Adding categories to blogger the easy way.

Yes, that's right. You too can add categories the easy way to blogger. Now we all know that blogger doesn't have the categories capabilities like the other blog templates. It's ok, here is a way to fix that. It doesn't take long and it will save our readers the time of trying to scroll through our whole blog looking for that one article that they really need. So let's start shall we? This method is by far the easiest way to adding categories to your blog.

First, we open up our favorite text editor, notepad, word etc. and type this
HTML code.

For example:

(h2 class="sidebar-title">Categories(/h2)
(ul)
(li)(a href="http://Type Your URL here/search/label/Name of your first category 1")Actual Category title(a/)(li)
(li)(a href="http://Type Your URL here/search/label/Name of your second category 2")Actual Category title(a) (li)(a/)(/ul)

Note: All regular html tags are replaced with the ( ) so it will show up here as plain text. Replace tags with the right html tags <>.

Just repeat the lines that start with (li) and that end with (li) (italicized here for our reference) to add more categories. This sample was just for two categories added. Don't forget that additional categories added above need to be inside the UL tag.

Now, we can open our blogger account and go the layout tab. Go to the "template" tab and then to the "add a page element". When the selection pops up choose the HTML to add the code to our template. Now, just copy and paste the HTML code that we typed in our text editor. Preview the blog to make sure that that the code is o.k., if it does then we can save it. It should be on the right hand side with the different categories that you made. If it doesn't look right, review the code again and see if there are any mistakes. Easy right?

O.k., one thing to remember when we are posting, always include the categories that we want our article to be under, otherwise it will not be categorized! For example, if our category name is Cell Phones 123, then we have to include "Cell Phones 123" in the labels block. We are now finished! Hope this helps you out in a small way. moonburst