How to add stuff to your Blogger page...post 2

Comments Feed thingy
On Wordpress its a module that you can add but on Blogger you have to add them a different way and if you have a Google reader its fairly easy
Add the feed for comments into your Google reader the link will be like this http://blogaddictsanon.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
obviously you change the site name for yours so Dana's comment feed would be
http://danasvoice.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
Your site address with /feeds/comments/default on the end
Change the name of the subscription to "comments for" so you don't get confuddled with the blog feed, make sure its in a public folder or blog or the feed it won't work.

Click on the Manage Subscriptions link, tick the box for comments feed you just added, tick the "add clip to your site" link and a pop up box will appear.
This is the fun part where you choose what colours and what title you want, then you can click the "add to Blogger" link and have Blogger add the code for you or do it yourself (copy paste into a html module on your page)

Bit of a mess around but once you have done it its done and your recent comments will appear on your Blogger blog.
Don't ask me how you can do it if you use something else I'm assuming you can use YPipes or use Feedburner to do the same thing .... a feed is a feed comments or blog.

Update: If you want an easy way click add page element>> add feed
I can't see "add page element" on Firefox so forgot you could do that .... **DoH**

Quick Comments
I had a look on the Blogger Help pages and found a couple of different things that you can use
First one is guestbooks but like any webpage they should be on a different page
The other is called a Tagboard of course like the Guestbooks you need to sign up in order to get the code but once you have you can grab the code for the box like I have on the right, had to put it on the right as it got squished on the left (template issue) The one I'm using there is called Tag Board.com its fairly simple and if you know a little HTML you can change it around a bit, like the "TAG" button you can change that to say "post" if you wanted to. It's free of course (you know me its gotta be free) but you can pay and get IP banning etc.
Of course if you get the free one you might get some numbnuts decide they want to play on it so all you do is log in to TagBoard and re-do it, think re-pasting code will do the same but if it does clear it I can't test it don't want to clear mine yet.

Of course you can use a TagBoard on any site where you can put it, MySpace profiles for instance but remember it is PUBLIC and anyone can post on it.

Authors
You can have others post on your page, great for a blog like Bloggers Anonymous or if you want to set up a writers page or post on a cooking page like Tastebuds
All you need to do is go into your Blogger permissions page and add an author, you will need an email address for them. Blogger will send them an email asking if they want to be an author and they say yes or no.
You can even grant them admin privileges after they say yes so they can add things to the page other than posting blogs.
The blog will come up on their Blogger profile with their name as an author, some pages have a pile of authors
If you want to be included as an author and you haven't been asked ask! Don't ask don't get! Just don't forget your email address you can't get permission without it and of course you have to have a Blogger account don't have to have a blog just an account.

looks like this when you have a few authors (emails blanked out for privacy)

Tags.
On 360 all your tags have to be-one-word or one_word you can't put spaces or Capitals here you can, you can tag your posts as My Dog, Base Ball Heroes or By the Sea, you can also go into your list of posts and tag all of them at once or 10 at a time, so say you posted a pile of old 360 posts here on Blogger go into your list of posts and tick the boxes for them (draft OR posted doesn't matter) and label them "posts from 360" and Blogger will tag them all at once! No more lost posts because you forgot to tag em and no more silly looking tags. As you might notice I'm so used to doing my tags the 360 way most of mine are-like-this LoL old habits die hard.
Of course if you blog on Wordpress it will make you a cloud, Blogger doesn't do that and I missed my tag cloud so much I found a site that makes em and put one on my Blogger but it was a pain a BIG pain to do (it should be at the bottom of this page)

Ok that's it I think ...flippin hope so anyway
Bloggers Anonymous has some other sites that may help you with your Blogger page and any other web site for that matter and a few more things to help with blogging in general have been added to Chronicknightmare

So tag me and I'll find an old tag :P

Blech I loathe these things but seeing as I've done them allready I don't need to type em up just re-post (these are from 05) they are badly written and probably badly spelled
There are a couple more just couldn't find them besides they are all basically the same because you know what I do I use the last time I got tagged and re-post it hehehehehe ...I'm such a meanie



