Saturday

How to get a blog button

Since I had so much trouble making my blog button I'm going to blog about it. After painstakingly searching through page after page then adding gadget after gadget I was completely insane. I finally found one and here is the code:

<a href="http://YOUR WEB ADDRESS/" target="_blank" title="BLOG TITLE"><img alt="BLOG TITLE" src="http://IMAGE WEB ADDRESS"/></a>




<textarea id="code-source" rows="3" cols="13" name="code-source">
<a href="http://YOUR WEB ADDRESS/"><img border="0" src="http://IMAGE WEB ADDRESS"/></a>
< /textarea>
 
That's the whole code
Replace the underlined text with the appropriate information on a word document and paste to the html gadget.

  The http://IMAGE WEB ADDRESS is the direct link to your image. I used photobucket  as it's really easy. (Just upload your already made button to here)
   Replace web address with your blog address i.e http://inkdropperr.blogspot.ie
This is where it went wrong for me on my first attempt. I left a space between the text and the... um what are they called again? ==> ( " )
Yeah, anyway replace BLOG TITLE with the name of your blog.
Simple as. (Says the one who spent a whole day trying to get it to work)
This will also give the box underneeth where followers can copy and paste the code for your button.
If you don't want the box use this:
<a href="blog address/"><img border="0" src=" direct link to photo"/></a>

Don't forget to test it after.
If anyone has any problems please let me know. I don't want to be giving bloggers wrong information and wasting their time on ANOTHER non working code.
leave me your blog address if you used it and it works.
I'd love to see it
And then after all that I found out you could just upload a picture from your computer with the picture gadget and add a URL
while taking other blogger's button by saving/copying and using picture gadget
(sigh)
x

4 comments:

  1. I just made a collage on picmonkey and added it to my sidebar...

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    1. Yeah, I should probably have tried that before attempting hundreds of those tortuous codes!
      Thanks for commenting :) x

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  2. Wow that is very complicated! But thanks for sharing...

    Thanks for stopping by at my blog, I'm now following you too!

    xxx

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    1. Yeah those codes are so confusing! They should really tell you to just use picture gadget!
      Thanks for following! :) x

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