Updated with New Template

I updated the blog with new template thanks to Template Novo Blogger There are lots very good templates avaialble there. The site is in Portuguese. Used Google translate to see a version in english. Though many words will be still in portuguese, its enough to understand the instructions.
I did following modifications to the content.

At the top there are two place holders for the list of links. Included recent posts and recently read list.
Detailed explaination for including recent posts or recent comments can be found at Eblog templates

If you are using google reader, a script can be found at Settings -> Floders & Tags ->Add clips to your site. But the styles were not gelling with overall site. So used feed URL and added a feed gadget again to the template. Feed URL is nothing but reader/shared replaced with reader/public/atom in the link of public page of any folders you are sharing through google reader.

Edited links to feed icon, favourite the blog on technorati and digg option.

Next thing was finding a host for the images. Files uploaded via blogger are available as album in picasa but it when you open the album there is no link to upload the files directly. There were two options to upload the files create a dummy post or use the upload link in the first page clicking which a popup containing list of album is shown. I used the later option. If you are using the same option remember to remove file resizing path(such as /s144/ or /s288/) from the link provided by Picasa.

I have got more modifications to make such as showing tags as cloud. Now its taking lot of real estate.

How to add translators your blog ?

There many services which can translate your blog and show. On click of the button the page gets translated and shown to the user. I came across two of this services.

Babel Fish of Altavista - Which provides translation in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portugese and by adding javascript which generates the image like below. When the user clicks on the country flag, the page is translated to that language.

Google Translator - has more languages supported but does not provide widgets to add translation to the page. There multiple hacks available.
a) Amit Agarwal provides a way to add flags at Add Language Translation to your Website - Tutorial
b) Mani Karthik provides an alternate version using which you can add drop down box
at Google translator plugin for blogger ; I preferred this one to displaying too many flags.

As I got the error document.nav does not have properties, I have made small changes to code provided by Mani Karthik and changed the language text to respective languages. Below is the code you can use for blogger. Remember to change the my blog URLs to your own URL

<div><br /><select id="SelectURL" onchange="document.location.href=document.getElementById('SelectURL').options[document.getElementById('SelectURL').selectedIndex].value"><option selected="selected" value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cen&u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">Translate this blog</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Ces&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">español</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cit&u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">Italiano</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cfr&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">Français</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cpt&u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">Portuguese</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Car&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com">العربية</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cja&u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com"> 日本語</option><option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Cko&u=http://blogaddins.blogspot.com"> 한국어</option></select></div>

I guess these features should be provided in blog feeds and mails !!