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Jun. 26, 2009

Eureka!

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I kept tinkering with the link colors and have found colors that appear to work well on both the darker sidebars and the lighter body sections. I was getting too overwhelmed with HTML & CSS coding mumbo-jumbo that was way over my head, to keep trying to separate the link colors. I hope you like my new look.

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Jun. 26, 2009

Nearly There...

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I have almost got my blog transformation the way I want it. The colors and the header look so pretty in this new layout. I've updated my categories list and all my posts are labeled with the appropriate category. I've cleaned up the buttons in my sidebars and removed the ones with broken links. The one main thing I still have yet to figure out is how to change the color of the links in my sidebars. Black text on dark background is a little hard to read. I know how to change the link colors for the whole template, but I don't want to change the link colors in the body of the blog - light colors on a light background would also be difficult to read. If anyone has any suggestions how to accomplish this in HSB, I'd love to hear your input.

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Jun. 22, 2009

Summer Makeover

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Inspired by the season, and having successfully installed Ali's 3-column template on my test blog, I have decided to re-vamp this blog again. Please be patient while I make the alterations...

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Feb. 18, 2009

My Lab Environment

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Just in case anyone else wants to make changes to their HSB blog and needs some ideas on how to do basic template modifications, take a look at Mama's Blog Experiment. I created that test blog to practice my template changes on before altering things over here. As I made changes to my template over there, I posted entries about the changes. This was so I could keep things straight in my mind as well as for future reference. Hopefully the information will be useful to someone else too. Enjoy!

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Feb. 18, 2009

Makin' changes...

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Well, initially when I decided to update the look of my blog, I wanted to keep fairly close to the "navy blue/cranberry red/taupe brown" color scheme I had when I started with the old HSB "Library" template. So my first body background was a lovely rich red with subtle floral detail, the left and right hand tables were shades of taupey-brown, and my header was, well, boring. Take a look below and see if you don't agree.

Sure, it was more of a header than I had before (the "Library" template does not have a distinct header), and it had my blog title and the verse, but it was very, shall we say, "ho hum". So I've been looking at blog headers, sketching layout ideas, and tinkering with my new Photoshop Elements software to come up with something that better suited my artistic sensibilities.

I was having a difficult time until I thought of scrapping the whole "blue/red/brown" color scheme and pick something completely different. Okay, maybe not completely different - my new color scheme still has blues and browns in it, but it is decidedly different. This was just what I needed to wake up my hibernating creativity. I hope you will agree.

After following a video tutorial to learn a few basic techniques in Photoshop Elements, I pulled together several different digital scrapbooking elements to create the much prettier, and definitely not boring new header now gracing my blog. [sigh & smile] I think it's very pretty, and I hope you like it too.

Now to get the rest of the blog to match it's pretty, new header...

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Feb. 7, 2009

Blog temporarily under "construction"

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In honor of the new year, and because I want to "freshen up" the look of my blog, I will be attempting to make changes to my template. If I am fortunate, I have acquired the necessary HTML know-how to make fairly smooth alterations to my blog template (crossing fingers & toes here). If I only think I know enough to update the look of my blog, things could look a little crazy here for a while. Please bear with me. This can't last forever, right? Okay, here I go....

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Nov. 4, 2007

Please be patient... It's not finished yet!

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This blog is a brand new work-in-progress. With littles in the home, it may take me a little time to figure out all the in's and out's of blogging. I hope I will get it all sorted out quickly and be able to post something more interesting soon. Until then, be blessed!

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