Just ask the Internet...it knows EVERYTHING!

Tonight I decided to sit down once and for all and figure out how to insert pretty social media buttons onto my blog. You know what I'm talking about if you troll blogs like I do. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let me educate you. I'm referring to the Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+ buttons you can see on my blog off to the right. If you click them, they will take you to all my social sites. Yep---putting myself out there. Not scary at all.

So I sat down in front of my handy-dandy MacBook Pro and opened up Google and just asked the Internet some questions. Like "how to add a social media toolbar to blogger". Holy cow jackpot! Did you know the Internet has 717,000 answers for that question?!? The first result was a YouTube tutorial. I have found some great tutorials on YouTube for various projects I have worked on. Video tutorials typically yield a pre-pubescent british boy as the instructor. No really. Try searching "how to use chroma-key in Final Cut" and you will likely learn some tricks from Nigel...a 13 year old from the suburbs of London. If some kid with a MacBook who can't drive can figure this stuff out, surely I can! After all, I grew my very own human. I bet you can't do that, Nigel!

I decided to skip the video tutorial. I needed to find code that I could plagiarize, uh rip off, uh rip and reapply. Yes. And I found it here. The author of this article laid out the instructions in a very easy to understand manner. So easy in fact that I got it to work on the first try! If you find yourself wanting to add some really cool buttons to your website or blog, there are oodles of different styles. All you have to do is ask the Internet!

I'm very excited about this little design improvement I made. I look forward to many, many more as I learn more tricks. I hope you continue to read my posts so you can come along with me on this fun little journey.