Monday, March 14, 2016

Tech Tip: Updating Your Template/Background

If you have become tired of your current background and template, this post is for you.

When logging into your blog, click on view blog.

In the top right-hand corner of your blog, you should see your email address, New Post, Design, and Sign Out.  Click on Design.

Design will take you to the template page where you can change the template of your back ground or upload a picture for your background. 

Choosing a template is easy.  You are given the choice of Simple, Dynamic Views, Picture Window, Awesome Inc., etc. 

If you would like to upload a picture of your choice for background, click on the customize button underneath the picture of your blog on Live on Blog.

On the top left-hand side you will see the word Templates, underneath templates click on Background. 

Your Current background image will appear on the right-hand side next to Templates. 

Click on the down arrow on the right-hand side of the image. The top choice that will appear is upload image. 

If you already have an image saved on your computer, click on choose file and search for that image and apply it to your background.  Otherwise you may Google search for an image and save the picture to your computer.   

After you have applied the photo to your background, on the right-hand side of your current background image that is shown on the top of the page, you have a choice of aligning the picture where you want, and choosing if you would like the picture to tiled or not.  Once you select your preference, on the top right-hand corner you will see an orange button that says “Apply to Blog”.


Click “Apply to Blog”, and viola, you have a new background for your blog.


I hope this tip was helpful, if not comment below and I will respond to help you! =)


1 comment:

  1. Hi again!

    I have a template but I just wanted to comment on this post and tell you how much I like yours. It's very fitting to the theme of this class. It gives me a Disney Aladdin vibe. I am not sure if you were going for that, but I quite like it. Other than the image as the background (which I like), I think it's very clean and easy to navigate. The way you described adding a template was very nice. I put hardly any instructions and am tempted to steal yours. They are so good! Anyway, have a nice week and I hope your semester is going swimmingly!

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