badges in livejournal

I'm having trouble with this, too. I hope someone has the answer.

I definitely concur. It's hard to add many cool gadgets to livejournal. :(

So, I emailed LiveJournal tech assistance and got a rambling reply that took me an hour to figure out. But it worked, for me. Apparently, depending upon the style you choose it may not even be possible to have anything in the sidebar. So, with my design (Writers Block Powder, Expressive) there is a menu within "Customize Journal" that says "Sidebars." When you click on that, there is a box at the bottom that says "Custom Module." That's where you want to add the badge. But, you can't start there.
1. Upload badge to ScrapBook
2. Put uploaded pic into a new post.
3. Hit tab that says HTML
4. Copy what you see into the "custom module" box
5. Take out part that has your web address in it and replace with nablopomo address. For instance, my badge initially says:
a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1/"
img width="150" height="40" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1" alt=""/
/a


So, it needed to be changed to:
a href="http://www.nablopomo.com"
img width="150" height="40" border="0" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/megan_lynae/pic/00008br1" alt=""/
/a

(I took the <>'s out so it would show code and not a pic.)

This works because apparently in the first HTML code it is referencing itself instead of the website. Apparently. Whatever, it works though.

Thanks! When I have time, I'm gonna try it, and let you know if it works for me. :D

Thanks so much! I tried this and it worked right away! Thank you for saving me oodles of time. :)