I like the little ‘chicklet’ style buttons used to present links within a sidebar or elsewhere, and having had need of creating one recently, I found this simple button maker at Blog Flux:

It’s dead easy to use, just enter your text, alter the colours to suit and hit ‘Generate button’. If you don’t like the result, just make your amendments and try again.

To insert your new badge into your blog, you’ll need to first save the new button to your PC (Right-click, then ’save as’). Next, upload it to wherever you usually put your images, and then insert the following code into your sidebar or wherever you want it to appear:

<a href=’http://LINK/’><img src=’http://BUTTONURL/BUTTONNAME ‘alt=’AAA’ title=’BBB’ border=’0′ </a>

Where LINK is where you want a click to lead to.

BUTTONURL is where the badge has been uploaded to.

BUTTONNAME is obviously the name of the button, don’t forget .jpg, .gif etc.

AAA is the alt tag for search engines.

BBB is the title for when people hover their mouse over.

So, if you’d like to add the following classy badge to your blog:

The code you would need is:

<a href=’http://blog-op.com/’><img src=’http://blog-op.com/wp-content/blogopbutton.gif ‘alt=’Blog-Op’ title=’Blog-Op: Tips for bloggers’ border=’0′ </a>

Feel free to copy it.