First choose the template you like the most. Different templates have different options and customizable features.



Under the Widgets tab, drag & drop the widgets you need. Choose from the list of available widgets and insert it into the list on the right. The order is important. If you place a text box on the top of the list, you can edit it and list your credentials, name and contact address, while the other, less important, boxes can be placed under that one.



When you want to edit a widget, click on edit and click on Save when finished (do not forget to click Save changes after all).

Vodpod

It lets you collect the best videos and show these to your readers by placing a Vodpod widget in your sidebar. You can also add the videos you post on your blog to Vodpod automatically by using the Blog Importer function.







Vodpod review:

Sitemeter

A service providing counter and tracking information for websites. By using Sitemeter, you can know more about the visitors of your blog, how they reached the site, the date and time of their visit, where they are from and more. You can make traffic predictions or place a widget on your sidebar to let others check your statistics.

Google Analytics

It tells you where your visitors come from and how they interact with your blog and helps you how to improve your results. The Website Optimizer tells you which page designs, headlines, and graphics convert the most visitors.

E-mail address

It's very important to show a valid contact address to the readers, so a nice e-mail icon can be useful when readers want to share suggestions or tips with you fast. The E-mail Icon Generator helps you by creating such buttons.





Place that url into a Text box in your Design/Widgets tab and save.

Skype contact

Create a button to let others know about your Skype account. Skype a communicational tool that lets you call or chat anybody worldwide.

Microblogger accounts

Microblogger tools are for those who would like to share only messages, images, videos or slideshows with readers. You can place your Twitter account icon or Friendfeed account icon in your sidebar.

1. Open your microblogger account (let's use Twitter this time).


2. Open your blog's admin dashboard and click on Design/Widgets. Choose a text box to write in and insert this code (substitute YOURACCOUNT with the name of your account):




3. Click on Change and Save Changes below the sidebar boxes.

Odiogo

It transforms your blog posts into near human quality audio files (podcasts) ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

You should define the license you will use on your blog right before writing the first post ever. The basic approach of blogging is to share content and create networks with others how also share their content. That is why Creative Commons can help you with the licenses it provides.



This tool will help you which license would fit your needs the most.

When you are ready, copy the code of the license and insert it into one of your textboxes of the sidebar in the same way mentioned above.

When mentioning other bloggers' posts or exceprts, link back to the original author as attribution is important. That's how you can build a high quality network.