Add A Full Lenght Gadget Below Your Blog Header

Hai guys, in this third post i will share a simple tutorial to you but it was very helpful and useful. Maybe some of you want to put a gadget on you header, like a slider (Read : Create Beautiful jQuery Slider-Nivo Slider) or adsense. But your template can't do that, you can't place any gadget on your header? So this is the tutorial, how to add a full lenght gadget below your blog header

Cross Column Gadgets

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Gadgets Not Allowed - This area is called the Cross Column and the screenshot below shows there is no option to place gadgets in the cross column :

Gadgets Allowed - Once we change the code you will have a brand new 'add a gadget' area :

 Placing Gadget In The Crosscolum

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1. Login to Blogger
2. Go to the Layout section
3. Click the Edit HTML tab
4. Tick the 'Expand Widget Templates' box
5. Find this following code (Click Ctrl+F to show the search box on your browser)

<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='no'/>

6. Change Showaddelement='no' to Showaddelement='yes' as shown below :

<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='yes'/>

7. Save your template

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Now you'll be able to put a gadget below your header, and now you can put your Beautiful Nivo Slider on the header.
Source :
http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2010/02/adsense-leaderboard-header-blogger.html