Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers blog

We are happy to announce that we’ve made some tweaks to our flash badge to make it work on Myspace and Yahoo! 360.

Unfortunately, the badge is only supported as part of a 360 blog post. A more permanent option for placing the badge is forthcoming. Thanks!

To post to Yahoo! 360:

1. Go to the Badge Page in your profile.
2. Select either the Horizontal or Vertical version of the badge.
3. Copy the code by selecting the code and selecting Copy from the Edit menu on your browser.
4. Go to 360 and click “Compose Blog Entry”.
5. Enter some text here describing your badge.
6. Select “View HTML Source”.
7. Paste in the badge code after your text.
8. Click “Post This Entry” and you’re done!

Just make sure that when you try to use this badge on 360 as a blog entry, you select either the Vertical or Horizontal version and NOT the default Header version. The default width of the Header badge is 620, which is longer than what 360 allows (540). So if you want to use the Header version, you have to change the width from 620 to 540.

To add to your Myspace profile:

1. From your Myspace page, click “Edit Profile”.
2. Cut and paste the code from the badge page (pick any size you want) into any of the profile fields.
3. Save and you’re done.

To add to your Myspace blog:

1. You can cut and paste the code and post it as a blog, or you can customize your blog to have the Answers badge as a header, by clicking “Customize Blog” and pasting the badge into the “Your Own Header HTML” field.

If you want to edit the badge code to have a custom height and width, you can edit the height and width fields in the code to anything you want. FYI: the max width on 360 badges is 540 pixels.

The badge is an awesome way to promote your questions and answers. Since it’s always showing your latest stuff, visitors to your blogs can see what you’re most curious or knowledgeable about. Have fun, and definitely let us know how you’re using the badge.

– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team