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Chapter 1: Discovering Blog Basics
✓ Sidebars: Sidebars usually become a major focus for a blog site. Sidebars
are columns to the right or left (or both) of the main content area, and
they contain elements such as navigational links, special highlighting
graphics that point to social networking sites, lists of blogs that you
read (blogrolls), archive links, or anything that you want to share with
your visitors outside the context of a blog post. Sidebars usually appear
on every page of your blog and look consistent from page to page. I
cover customizing your sidebars with fun applications and features in
Chapter 20.
✓ Footers: Footers live at the bottom of each blog page, and sometimes
they do nothing more than feature a copyright message. More advanced
bloggers have expanded the use of footers to include a significant series
of links to content within their sites. These links might lead to comments
on the blog, recent posts, or posts that you particularly want to high-
light. The footer can feature parts of your blog that you want visitors to
find easily.
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