The interactive map

In order to get this to work, you have to use Blogger-in-draft because the location link isn't yet available in standard Blogger. If you haven't used it before, all you need to do is to log in to your blog at Blogger in Draft and then on your dashboard tick the box saying "Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard." Otherwise you will keep forgetting, believe me.

When you prepare a post, you will now see a link

	Location:	add location

underneath the Compose box and above Post Options. This will open up a Google map where you can choose your location. If you need to edit the post later, you do need to remember to be certain you are in Blogger-in-Draft, or the location will be lost, even if you don't change it. You can go back and edit old posts to set the location, if you want to.

Having prepared your posts, you need the BlurbBits widget from their site. Follow the link and, in the body of the post, click on Add to Blogger which will open an Add page element window, then click on Edit Content.

You need to change "blogger=YOURBLOG" to your own blog name, the part before .blogspot. You can also change 100, which is the number of posts displayed, to something else. I've changed mine to 150 but I'm not sure how much effect this has on loading time. Click on the "Add widget" button. Save, and your done.

Then, hey presto!

I hope that makes sense. If you have some really simple and straightforward questions I may be able to answer, but I found the people on BlurbBits very helpful indeed when I was setting it up.