Patricia Montgomery

I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile. Rather than send individual bubblemail messages, I’m posting it in my journal in case someone else would like to add buttons to their RB profile.

BUTTON INSTRUCTIONS

Tip: print out this page and put it beside the computer before you start.

You can make your own buttons or you can use a site called ButtonGenerator. If you decide to use this site and not to pay for a membership, you will need to add a link back to the site.

I made all of mine 125X26 to give you some idea of the size of the ones on my page. This size allowed 3 buttons side-by-side.

Make all your buttons and then save them in a folder on your computer.

Then you will need to upload each button to your RB image gallery and use the “Hide” feature so that no one sees them but you.

Once you have them uploaded you will need to right-click on each one to get the url address html code in the properties box.

Example: http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg

Then go to “Edit Your Profile” to copy the image html code AND the tag html code – it will look like this (without the spaces):

! http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/patmonty/art/everything/tags/autumn

[REMEMBER NO SPACES. I had to add spaces so you could see the html code. If I had not added spaces, the button would have appeared in the journal instead of the code.]

The last word in the html code is the “tag” word. In the example above it is autumn.

You will need to put one space between each set of button html code. If you have a lot of buttons the language is long and wraps around forever. But with one space between each button html code, the buttons will sit next to other and then wrap to the next line.

Now you will need to add the tag word to each of your images that will correspond to the buttons.

Happy Button Making!

UPDATE: Cool Text Graphics Generator is another good site for buttons.

This tutorial was featured by the group, Tutorials on January 28, 2009.

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