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:
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Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, Daniel Island, North Charleston,
Summerville,Goose Creek, Moncks Corner, Santee, Manning, Sumter, Florence, & Myrtle Beach, all in South Carolina
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Liz, good for you. It makes me feel good when I figure out how to do something on my site, blogs, et.
Rebecca ---- this is so much fun -- I love it when I figure something out, because it means that my brain is still working.
Dear Liz -
Yet another button post from you!
I, too, have walked through the mother's tunnel while my daughter struggled with the "Big C".
Hope all is well for your family now. We are back in the sunshine!
Have a happy day -
Lynn
Lynn -- well, we have more in common that Active Rain -- Am so happy that your daughter is doing fine -- my daughter has just finished her radiation and is beginning to feel better -- hopefully, we are out of the woods.