Tweaking Your TBlog Template II
Ok, now you want to change or customize blog backgrounds.
Some templates only allow you to change the color background, like mine you see here. Here is a nifty color chart to use (scroll down the page to the color blocks).
Find a color you like and just type in the code into your little color boxes. I linked it so a new window comes up and you can use it when you tweak your blog. They also have a nice HTML Chart too, look at their site menu to find it at the top of the page.
Some tblog templates allow you to add a background/s.
You will need a background (selected and saved on your puter) and then you will need to upload it into your TBlog album.
You can easily access your upload by clicking on a java script box and making the proper selection.
You can find thousands of backgrounds here: Absolute Backgrounds
Select a background, right click and save to your computer into a file named "backgrounds" or "blog stuff" either in your my documents folder or my picture folder.
When you go to upload, select browse and find the file you wish to use.
Click upload.
The url it is assigned should be contained in a java drop down box on the HTML template page.
You just have to click the boxes opened to see your direct link URL and click it so it appears in the box.
About Blog Font colors -- again, use the color chart as a guide and type in the codes for the colors, much more easier and faster than using the little graph that opens sometimes and sometimes not.
About Banners -- you can make your own just like my "The Ink Blotter" at Absolute Backgrounds (link above).
I am suggesting you use them because you do have more choices there. They take the guess work out of sizing them since their generators are automatic and you don't have to type in pixel widths and heights like on other sites. I highly recommend them so go and play a bit.
Create your banner, save to your puter in a file, upload into your album, then using HTML code (on the Almo Vara template, remove the *stars*):
<*img src="URL of your image"*>
On other tBlog templates, create your banner, click on the properties, or you can see the properties when you mouse over the banner in your files. Make note of the pixel height and width. Upload your banner and then click on the proper java box
to load it onto your template. Adjust the height and width pixel numbers to prevent the banner from repeating.
More help to come . . .
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