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This article is about how to put an item (any type of gadget) above the Title section in a blog made with Google Blogger. If your blog has a layout or designer template , then (almost?) all of Blogger's templates start out with a nav-bar at the top of the screen, followed by a Header section showing your blogs title & description, or a custom header image if you've uploaded one. And even if you go into the place in the layout-designer where you can re-arrange the layout by drag-and-dropping items, you cannot drag any gadgets to above the header . But this is easy to change, provided you are willing to accept the disadvantages of editing your blog's layout template . How to allow changes above your blog's header Follow these steps to make it possible for you (or any blog administrator ) to add gadgets to the area about your blog's heading section: 1  Edit your blog's template in the usual way 2   Find this code in your template: <b:section class='he...

This article explains what has happened to Picasa-web-albums, why it is now re-directing to Google Album Archive, and what you can do about it. Back in July 2013, I described how many people who started  Picasa-web-albums  were being  immediately re-directed to Google+ photos  and what they could to to return to using PWA again without being re-directed . Quite a few things have changed in the last three years - and especially in the last six months or so.   In particular, Google have: Changed their strategy around Google+ Released Google Photos and retired Google+ Photos Changed the Picasa-web-albums re-direct to go to Google Photos instead of Google+ Photos Stopped supporting Picasa ( announcement ) Stopped supporting Picasa-web-albums ( announcement ) Released a new tool called Google Album Archive , which gives you access to photos, photo-albums and data about photos that you created in Blogger (and other Google tools) - which isn't available in Google Pho...