[allpurposeguru]

I'm in the process of building my very first sales site, and I found some basic button-generating software I don't remember where. I noticed that it did not include any kind of link, so I tried to add it myself. Here's what I came up with:

<button><a href="" target="_blank">Buy Me!</a></button>

I put the URL to the particular product, with my affiliate information included, and voila! It turns up on the page. Alas, when I click on it, nothing happens, and no URL shows up at the bottom of the screen as it does when I mouse over a hot link. Surely I have the right link. Am I missing something else that ought to be there to make it work?

Thanks.

[2busy]

<button> is not a valid html tag and would require a script to make it create a button. Often browsers ignore code they can't understand. The rest of it should work if you add a link to it like this for example:

<a href="http://network.com/merchant=112233&afiliate=000000&product=101010" target="_blank">Buy Me!</a>

where http://network.com/merchant=112233&afiliate=000000&product=101010 is the link you added.

[CCBerries]

I went and looked how it's done on my site, they do it with CSS

<a class="buttonMore" href="mardi-gras-strawberry-gift-4dz-set.html?category_id=66"><span><b>read more...</b></span><img src="images/tr.gif" alt=""></a>

with the css

a.buttonMore:link, a.buttonMore:visited {display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; color: #C7A50B; font: bold 11px/28px arial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;}
a.buttonMore:hover, a.buttonMore:active {display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; color: #C7A50B; font: bold 11px/28px arial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;}

a.buttonMore span 	{padding: 6px 10px 8px 10px; background: url(../images/convex/button-bgr.gif) repeat-x;}	/* read more... (special offers, etc.) */
a.buttonMore img 		{display:none;}

that should give you a starting point

[allpurposeguru]

Thanks for your quick replies.