May 19, 2011 By Dawn Farias
Isn’t color a lovely thing to have? It brightens, darkens, defines and suggests. Hopefully, the colors on your blog do all these things in a pleasurable please-stay-and-even-come-back-again kind of way. If you’re stuck in a color rut, then today is your lucky day. Here are a few of my favorite places to go for color […]
May 11, 2011 By Dawn Farias
Exciting Announcement! Hi there! I’m April, of April Showers Design Studio and the *NEW* Blog Designer Network! Amanda has been kind enough to let me announce some AMAZING news here on Beautiful Blog Designs, and I hope you all do a chair dance and eat a cake pop in celebration. For a few years I’ve […]
March 10, 2011 By Dawn Farias
It used to be that you needed a fair bit of coding to get a nice looking horizontal navigation bar for your Blogger blog. Not anymore! Let me show you how easy Blogger has made this aspect of your design. Pages only horizontal navigation in Blogger Your blog posts are dynamic, ever changing content that […]
February 20, 2011 By Dawn Farias
Are you a blog designer or blogger that’s stuck in a rut for a new design? Well, here’s some real world inspiration to get your design juices flowing. I have been noticing cards, magazine covers, digiscrap kits and store signs using chunky, sans-serif fonts* that have a slightly lowered opacity* so that when the letters […]
January 18, 2011 By Dawn Farias
Hi, everyone! I’ve collected a few links and tips for you Blogger users. Hope you find some of them to be helpful. 1. Add a horizontal drop down menu in Blogger. Horizontal drop down menu in Blogger from Confessions of a Homeschooler Drop down menu bar for Blogger from April Showers Blog Design 2. How […]
January 3, 2011 By Dawn Farias
Here at Beautiful Blog Designs, Amanda recently posted on using Joliprint to create printables of blog posts. Today I’m going to show you how to use Print Friendly in a similar manner. To start, you want to find a blog post that you’d like to print. I am choosing A Weekend Staple at the Polka […]
December 6, 2010 By Dawn Farias
Paula Deen’s Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake has become an annual tradition at our Thanksgiving table. Mostly I love that it can be baked in a larger pan than the expected pie-sized ones and so I can feed more people with less effort than baking several pumpkin pies. This past holiday I searched briefly for a […]
November 11, 2010 By Dawn Farias
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. The winner is comment #18 – Marissa. Congratulations! ——————————————————- Hi, friends! Dawn here. Looks like it’s time for another giveaway here at BBD and this month it’s hosted by….ME! Literally. I have a few premade blog headers available and would like to give one away. This giveaway is good for […]
November 8, 2010 By Dawn Farias
Lovely in Pink | Eats is a foodie blog run by “Becca, part Georgia Peach, part Floridian” who shares both her adventures and her “misadventures” in the kitchen. I first came across this blog, well, today (!!) when Becca left a comment on one of the posts here at Beautiful Blog Designs. She had implemented […]
November 5, 2010 By Dawn Farias
Happy Friday, friends! I was customizing my personal blog a bit and wanted to move the date from above the post title to below. I was pleased with the results and thought I’d share with you the tutorial I found for it as well as my extended customization. Date under post title – Move date […]