Amazon.com wants to make adding their info to your blog page as easy as possible. To that end they have developed many widgets to help you. There is an entire page of Amazon.com widgets to choose from. When you choose which widget you want to use, Amazon will explain how to use it. For the most part, you’ll want these widgets to appear in your sidebar. Choose your widget, then copy the code, and follow these instructions for adding the code to your sidebar.
Typepad has instructions for the following:
Typepad also has a list of Amazon.com widgets that should install by themselves. Once you have installed the widgets, you’ll want to customize where they appear in your sidebar. You can do this by going to Weblogs > Design > Current Design > Order Content.
For Blogger users:
- Login to Dashboard.
- Click Layout.
- Click Page Elements.
- Click Add Page Elements.
- Choose HTML/Java Script (click on Add to Blog button).
- Paste the code from Amazon in the Content area (it’s not necessary to have a title here).
- Click Save.
WordPress users can download plugins for Amazon at WordPress, WordPress Plugin Database, and Widgetbox.
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The plug-ins are available at the WordPress.org blogs, but the WordPress.com blogs — the free ones — have the widgets as options within some themes. WordPress.com doesn’t allow any java script of any kind, so, unfortunately, that limits a lot of things.
WordPress.com users can find their available widgets but going to My Dashboard>Presentation>Widgets. They can also click on the link to the FAQs or the forums and search for “widgets” to get a lot of helpful information.
Why doesn’t this work with Xanga themes? It’s very frustrating!!!!!
Alesha
http://www.xanga.com/akconklin