Those of you (all two) who have been reading since that first pitiful post may have noticed a change recently. Don’t worry, you are on the same blog. I chose the original, classic Blogger template because the braid on the header looks like trim women would have used on dresses during Ms. Austen’s time. They would often switch out trim, ribbon, and lace to make an older item look new again, unless they were Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice). It’s called RECYCLING.
Anyway, though I liked the green, I was trying to minimize it and make the center larger. I wanted to make the sidebar bigger because not all the widgets I want to use will fit. After one successful try at modifying widget html code, I decided I knew how and started in on the template html code. That didn’t work, and eventually I decided that throwing something against the wall wasn’t going to help either.
But as I was attempting to modify the layout I noticed that if I clicked Next Blog on my dashboard I could look at stranger’s blogs in random order.
Wow!
That ate up some more hours. But it’s far more amusing to me than doing schoolwork, cleaning, and evidently even eating. Who knew that having a blog was a diet plan? If only it worked.
I noticed that some of the blogs had other backgrounds and other websites in the upper left corner. I started looking around online for other options. I was looking for a background that had these qualities:
1.No pink.
2.No bows.
3.No flowers.
4.Looked like it might be dress material, or have elements that could be used in clothing. I wanted to keep the header.
5.Had some green and hopefully some light blue.
One site, shabbyblogs.com, has good stuff which looks very scrapbooky. Not that this is bad, but there was plenty of pink, bows, and flowers. Even the background named after Jane Austen, which was a stack of old books and was actually kind of cool had…
drumroll, please....
|
a rose.
So I then found hotbliggityblogs, and after scrolling thru 21 pages of backgrounds, finally found one I can live with. I am evidently very picky. But this one has buttons and ribbons, and the colors would be appropriate for a woman to wear in Ms. Austen’s day. It’s female without being girly. I will probably be messing around with it still, so if this looks different every time you decide to check in, don’t worry. It’s the same blog, just under construction.
No comments:
Post a Comment