Web Design For Idiots

There is a SUPER simple way to change any image that you see on your website and make it into something complete custom, and guess what, IT DOESN’T REQUIRE ANY CODING!!!!

Its a simple 9 step process.

1. Go to your website and find the page with the image that you want to change
2. Right click (or if using a mac ctrl click) and click SAVE IMAGE to your desktop.
3. Right click (or if using a mac ctrl click) on the image and choose PROPERTIES – this will open a new pop up window. There you will see all the information you need to know about this image
4. Look at the IMAGE LOCATION and copy and paste it or write it down somewhere so you remember
5. Open the image in your favorite graphic program and build a new button (on a new layer if you can) over the old one and delete the layer with the old image.
6. Click SAVE (you HAVE to keep the exact same file name and type. All osc buttons are .gif)
7. Open your FTP program and upload the button the to folder that you copied and pasted or wrote down from the IMAGE LOCATION properties window.
8. Visit your website and now go to the page that the image was on, hold down SHIFT and click refresh and your new button will be there!!
9. Repeat steps 7-8 for every image on your website.

Thats it. Its totally easy and completely fool proof. By building the button OVER the old one and deleting the old you, you are making sure that your button is as close to the same size as possible.

So go crazy replacing buttons, and other images. You can literally do this with ANY type of website out there. All images reside in a folder somewhere on your server, and the code is calling for that particular image with that particular name in that particular spot. So when you just change the image and nothing else, you are STILL calling for that particular image, but you made the image LOOK different.

IS IT STARTING TO MAKE SENSE NOW??

So if you have wordpress and desperately want to change your header but theres no easy way to do it, USE THIS PROCESS.. If you have oscommerce and HATE those blue buttons, USE THIS PROCESS.. It works for ANYTHING

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