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Ridgeway Cottage Anyhow - How to add social media buttons to your blog

I know not everyone is excited by learning code and techie stuff but in my quest for website geekiness, this post is just one step closer. For all my lovely friends and family who do not care one hoot about what goes on behind the scenes of Ridgeway Cottage, here are some lovely photos of October life. (Those who do want to know about the buttons, social media and coding, please read on.) Social Media Buttons Anyhow You will need. Your blog open in layout  The URL of your social media places you want to link to Some lovely pictures of social media icons that you would like to use as your buttons A photobucket account which you can easily open here A small understanding of how the coding works  A rather large smattering of patience unless you are super clever at all techie stuff   What social media icons are you going to use? You can find some very lovely ones by searching on the internet or there are some here, here ,  or here . I liked these...

Website Geek Anyhow

So what have I been doing with all my time lately, what are these changes that are a foot with my blog and now that the colder, darker evenings are drawing in, where will I be now I can't hang out on my allotment? My latest adventure is into the world of website design, I have long had aspirations of being some kind of web geek and I really do feel that I have that capacity for web geek chic. I have built my blog and I am in my third year of sharing my thoughts with the world wide web, things really are a lot more global than I ever imagined. There are people who read my blog in Russia and I don't even know anyone who lives there! These are my audience stats for the last month (geek jargon for who looks at my blog and from where)  It always delights me to realise that it isn't just a handful of family and friends who look at my blog and so I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of you lovely people. My adventures into the geekier side of the net have le...