Creating a link

[RF]

Hey just wanted to give a quick thank you for making such a great product available to everyone!  Next.... I'm hoping someone could help me add a link to the top image (hw_01.gif) wich is part of the "hardwired" theme, so that users can return to my main homepage... any help is greatly appreciated.. i'm very new to all this... thank you

[Joachim Müller]

well, you can modify many files and many locations to have a link to anything you want. To make the image clickable, you'll have to modify it the template a lot, since it's done as background image (edit /themes/hardwired/template.html and look for

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<td width="778" height="61" valign="middle" align="right" background="themes/hardwired/images/hw_01.gif">
Instead, I'd inlcude a "home" link in the menu: edit /themes/hardwired/theme.php and search for

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<!-- BEGIN album_list -->
                                        <td><img name="spacer" src="images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="25" border="0" id="spacer" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonleft1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonleft1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonleft" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td background="themes/hardwired/images/buttoncenter1.gif">
                                                <a href="{ALB_LIST_TGT}" title="{ALB_LIST_TITLE}">{ALB_LIST_LNK}</a>
                                        </td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonright1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonright1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonright1" alt="" /></td>
<!-- END album_list -->and replace it with

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<!-- BEGIN album_list -->
                                        <td><img name="spacer" src="images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="25" border="0" id="spacer" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonleft1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonleft1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonleft" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td background="themes/hardwired/images/buttoncenter1.gif">
                                                <a href="http://www.yourpage.com" title="foo bar whatevere">your custom link text</a>
                                        </td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonright1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonright1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonright1" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td><img name="spacer" src="images/spacer.gif" width="5" height="25" border="0" id="spacer" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonleft1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonleft1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonleft" alt="" /></td>
                                        <td background="themes/hardwired/images/buttoncenter1.gif">
                                                <a href="{ALB_LIST_TGT}" title="{ALB_LIST_TITLE}">{ALB_LIST_LNK}</a>
                                        </td>
                                        <td><img name="buttonright1" src="themes/hardwired/images/buttonright1.gif" width="7" height="25" border="0" id="buttonright1" alt="" /></td>
<!-- END album_list -->
GauGau

[momof3kids]

ohhh.... thanks.  Well I have another ?  How do I keep it on rainy day?  but keep that button?  And are there different codes for different "named" buttons, like I would like another button to say community.  What code do I use for that, or where do I find it?  Thanks.  Mom