Well, I was asked by wendlane, and I've gone and found out how to add a 'sticky post' to blogger. Basically, you can't. You can, however, add a Page Element as text, which is essentially the same thing.


 Adding a "Add a Page Element" widget to the main column

Sign into Dashboard, and in the relvant blog, click LAYOUT, then click EDIT HTML. In the Template Editor, look for this block of codes:
<div id='main-wrap'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='HTML10' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div>

Look particularly for showaddelement='no' and change it to showaddelement='yes', then save the template. Click "Page Elements" to get to the LAYOUT and observe that an additional "Add a Page Element" have been added to the top of "BLOG POSTS".

To add Adsense, generate the Adsense script from your Adsense account (in my example above, I have chosen the "Large rectangle" format) to the top of every page of the main colum, click the extra "Add a Page Element, then in the pop-up, select HTML/Javascript, click "Add to blog", then paste the Adsense script into the box and click "Save changes".

To make a "sticky post", after clicking "Add a Page Element", select TEXT instead and click "Add to blog. Then type in your text into the box. To avoid the text running into the sidebar, you will have to use the return key when you come to the edge of the box.

I found 'mainwrap' somewhere towards the bottom of the html text, an easy tip is to copy the whole lot and paste it in Word, you can then use the 'find' option under 'Edit' to find the text. (I used it to find 'showaddelement' as 'mainwrap' can be called something different in some template versions.)

As with all things techie, once you've done it once it's dead easy to do again, give it a go wendlane!

Tobbot, aka Tobstv