badges in livejournal

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Permalink Reply by Indya43 on March 22, 2008 at 8:27am

I'm having trouble with this, too. I hope someone has the answer.

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Permalink Reply by Ambiguitylotus on March 24, 2008 at 10:25pm

I definitely concur. It's hard to add many cool gadgets to livejournal. :(

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Permalink Reply by meganlynae on March 25, 2008 at 7:41am

So, I emailed LiveJournal tech assistance and got a rambling reply that took me an hour to figure out. But it worked, for me. Apparently, depending upon the style you choose it may not even be possible to have anything in the sidebar. So, with my design (Writers Block Powder, Expressive) there is a menu within "Customize Journal" that says "Sidebars." When you click on that, there is a box at the bottom that says "Custom Module." That's where you want to add the badge. But, you can't start there.
1. Upload badge to ScrapBook
2. Put uploaded pic into a new post.
3. Hit tab that says HTML
4. Copy what you see into the "custom module" box
5. Take out part that has your web address in it and replace with nablopomo address. For instance, my badge initially says:
a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1/"
img width="150" height="40" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1" alt=""/
/a


So, it needed to be changed to:
a href="http://www.nablopomo.com"
img width="150" height="40" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1" alt=""/
/a

(I took the <>'s out so it would show code and not a pic.)

This works because apparently in the first HTML code it is referencing itself instead of the website. Apparently. Whatever, it works though.

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Permalink Reply by Ambiguitylotus on March 27, 2008 at 9:40am

Thanks! When I have time, I'm gonna try it, and let you know if it works for me. :D

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Permalink Reply by Indya43 on March 31, 2008 at 9:29pm

Thanks so much! I tried this and it worked right away! Thank you for saving me oodles of time. :)

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