Showing posts with label linky party thumbnail list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linky party thumbnail list. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Techy Tips on Tuesdays - Thumbnail List (for linky parties or tutorials)

Welcome back to Techy Tips on Tuesday!!


When I first started linking up to parties, I knew I needed to come up with an organized way of listing all of the buttons.  {I say organized because I may have a slight case of OCD :) }

This is what I came up with (check it out for yourself here):


Do you want to do this too?  It can be accomplished by using HTML tables {don't be intimidated!}.  You will need to use the "Edit HTML" tab of your post editor.  It may be helpful to also reference this Techy Tip post on HTML.

<table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
                      <td></td>
       </tr>
   </tbody>
</table>  

red - This code should go at the beginning and end of each table you create {these are the table headers}
green - This indicates a row
blue - This indicates a cell

So as an example, let's say you want to make a table look like this:
A  B
C  D

The code would look something like this:
 <table>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
                      <td>A</td>
                      <td>B</td>
       </tr>
        <tr>
                      <td>C</td>
                      <td>D</td>
       </tr>
          </tbody>
</table>  


You can then replace each of the letters with a different button code.

<table>
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <td><copy button code here></td>
    <td><copy button code here></td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>  



To make it all visually appealing, each button needs to be the same size.  I did this by adding this code: width="125" and height="125"



<table>
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <td><a href="blogbuttonaddr1.com"><img height="125" src="blogbuttonlocation1" width="125" /></a></td>
    <td><a href="blogbuttonaddr2.com"><img height="125" src="blogbuttonlocation2" width="125" /></a></td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>  


AHHH!  Everything nice, neat and organized looking.  Love it!!

You can apply the same technique for a list of tutorials, or whatever else you can think of!

If you still have some questions or just aren't sure how to get started, don't hesitate to ask!!

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