well, for the current one actually I didn't really edit anything. i just added the text.
for the links, I just make everything into one picture, the way I want it to look in the end. then, in photosop, I use the "slice" tool to "cut up" the picture into pieces. I start with making horizontal slices, since you can;t stack stuff up vertically with BBCode, and then where needed I divide the slices into smaller ones. (there's actually a lot of explaining for the slicing)
There has to be a seperate slice for each link, otherwise it gets really hard to work with.
then use the IMG and URL codes when putting it into my profile. It's like typing text, except that instead of letters I get the pictures.
The codes I use are
for image: [*img]image url[*/img]
where you have to put the image's url between thetags, and take out the * to makethecode work.
For linked images:
[*url=LINK][*img]PICTURE[*/img][*/url]
where the link has to go into the first tag (again, take out the * or the code won't work)
I'm kinda mad at explaining, so forthe slicing there's a really good tutorial
here. It's got explenations for using photoshop and GIMP. (it's for signatures, but the basic ideas are the samefor any picture which needs to have more than one link)
Oh, and for the websites, I just make different blog posts, it's much much easier that way.
Hope I explained it alright >.<