Lena at Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates has released some more beautiful, completely free templates. Simply to go her site and follow the instructions. Here are a couple I think are especially lovely.
LeeLou Blogs has come out with a few more beautiful premade templates and the cost is only $15. Below are just a couple of the new premades they designed. Click on one of the templates to see all the new premades.
Also, LeeLou has added MANY new free layouts which you can view here.
Special Note: Blogger made some changes that have caused many designer’s templates to be problematic when uploading. LeeLou believes that she has found a fix for the problem, in regards to her templates and the fix may work for other designer’s templates as well. It is worth a try.
Check out this post and make the changes she recommends. This fix is for those who have been using free templates already and those trying to upload now. Hopefully it will get your template working for you.
Here is a very simple and easy way to add the copy code box under your Button. The copy code box allows others to use and place your button on their site which will drive more followers/readers to your blog. *New* There is a video at the bottom of the page on how to do […]
Today Facebook announced that business pages will be getting the “Timeline” layout by March 30th, and we have some excellent tips to help you design and utilize this new layout to your advantage. You may already be familiar with the Timeline layout on your personal page, but now your business page will have cover photo […]
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For many months I have been tempted to add a label cloud to my sidebar, but quite honestly, I was daunted by the number of steps I would have to take to make it happen. I hated to see long label lists on blog sidebars, so instead I seriously refined my labels so there were just a select few and I showed them as a list of “categories.”
Well, Blogger has been doing some major improvements to their programing and they have made it super easy to have a label cloud (a grouping of labels in a cloud-like formation). So, I will now tackle my first real tutorial (now that it is a super easy thing to teach!).
First things first. Some of you may be beginner bloggers and thinking “what the heck are labels?” Labels are tags you give to your blog posts so that others can quickly read posts only on that subject. For instance, I am going to give this post the label “tutorials” by typing it in the box circled in the picture below. Readers who come to my blog can then click on “tutorials” in my label cloud and all posts containing that label will be shown.
Okay, onto how to make your labels a cloud instead of one long list (which I am not in favor of).
Sign into your Blogger account and go to the Layout section of your blog.
At the top of your sidebar there is a box that says “Add Gadget.” Click on that.
Choose “Labels” as the type of gadget you’d like to add.
A screen that says “Configure Labels” will pop up.
To change your labels from a list to a cloud, all you have to do is click on the “cloud” option (see picture below).
Wasn’t that easy? So, if you have a big long list of labels on your blog’s sidebar, I strongly encourage you to switch to a label cloud. They take up less space and help your blog have a cleaner, neater look.
If this tutorial has helped you, and/or you switch your label list to a cloud, let me know so I can go ew and aw over it!
p.s. Since Blogger upgraded it’s post editor, the images have gotten smaller (even though it says “large) and of poor quality. I’ll load these to Photobucket soon so they’ll be larger.
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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 […]
October 23, 2010 By Amanda Padgett
CURRENT BLOG DESIGN GIVEAWAYS Bloggy Blog Desigz is teaming up with another designer on October 30th and giving away design goodies every hour of the day, from 10AM to 4PM via TWITTER! Read this POST to see how to enter. It’s very simple and sounds like lots of fun! ************************************************** Blog Designers: Do you have […]
October 10, 2010 By Amanda Padgett
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED Congratulations goes to comment #18, Kristina! Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 18 Timestamp: 2010-10-16 15:23:25 UTC I am like SUPER excited to be in our new home at WordPress.org and to celebrate, we will be hosting a series of custom blog design giveaways in October and November. […]
March 19, 2010 By Amanda Padgett
I have given this page a clean slate. Designers – if you would like me to advertise a giveaway you having going on, please read this post and then contact me with the pertinent information.
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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. If you have ever hunted for beautiful, free blog templates, no doubt you’ve come across Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates. Lena, the designer, provides tons of incredibly beautiful and totally free Blogger templates, which are some of the most beautiful and well done free templates available. Lena, on a journey to […]
December 10, 2009 By Amanda Padgett
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. To celebrate the elegant new look Designer Blogs has created for me, I am giving away a custom blog design by them. The prize is their Base Package which includes: Custom 2-column wide layout Custom header Custom background Bordered main area (optional) Custom coloring of text Bordered pictures in text […]
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I have a giveaways page, and this giveaway is posted there, but I wanted to share it separately also. Louise at Adori Graphics is having tons of giveaways for all sorts of things, all the way up to Christmas. So far she has giveaways going on for: Custom button grab box Custom favicon Custom Twitter […]
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This giveaway is now closed. My last little weekend giveaway was so fun I thought I’d do another one. Dawn Farias from Almost Ready Blogs has created a really simple and cute fall design that I just love, so I decided to buy it for someone this weekend. How to enter – just leave a […]
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This Giveaway Is Now Closed Winner will be announced shortly. I haven’t had a giveaway in a few weeks and I just feel like having some fun, so I am giving away a premade template by Smitten Blog Design. It is the design they call “Autumn Letters” and is perfect for the fall season. I […]
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