A Law Student's Journey: How to make your own blog button

Friday, April 8, 2011

How to make your own blog button

I am NO pro at this blogging html code stuff....but I'd LOVE to share with you a simple code to make your own buttons!

This is the code for your blog page: it shows your button- and then a text box underneath with the actual button code in it for others to copy and paste. Like this

First- make yourself a button! Then upload it somewhere (I use photobucket). All you need is the direct link for your button picture, and you're ready to go!

Simply fill the red parts in with what you want your info to be!

<center><img src="put this link to the PICTURE of your button here" /><textarea rows="2" cols="22"><center><a href="put the URL of your blog here or whereever you want it to link back to"><img vspace="none" hspace="none" alt="TITLE of your blog here" src="put the link to the PICTURE again here" align="center" /></a></center></textarea></center>

And thats that!! Hope this was a little useful to those of you (like myself) that are still pretty new to this blogging thing!

17 comments:

Nicole: This is so awesome! Being new to the blogging thing, I have pondered about this often. THANK you! I'll work on a button this weekend :); April 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Meredith: thanks for the tutorial!; April 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Steph @ Crafting in the Rain: Thanks for the reminder. I made one a couple of months ago, when I started my blog, but I'm not in love with it, so I want to change it up. This will keep me from having to search to find out how to change the code too :); April 8, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Julie: Awesome! I made one, but I can't get it to show up as a gadget on my blog. Can you check it out for me? www.hopplefamily.blogspot.com
Thanks so much! ~Julie; April 8, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Kitty: Yep- no problem! I can email you to work it out!; April 8, 2011 at 8:51 PM
Erin: Thank you! (visiting from Tatertots and Jello); April 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM
Heather: Thank you! I tried this awhile back but gave up lol. Found you through Tatertots & Jello ~ I'm your newest follower! :)

Heather @ Catfish Kisses; April 9, 2011 at 6:44 AM
LDH: Hello!

Stopping by for the first time. Sweet place you have here! I have perused several of your posts and enjoyed the fun and creative ideas you share.

I will save this post with your instructions for making a blog button. Thank you for posting.

Kindly, Lorraine; April 9, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Brandi: Great tips! Thanks so much for sharing your tutorial!; April 10, 2011 at 11:56 AM
happyasabee: omg thank you! I have been wanting to know how to do this for a while but Googling had never given me the answers..

thanks again!; April 10, 2011 at 1:36 PM
JamieS: Very helpful! thank you for this...
~JamieS; April 10, 2011 at 8:37 PM
Nike: To the point, easy, fast.

Bless you kitty. I've so been looking for something exactly like this.

~Nike@Thrive
choosetothriveblog@gmail.com; April 10, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Amber Branconier: i got it to work :) yeah!
thanks kitty; April 11, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Bowie Bunch: I so needed this last week!!! ;) It took me all night to figure it out...gggrr!!, but I finally did. :); April 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Amanda: Thanks for the instructions Kitty! I made a button for my blog!!

Amanda @ PandiolaLane.blogspot.com; June 27, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Laura Lane: Thank you for making this so simple!
I'd tried several times; but, this is the first time it actually worked!

Do drop in and see it!

http://harvestlanecottage.blogspot.com; March 3, 2012 at 7:31 AM
Laura Lane: One more thing- I'm a new linky follower and I'm also pinning this post to pinterest.

You've made me happy!; March 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM