July 27, 2011

How to Make Your Own Blog Button

One of the best ways to get your blog noticed is to make a blog button. A blog button is a small image that fits in your sidebar that gives the title of your blog and when clicked, links directly to your blog. It really isn't very helpful to put your button on your own blog since anyone that sees it is already at your blog. However, if you put the right HTML code below your button, your readers can copy the code, paste it onto the sidebar of their blog and have your button show up on their blog. It's basically free advertising. Here's an example of mine:






<center><a href=http://www.blogdesignsbydani.com/><img src="http://bdbd.blogdesignsbydani.com/Dani%20Button.png"/></a></center>


Want to learn how to make one yourself?

June 30, 2011

Free Design Program

Are you interested in making your own designs but don't have the software you need to get started? I recently found a design program that is very similar to Photoshop, is free and requires no download. You create your designs right on the website and you can still save them to your computer.

I have only played with this a little but I will try to use it in my design tutorials. In the meantime, check it out!