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But now for the progress on the new look.
While I do know some web development (I did take two courses on it), I don't think I'm ready to code my own template for blogger; analyzing the current layout code would be a big feat since there are over 2,000 lines of code. So what does that leave me with? Templates, of course! I've been looking around at templates and I do want to try something new.
I thought about doing a dynamic template. It was new; it looked cool. But then I realized that I would have to give up headers (I created a test blog and noticed that I could not use a picture as a header). I do want to keep the header and there were other features in the dynamic template that I wasn't very fond of, so the dynamic template is out.
So it looks like I'm going to basically use a similar design as before. The original design worked out very well and people haven't complained about it, so I'll probably use a similar template but apply a new background/header to it and clean up the side bars. I'm still debating whether or not I want to keep both sidebars or just one sidebar, so if you have any comments on that, feel free to leave a comment.
And if you scroll down to the bottom of Elegance of Fashion, you will notice that I cleaned up my labels! There's still quite a few labels (after all, there are over 700 posts on Elegance of Fashion), but they are under a lot more control now than they were before.
So as I work on redesigning my blog, I'll keep you all updated as to how it's going.
Hope your week has been going well!
I thought about doing a dynamic template. It was new; it looked cool. But then I realized that I would have to give up headers (I created a test blog and noticed that I could not use a picture as a header). I do want to keep the header and there were other features in the dynamic template that I wasn't very fond of, so the dynamic template is out.
So it looks like I'm going to basically use a similar design as before. The original design worked out very well and people haven't complained about it, so I'll probably use a similar template but apply a new background/header to it and clean up the side bars. I'm still debating whether or not I want to keep both sidebars or just one sidebar, so if you have any comments on that, feel free to leave a comment.
And if you scroll down to the bottom of Elegance of Fashion, you will notice that I cleaned up my labels! There's still quite a few labels (after all, there are over 700 posts on Elegance of Fashion), but they are under a lot more control now than they were before.
So as I work on redesigning my blog, I'll keep you all updated as to how it's going.
Hope your week has been going well!
God Bless,
Fun! A new looks is always fabulous. :)
ReplyDeleteI prefer the one-sidebar look, but you would have to either really trim down your content or have one insanely long sidebar, lol. Might you consider moving some of your sidebar things to a page? For instance, some people put the buttons and links for their favorite blogs all on a page instead. Same could go for illustrated quotes from your favorite books/movies.
ReplyDeleteYou've read my mind! I was thinking about making a favorite blogs page and having one gadget on the side bar that is a random monthly favorite blog button and a link below that to the page.
DeleteI was thinking about doing away with the quotes all together, though. I don't think it does anything for the design of the blog. But I'll see as to that.
Thank you for your suggestions! They're really helping me along. :-)
Exciting! I prefer one side bar on my blog because it makes more room both there and for the post, I guess. Whatever you do, I'm looking forward to seeing it! :)
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