I've just finished with some interface tuning here. I generally like when some piece of work looks nice at the end of the day. Blogspot have some problems here, though. First, it doesn't offer nice fonts (well, it have a few, but with no support for cyrillic). Second, adding a source code syntax highlighter requires manually editing the source code of the template, which is not so fun and have a sad consequence that changes get lost every time I switch the template.
Luckily, there is a clean and portable way to solve my problems without the need to edit the template at all. Here is the recipe:
Luckily, there is a clean and portable way to solve my problems without the need to edit the template at all. Here is the recipe:
- Open blog setting and go to the "Design" tab.
- Choose a block to add new gadget to. In some cases a block from the top of the page is preferable and in some cases it is better to choose one from the bottom, but in most cases it den's matter so much.
- Click the "add gadget" link.
- Choose "HTML/Javascript" in the pop-up
- Enter any XHTML code, containing CSS and Javascript (enclosed into style and script tags) and hit the "save" button.