Blog Exercise 13– changing the arrangement of your blog.
I made numerous attempts at changing the makeup of my blog, and found that I liked it better in its' original manifestation!!
I did alter the labels, but even there I didn't seem to manage to make them do as I had hoped, and the tabs along the left hand side, "Title, Show, Sorting and Display", didn't seem to be accessible at all.
I am sure I was doing something incorrectly, and have made a commitment to myself to spend some more time in the future learning more about the intricacies of Blogger!!
I thought about adding the "translate gadget"like my friend Linda, but thought that the blog looked too cluttered with this added on.
The gadget I really want to add in the future is AdSense so that I am able to earn revenue by displaying relevant ads, because no-one needs additional money more than me!!
Exercise: Blog Exercise 12– changing the colour/ background of your blog.
I had actually changed the background colour of my blog twice previously.
It has mostly been trial and error for me, as being a relatively inexperienced user, I kept trying different things until I found something I liked, or that was at least practical.
Initially I changed my blog's background to black, which worked nicely with bright photos and minimal script.
However, it was totally impractical once I started on the TAFE multimedia blog, so I changed it to a softer look, with lighter pastel colours, which seems more in keeping with the content.
The template I chose was the green and blue "Watermark" one.
However, after having a more thorough look, I decided to change my background to be more representative of libraries, and then found that the Watermark template I had did not allow you to see through to what was behind.
I then decided to change my template once again so that it blended in slightly better.
I chose one of the "Travel" templates.
I hope that the result seems appropriate to the people who really matter- the ones who read it!!
I was still unable to edit some of the initial posts I made, so some of the fonts and font backgrounds are still somewhat diverse.
