Make It Stop!

Almost forgot... earlier today, I added Splotchy's "Go Away, Bush" counter. Just click your mouse on his ugly mug, and you will be redirected to the counter. It takes a few seconds for the newly-incremented count to come up, but it's worth the wait. The number is rapidly approaching 2000. I'd like to see it , oh, a million times larger than that by election day.

I had been putting off adding the picture and link because I didn't know how to link the picture to the destination address. Turns out (just like everything else on these machines [with the exception of Microsoft ware]) it's much easier to do than I'd guessed. At least in Google's system, go to layout, then add a page element, then add a picture. (For the following, it'll help to have two pages open: one to your "layout" options, and the other to the increment page.) From the increment page, pic the most appealing portrait and right-click on it. Select "Properties" from the list, and the URL of that picture will be on the info panel. Copy and paste that URL into the source. For my current picture it's http://www.splotchy.com/goaway/georgewbush_ghoul.jpg. Alternatively, you can download your chosen picture onto your hard drive, then browse and choose that picture rather than simply pointing to it on the web.

After you add the picture, you have the option to fill in the destination URL- what you want the picture to link to. That would be http://www.splotchy.com/goaway. Fill that in, hit save and you're done. Except for poking your picture in the eyes, punching his nose, snapping his ears, bopping him on the head, or whatever abusive symbolism you choose to engage in. And it would be nice if you encourage other blogging friends to follow your example.

Oh, and stop by and thank Splotchy for coming up with the idea and following through.