How to: Design your blog (Part1)

Heyy guys,
So this is a very different post to what I usually do but recently I have designed my blog and would like to show you how I did some of it. I got my inspiration from Beautiful Solutions. 

Designing your header

You will need to start off with a plain paint document. Don't worry about the size yet. Then go to Pic Monkey and click on edit a photo.

Open the paint document on Pic Monkey and resize it to 1000px x 200px.

Then add your title and change the font. You can have a little caption if you want as well.

Then change the colour of your header. I would chose one main colour and if you have a caption use that as your second colour. Take note of the hexadamical code because you will need this to make sure all your blog matches.

 I then personalised it with a leaf overlay (which is a matching orange to my title, using the hexadamical code) and stretched two rectangle overlays to underline it and used my two different colours. 

You will now need to crop it but do not crop the width, only the top and bottom. You still need a bit of space above and below.

Then save your header onto your documents.

On blogger go to 'layout' and click 'edit' where your original header is. Add a picture and remember to not tick 'Shrink' but do tick 'Instead of Title and description'. 

You should have something like this now.

Matching the rest of your blog

Now, on blogger, go onto 'template' and fiddle around with the background until you like it (don't worry about the colours just yet). 

 Now change the colours by going onto background and paste the hexadamical code into 'Outer Background'.

Now you can change the colour of the background on the next tab. I would change it to you main color.

 Now move on to 'tabs text' and change the font to whatever you want. I've just got Arial. I changed the colour to the original orange by pasting my hexadamical code (ffa841).


You can also change the font of your post titles. I changed it to 'crafty girls'. 

The rest of the tabs you can probably figure out yourself but if not ask me in the comments. Remember to use the main colour and if you want the second colour.

I hope you like your newly desinged blog and if you like this I will do more and talk about centralizing tabs and adding pictures etc.

Thank you for reading, it would be lovely if you could follow.
Byee, Amber xxx