Design It Up! (3)

November 6, 2009 by 8 Comments

For today’s lesson, you are going to learn how to make a Blog Button slideshow. This one is fairly easy, and should not take you but a couple of minutes to get the hang of.

As usual, start out by going to:

1.) Layout- Page Elements. Then:

2.) Add a gadget- HTML/Javascript

3.) Enter this code:

*To adjust the size, make the height or width px larger or smaller. It really depends on your sidebar. To make it go slow or faster, change the scroll delay.*

4.) Next input the code for the blog buttons underneath it. For example, this is what one of mine looks like: black is scroll code, pink is button code.

Traveling to Teens

If you want to add more than one, just go to the next line and input the next code. If you want there to be a space between codes use
. For example:


“http://travelingtoteenstours.weebly.com/” target=”_blank”>”http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt314/ylin0621/book3copy.jpg”/>

“http://butterflybookreviews.blogspot.com/”>”http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww42/zoeyredbird9/happyfairy-2-1.jpg”/>

Note: you will have to do some playing with it, sometimes you need more than one break for it to work. So it would look like:

Marquee code (you only have to do this once)
Button code

Button code

etc.

5. Save it.

Please note that if you want to make changes to it later on by either adding or deleting buttons, you will need to go to your Page Elements area to fix it. If you try to alter it while on your blog with quick edit it may not work correctly. If this happens, unfortunately you will have to delete the gadget and start over new. Can be a pain, but if you copy and paste the code, or save it in a back-up document, then it is not too bad.

Kate


Kate is the co-blog owner of The Book Monsters. I am a twenty-something year old who is passionate about reading. I currently hold a B.A. in English and am married to my high school sweetheart. We have two (cat) children, Gracie and Kit, who are total divas. I have an insane and possibly unhealthy passion for reading. You can usually find me with my nose buried in a book.

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Comments

  1. Rhiannon Hart says:
    November 7, 2009 at 3:20 am

    Ah, you totally rock! Thanks you for posting this, I’m going to try it out real soon!

    Reply
  2. Danni says:
    November 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Thanks so much Kate! I’ve been wondering how to do that for weeks. :) Come stop by my blog when you get the chance I’m hosting a blitz with Escape With Romance all you have to do is comment and you could win one of four books!!

    Reply
  3. Addicted Book Reader says:
    November 7, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Ooo, thanks for sharing! I’m going to to try this out now : D

    Reply
  4. LiLi says:
    November 7, 2009 at 11:51 am

    I don’t know if it was because of me but thanks so much, lol! I have way to many buttons for my sidebar.

    Reply
  5. Natalie W says:
    November 7, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    This is awesome! Thank you so much, i’m going to try it , yours being the first one :0)
    Natalie

    Reply
  6. Taschima Cullen says:
    December 12, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Thank you!This has saved my life! (exaggerating never killed anyone xD)

    Reply
  7. Orchid says:
    December 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    OMZ! Thank you so much for posting this. My sidebar looks a lot better. :)

    Reply
  8. Juju at Tales of Whimsy.com says:
    January 16, 2010 at 7:09 am

    OMG Thank you! I’ve been needing this and thought “let me check Design it Up!” and here it was. You’re the best.

    Reply

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