I Guess People Like Blog Tutorials...

My last post got mostly positive comments so I guess I'll give some more tips.  I'm thinking this time I'll cover paypal donations, and the top 10 followers gadget.  Both are pretty easy to add.  So get ready for my l337 MSpaint skillz.

For the a neat gadget that lets you keep track of your top 10 most active followers, log in to Blogger and go to to the "Design" tab.  Click on "Add a Gadget" as seen here:

in the window that pops up, click on "Add your own" like this:

Copy and paste: http://xmlgadgets.com/ig/top10.xml into the form. and then click Add By URL.

Title it whatever you want and click save and you're done.  Easy right?  Ok, let's tackle paypal next.  I got my first donation just the other day which I'm very thankful for.  So set up a paypal acct, if you don't have one, and log in if you do.  In the bar at the top, click Merchant Services, and then under the section for Create Buttons, click on Donate.  See pic for reference:

This will take you to the form for creating the button.  You can customize it if you want, even use your own image for the button(which i considered) but paypal has good brand recognition, so lets stick to the default for now.  All you really need to enter is your organization name/service.  Just use the title of your blog, and you can change other settings if you want.

Click on "Create Button" and you'll be taken to a page with some freshly generated code. See?

Select it, press ctrl+C to copy it.  Now we log in to blogger and go to Design and Add a Gadget (see first pic), but this time we're going to select HTML/Javascript.  So scroll down and look for this(click the plus sign):

Paste in the code you copied from paypal and title the gadget whatever you like; click Save and you're all done, you should have a shiny new paypal donation button.

I got at least one more helpful little blogger tip up my sleeve but I think I'll save it for tomorrow.  This seems lengthy enough for today.  Or I could go back to posting random explosives and weapons and junk if you guys prefer...feel free to let me know in the comments.  If you found this useful or anything drop a comment about that too, it helps me feel validated. :)

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