How to Add a Gadget to a Blogger Blog

While trying to help several people get used to using Blogger, I've been distressed to realize the help page doesn't have much information about Blogger's Add a Gadget tool. Maybe the developers thought it was such an intuitive thing that nobody would need to be told? It might have seems like that to them, but if you're like me you had to just stumble upon it by accident, and simply try it out to see how it worked. That's fine for some people, but many others like the security of having instructions before they start poking around in the underpinnings of their blog.

To find the Add a Gadget tool, you go to the Layout tab of your blog's Dashboard. There are several links to Add a Gadget in different parts of the page diagram. Just pick one, and click it. This window will open in a popup (assuming you have not disabled popups in your browser. If you have, change your preferences to allow popups in your own blog using your browser's "exceptions" tool.)



If the gadget you want to add isn't available as a preset on the tool, you can use the HTML/Javascript button to cut and paste code you've obtained from another website.

It really is intuitive, but you do have to know where to look to get started!