Countdown clock for your blog

Here is an example of a post which have a countdown clock with post title Countdown to Malaysia Vision 2020. I made it in response to a request from a member of the Google Blogger Help group. I thought I might as well make a post out of it so that more people will know about it.

You can generate the script for free from A free countdown clock for your Website. You choose the type of clock you want ("countdown to a date in the future" or "Time elapsed since date in the past"). You can set the year, month and day you want to countdown to. The default for hour, minute and second is set to 0,0,0, but you can set them to any figure you want. You choose the countdown mode (see Countdown clock help page. The is also a choice of 17 languages for the countdown clock. Choose the background color (HTML color code), text color and whether you want a border or not. For choosing a background color to match the colors of your site the following will be useful:
ColorPic and
Color Blender.

You are then ready to generate the script to paste into your post, or generate a link to the clock if you don't want the countdown clock on your site. You can also add it to the sidebar by pasting into a HTML/Javascript Page Element (click Add a Page Element in the LAYOUT). Page Element is now referred to as Gadget. You may have to do some adjustment to the dimensions of the countdown clock in this case. Later, I will probably do a demonstration and write more about it.