My last lesson was in creating a blog button with a grab box, so other bloggers could put my face on their sidebar. I have a blogroll (list of blogs I read) on my sidebar with just text, but my next project will be to replace the boring list with buttons those bloggers have made.
After skimming a dozen or so tutorials, I chose to follow this one from Somewhat Simple because it was, well, somewhat simple and clearly composed. After playing around in Photoshop to get a logo (inspired thematically by my new networking cards from Tiny Prints), I had no problem with it; if I can do it, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be a-ok. Here's what I came up with:
