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My true love gave to me…
My 8 Favorite People to See:
That was hard to only name 8! I could have went on and on. Be sure to head over to The World According To Leslie to see who her 8 favorite people are, after all this was her idea.
Want to create your very own blog button complete with copy code? Then keep reading cause I’m about to hook you up!
In order to create your very own blog button you need the following 3 things…
The image
Create your image (or take one you already have) and upload it to Photobucket. You will need the HTML code from Photobucket to create your button.
Copy and paste your HTML code onto a blank Notepad document.
Here’s mine:
| <a href="http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/tinikaleann/meandyouplus2/?action=view¤t=sampleblogbutton.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/tinikaleann/meandyouplus2/sampleblogbutton.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> |
Replace the teal text with the web address of your blog.
Then replace the olive green text with the name of your blog.
Mine looks like this after I follow those steps…
| <a href="http://meandyouplus2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/tinikaleann/meandyouplus2/sampleblogbutton.jpg" border="0" alt="By His Design"></a> |
The text box
Okay, now that we have the code for the image, let’s insert it into a text box for easy access.
We will start with the basic code for our text box. Here it is…
| <textarea id="code-source" name="code-source">widget_code_goes_here</textarea> |
Replace the purple text with the image code we modified first. It should look like this…
| <textarea id="code-source" name="code-source"><a href="http://meandyouplus2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/tinikaleann/meandyouplus2/sampleblogbutton.jpg" border="0" alt="By His Design"></a></textarea> |
Putting it together
Now all we need to do is combine the two sets of code we just modified so you can insert the button and text box into your sidebar.
Take the image code (what we did first)…
And the text box code…
Paste them into your sidebar together via a HTML/JavaScript Gadget. Make sure you have the image code on top of the text box code….
Save it and view your blog. Mine looks like this…
That’s it! I told you it was easy.
*If you want more space between the image and your text box you can insert <p> in between the two sets of code. That will create a space between the image and text box.
Enjoy!
I’m joining Leslie, so head over there and check her out as well. I didn’t catch this when she first started, so I am going to play catch up today and then continue with my favorites for each particular day.
On the 12th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
My 12 Favorite Books to Read:
On the 11th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
My 11 Favorite Movies:
On the 10th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
My 10 Favorite Songs to Sing:
Please note that the only singing I do is from the privacy and comfort of my own home.
On the 9th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
My 9 Favorite Places To Be:
This has been fun! Y’all should definitely join in!
HTML tags are a wonderful thing. They allow you to (among other things, of course):
How neat is that? I Love it!
Now Blogger’s text editor allows you to use the bold and italic…
All you do is click the button and start typing (or you can highlight the text and press Control B for bold or Control I for italics). But how about the others?
Well, if you use Windows Live Writer (which I highly suggest), it’s still real simple…
Just click the button and start typing.
But if you don’t have it, and are not interested in using it you can still use the tags. Here’s how:
Make sure your in the HTML editor and not Compose mode of your Blogger text editor…
All you do is place the text inside the specified tags.
For Underlined text you place your text inside <u> </u>. So for instance if you wanted to under the words Merry Christmas, you would type it like this (from Edit HTML):
<u>Merry Christmas</u>
And it will look like this (from Compose):
Merry Christmas
For Strikethrough text you do the same but replace the <u></u> with <strike></strike>. So Merry Christmas in the strike tag is done like this (from Edit HTML):
<strike>Merry Christmas</strike>
And it will look like this (from Compose):
Merry Christmas
Although, I'm not sure why you would want to strike through the words Merry Christmas. But whatever.
That’s it, all there is to it. Enjoy!
Apple announced earlier today that they have developed a breast implant that can store and play music.
The iTit will cost between $499-$699 depending on cup and speaker size.
This is considered a major social breakthrough, because woman are always complaining about men string at their breasts and not listening to them.
Ahem. Sorry I couldn’t help myself.
Thanks everyone for the questions submitted so far! Keep them coming. I think this is going to work out really well.
So how did I get into blog design? I figured it was a good fit since I know everything and all. But seriously (as if that statement wasn’t serious), I started blogging a little over a year ago and soon noticed that everyone’s blog was cute except mine. So I started looking into purchasing a makeover for my blog. And it didn’t take me long to realize that it wasn’t in my budget.
Being the resourceful person that I am, I decided to do it myself. I am a firm believer that nothing is that hard. A little thing I picked up from my boss. He’s a programmer, so he knows everything too.
When I first started I didn’t have Photoshop, so I spent hours and hours trying to create headers with MS Paint and Word. Don’t laugh. It can be done—it just takes a long time. But if I couldn't afford a blog makeover I sure could afford Photoshop. Have y’all seen the price tag on that baby? It’s not cheap.
Then one day the best thing ever happened. My [step]dad called and said that he had a copy of Adobe CS3 that I could have! The Heavens were shouting hallelujah. And I was too.
I started out with just a header. Playing around with layers and the magic eraser tool in Photoshop. Finally progressing to creating my very own background.
Then I discovered Dreamweaver. It came with my CS3. Oh the joy of editing my template for the very first time. I’m a raging narcissists to begin with, so you can imagine what my family had to endure for the first few months of that.
And finally I decided to offer my services to others. That’s it. That’s how I came to offer my services.
Funny thing is, I would rather tell people how to do it their selves than be paid to do it for them. I suppose since I still couldn’t afford to buy a makeover (even at my super low prices) then most everyone else can’t either. And it’s just not fair. I wouldn’t want anyone to be without. I’m a giver, you know. Not to imply that I don’t want you to purchase your blog design from me, because I totally do.
So with all that being said, please feel free to submit a question of your own (about blog design, blogger, Photoshop, or even me) and I will do my very best to answer you, but at the very least I will point you in the right direction.
Blogger gives you the option to change your URL at anytime. Which can be pretty tempting. But before you decide to take the plunge there are a few things that you should know.
You will lose your Followers. Yes, that’s right, your followers will be gone once you switch your URL. This was a hard question for me because at first it seemed logical that since you can change the name of your blog and keep your followers then the URL would be the same. But alas, that’s not the case.
Following a blog does so through the URL (so I’m told by the Blogger Help link), so if you change your URL your Followers will need to manually update their reading list. Also, you will lose indexes and ranking. So change at your own risk.
My suggestion would be to change the name of your blog but leave the URL the same, which is what I did. If you’ll notice my URL says …meandyouplus2.blogspot… See?
But the name reads By His Design.
Which is what my Followers see in their reading list, too.
To change (just) the name without changing your URL from your Dashboard click Setting…
On the Basic tab (which is where you should be) change the Title…
Scroll down to the bottom and click Save Settings…
Want to change your URL anyway? Okay we can do that too. Instead of staying on the Basic tab (after you clicked Settings) click on the Publishing tab…
Just change your URL to whatever you want it to be where it says Blog*Spot Address…
Fill in the Word Verification….
And click Save Settings…
That’s it. Your done.
Normally I would suggest that you congratulate yourself with a Dove bar, but I can’t in good conscious contribute anymore. Not after the pounds I have recently packed on. So if your gonna have a Dove make sure you don’t skip out on your exercise. I’m just saying.
Template and Design by Tinika at OMG
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