I've read lots of comments about how easy Blogger is to use, but none about how damn good-looking the results are. Despite the fact that I had a little trouble in my tinting class, beauty_school_droput is here to help. Now you might not like my bare boarded, New York loft style look, you might think it a little gruff and that it could do with a nice rug or a few scatter cushions. Just add pink:
Wearing Simple, with belknap (food & drink) background
No, I think jelly beans and pink is probably more than I can bear, but I've got a little more up my sleeve. A beautiful calming sky is much better. Or how about books, burgers or beer? All things close to my heart. Rugby balls, pool balls? Vintage washing machines or computers? Vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, rain streaks on a window? One of these or more must be floating your boat.
Wearing Picture Window, with standard background image
So just how am I doing all this? Well, I haven't written the style sheets myself, nor have I've forked out on a designer just to create this blog post. This was all created using Blogger in draft's template designer. I first heard about this a couple of months ago, it was all still in beta. Excitedly I changed from my standard template to the pretentious boards you see now, and then promptly forgot about it.
Despite being 'in draft' the template designer is remarkably easy to use just log in to Blogger in draft as you would normally and look for the template designer sub menu in the Design or Layout tab. Choose your template and background image:
Wearing picture Window with RBFried (abstract) background image
Adjust the layout to the number of columns you want and then fiddle with the advanced settings to your heart's content. You can customize just about every line and section of your blog.
Still need help? Here's the official walkthrough.
You will be asked if you want Blogger in draft to be your regular login, if you are a confident tweaker this may be worth your while. Added extras include a couple of extra options during compose, an ability to add images you've previously used and a much improved post preview.
That's all my design secrets gone in one week, but I look forward to seeing changes you make to your blogs, even if you do pick the pink jelly beans!
Extra Credit
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm forever uploading images, then deleting them from the post, then uploading them again...
you truly are the font of all knowledge! Thanks a lot, I was never really happy with the boring 'standard' look.
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