1. When is my birthday? July 4th
2. How many kids do I have? 2, one of each
3. Where do I live? Next too what? NSW, next to a cemetery
4. What is a drop bear? Mythical Australian animal
5. What music do I like? Abba, Cold Play
6. What sports teams do I like? None I hate sport
7. What’s my favorite drink? Coffee
8. What kind of car do I drive? Or what colour is it? Toyota, grey
9. What pets do I have? 1 Dog, 1 budgie, 2 pigeons
10. What colour are my eyes? Green
11. How tall am I? 5 foot 8
12. What are my favorite TV shows? ANTM, Lost, ER
13. What books do I like to read? Horror, science fiction/fantasy
14. What’s my star sign? Cancer
15. What school did I go too? Urrbrae Agricultural High School
16. Who sits next to me? Flowerman
17. What animal is on my desk? Cow
18. I have a roll of what? On my desk? Toilet paper
19. What’s my favorite colour? Purple
20. What’s my favorite food? Sardines

1: I stir my coffee 12 times, I don’t count how many, I just know I do it, you know how you do something automatically after a while, well that’s what I do, if I counted every time that would be obsessive compulsive, if I tipped out a coffee someone made for me because it wasn’t stirred 12 times that’s obsessive compulsive. I don’t do that, I just stir it. I happen to know that it’s 12 times

2: There must always be a cup of coffee on my desk, full or not it HAS to be there, different cups but always a cup on my desk

3: I can’t eat if I am not relaxed, if there’s an argument I can’t eat, something stresses me I can’t eat. Doesn’t mean I won’t eat it or that I’m not hungry just can’t eat it at this moment. I have been like that all my life, my brother and sister (12 and 13 years older than me) used to harass me at the table because I ate slow of course that made me eat slower, can't eat under that pressure or with people staring at me

4: I sleep covered up has to be a sheet (at least) even in the summer, I like to be able to move but I have to be covered or I wake up, cant stand drafts I can’t stand anything blowing on me, drafts, the air conditioner fans or the car window I’m sitting here now with a jumper on because of the air conditioner

5: umm yup supposed to be 5 ummm lets see I smoke that’s disgusting .I talk to the budgie, that’s not a habit though it’s “teaching him” la la (budgie can you say “shut up” or “wot ya doin”) .I get up turn on comp, turn on kettle, go potty then get my coffee and sit at comp in that order and that’s the worst habit of all

Ouch not tacked ..tagged

Alissa tagged me and I was like oh noooooo, ouch tagged not thumb tacked

INSTRUCTIONS:Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list
and bump everyone up one place.
Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so
1) bipolar notes from underground
2) This Side Of Reason
3) Picking Up Pieces
4) Alissa's Thoughts
5) Miss Interrupted


Next select five people to tag:
Don’t really like being tagged myself, it’s a bit scary and if anyone doesn’t want to do this it’s fine in fact if you read this and want to do it and you haven’t been tagged yet, just pretend you got tagged anyway ok

1) Dana’s Voice -- because I can
2) G – can’t wait to see what she comes up with
3) Webby – because I don’t think she’s been tagged for a while
4) Jesus –I’m far too lowly for HIM to read mine but I’ll tag him anyway
5) Oopsy – even though she’s probably already been tagged

What were you doing ten years ago?
What year was it 10 years ago? Not 1987? No that’s not right, oh yeah 1997.Trying to sell our little house that I didn’t really want to move from so we could get rid of the two mortgages and get the tenant out of the bigger house at the same time, ended up moving most things by myself mind you as the X was down the hotel drinking, only a week before settlement was due on the small house as we just could not get the tenant out, that woman would not vacate. We didn’t have time to paint or basically spit in the time we had lucky it was only around the corner. One problem with that the dog kept going “home” and visiting the new owners

What were you doing one year ago?
What am I doing now? Sitting here in my PJ’s typing

Five snacks you enjoy:
1) Chocolate
2) Cake
3) Bananas
4) Nuts
5) Chocolate cake with banana and nuts --- of course dah

Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1) Advance Australia Fair
2) Silent Night
3) Cats in the Cradle
4) When I’m 65 (will you still hurt me whip me and beat me ..whoops wrong version)
5) Alleluia Chorus

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1) Spend money …dah bit obvious that one
2) Get my car overhauled …look great with mag wheels it would
3) Buy one of the vacant shops in this town and set up a net café and computer learning center
4) Tell my X that he will not be getting any of this money, not this time
5) Pay for Adrian to learn to drive and get him a car, coz he ain’t driving me he can’t anyway he can’t get behind the wheel (small car + big guy = squished)

Five bad habits:
1) Pick at my nails
2) I don’t eat ..no make that I forget to eat
3) I drink too much coffee
4) I forget things know I forget but don’t write things down
5) only being able to think of four things

Five things you like doing:
1) Helping people
2) Growing things
3) Animations
4) Finishing something
5) Sleeping