How To create or install Recent Posts widget for Blogger blogs

You could have seen the recent posts widget in my blog .It is cool isnt it ?It helps your readers in effective navigation and it is a superb blogging tool.When i was a blogging starter i did almost 60-70 google searches to get this functionality but i never understood the background stuff going with the web design,blog design etc ,.So it was very tough earlier.But later on i learnt basics of web design then learnt javascript and the process is going on.But dont worry !Iam here to explain you how to install a recent posts widget for the blogger blog.shall we start ?

STEP 1:

login to feedburner and goto the “publicize section”

 

 

now click on the buzzboost section and activate the service .

 

 

give the necessary settings – i have given the no. of items to display as 10 in my blog – but its your choice .

Now scroll up and copy this section [the script ] in a notepad file or any other editor :

 

 

There is no work in the feedburner after copying the above section.

STEP 2:

Login to blogger and come to the “EDIT HTML” section .

find this line there : style type='text/css'>

And paste the below code  below the above line  :

 

.recent-post{
width:300px; margin:20px 0px 20px 20px; font-size:11px;
line-height:16px;
padding:6px 0;
margin-bottom:20px;
background-color: #E8F1F3;
padding:6px;
}
    .recent-post li {
        padding-bottom:6px;
        border-bottom:solid 1px #d8d8d8;
        margin-bottom:6px;
        background:url(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg285/itcoll/star.png) no-repeat left top;
        padding-left:18px;
    }
    .recent-post a:link, .recent-post a:visited {text-decoration:none;}
    .recent-post li a:hover {text-decoration:underline; color:#555555;}

 

see the below picture if you are not sure where to place the code :

 

 

STEP 3 –LAST STEP :

The major part of the job is over – just a little more to do to get the cool recent posts widget .

Remember the script we copied in the feedburner website  to notepad ?

paste it in the blog template whereever you want the ”RECENT POSTS” Widget to appear .Its your choice.Now a last thing to do :

After pasting the script of feedburner you need to add two more lines –one above the script and other below the script – see figure below :How was that ? Hope i made it very easy for you bloggers .Bye :)