Atlas Designs Add Social Icons to Your Sidebar Many of you have asked how to add social icons in your sidebar. Today I am going to show you how! Let’s get started. First you will need to make or find the actual images you would like to use for your social icon images. Once you have the images made/downloaded and saved to your computer you will need to upload them to photobucket. It looks like this … Okay now login to your blog dashboard > layout and click on “Add a New Gadget.” Add a new HTML/JavaScript gadget. Now paste this code into the box : Next, replace the red parts of the code with your own personal links. If you would like to place another icon next to the first one simply paste the SAME code right below your first chuck of html code only swap out the urls. If you want to check and make sure that you code is correct, click “rich text” in the upper right hand corner of the HTML Gadget. And that’s it! Oh and, if you want your social icons to be in the center of you sidebar you can read this helpful post. Not working for you???
How to Customize Your Blogger Background with 5 Freebies! Hey there! I hope everyone is enjoying this fresh start in 2013! I am sure many of you, like me, made a few resolutions for growing and improving your blog! If any of those resolutions include goals for your blog design or branding then you are going to love what I have in store today! First I am going to show you how to customize your blogger background. To Upload a New Background in Blogger :: 1. 2. 3. 4. EASY right?! I have noticed that as the new 2013 spring magazines, decor, and clothes are beginning to come out they feature a lot of subtle colors, like mint and peach. I decided to go along with this color trend that I am seeing and use this color pallet to create some free patterns! Via Design Seeds Free Blog Background Patterns :: All you have to do is click to download the pattern, save to your computer and then follow the tutorial above to use them as your blog background! Please only use Downloads for Personal Use Only. Thanks! Kendra @ Key Lime Digital Designs
How to Add Horizontal Featured Posts in Blogger <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Time for a Blogger tutorial! Who is ready?! Today I am going to walk you through adding horizontal thumbnails of your most recent blog posts. See the 5 square images? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. At the bottom of the code change out YOUR feed url for the one shown. So yours will look like this :: You can also change the number of posts by changing this … var numberOfPosts = 5; Or you can change the thumbnail size by changing this … var imgDim = 125; Press SAVE! Leave links and questions in the comment box!