How to align Pages/PageList gadget

A Pages (a.k.a PageList) gadget is simply a set of links to your (static) Pages. You can opt to add Pages gadget once a static page is published. Pages gadget is left aligned by default. To align it in the center or on the right (of your horizontal bar or sidebar), you just need to add a small CSS code snippet. Here we go, Go to Template > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS (old interface:

Display/hide widget on specific pages in Blogger

When you add a widget (or a gadget as Blogger would call it) to your blog, by default the widget would appear on all pages –homepage, index, archive, post and static pages. But what if you want a certain widget to appear only on a certain page or pages, can it be done? In other words can you select on which page/pages the widget would or would not appear? The answer is yes you can -by using

Blogger top commentators cloud widget

Reward your top commentators by displaying their names with clickable links on your blog. One of the more popular methods is by using a top commentators widget. This time we will create yet another top commentators widget, but with a different look. We will make a cloud, just like a label cloud, except with commentators as the content. I personally prefer this cloud version over the conventional

Apply different layout/styling to static pages

Finally Blogger has come up with the much awaited static pages feature. Blogger simply refer to them as Pages. You can create up to 10 static pages, perfect for your About Me and Contact pages. However, a Page will look just like homepage or any other page. Would it be nice if you can change the layout, making them look more like pages and less like posts? Maybe you want the sidebar or footer

Highlighting current page tab in navigation bar

Let your readers know where they are on your blog. How? By highlighting the tab of the page they are currently viewing. See the demo on my widget showcase blog. We can detect the current page by using conditional if tag in the navigation bar HTML code. Normally we would have to use one set of conditional if tags for each link/tab. But if your navigation tabs is made of a LinkList gadget, you can

Adding a section (with Add a gadget link) in Blogger layout

A section is an area in Blogger layout that acts as a widget/gadget container. It is sometimes mistakenly addressed a page element. In Design > Page Elements tab, you can identify a section by the presence of an Add A Gadget link. To add a widget, simply click the Add A Gadget link in your preferred location and proceed with selecting a widget. But what if your preferred location doesn’t have