Designing Your Mommy Blog

Blogger and many other WYSIWYG blogging host sites make it so easy to design dynamic, functional and visually appealing sites.  I like Blogger because you have the point-click design option, but you're also able to fine-tune your site using html code.  If you're just starting out with Blogger, here's the first step in designing and fine-tuning your site:

1) Once logged in and inside your blog editing bay, click the Design tab.  If you are wanting to change anything like color scheme, image, font color, or layout, you will want to go to the Template Designer tab.

2)  In the Template Designer page, you will want to first choose a Template for your blog.  I chose the "Simple" blue and white template for the Blogging Mommies site.

3)  The next step is to decide what Background you want to use for your site.  Each template already comes with a background, but you can change it if it doesn't suit your site or your taste.  You can use the Blogger images available or you can choose to use your own.  Using your own image can become difficult to do successfully.  I had to use Photoshop to ensure that mine wouldn't tile oddly all over the page.  If you use Photoshop or know some one who has it, you will want to create a 1800x1600 pixel image in 150 or 72 pixels per inch.  Save As a JPG and lower the image quality, ensuring that it is under 300k in size.  Upload the pic on your Background page, align it and it should be good to go!  (I'll discuss using Photoshop for your web needs in a later blog.)

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