{"id":38,"date":"2024-04-23T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theedublogger.edublogs.org\/2008\/01\/24\/enhancing-your-blog-by-customizing-widgets-using-html\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:32:09","slug":"photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/photo\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Add Your Photo to Your Blog Side Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the next post in our “blog makeover”<\/a> series that provides an excellent opportunity to respond to a reader’s suggestion to include an image using HTML in a page or sidebar.<\/p>\n

It is recommended you read the previous post on Getting more out of Widgets<\/a> prior to reading this post.<\/p>\n

Basic knowledge of HTML provides greater ability for customizing text widgets. It means you can embed photos in your sidebar, link to pages on your blog or other websites, write text using bold and italics, for example.<\/p>\n

What is HTML?<\/h3>\n

HTML is a bit like RSS<\/a>, for bloggers there is no need to fully understand it but helpful if we learn the basics of how to use.<\/p>\n

HTML is short for “Hyper Text Markup Language” and a language used to tell a browser how to organise the layout of a web page it has downloaded from the net – e.g. it influences if text is bold, italics, a heading, bullet points, etc.<\/p>\n

When you write a post or page inside your blog dashboard you don’t worry about HTML because the Visual Editor does it for you. If you switch to the Code Editor from the editor options menu, it shows the HTML code instead.<\/p>\n

\"Editing<\/p>\n

Basic knowledge of HTML is really helpful for tasks like customizing widgets and writing comments on blogs.<\/p>\n

Examples of HTML used to highlight text include: <\/strong><\/h3>\n