Comments on: Grab My Button Widget Tutorial: One Click Installation

By: SBA

SBA — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:56:44 +0000

I’d love to help, but you need to give me more to go on. Where is your site so I can see what the page source for the code and view results. Seems to have a lot of missing code, based on the version in your comment!

By: jess Bowman

jess Bowman — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:25:06 +0000

Can you tell me what I”m doing wrong????

<a href=”http://thisandthataboutthebowmans.blogspot.com/”></a> “/>” type=hidden name=widget.template>

By: SBA

SBA — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:36:19 +0000

Kim, you must know I love puzzles! Like Suduko, you give me few hints to figure out your ’somewhat’ success. To add to the mystery you left this comment on the wrong post? (this one is about the widget not the scroll box).

No problem, I took a look and found a few things.
1- When readers copy your html from the scrollbox to their blogs they get a bad link. Your html now reads:
… href=”http://www.blogger.com/%20http://sacredheartofjesushomeschoolacademy.weebly.com/%20″ …

So just remove the extraneous http stuff and make it
… href=”http://sacredheartofjesushomeschoolacademy.weebly.com/” …
2- You resized your image to 125 x 125 making it a bit squishy. The original is not square, but 175 x 132. That size is okay for most blogs so use the original. If you want it more like 150 wide, then use the online resizer tool http://www.resizr.com/ . 150 x 113 is okay.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:01:48 +0000

I tried what you suggested…& was “somewhat” successful!
If you get a chance, I’d sure appreciate your imput!
Thanks & God bless!
Kim

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:33:53 +0000

all is clear thanks!

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:01:39 +0000

No, my mixup! Your quotes are and have been fine — I was thinking of WhackyMummy’s problem on a related post. That’s what I get for replying to comments from the dashboard instead of directly on the post! Makes the comment thread a bit ‘whacky’. Sorry.

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:23:20 +0000

hmmm i am sorry but what do you mean about error in the the curly quotes? do you mean to say that until now there is an error appearing when you post the entrecard/avatar on other site? you are right. I just copied the html code from here. hoping to hear a respond from you soon. thank you so much

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:38:42 +0000

Yes. Now wasn’t the gravatar easy? The quotes in your scrollbox are fine now, but I need to know how the error with currly quotes happened — did you copy the html code from this page?

The alt value is fine. I did a google search with your words in quotes and found the button reference right away. This is what shows on the results page:
MrsMartinez’s Raves and Rants!



By: michelle
michelle — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:05:45 +0000
thank you for pointing it out. i’m sorry but i am really new at this. but can you please recheck it if i did the alt= right this time? i also visited the fav icon and now trying the gravatar.thanks xoxo



By: SBA
SBA — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:28:54 +0000
You’re welcome. I took a look at your button (actually your Entrecard image) — looks good. The lettering could be clearer (caused by reducing larger lettering to 125 x 125), but your friends will recognize your face!. If you have software you can create the 12photo and then add appropriate sized text over the image. You forgot to change the Alt= value to your own keywords. It currently says “BWS tips button”. Why not create a gravatar image and  favicon  to brand your blog?