Walking Therein

I have had some questions/seen some questions about Mr. Linky. Let me tell you what I have learned.

First of all, you need a Mr. Linky acct. It is free, unless you want to display more than 1 Mr. Linky at a time - then it is only $5 for the basic subscription for a whole year. Not much for the meme addict, huh? ;)

Alrighty, the big question has been, "How do I get it onto my post??". Well, my experience has been with using the HTML Linky. It is simple, and it's what works with hsb. There are an abundance of different ones, though, to accomodate the different blog forums. I'm pretty sure that they work pretty similarly, since it is javascript.

Here on hsb, there is a little button on your Add Entry/ Edit Entry page. It is in the taskbar of the entry. See it? SOURCE. It turns your post into html. When you push that button, you open a whole new world of post design, lol!

To add Mr. Linky to a post, you simply push the Source button and scroll to the bottom of the page and paste the Mr. Linky code. If you need to hit enter to paste it on a new line, go ahead and do that. Be sure to paste both of the codes that were generated on the Linky Wizard. Push the Source button again. You're done. Mr. Linky will NOT show up on the Edit Entry page. It will show up on your Preview though, so you can check it there.

So, getting the Mr. Linky is pretty easy. After you sign up, you can go to the Wizard and start getting codes to paste into your entries.

To join a meme and put the linky on your post, it must be a shared meme. You subscribe to the meme on the linky by pushing the Suscribe Link. After you subscribe, you go to the Linky Wizard and get the code. It will have the meme id and your name on it. Paste it into your post, Voila! You now have a linky of your own for that meme.

If I have made an error in typing any of this up, please email me and let me know. Feel free to add any other info in the comments, too, as I have not used all facets of Mr. Linky!

.....Off to find out how to use it on Blogger!

 blessings! -Jacque

UPDATE: 10/04/07

Mr. Linky is now formatted for Homeschoolblogger (though I am not sure it is any easier than what I have been doing). You have to add something to your template... I knda' freaked out at that at first, but we re-do ourtemplates all the time, and it really isn't that big of a deal.

The only thing I found is that what you put into your template is just the header, and you still have to enter the javascript into your Source on your Edit entry page. So, if you don't mind copying (Cntrl+C) and pasting (Cntrl+V) both codes, just use the HTML only button. Otherwise, use the Homeschoolblogger selection and change your template.

Ok... I think that's all for now.

Here is a Mr. Linky for my Saturday Psalm & Praise meme for this week... just as an example!