In this Tutorial i will show, how to create Popular Posts with carousel slider. The reason for this, I have received some comments asking about how to create popular posts. My last tutorial was about how to show blogger (Popular Posts ) widget only in homepage.  I also posted other tutorial about How to create Multi Column Footer Widget and How to add a Drop Down Menu to blogger. Again this is not easy to do for new comers but is still easy for old ones who have good knowledge of these codes. But still beginners can do by following the steps given. However you can also read some other related articles/posts and i highly recommend this for beginners. So read older post. You can read older post by scrolling down to Related Posts or go back manually. Related posts will helps you to make your blog different from others.

Some Features of Popular Post for blogger are :

• SEO friendly (not javascript)
• Dynamic result based on real statistic
• Easy to custumized

Finally, Lets start our work and perform some easy steps:

1: Go To Blogger > Design > Page Elements
2: Click “Add Gadget” and Choose “Popular Posts”(If you already have this gadget then skip this step)



If you have Popular Post Gadget then :
3: Click on "Add a Gadget" again and Select a HTML/JavaScript Widget just under the header and paste the following code inside it,

<style>

#slider ol,#slider ul,#slider li
 {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 border: 0;
 outline: 0;
 font-size: 100%;
}

.popular-posts  img {
  margin: 0  !important;
  padding:0  !important;
  width:150px;
  height:120px;
}

ol, ul {
 list-style: none;
 }

.wrapper {
 width: 720px;
 margin: 0 auto;
 position:relative;
}

.clear {
 clear: both;
 }

.display-none {
 display:none;
 }

#slider {
 position: relative;
 top: -2px;
 z-index: 1;
 }

#slider .prev {
 position: absolute;
 width: 21px;
 height: 21px;
 display: block;
 background: url(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss197/akhmadaminullah/arleft.png) no-repeat center center;
 top: 150px;
 left: -51px;
 }

#slider .next {
 position: absolute;
 width: 21px;
 height: 21px;
 display: block;
 background: url(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss197/akhmadaminullah/arright.png) no-repeat center center;
 top: 150px;
 right: -51px;
 }

#slider #slider-wrapper {
 width: 720px;
 height: 300px;
 padding-top: 40px;
 overflow: hidden;
 z-index: 999;
 position: relative;
 }

#slider #slider-inner {
 width:9780px;
 height:300px;
 position:absolute;
 }

#slider .article {
 width: 150px;
 height: 300px;
 float: left;
 margin-right: 30px;
 }

#slider .article img {
 margin-bottom: 25px;
 box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
 -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
 -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
 }

#slider .article h2 {
 margin-bottom: 15px;
 line-height: 18px;
 }

#slider .article h2 a {
 font-size: 18px;
 color: #404040;
 font-weight: bold;
 text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
 line-height: 23px;
 }

#slider .article .meta-comments a {
 font-size: 10px;
 font-weight: bold;
 text-transform: uppercase;
 text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
 }

#slider .article .item-snippet {
 margin-left: 15px;
 }

#slider .widget-item-control { display: none}

</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://accordion-for-blogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gridslidepopularpost.js"></script>