Carl discovers the world

In this video tutorial I show Serendipity users how to install the HTML Nugget plugin and then use it to add a network badge to their blog sidebar. The same technique can be used to place Adsense advertising into a sidebar, or a counter.

This video complements the video I prepared a few days ago on plugin management and is aimed at new users.

I'm still looking for ideas for other s9y screencasts so please add your comment below to give me ideas.

This is my first video tutorial for Serendipity and it's all about plugins, specifically how to move sidebar plugins from one column to another, changing the order of s9y sidebar plugins, adding plugins to sidebars, installing Spartacus, and installing plugins using Spartacus.

Plugin management with Serendipity is so much easier than some other Blog software and this 10 minute video shows how powerful it is. Many new bloggers automatically choose Wordpress or Blogspot simply because a friend uses it, or because 'everyone' uses one of the other packages. I'm a passionate supporter of Serendipity for my blog and if you're one of those people who hasn't used it, and want to try it out, sign up for a free Serendipity blog over at Supersized.

Wow, I had no idea plugin development for Serendipity was so easy, but do you see that little sidebar title that says 'Sponsors', that is my very first plugin for Serendipity. Its actually a very basic sidebar plugin that displays sponsors ad's from text-link-ads.com. I'm trying that out because I'd really like to make a little bit of pocket money from this blog. Anyway, it only works on the sidebar at the moment, but I plan to develop it into a full plugin that allows better postioning of the ad's, perhaps even above the first entry or even above the banner.

Of course I'm no expert in php, but if it works and if I can develop this plugin to be more useful to other users then I'll make it available. If you would like to test it yourself, you'll need a text-link-ads account, then just make a comment or email me and I'll send what I've got so far.

What it does right now is allow a user to upload the text-link-ads php code and the blank xml file into your uploads folder, then install the plugin and you're away.