Tag: sidebar

  • Blogger – displaying the latest comments gadget

    From time to time, people comment on my blogposts (you may too by the way, just click the “# COMMENTS” link below to comment on this post), and at times they even comment on very old blogposts, such as this one, dated September 14th, 2007. The problem with this is that unless you actually read the post in question, you’re not likely to know that the comment was made.
     
    What I wanted to do, then, was add a gadget to the sidebar, displaying the last five or so comments that were made. As it turns out, this was simpler than I’d expected. Here’s how:
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  • Adding an infobox to your wiki

    As you may or may not know, I’m maintaining not one, but two wikis. One of these is my personal website. In both I’ve added an infobox on the right to make some articles stick out. Here’s how it looks:
     
    Wiki Information box
     
    How have I done this you ask? It is really boxes within a box. Let’s go through it line by line. I start with a comment:

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