I Know a Guy

I’ve had this problem with my author website for years. It’s not an interesting problem. It’s not even an important problem. It’s simply a problem. A little, tiny, probably insignificant problem, and it’s been bothering me for a long time.

The problem was with the social media button icons on my author website. (If you haven’t checked it out yet, by the way, it’s got nifty little goodies and extras from my books. You might want to hop over there if you’re a fan of my novels.) You see, the website theme I’m using for my blog comes with the option to customize, to a point. I can enter my pertinent social media urls into the backend to make them show up fancy-like on the website, but I could only pick from four options, with the corresponding icons to match. Facebook, Twitter, Github, and Google+.

Now, I use Facebook and Twitter for my writing so no big deal, right? But I don’t use the other two. Instead, I have a personal blog (which you’re reading! Right now!) and an new Instagram account I’m still not sure I’m using properly. I could enter those urls on the backend, but the icons for them would be wrong. In order to change this, I’d need to fiddle with the CSS of the page, something I’m woefully under-qualified to do.

So what did I do about this dumb little problem? I enlisted the help of my favorite code ninja (read: husband) and now? Problem solved! And all I had to do was hand Wes his laptop and ask him pretty please to save the day.