Hey, I just added a “widget” to my sidebar! That was some way awesome computer skills in action, folks! I stole the idea from this blog: 4tunate. It’s a world map that tracks visitors to your blog. I saw it and thought, “How can I get me one of those things?” So I clicked on it and it opened a larger world map. I thought, “Hey, cool!” And I looked right away for Bahrain, and sure enough there was a big, red dot. So she doesn’t know it, but her Bahraini visitor is me! But anyway, I looked around that site and at the top it said, “Get your own, free: easy as 1, 2, 3.” So I clicked on it. And do you know, they’re right? It WAS easy? Computer people don’t explain things in easy terms very often. So these guys get an A+ 100. All I had to do was register, then login to the site, and it gave my html code to copy and paste into my blog. AND–this is the important part–it had step-by-step instructions for HOW to do it. I clicked on the link and, lo and behold, there were a lot of choices for the different kinds of blogs. So I looked down the list until I found Wordpress, which is the kind of blog I use, and clicked on that and would you believe I found step-by-step instructions that were helpful and complete and easy to follow? Hard to believe, I know. But I did. I followed them AND IT WORKED. That’s amazing too, isn’t it? So I was able to add this thing ALL BY MYSELF and without Jeremy’s help even. That is like super, totally amazing! I’m so proud of myself. So I had to share the news.
So now I can track where my visitors are from. Even if there’s only like three dots I think it will still be cool.
I wish I knew why the weather widget doesn’t work anymore…. Any ideas, Jeremy?
