Help adding things to sidebar?

[nevermorecc]

This is my layout  visualwit.dreamwidth.org/10124.html by visualwit

Is it possible to add things to the sidebar? I want to add a feedjit

http://feedjit.com/freeLiveTrafficFeed/#getOther

but I can't seem to add it in. I tried to follow their instructions but it didn't work:

1. You are going to install Feedjit in your blog's sidebar so that it loads on every page. To do this you need to edit your blog template. Read your blog host's documentation on how to edit your sidebar template.
2. When you are ready, sign-in to your blog and edit the template for your blog side-bar.
3. Look at the structure of the other elements in your side-bar. Often they will be contained in

•  

or tags.
4. Create a new pair of container elements in your blog's sidebar HTML e.g.

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and paste the code above between those elements.
5. Save your blog's sidebar template, hit your blog home page and you should see Feedjit appear in your side-bar.

Back to customization

I tired adding it to the text module and that didn't work either.

Can you help me please?

Could I add a photo or gif into the side bar? How can I do this?

Thanks

Comments

[zvi]

You can't put java or javascript in your sidebar. Is the widget java or javascript based?

[nevermorecc]

Thanks. Yes it is javascript. I have one in my sidebar on Live Journal so I wanted to have one here too.

That's too bad. I also have one picture and a few gifs in my LJ sidebar but I can't get either pictures or gifs into my DW sidebar.

I'm hosting the picture and gifs on photobucket. I tired using all three codes:
direct link, html code, and IMG code but none of them worked.

I tried doing it this way: customize journal style-text-in the module section I put the code for the picture into the Text for the 'Custom text' box and then clicked save changes.

Nothing happened. I refreshed the page and still nothing.

I typed a word in this box: Text for the 'Custom text' heading and nothing happened. It won't even let me add a word to the sidebar.

Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!