Problem: Adding items to a blog's sidebars requires (1) mucking about in the Template, (2) knowing quite a bit of HTML coding (and some CSS), and (3) being able to modify the Template without throwing something off. Tricky for many, impossible for most. I've been thinking about how to add a Content Management System to make the sidebars more accessible to individual bloggers, but I'd like to avoid the expense and so far I haven't found anything that will work.
Solution: Blogger Help Page --
How do I include multiple blogs in a single page? Yes, this might be a solution. Instead of creating one blog per blogger, I'd create several. Then I'd code the main blog to "include" the contents of the other blogs in its sidebars. Possible "blogs" for inclusion in side bars could be links, blogroll, quotes, reading list, description, etc. To add a new link to your blog (for example), you'd just go to the links blog, add the link name and URL using the "create new post" function, publish it and then poof! it would show up in a sidebar on your main blog page. This would require some development time and a bit more setup for each blogger, but ultimately it would empower our bloggers to more fully inhabit their blogs and, in the long run, save me blog maintenance time. I'm going to have to give this a try!
