One of the best ways to connect with readers outside of your website is through Twitter.
By adding a “follow me” badge or image to your sidebar, you’ll find that other twitterers who call by your blog will very often add you to those they already follow.
I’m assuming here that you know how to edit your blogs’ theme, because explaining that is a whole different can of worms.
Open your sidebar file. It’s usually called sidebar.php, and will be numbered (eg. sidebar1.php) if you have two sidebars.
Look through the code, and going by the text, you should be able to work out what the different sections are for.
There should be a lot of <li>s and <ul>s in there, interspaced with headings, text and code for the bits and pieces you already have in your sidebar.
Choose a location for your twitter link and insert the following code for a text link:
<a href=”your twitter page url”>Follow Me!</a>
eg. <a href=”http://twitter.com/janeblogs”>Follow Me!</a>
will show this:
For an image link, try searching the web for cute bird images, and insert the following code:
<a href=”your twitter page url”><img src=”your image url” border=”0″ /></a>
eg. <a href=”http://twitter.com/janeblogs”><img src=”http://www.kidzarama.com/images/designs/tweet.png” title=”Follow Me!” border=”0″ /></a>
will show this:
Here are just a few images I found after a quick search on the Microsoft Outlook clipart site, which I’ve resized and converted to png or jpg files for easy use.
If you need help with any of this just drop me a note, tweet me or leave a comment and I’ll give you a hand.
