Add Animated Recent Post Widget in Blogger

A recent post widget can make your viewers to stay for a longer time in your blog. It would be nice if its animated as well. I'll give you simple steps to create an animated recent post widget. After completing all the below steps you will be getting a widget similar to the one given below.

• Login to blogger and select Layout tab.


• Click 'Add a Gadget' button and select 'Html/Javascript' widget from the pop-up window.


• Copy and Paste the below given code.


• Replace 'YOUR-BLOG-URL' with your site's homepage url.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     
<style type="text/css" media="screen">      
<!-- 
#spylist {     
overflow:hidden;      
margin-top:5px;      
padding:0px 0px;      
height:350px;      
}      
#spylist ul{      
width:290px;      
overflow:hidden;      
list-style-type: none;      
padding: 0px 0px;      
margin:0px 0px;      
}      
#spylist li {      
width:278px;      
padding: 5px 5px;      
margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;      
list-style-type:none;      
float:none;      
height:70px;      
overflow: hidden;      
background:#fff url(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/708209/scriptabufarhan/recentspy/post.jpg) repeat-x;      
border:1px solid #ddd;      
}     #spylist li a {     
text-decoration:none;      
color:#4B545B;      
font-size:11px;      
height:18px;      
overflow:hidden;      
margin:0px 0px;      
padding:0px 0px 2px 0px;      
}      

#spylist li img {      
float:left;      
margin-right:5px;      
background:#EFEFEF;      
border:0;      
}      
.spydate{      
overflow:hidden;      
font-size:10px;      
color:#0284C2;      
padding:2px 0px;      
margin:1px 0px 0px 0px;      
height:15px;      
font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;      
} 

.spycomment{     
overflow:hidden;      
font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;      
font-size:10px;      
color:#262B2F;      
padding:0px 0px;      
margin:0px 0px;      
} 
-->
</style>
 <script language='javascript'> 

imgr = new Array();
imgr[0] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[1] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[2] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[3] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[4] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";

showRandomImg = true;

boxwidth = 250;

cellspacing = 6;

borderColor = "#232c35";

bgTD = "#000000";

thumbwidth = 70;

thumbheight = 70;

fntsize = 12;

acolor = "#666";

aBold = true;

icon = " ";

text = "comments";

showPostDate = true;

summaryPost = 40;

summaryFontsize = 10;

summaryColor = "#666";

icon2 = " ";

numposts = 10;

home_page = "YOUR-BLOG-URL";

limitspy=4
intervalspy=4000

</script>

<div id="spylist">
    <script src='http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/708209/scriptabufarhan/recentspy/recentpostthumbspy-min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>

Still any doubts? Comment here. Its my pleasure to help you!!!

---

---