Layout & Gadgets

Hey Jammers! Here is the second part in the Animal Jam Blogging guide/tip collection/walkthrough thingy. Today, the focus is on Layout & Gadgets.

1) Configuring a favicon

Have you ever wondered how blogs get the little symbol by the blog name on the tab?

Here's how!

First, go to Layout.

Find the "Favicon" section and click "edit."

On the pop-up, choose "Choose File" and pick the file to upload for the favicon. Make sure it fits the requirements.

Click "Save." You now have a favicon!

2) Add a poll

Many bloggers want to know how you can add a poll to their blog, so they can ask questions and receive responses in an easy way.

First, click on Layout.
Next, click on "Add Gadget."

In the window that pops up, scroll down until you find "Poll." Click the plus sign to add it.
In the new window, there are different things you can change about the poll. You first need to add a question,  then add answers.

Key:
Red: Where you add the question
Blue: Where you can add the answers.
Black: You can remove an answer if you wish.
Green: If you have too few answers, you can add more.
Pink: Depending on the type of question, you can allow people to pick more than one answer.
Purple: Change the date of the poll closing.


3) Image links
Many people prefer to have links to pages in corresponding images on the sidebar, rather than in the traditional bar at the top of the page, or even on the side. The benefits of having the pages linked like this are:
> You can have descriptions of the pages
> It just looks neat :)

Here is what you have to do:
First, open up the "Add Gadget" window.

Scroll down to find "Image."

Click the add button, and you will be taken to the configuring page.

Now, the trick is to find the appropriate graphic/image to fit the page. Here are a few graphics/images that could correspond with some pages you may have on your blog. These images I extracted from the HTML of the Daily Explorer and the Animal Jam Help Desk. Since anybody can find these, you do not need to give credit for these images.
Questions:


Rare Item Monday:

List all of the rare items sold on Mondays.

The Alphas

Have information about each alpha.

Contests:

Epic Dens:

Have DE Epic Dens, or pick your own!

Scamming Awareness:

Trading Station:


Help (Animal Jam or Blogging):


Game Guides:


There are many, many more pages and graphics that you could use out there.


To set it up:

Once you have found the image you want, right-click on it and click "Copy Image URL."

Go back to the Configure Image window.

Insert the following information:

Red: The Page Title
Blue: Page description
Black: Add the page link (Ex: http://www.animaljamnox.blogspot.com/p/trading.html)
Purple: Paste the image URL

Click save, and you have your very own image page link!

Some ideas of how you can use this:

• Make all links images, if you have less than 10 pages.
• Make half the pages image links, half on the top bar

Be creative!

Happy Jamming!

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