Here’s a great question from Sarah from Mom Balance:
“How do I add a Twitter badge/link to my sidebar”.
Its not hard, Sarah…here are the steps:
1. Depending on what platform you are on (Blogger, WordPress, TypePad), you’ll need to create a new sidebar item or widget (or “gadget” in Blogger; “TypeList” in TypePad).
2. Find a graphic you’d like to use as your link badge. There are a whole bunch if you Google “Twitter bird” or “Twitter badge”. Here are a few…
(Also, you can just use a simple “follow me on Twitter” phrase.)
3. If you decide to use a badge, you will need to follow the same process to upload it to your server as you would any other graphic, so we can point to it in the next step. If you use a service like PhotoBucket to upload images to your blog, do that now, and take note of the URL (location) of the image.
4. Now, in your new sidebar widget/gadget/typelist, insert this code, replacing the text in red with your information:
<center>
<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/yourtwittername“>
<img src=”http://www.yourimagelocation“>
<br>
follow me on Twitter
</a>
</center>
5. Close and save the widget and it should show up looking something like this:
6. There is also a way to add a feed widget directly from Twitter that displays your most recent tweets. To add that to a sidebar, follow the directions here.
Not so hard, was it? Any questions?
This isn’t about Twitter. But I want to re-design my blog using tabs on top with “HOME” “LINKS” etc. Do you know where I can get a free Blogger template like this and then how do you design each “page?”
I downloaded one before, but I could only design the Main page, not the pages listed on the tabs.
Thank you!
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Thanks for the tips on how to do this. I added a new twitter badge to my blog however I’m not quite sure why everything is side by side at the top right of my blog. I’ll keep working at it.
By the way, found your blog through the Metropolitan Mama blog.
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Hey Angie! Try adding this after the code you just added:
That puts two hard returns after the twitter badge. Let me know if that fixes it!
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Thank you, thank you!! That was so incredibly helpful!
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I love these kind of posts! Thank you!
(And thank you for dinner last night too. You are a wonderful friend).
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Thanks for all the great tips. I put a different button on my site and it looks fabulous.
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thx. so much for the easy installation process!!! I really appreciate it and the little bird I got looks great too!
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