Ever wondered how to put those cool widgets in the right panel of your AR blog?  Here's how to do it, made easy.

1.  Log in and open your AR profile.  Click "My Settings" in the left panel.  Go into the small box labeled "Blog Description" (the middle box) and scroll down below the text you have placed there about yourself.  Text is limited to 100 words, but the widget code you'll place there does not count as words.

2.   Open another tab or window on the internet.  In this new window, go to http://www.widgetbox.com/ or another widget website.  Choose a widget to download.  Ask for the details (it may say "embed code") You can copy the code to your clipboard (control-C).  The code will look like gibberish, for example:  script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js?  --- etc., etc.

3.  Return to the "Blog Description" box on your open "My Settings" profile page.  At the bottom of the text you should enter one or two blank lines, then paste in the code you copied (control-V).  The gibberish you copied should appear there.  Click "Update" on the lower left of the Blog Settings box.

4.  Click "My Blog" in the left panel to see the results of the code you chose and copied.  If all goes well, you'll see your selected widget appear in the right panel of your blog from now on.

5.  To customize a widget, you will need to set up an account in widgetbox and/or feedburner.  It is free, you just register and then you can customize a widget to show the titles of your blog articles, etc.  This is a more complex process.  Easy Widgets, Part 2, will teach you how.

For additional sources of widgets, just run a Google search on "widgets".