I must have changed my blog's design twenty times this week, using Blogger's new templates.
There are so many choices. It's hard to decide on just one. I've gotten as far as creating an attractive header for my blog (using a free download from the site listed below), but I haven't figured out how to create a custom header yet.
The header should also reflect your blog's theme, which in my case translates to my journey from writing to publication (A WRITER'S JOURNEY. Behind the scenes, between the lines) and also the theme of my four novels: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever, thus my blog title, Enter the Between.
At http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2007/05/add-image-to-your-blogs-header.html you'll find a short video showing how to add an image to your blog header. I downloaded my header-image (the right size and ready to go) free at: http://www.freewebpageheaders.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/510 . You'll find additional free blog-header websites at: http://www.eblogtemplates.com/free-blog-header-images/.
But that's part of the fun, isn't it? To keep experimenting and learning. I'll get it right one of these days.
Good thing I don't have many followers yet (kind of like a tree falling in the forest when there's no one around to hear), and the followers I do have know me and like me (I hope) and are therefore tolerant, figuring I still have a lot to learn.
Yesterday I had a picture of a tunnel beneath my header and title. Now there's a fantasy tree in my header and behind my title.
See how much I've learned?
Below is a video on how to create a custom header for your Blogger blog, a project more complicated than the one above, but one I hope to get around to soon (after downloading the free program from http://paint.net/, of course).
And finally, another website with a video on creating a custom blogger header (http://www.affiliatemarketingdiary.com/case-studies/trend-blogging-creating-blogger-header-image/54/).
How good is that?
7 comments:
Wowhhh it's looking great already!!! I allready made other blogs for our vacations so I know that its sometime a struggle to find a good looking template or header to express what you want to say with your blog.
You did a good job. The lightblue background and a nice header that's made you think you are in a kind of fairytale (did I write that correctly??)
Keep up the good work!!
I like the colors of the current header but my favorite is the butterfly one, or the yewenyi, which is very cool. Off to the right. You're doing a great job at creating this. On my nana blog, I used their templates, and haven't really tried to change it. But I might after reading this.
Lee
www.thenakedhero.com
Hi Lee. Like I said, I'm not done yet. I do like the butterfly image a lot, and I also miss the one I had. I don't know if I can size the original to fit the narrow header section since it's protected by a Creative Commons copyright. At least the content of the posts will remain the same, which is actually the most important part.
Hi Marielle (Steijntje),
Thanks for checking out my blog all the way from Holland. It's definitely still a work in progress. And yes, you wrote your comment correctly. But you can respond in Dutch next time. I'll do my best to translate. I need the practice.
You're doing a great job on the site. I've been thinking about switching my Nana Blog over to Blogspot, there seems to be more choices as far as what you can do with it.
Hi Lee,
What are you using now? I'm just into the beginning stages of researching Word Press to see what the differences are between it and Blogger. So far I see advantages and disadvantages to both. I looked up your Nana blog and couldn't find it, but I really like the header to your Irish Sisters Knits site.
This blogging business is very time consuming, but I think, in the end, it will be time well spent.
Thanks, Margaret! I used your advice and made a custom header--something I never thought I could do!
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