Creating buttons for your guestbook..

[petercasier]

I am so impressed with the ultraguest service, that I almost feel obliged to give something back, hoping it will encourage more people to use ultraguest....

So let me share something for the other web-newbies like myself, on how to create a button for people to click on your website, like:




As the default HTML code provided is a simple link text, you might try to attract more people to your guestbook by making a button for them to click..

Step by step:

1. go to one of the free websites that let you make buttons. I use http://cooltext.com/Buttons . Highly configurable, and they let you save the button you created onto your hard disk.

2. upload the button itself onto your FTP server, or to one of the public and free picture servers (I use flickr).

3. once uploaded, get a url that points to your picture, which looks something like:
h t t p://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/415953445_197d1b2daf_o.gif

4. then on your web, integrate your button with the following HTML code:
<a href="http://www.ultraguest.com/sign/yournumber"><alt="anytext" src="yourpicture-url"/></a>

"your number" is your guestbook number (see the code you get in your control panel
"anytext" is the text shown when people move their cursor over the button (e.g. 'Just to say hi or to give feedback about my website!')
"yourpicture-url" is the url you got back from your picture server, pointing to your button


(and no, i am not sponsored by flickr.com nor cooltext.com. I just use their service a lot..)

Voila, hope this helps... If you want to see how I implemented this, check my website..

p.