Over the weekend I had a burst of creative energy and came up with (and finalized) some new designed for my premade design shop.

Have a looksee…

Photolicious

Scalloped

She’s So Crafty

Click the images above to be taking to the premade blog design page (or go here!)

And? All themes now come with a coordinating 125x125px badge!

Enjoy!

You’ve started a blog. You’ve written the best blog post eva, and now you’re trying to insert that perfect image to finish it off. Only problem, its coming out ginormous or, at best, falling out of the posting area. What to do, what to do…?

Here’s my opinion on the easiest and best way to deal with images in your blog posts. Take a look…

The two sites I mentioned in the video are picnik.com and photobucket.com

Your turn: Have questions, feedback? How do you handle your post images?

Have you ever wondered how to add a custom signature to the end of your Blogger posts? Well, there is a way to add your name, a photo or a link…the possibilities are endless. And its automatic so you don’t have to remember to insert it each time.

This tutorial demonstrates the steps to creating and inserting a custom signature in Blogger. Below that you will find the code that I used in the video so you can copy and paste it exactly. Remember…when dealing with HTML, every character counts! If your image doesn’t show up correctly, retype the quotation marks (“) that you cut and pasted earlier.

Code needed for Blogger…

<br>
<br>
<br>
<img src=”image-url-here“>

Happy blogging!

I got a lot of feedback on my post last year about adding a horizontal navigation bar to your Blogger blog. Before a few months ago, this was no simple task for the average blogger who had little or no HTML knowledge. You had to manually change your template and use a text gadget to create pseudo pages and a corresponding navbar.

Well now that’s all changed…for the better. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do it:

I mentioned in the video above about custom designs and the Template Designer. If you have a custom design that you paid a designer to create before the Template Designer was rolled out, you may want to consult your designer before using the Template Designer. Any changes you implement will override your current design, and may not produce favorable results. If you want to create a navigation bar without using the Template Designer, simply create your pages, then follow the directions on my previous tutorial.

Happy blogging…any questions?

Finally, we come to the end of the Blogger Template Designer tutorial! If you missed the last two videos, you can find them here:

Blogger Video Tutorial Series: How to Use Blogger’s Template Designer – Part I

Blogger Video Tutorial Series: How to Use Blogger’s Template Designer – Part II

In the video below I mention a good resource for learning some basic CSS tags…W3Schools. Check it out!

Continuing from last week…

If you missed last weeks video, you can catch it here.

Until next week!

Time to delve more deeply into Blogger. Every Friday for the next several weeks, I’ll be going over different aspects of Blogger…things like how to add tags, embed video, etc. Today I’m starting with the new Template Designer features.

One thing I forgot to mention in the video…if you already have a blog on Blogger and paid to have a custom design, you may not want to worry about switching to the Template Designer. You’ve paid good money to get the look you want and there’s no need to mess with perfection! But if you are in need of a new look and want to attempt it yourself, I say…go for it!