Well I’m pretty happy with the blog re-design and pretty proud that I did it myself. There are a few minor tweaks I would like to do still, but nothing major. There are some super awesome people out there who have written amazing tutorials that helped me so much in re-designing my blog. There is NO WAY I would have been able to do any of this without them. I do not speak html code. As promised, here are the tutorials I used to help me redesign my blog:
custom post title and date font – tutorial found here
signature at the end of post – tutorial found here
menu bar – tutorials found here and here
As for the header and blog button – I have photoshop and I created them in there. For the header, I used a 10×20 template and then resized it for my blog. It was initially much bigger and beautiful, but people with smaller monitors had to scroll to view it so I decreased it’s size. I don’t really know what I am doing, so a lot of it was trial and error. The blog button, which I’m still not thrilled about, was created in photoshop using clipart I had. I sized it 150×150.
That’s it I think. I hope someone else can find these tutorials useful. They really are fantastic and helped me achieve a much nicer looking blog (if I do say so myself)!
Everything looks great! Thanks for the links, I so need a new look!
It looks fabulous!
Wow, Wow, Wow!!!…okay I’m a bit green, like that little pear in your button!
Thank you for all the links…
Georgiax
I love your design. Thanks for the tutorials. I started working on mine the other day and I love how it looks so far. I can’t wait to finish it and debut it.
Jill your blog looks great! Thanks for sharing the tutorials too!
Wow, it looks great. Hmmm…I think that I will tackle my blog makeover myself too. Thanks for posting the tutorial links!!
Great job Jill! Everything looks great and I love the pear in the button! Doesn’t it feel good to have done it yourself? I still get a little giddy when I look at mine, knowing I was able to create it myself.
Thanks ladies!
Your photo skills are incredible! I don’t know why you would need to work on them at all! I wish i had half your talent.
I love your design. Thanks for sharing the tutorials. I also think your photo skills are fantastic!!!
Thanks for sharing!! And it does look much nicer!! I have tried multiple times to do that font stuff and it never works for me. I will have to try again because you blog looks so much nicer than mine
Also, I feel like at some point you did a post about a black box your husband made for you to take pictures of you food and crafts, am I making that up. I looked a bunch of your old posts and couldn’t find it. Am I making it up??
I just love your blog and have a slight girl-crush on you, haha!!
Oh wait, one more question…. did you use a Blogger template or something else? I have tried different ones but nothing comes out as wide as yours is. Thanks!!
Thanks ladies!
Lauren – LOL! Thanks. I do use a blogger template called minima stretch, but it’s not an option anymore since they got the new designs. And no, it wasn’t me with the black photography box. I just take pictures on a cheapy ikea table in front of a window.