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Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog

Building a blogShhh, look over in my sidebar. See all those buttons? The ones that link to feeds, translations, and other goodies? Want some?

There are a variety of online icon, buttons, bows, and badges you can get for your own blog. Making your own with any graphics program is not as easy as it seems, but online programs make the job simple, fast, and easy.

The rectangular buttons in the sidebar are probably the most common format. They are 80 x 15 pixels in size. The most common font used in the buttons is called “Silkscreen”, though Verdana is occasionally used.

Button Makers - Make Your Own Buttons

Free Buttons, Badges and Icons

Below are resources to download and save premade and free icons, buttons, and badges. Also included are a variety of graphic icons. Different from buttons, these are icons that you can use to spice up or help categorize your posts with graphic elements.

Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges

stoptheftred2.gifFor those determined to remind the world that their blog content is theirs and not available for the taking or stealing, check out the variety of buttons and badges to Stop Content Theft. Spam Blogs, known as splogs, are grabbing content from your blog feeds and using it as their own on blogs, aggregators, and “search services” surrounded with advertising, comments, social bookmarking service submit links, and making your content earn money for them without your permission and in violation of most copyrights. Spread the word to protect your blog’s content, and encourage people to ask first if they want to use it.

Learning More About Icons, Buttons, Bows, and Badges

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This entry was written by Lorelle VanFossen and posted on November 13, 2005 at 10:48 am and filed under Blogging Tips, Web Design. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

19 Comments

  1. women
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

    I was looking for that… niceeee :)

  2. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted December 30, 2005 at 9:46 am | Permalink

    Fantastico also has a list of icon resources for web pages and desktop shortcut icons to help you find even more icon choices.

  3. handsonsupport
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 2:55 pm | Permalink

    Just spent an hour trying to find out how to put buttons onto my blog - going nuts now!!!!! Please can you help or point me towards an article that explains in simple language how to get the buttons onto my blog. I’m a techie teacher - suddenly I’m well out of my comfort zone with all this stuff.

    Hope you can help

    Richard

  4. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

    To put buttons on your WordPress.com or WordPress blog, read Links Manager instructions from the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress users.

    It’s really easy. The whole trick is to put the link in the URL line, and then put the icon location (upload the icon to your WordPress.com blog - do not link to an icon offsite). Then go to Link Categories under your Links panel and set the options to show the icon/graphic. Done.

    I’ll be writing more about setting up a sidebar like mine soon. Stay tuned. I hope this helps.

  5. Fiction etc.
    Posted February 19, 2006 at 9:45 pm | Permalink

    How do you put “Subscribe to” buttons in your wordpress.com blog (e.g. bloglines, google reader, del.icio.us) that really subscribe or link to your feeds like the ones you have in your sidebar? I’ve only succeeded with putting up a bloglines button that links to bloglines.com but that’s about it.

    By the way, your blog has really helped me tremendously with my wordpress.com blog. As a non-techie, I benefited much from your simple easy to understand language. I’m glad I found it. :)

  6. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted February 19, 2006 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

    I will be explaining it more later, but as mentioned in the comment above, go to Links in the Administration Panels. Click ADD LINK and put the address (URL) in the URL form and then the link (preferably to your own copy of the graphic you uploaded through the Write Post panel) to the graphic in the Image form box and SAVE.

    Then go to the Link Category panel and make sure that the category in which the link is included is set to SHOW IMAGES. Do not let it show descriptions, just the image.

    Done.

    I will have an article coming soon to explain all of this including the specialized links in the sidebar. And thanks for the kind words.

  7. G.M. Knowles
    Posted April 22, 2006 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for this information. Also, I want to thank you for all the times I didn’t thank you. Great blog/website with solid writing and valid technical information. Keep up the excellent work, please.

  8. Kristine
    Posted July 4, 2006 at 10:32 pm | Permalink

    I swear, if you were an animal you’d be the Energizer Bunny tap dancing on the Keyboards and boogy boarding on the Mouse. Yes. I am certainly more visual than…ummm, smart?

  9. Abhilash
    Posted July 6, 2006 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    Wow. You’ve done a prodigious job here. Seriously. I had to stay a while just to marvel at your work. Keep it up!

  10. Jagannath
    Posted July 29, 2006 at 5:56 am | Permalink

    mmm thanx..

    i used Feed Burner service to get all those ‘chicklets’ as they are called

    —–
    Jagannath .A.
    http://jagannath.wordpress.com

  11. Stuart
    Posted December 28, 2006 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

    I’m loving the Web 2.0 style buttons at the moment, really adds a professional touch to the website :)

  12. zooster
    Posted July 3, 2007 at 11:26 pm | Permalink

    I like those buttons very much, the remind me on web 2.0 standards which should be implemented in all sites.

  13. David
    Posted July 20, 2007 at 10:46 am | Permalink

    Nice write up! There are automated ways in wordpress to add these buttons.

  14. nyunyu
    Posted October 10, 2007 at 9:11 pm | Permalink

    i am super happy to found your blog. i am first timer in blogging and still learning on how to customize my blog. planning to go to a webhost sometimes soon. i will add this blog to my blogroll if you dont mind.

  15. Hope
    Posted March 12, 2008 at 8:06 am | Permalink

    can these buttons be adapted for digg, delicious etc?

  16. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted March 12, 2008 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    @ Hope:

    Whatever your heart desires. :D

  17. Bagindo
    Posted May 9, 2008 at 1:39 am | Permalink

    can i use a badge??

  18. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted May 9, 2008 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    @ Bagindo:

    These are free for usage.

  19. Jakov Jakovljev
    Posted May 12, 2008 at 7:28 am | Permalink

    Oh, I was locking for something like that. Thanks very much!!!!!!!!!

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