More techie stuff - those Labels

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find myself cited an instant expert in installing Technorati, simply as a result of posting a comment about the difficulties I had first encountered.

So I'll take the opportunity of adding a second techie comment, while it's fresh in my mind. One never knows, it might help someone else up their learning curve.

It's do do with those "Labels". Choosing them, and displaying them at the end of a post is not the problem, since the boxes for doing that are right in front of one. It's getting the Labels displayed in the margin, on the right hand side on the page, (circled in red on the graphic) that was the trouble. The directions for doing so weren't clear - I could not find where to start.

All is now clear, at least for those who have upgraded, as I recently did, to Beta Blogger. You have to click on Upgrade Template, and then either choose a new template, or, if you want to keep the one you've already got, make sure it's selected, and then Save. That then gives you access to a whole lot of new options for re-designing one's blog by user-friendly dragging. It involves going to one's Dashboard, and clicking on Templates. Once you been through the routine described earlier, you'll now see a new Layouts tab, that wasn't there before, which then gives you a menu of options, including the Labels that got me started on all this. I trust all this makes sense.

ed. Monday 6pm approx. Quelle horreur ! I have just discovered that Technorati and the hit counter have disappeared from the blog - the result, no doubt, of "upgrading" the Template. Blogger gave no warning this would happen. That means having to reinstall them - how very tedious.
I shall now add "software bugs" to the list of Labels for this post.

ed. 7.10pm Fortunately, the system allows one to revert to the original Template, so Technorati and the hit counter are now restored. But I've lost the listed Labels, and have no clues (as yet) on how to get them all up together. It's as well that I used the Print Screen to show that listed Labels were achieved, albeit temporarily. So it's back to the drawing board. Any ideas, anyone, where I go from here ?