Adding to sidebar

I started messing around with my weblog's sidebar, added a couple of "features" and took one out. It's really easy doing them in iBlog through its Navigation Editor, though a minor cosmetic glitch remains unsolved. See if you can spot it right away by looking at your left.
First, I added a search engine. There were a couple of choices, but I found FreeFind to be the most useful for weblogs; it can index your site daily and has unlimited page counts up to 34MB, perfect for those frequently updated weblogs. The only glitch is that after copying the engine placement code to the sidebar, a weird-looking Ê appears next to the box and won't go away. Anyone the wiser?

Next, I deleted my Favorite Sites section and replaced it with BlogRoll. What's the difference? Favorite Sites was just a list of links that I manually typed in HTML; it's static and tedious to update. BlogRoll is dynamic. I paste some JavaScript code to my sidebar once, then it grabs my links from BlogRolling, where they become live and easily manipulated. Now I can add a site to my BlogRoll as easy as adding a bookmark in Safari. Nifty.

Finally, I decided to add a statistical tracker to my site, after doing without one for over a year. Truth is, I didn't want to know. I look at this blog as my personal writing space, a place to write without restrictions. Keeping track of my readers might yield me from writing freely. But with a year of practice, I don't believe a tracker can persuade me otherwise. So now I've incorporated Nedstat Basic to my site. Aloha to my friends in Hong Kong, U.S. and Malaysia.

Filed Wed - June 25, 2003, 04:33 AM in

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