed that it can be difficult to locate a post after clicking on one of the monthly links under the Archive section.

It didn't take much research to find a handly script that generates an Archive Calendar for blogger. To see it in action, click on one of the monthly links uder the Archive section on the left.

With the Archive Calendar, you can click right a specific day to see the post(s) on that day. I like.

Mucho thanks to whomever created this script.