Tuesday's Tip - Adding a Feedly follow button in Blogger

After reviewing many blog aggregates to replace Google Reader, I finally decided on Feedly.com. It works on all of my toys: apple, PC or tablet. I have read that many blogs followed the same path so I have decided to add a button to my blog to allow folks to follow me via Feedly.

Through the Feedly Factory you can design your own Feedly button through an easy three-step process:

1. Select your button design
2. Load your feed URL
3. Copy your HTML

The web page will create the HTML to place the button on your blog based on your input. You will then cut and paste this code as a gadget in Blogger. Be sure to post your feed URL, not just your blog's URL address. For help determining your feed URL, see here. (Thank you to Elizabeth for pointing this out!)

To add the Feedly button in Blogger, visit the layout page for your blog and locate the "add a gadget" link. Both circled in black below, though it's placement will vary based on the template used for your particular blog.



This will open the Add a Gadget link.

Scroll down the options until you find the HTML/Java Script gadget.

Cut and paste the provided HTML from the Feedly Factory page and press save.

The Title button will include a type-written title for your button, as shown below. I chose to leave this blank because the button speaks for itself.

Play around with the button size and design until you find the right look for your blog. Don't forget to save before exiting.

 

UPDATE: Blogger has a site listing it's feed URLs here.

Follow Friday - Favorites for July 19, 2013

Favorites is my weekly list of favorite genealogy, history and random finds from across the Net.

First female homesteader found at Ancestry.com and Fold3.com

A review of The Big Divide, Missouri-Kansas Border Region Civil War sites travel guide

500 years of women's portraits in Western art - in three minutes  

A great blog prompt at Lara's Family Search: Ancestor Deep Dive

An interesting tale of how grog can lead you astray at Lives Once Left Behind

After Toil Comes Rest shares the Unemployment Relief Census of 1933 (Oklahoma)

Here comes the bride: an 1825 carriage

Wonderful photos of welcoming the newest generation at Threading Needles in a Haystack

Marian at Climbing My Family Tree remembers the Bronx's Freedomland

Great thoughts about collaboration at Desperately Seeking Surnames

The right stuff at The Old Trunk in the Attic 

Find Oregon ancestors at Historic Oregon Newspapers

The 54th, the medal and the law at the Legal Genealogist

Hotel horror, remembering the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster in Kansas City

 

 

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Warren Kuhn contemplating wish greatness with Audrey and Ruth Burnett, July 16, 1952

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Ah...summer travel

Ah...travel. My family just completed a 2,182 mile road trip from Arkansas to California courtesy the U.S. military. That's six days in two cars with two children under six. We had a great time exploring the western states on our trip and made an uneventful arrival at our new home in California (minus the crack in the windshield). We are working to get settled, find a new home and find the new "favorites" in the area. It's hard to say how long we'll be here, but it is really nice to start a new adventure!

Follow Friday - Favorites for July 12, 2013

Favorites is my weekly list of favorite genealogy, history and random finds from across the Net.

Looking back at the National Personnel Records Center 1973 fire

A free course for reading medieval handwriting
Photographic faces of the American Revolution
Professor finds rare FDR wheelchair video clip
AnceStories shares digital news archive search engine, elephind.com
Yvonne at Yvonne's Genealogy Blog shares a letter from Buckingham Palace
Remembering I Can Read books at Ancestors Live Here
Finds from a National Guard enlistment card at How Did I Get Here
A football coaching phenom at Roots From the Bayou
Vacationer finds diamond in Arkansas
Treasures in the Smithsonian's attic
7 crucial tips: How to get your blog listed on Google
Our Own History shares a visit to an Alabama Civilian Conservation Corps museum
How Tootsie changed Dustin Hoffman: 'it was never a comedy for me.'
An interesting piece about summer kitchens at My Ancestors and Me

Follow Friday - Favorites for July 5, 2013

Favorites is my weekly list of favorite genealogy, history and random finds from across the Net.

WWII German bomber raised from the sea

Who put the heads on Pez?

Sunday houses in Fredericksburg at ABT UNK

America's most endangered historical places

Nephew thanks U.S. Army for liberating uncle in 1945

The Statue of Liberty's history in photos

Teacher wears same outfit for 40 years

Gettysburg: the great reunion of 1913

Gettysburg relived deadly drama 150 years later

What do sunglasses have to do with syphilis?

They weren't always white: wedding dresses through the years

Confederate POWs produce their own fish wrapper

Wordless Wednesday - Spring love

Hazel and Rose Mary White, probably in Spring 1933.