Pagination

Hello!
I’m having a problem with my pagination.
I want it to work like this:
The output: <1>
The left arrow is a link for privious entries, the right arrow for next entries, and the “1” is the pagenumber.

And if there’s no privious entries for instance, i want the arrow to still be there, but un-clickable.
This is my current code (It’s ofcourse not working at the moment):

<?php if(count(next_posts_link()) > 0): echo "the link..."; ?>
        <?php else: echo "the link, but unclickable"; ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
       //Below this is working
           <?php next_posts_link('<') ?>
		   <?php if(!empty($_GET["paged"])) { echo '<strong>'.$_GET["paged"].'</strong>'; } else { echo "<strong> 1 </strong>"; } ?>
		   <?php previous_posts_link('>') ?>