DIY: How to Get A Grab Button For Your Blog?

Every blogger wants and ALMOST need a Grab Button. I just created my Grab Button. Well, what on earth IS a Grab Button? It's an encoded button you get to add on to your sidebar (or wherever you want it) so your members/followers/viewers can click on it or "grab" it. Now when this happens, YOUR button appears on their website. Hey, what better way to advertise huh? :) Honestly, it's a great way to network, share info and materials with - especially with others in your interest group.

Creating a Blog Button -if you already have one, please disregard Step #1-
Step #1 : Creating a logo or a picture. Mine is from a website which has fab clip arts (here's her link). Be sure to read the disclaimer on sites you wish to copy pictures from. Size has to be no larger than 150x150 pixels IF you want to add a caption to the picture (What's the point if there's no caption, right). Or if you'd rather go without, then a picture size of 200x200 pixels is the maximum.

Step #2 : Uploading your picture. Do it on Photobucket, quick and easy sign-up and copy the DIRECT LINK of your picture.

Step #3 : Placing the  "Grab Button" in your sidebar. In your blog, click on Design, when the window pops up click Add a gadget and choose HTML/Javascript. In the title area, you can write whatever you want. Then in the HTML box, post the HTML below. Don't forget to SAVE it!

<center><a href="YOUR FULL WEBSITE URL HERE">
<img src="YOUR DIRECT LINK HERE" border="0"/></a>
<textarea rows="4" cols="15"><center><a href="YOUR WEBSITE URL HERE">
<img src="YOUR DIRECT LINK HERE" border="0"/>
</a></center></textarea></center>

Note: quotation marks are important, don't backspace it.

Step #4 : Voila! You've got your Grab Button! Make sure to test it 

so it brings you to  your Website! 

My very own blog button!

After much research, trying to figure out how I won't get sued, I have finally made myself a Blog button... yay!It took me 3 hours trying and re-trying to tally-up the grab function and creating my Blog Button, and I finally managed to figure out a way to successfully do it in a few easy steps. FYI: Steps are in another post (this one's purely for gushing - hehe), DIY: How to Get A Grab Button For Your Blog?

I tried creating my own picture, but much to my horror it turned out like a picture of a mangled up cat (in my defense, I'm also bundled away from the little chubbies because i'm down with rhinitis)... so I decided against testing my graphic skills and resorted to scouring through the web and eventually found a cute clip art. I got it from a wonderful website which offers tonnes of vintage stuff... do visit her site

So, there's my button... grab it if you please!!!