(I love your avatar – too cute!)

Your questions answered:

1. By grey boxes around everything – I assume you mean the images?   To remove these, go to Appearance>>Edit, and find the Style.css- should be listed at the bottom of the right-hand side.
- scan through that file until you find:

a img {border: 3px solid grey; .....}

- change the border width to zero like so:

a img {border: 0px solid grey; ....}

Note – there may be more than one instance of “img” so you may need to use your notepad and search & replace feature to find each instance.\

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2. Your question says that you have a picture, but you’d like it to function like a button, correct?

First, find the button code. Look here first: Posts>>Edit>> and inside the specific post – click on the “HTML” editor.  If it isn’t in a particular post, but in your sidebar, go to Appearance>> Widgets and find the text widget with the image in it.

Scroll down in the html until you see a line of gibberish (code) that begins with "<img alt="" and ends with “ />” (also known as an “end” tag.)

In order to make that image do something (just like a button) you need to put a link around it. For an example, lets say you want that button to go to your about page.   A normal link will look like:

<a href="http://myblog/about" title="About Me"> About </a>

You will want to replace the “About” text with your image, so that the image is now surrounded by a link – thus clickable.  So the end result will look like:

<a href="http://myblog/about" title="About Me"> <img src="http://flickr/myaccount/myimage.jpg" title="me" alt="" /></a>

You will need to replace my links (in blue) with your specific links.   By the time you’re done you’ll be an html coder!

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3. You’d like people to click on a link and email you.

Yes, this can be done with a mailto: function in an “a” tag, HOWEVER, bots and spiders crawl the internet all the time, and I strongly recommend against using the mailto tag as it will be scanned and become the target of innumerable spam. Instead, I recommend the use of a contact plugin – I use Contact – Form 7.

If you are SURE you want to use the mailto function, it works like this:

<a href="mailto:cathy@myemail.com">Email Link</a>
(replace the blue text with your email address!)

Let me know if you have problems with any of these answers!

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I am now ASKING for your questions!  Bring ‘em on girlfriends!!  We need your questions about which plugins to use, how to accomplish different bells and whistles, or what to do for SEO purposes.  We need questions on how to use your custom themes, or to create the sidebars you want.  Anything goes at this point!

I hope that we will have a Q&A section up during the next week!

Image via Wikipedia

The w3schools website is where I learned a lot of the beginner Cascading Style Sheet writing.  The Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, is the set of instructions that formats your blog.  All the elements are put on the page with html, and we make them look pretty with CSS.

If you head to your admin panels and look in Appearance>> Editor, and click on the Stylesheet towards the bottom of the list on the right hand side, you will see a page of CSS code.  This code really is not hard to write.  Here’s an example:

Lets say we want to put a border around a post.

We go to our admin panels, click “edit” on the subject post.  Click on the HTML editor.  At the top of the post, put this code:
<div style="border: 1px solid black;">
THAT, my friends is all there is to it!  This example is called “inline styling” as it isn’t written in the stylesheet, but in line with the HTML.  This is only done on the rare occasion and only for one time things.  If you want every post to have a border, then you can do that with one line of code in the stylesheet.

To find out how to get a particular style or where to place the code in a stylesheet check out the w3schools website.

Isn’t that just so cool?