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Since a lot of people have been asking me how I made my blogroll the way I did (4 Haelz), I thought I would just set the guide down where anyone could find it. It's actually really simple:

The size is 50x50 for all the icons on my page. I take the icons and I upload them to my account on photobucket. Then I copy the html imbed for them. It starts out looking like this:



You take the first url and switch it for the blog's url, so it would look like this:



Then, where it says "alt" replace it with "title" and where it says "Photobucket" write the title of the blog. This part is especially important, as it will tell the person who mouses over the picture where the link leads.



To arrange them in blogger*, make a new plain html widget. Copy and paste them in. To put the space between them, like in mine, hit enter after each block of code. So, it would look like:



After four, add the tag <br/> This will put a break between a row of them so you can start a new row.

*I am unsure how this works with Wordpress, as I have never tried it on that blogging platform.

Pros of this Blogroll:

It's pretty/cool
It takes (surprisingly) less space than a traditional link list
Not many bloggers (at this point in time, this guide may change that) do it this way

Cons:

Takes more effort
Hard to keep in alphabetical order
Unsure whether it generates as much traffic as an easily readable link list
Sometimes you have to ask authors to send you a pic or create your own

I hope this helps!

It actually works the same way with the exact same code. The only difference is the widget to use. Just follow these steps:

1. Go to the Design tab in your Wordpress administration page.
2. Choose the Widgets option.
3. Add the Text widget to your sidebar of choice.
4. Edit that widget you have just added.
5. On the first textbox, insert the title of the widget (e.g. Blogroll)
6. Paste the HTML code as sampled above in the second, larger textbox.
7. Press Change and Save Changes.

The size of your sidebar will vary from theme to theme, so it may be necessary to change the size of the images.

Thanks Bell!