How to Add an Element to a Blog

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we're here talking about Internet essentials. Now, I want to show you how to add an element to your blog spot. Okay, to add an element to our blog is pretty simple. I use a blog at blogger.com. It's michaelburtonproductions.blogspot.com. I'm going to go in here to my dashboard. This is where I can change all of my settings. We're going to go ahead and go to Layout. This should give me the the options for arranging the elements, and adding new elements. Here's our add and arrange elements page. As you can see, I have elements on the right hand side. These you can click, and as you can see, you can drag them around and re-organize em' any which way you, any which way you want . Right here; you can add some gadgets. You can; this is where you; where it says blog post, this is your main blog section. This is currently the setup that I have for this template that I'm using. Down here at the bottom it says Add a Gadget, or in other words add an element. You would click on this button, and out pop your gadgets, or what they call elements. You can choose to add a Blog List, or add some Followers, Slideshow, Subscription Links. These are new. They also have some of the older stuff, like Link List, and Photos, Text, different things to keep this readers on your page, you know, interested. Here is a blog archive that keeps track of all your blogs, and organizes them by date and time. I currently don't use that, but that's a good thing to have. Here's a logo; a Blogger Spot logo that you can add if you wish. You can also have a video bar right here. It says video bar that, where you can show clips from YouTube and Google Video right there on your, on your web page. You also have a Newsreel which will put the most current headlines from the Google News right to your blog spot, so anybody on your blog spot at the time can keep up with the news, and etc., etc., etc. Once you add a gadget to your page, like I said, you can just drag them around to the different areas. See how this highlights over here on the left? Put it right below my blog, my blog post. I could put it at the very bottom of my page. I could put it right under my title, or above the blogs if I wanted to. This gadget happens to be over here, and see; I can juggle these around any which way that I want, and then leave em' in the order that I feel that I want them in."