How to make Side Bar Buttons the easy way

I have made a small change to the blog.

Have you noticed?

There is something you should know:

 I am a complete NITWIT with these things.

I just know the basics in Blogger. I know how to ad HTML Text in the gadgets/widgets. 

So that is what you need to do this yourself, if you desire to

I love to change things up and design myself.

But for the life of me, I do not have the patience for Photoshop.

 There is a much more professional way to get this I am sure!

But here is what I did.

I used Polyvore for the arrow and made a screen image with a bit of extra space white space around it. Because the background of my blog is white you do not see this.

Uploaded this image to PicMonkey.

In PicMonky I added  text.

Within the white margin I enlarged and placed the text.

Resized to 60x60 (measurement in PicMonkey) to fit within my margin of my blog. 

I tried a lot of different measurements before I got it right….

Saved it and uploaded it to Photobucket.

Here I copied the HTML code.

This code I placed into my blog.

( my blogdesign part is in Dutch, Sorry!)

Copy the HTML into the  HTML text box in Layout- add a widget-HTML/Java Script and save.

At Snap I found a tutorial to center the widgets in your side bar.

Very Easy!! I could do it, so it is doable!

And  this is how it turned out:

There are more in my side bar, for now.

This was just an experiment that took me all day :-) 

I have to find out what I really want and how to do them more like a pro.

 In the process I lost "my" followers AND found them back again. I now have thousands of images in PhotoBucket that are pretty much the same. And  I have a husband who is warning me about sitting behind the computer for more then 5 hours at a time!

It was really fun to do this and find a way to do this. But I hope to get more comfy with this HTML stuff!

Hope you like and get it!

Here is another one :-)