Jennifer asked, "HOW do you get the pretty backgrounds and fancy headers?"
I will answer the first part of this question here. I will address the headers in a coming post.
There are plenty sites out there that distribute backgrounds free of charge. Here are just a few:
or make your own in Photoshop with these tutorials:
When you find the background you like then read all terms on the site and follow them. You will not save the image to your hard drive by right clicking on it and "Save as". Then you will host it from another site such as Photobucket.com.
Once you have your background then it is time to install it. Follow these instructions:
1. Log into Blogger.
2. From your Dashboard click on "layout"
3. Click on "edit html"
4. Scroll down until you come to the section that looks similar to this:
2. From your Dashboard click on "layout"
3. Click on "edit html"
4. Scroll down until you come to the section that looks similar to this:
body {
background:url("INSERT IMAGE URL HERE")repeat;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;font-size: /**/small;
}
background:url("INSERT IMAGE URL HERE")repeat;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;font-size: /**/small;
}
5. Insert the URL of the image where it says to in red. If that particular line of code is not present in your template then simply add it right under the "body {" line. You may also need to remove the color line if it is present. It would look like this:
background:#FFFFFF;
Just delete that section.
6. Save template.
7. Finished!
7. Finished!
