I don't know what took me so long to find this... all it took was one quick little Google search on "make a widget."

I've wanted to put a feed from a couple of my other blogs down the right side of this blog for a long time now. Unfortunately that desire never translated to action until today. Don't think I'm not kicking myself.

If you look to the right, you'll see two new RSS feeds filling in the side of my blog here on ActiveRain. These were made at Grazr.com. (See the edit at the end of this article. Grazr.com went out of business in 2010) Grazr.com has a bunch of other features, but to use this one you don't even need to register. The process is so painfully simple I almost hesitate to write too much about it. I fear I'll over complicate it.

Here are the steps:

1. Enter a feed.
2. Customize the widget. The ones to the right use the default theme, in slider view, 215 width and 360 pixel depth.  Arial, 8pt type.
3. Get the code. Choose Generic Blogging Tool > Sidebar. The copy the code from the first field, the "Embedded Grazr Widget" field.
4. Paste the code here on AR. Select "My Settings" and then paste the code anywhere in your Blog Description field you wish it to appear.
5. Hit update. Go back to your blog and see it in place.

This won't work inside a post, only in the sidebar using the blog settings. 

This will, of course, work with any RSS feed. 

Edit: Grazr.com went out of business in 2010. You can now use >> http://www.rssfeedwidget.com/ in place of Grazr.com. How did I find it? I used the first sentence in this blog post. :)