Mama Liz's Blog: February 2010

Regarding the post that I wrote earlier today Add Buttons to Web Site, I have just realized that all that copying from my Active Rain and pasting and then replacing was not necessary.

All one has to do is:

1)  Make your button in picnik with the verbage you want

2)  Save it to your hard drive

3)  Upload the file to WordPress as though you are adding a photo to a post

4)  Link the button photo

5)  convert to html right there on the place where you are writing the post

6)  copy the html

7)  paste it in the widget


And there you have it.  Always learning and sharing.

  

Yesterday afternoon, I spent 2 hours  trying to figure out how to add buttons on my new web site.  Active Rain makes it so easy for us with their widgets.

What I wanted to do was add buttons on the left side of the site so that viewers could search for listings from any page -- now, I realize that the web guy could have easily done this for me, but no -- I wanted to do it for myself.

The new web site is WordPressMu where each of our agent-owners and the managers will have their own site under the main umbrella -- I selected a theme with 3 columns.

In order to add the buttons to the left side, I needed to have html for the buttons --

Well, I do not know how to write html --

So, after my daughter, Liza Valero, told me that on the widget I needed to use on the dashboard was "text" (duh, I did not know that), I set to work on it.

Here is how I eventually was able to add buttons to my web site:

* copied the html form my Active Rain post
* pasted this in the "text" box of widgets
* downloaded the button photos from my hard drive as though I was putting them in a post
* on WordPress, when you download a photo, it gives you an http:// address
* copied the http:// address for the photo
* went to the widget section where I had pasted the html for that particular button
* replaced the "img" section of the html with the http:// address for the photo
*  Voilla -- I had it -- and they worked.Yes, I did add buttons to my web site

Talking about a proud Mama Liz -- you must take a look: 

Mama Liz

Copyright © 2010 By Liz Loadholt, All Rights Reserved. This post may be re-blogged only with a link back to this post.*Add Button to Web Site*

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Yes, I'm proud.

Having spent several hours coordinating Active Rain, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz and my web sites, I am really proud of the progress I have made.

There is so much to learn -- new things coming down the line every day.  I love it -- if only I didn't have all my other work to do --

I am really kidding -- all of this social technology is helping me handle my day to day duties and privileges of running several real estate offices.

I love assisting my agent-owners on a daily basis and I love all of this new technology.  I'm here to stay.

A Little You Tube help needed

When I make a video and replay it on my computer, all is good.  Then I upload to YouTube and for some reason the video mouth and voice don't exactly match.

Can anyone help me?  An  example is the below video:

Agent-Owners enjoying each other & pizza

This will be my first attempt at a Video Post.

Hopefully, I will get better as we go along.

I already know some things that I did incorrectly, but would love your input.