Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Blogger's Gadgets!

There are many different types of gadgets that you can add to your blog! Most are beneficial, but some are entertaining and just neat to look at. Some of the types of gadgets include entertainment, news, quotes, calendars, tips, virtual pets or people, educational, religious, daily posts, you can add text or images, and many, many more! 

Here are the steps to adding a gadget!
1) Click on "design" in the upper right corner of your blog page
2) Click on layout near the bottom of the list on the left hand side of the page. (it will show the layout of your page)
3) Click on add a gadget!


 Here are some of the gadgets I added to my blog and a brief description to each!

Newsreel

The Newsreel gadget shows you the latest
news on Google, and has a link to the Web 
page that the update is about to make searching 
for things quick and easy! It also looks nice on a
blog since many people use the internet to read 
the news.

Search This Blog

Search This Blog is used to make searching
for things on a blog easy, so you don't have
to scroll through every single blog post until
you find the one you were looking for. It is 
very beneficial to people who make many blog
posts, because it makes it easier to search for 
certain posts!

Translate

The gadget, Translate, can be very beneficial
for bloggers, considering the fact that people 
all over the world can read your blog! Translate
lets you pick what language people use to read 
your blog, since not everyone reads English.

Total Pageviews

Total Pageviews gadget is nice because you can 
see how many people have viewed your blog. It 
may be beneficial to some, but others may just 
want to use it to see how many people view their 
blog.

Fish

Fish is a gadget that is for entertainment and 
eye catching purposes! You can feed the fish 
by clicking in the box that the fish are 
swimming in. You can watch the colorful
fish swim around!

Thank you for reading, I hope you have fun exploring all of the gadgets!

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