for making my Monday a little bit better. Thanks so much! I am new to this whole blogging world and I wanted a cute button and now I have one. I got very frustrated last night, but I figured out what I did wrong today and everything is peachy:) Having noticed the blog button on many blogs, I was keen to do one for myself but didn't know where to find help. When I googled, I found this site at the top of search results; I didn't have to look beyond, But what's even more amazing is that there are so so many tutorials and I am hungry for such material. I have added this to my Blogroll. I'm sure to e coming back here regularly. Thanks so much. I am so glad I found this. I'm on a WP.com blog and until tonight the only way I could add a button was to have the code in a post and have that link in the side bar. Now the people featured in my weekly recipe link love list can grab a button if they'd like. Thanks so much Amy. I just did this successfully! Woo hoo. I really appreciate you posting this. I wanted to share a tip for creating the blank canvas background... I wanted a white background, but didn't have any images that were suitable for that. So I just got on Picasa and created a collage with one photo (any photo), then cropped a square out