To: Blogging veterans, and those recently enlisted
From: Someone That Cares About Color
Subject: Personalizing your blog
Recently, a few people have asked where I got the template for my blog. (Really, it's not a different template--it's the standard MT with a new background image... which might be changing soon.) Anyway, I just wanted to post a couple of links so that the resources are here for anyone that is interested in spiffing up their personal pages.
Basics in HTML aren't too hard, but get started first.
If you just want to change colors in your blog, take a look at this and this. (Shamless plugs ;)
You'll need a color sheet, a metric ton of patience, and a decent chunk of time.
Our SHU online community is growing--and experiences in blogging and computing in general vary from person to person. I know that I am not the most advanced in blogging (by any means!), but I feel obligated to post other options for anyone that is HTML curious/savvy or really wants to make their blog stand out from the rest. The following links are to pages that support free templates, most of them have coding for MT, and all of them look fabulous.
Have at it:
You might be able to use these if you're patient enough to change things around for MT... (they're really nice).
And I'm sure if you put valiant effort into searching on Google, you can find whatever you want so that your blog is really your own :)
Have fun!
Just make sure you read any rules that the designer may have about usage and links for credit! Don't cause a stir, just give credit where credit is due :)
Thanks for that, Donna! I hope that everyone can take advantage of the links, learn something new, and have a knock-out blog as a final product :)
Great info Karissa :-) I thought I would add to it and share a link I refer to often when looking for HTML colors. I like being able to see all the colors on the screen, and the color codes are conveniently at the top of each block of color:
http://www.lynda.com/value.html
You roxor
Haha, I try ;)
Thanks, Karissa, for giving us all so much inspiration.