{"id":60,"date":"2008-01-30T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theedublogger.edublogs.org\/2008\/01\/30\/creating-a-blogroll-for-your-sidebar\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T03:14:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T11:14:57","slug":"creating-a-blogroll-for-your-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/creating-a-blogroll-for-your-sidebar\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Blogroll For Your Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last post showed how you can add links to your sidebar using HTML<\/a> however the Blogroll and Links widget feature is an easier alternative.<\/p>\n

What is A Blogroll?<\/h3>\n

Bloggers often feature a list of their favourite blogs in the sidebar of their blog; this list is commonly called a blogroll. One of the reasons for adding a blogroll is so your readers can use this list to locate other blogs worth reading — you are saying “these are some blogs I like – which are worth checking out!” <\/em>The unfortunate downside is readers may get upset if they aren’t on your list — one of the reasons why I call it “Some of the Blogs I read” on my Mobile Technology in TAFE blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is important to realise that the blogroll area of your dashboard is an area for storing any links i.e. not just links to blogs. These links can be organised into categories <\/strong>e.g. blogroll, Favorite Posts, Articles I’ve Written.<\/p>\n

Setting up your Blogroll<\/h3>\n
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  1. Your Edublog blog automatically comes with a blogroll in it’s sidebar.\u00a0 All you need to do is Add or Delete links to change what blogs are displayed.<\/li>\n
  2. On your blog dashboard, go to Write > Links <\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Insert the Name of the blog, its URL and tick Blogroll then press Save<\/strong>.\"Image<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. To remove a link to a blog from your blogroll go to Manage > Links<\/strong>.\u00a0 Tick the blog link you want to remove then click on Delete<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Using Link Categories<\/h3>\n

    Remember that you can also organise links into areas besides your blogroll using link categories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Here is an example of how Larry Ferlazzo has used link categories on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    Larry’s blog makeover used a combination of links created using HTML<\/a> and blogroll because link list using the blogroll feature was too long i.e. created clutter on his sidebar.<\/p>\n

    Another way of setting up your Blogroll is to use Google Reader to create it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    If you are enjoying reading this blog, please consider \"\"<\/a>Subscribing For Free!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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