Here's a custom matching Nimbus Header to go with my Nimbus Tag Collection!
The Nimbus Tag Collection
The Nimbus Tag Collection has arrived at Tina's! Click the thumbnail to preview it and then click here to download this free whimsy sidebar title set!
The Nimbus Tag Collection has arrived at Tina's! Click the thumbnail to preview it and then click here to download this free whimsy sidebar title set!
Five Dollar Fridays Giveaway: August 28
Hi everyone! It's the last Friday of the month and that means there can only be one more winner for my last Five Dollar Fridays giveaway. I want to thank all of you who entered the contest and to stick around for more contest details in the near future. But for now, the last winner is Amymei! Congratulations to you! Have a great weekend!
Hi everyone! It's the last Friday of the month and that means there can only be one more winner for my last Five Dollar Fridays giveaway. I want to thank all of you who entered the contest and to stick around for more contest details in the near future. But for now, the last winner is Amymei! Congratulations to you! Have a great weekend!
More inspiration from the garden:
Summer is drawing to a close, here in Sweden. But there are still some roses left in the garden! Look at these Peace roses. They are so incredibly orange-red in colour!
Sunday Afternoon Header
Hi bloggers! Here's another header you can personalize and make yours! Click on the thumbnail and save it on your computer to edit it! Oh, and you'll also notice I've created a special spot on my sidebar for your ads! We're reaching thousands and thousands of people every day (check out my Alexa Rating) so you'll want to be one of the first to take advantage of it! Email me for more details! Enjoy!
Hi bloggers! Here's another header you can personalize and make yours! Click on the thumbnail and save it on your computer to edit it! Oh, and you'll also notice I've created a special spot on my sidebar for your ads! We're reaching thousands and thousands of people every day (check out my Alexa Rating) so you'll want to be one of the first to take advantage of it! Email me for more details! Enjoy!
Five Dollar Friday Giveaway: August 21
Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed the posts about making your blog into a full-functioning website by adding pages! If there are any other secrets you'd like to learn, leave me a comment and I'll try my best to write a tutorial on it!
As always, Fridays are giveaway days here at Tina's! And the grand winner of this week's contest goes out to newcomer Yashiro! Congratulations! Five dollars has been sent to your paypal account. For everyone else, next week is your last opportunity to win. Let me also remind some of you that you need to keep the banner/button and blog entry up for the duration of the contest if you want to have a chance to win each week...I had to disqualify some entries because of this. Well stay tuned until next week's results and maybe a few more suprises to end the August season ;) . Have a great weekend!
Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed the posts about making your blog into a full-functioning website by adding pages! If there are any other secrets you'd like to learn, leave me a comment and I'll try my best to write a tutorial on it!
As always, Fridays are giveaway days here at Tina's! And the grand winner of this week's contest goes out to newcomer Yashiro! Congratulations! Five dollars has been sent to your paypal account. For everyone else, next week is your last opportunity to win. Let me also remind some of you that you need to keep the banner/button and blog entry up for the duration of the contest if you want to have a chance to win each week...I had to disqualify some entries because of this. Well stay tuned until next week's results and maybe a few more suprises to end the August season ;) . Have a great weekend!
How to Get Rid of "Showing Posts with Label"
If you've read about one of the most secret tricks in the blogging community, and you've used labels to add pages in your blog, you may notice that you are shown an ugly "Showing Posts with Label ______" at the top of every page. Well fortunately enough, this is one of the easiest things to get rid of!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words...And in this case, it is! All you have to do for this blog secret is to follow the instructions in the picture below (click on thumbnail to view large version). That's it! Plus, it will save me from making another scrolly text box with html. Enjoy!
If you've read about one of the most secret tricks in the blogging community, and you've used labels to add pages in your blog, you may notice that you are shown an ugly "Showing Posts with Label ______" at the top of every page. Well fortunately enough, this is one of the easiest things to get rid of!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words...And in this case, it is! All you have to do for this blog secret is to follow the instructions in the picture below (click on thumbnail to view large version). That's it! Plus, it will save me from making another scrolly text box with html. Enjoy!
Tuesday-Where do I find inspiration?
Where can I find inspiration? If I just start looking around I make discoveries. I happen to live in a town with a feeling for flowers. At least during the warmer half of the year, there are these amazing floral arrangements all over the town of Norrkoping. This huge group is to be found not far from my daughter's pre-school. Why are we so blessed here? I have some theories, but I'll get back to them later.
How to Add Pages In Your Blog
Ever wonder how people add pages in their blog? You know, the little menu buttons that go across the top of their blog like I have? Well, wait no longer, one of the biggest blogging secrets is revealed to you today!
Ever wonder how people add pages in their blog? You know, the little menu buttons that go across the top of their blog like I have? Well, wait no longer, one of the biggest blogging secrets is revealed to you today!
A navigation menu bar at the top of your blog is really easy for you to do. Just follow these simple steps and you'll be all set.
Htmlize!
The first thing we need to do is insert the html code that will allow us to create a space in blogger for our new nav bar. This is a 2 step process. To do this, click on Layout, then Edit Html. As always, save a copy of your template before you edit it!
Step 1: Copy and paste this code directly under your "Header" Section:
Htmlize!
The first thing we need to do is insert the html code that will allow us to create a space in blogger for our new nav bar. This is a 2 step process. To do this, click on Layout, then Edit Html. As always, save a copy of your template before you edit it!
Step 1: Copy and paste this code directly under your "Header" Section:
Step 2: Find this section in your html, and change showaddelement='no'to 'yes'. (Hint, Press Control+F and type in "cross" to find this part).
You can follow these steps in a handy visual I have created for you.
Linkize!
The next thing you need to do is to link your pages together. To do this, click on Layout, and then Page Elements. You should see that you now have a new "Add a Gadget" element under your header and above your blog posts. This is where the magic happens! Click on your new Add a Gadget button, and choose the Html/Javascript option. Next copy the following html and paste it into your html/javascript option.
Customize!
Create your Menu Buttons
Here's what you need to do to customize the above html code. First, you need to create images of your menu buttons like these ones. Make sure they aren't too large (right-click and click on properties to see my image size). Next, as always, you need to host your images on the internet. Make note of the URL of the image. It will be placed in the img src "URLOFFIRSTPAGEIMAGE" location.
Create your Menu Buttons
Here's what you need to do to customize the above html code. First, you need to create images of your menu buttons like these ones. Make sure they aren't too large (right-click and click on properties to see my image size). Next, as always, you need to host your images on the internet. Make note of the URL of the image. It will be placed in the img src "URLOFFIRSTPAGEIMAGE" location.
Use your Own Labels
At the end of every post, blogger gives you a choice to add "labels for this post". This is blogger's way of organizing your posts into categories. All you have to do is label your posts in the way you want your pages to appear. For example, all my "Giveaway" posts have the label "giveaway". All my "Headers" posts have the label "headers". All you have to do is to record the URL for that specific label of posts and place it under the "a hef="URLOFFIRSTPAGE" html code above.
Another Example
I want a menu button for my Giveaways. I have labelled my giveaway posts with "Giveaway" and when I click on the label "Giveaway" (found where my blog categories are in the left sidebar), I am given this URL: http://tututina.blogspot.com/search/label/giveaways. I will then use that URL to replace the a href="URLOFFIRSTPAGE" in the html I've given to you. Following that URL, I want to add my giveaway button that I've created and change img src "URLOFFIRSTPAGEIMAGE" to img src "http://tututina.com/images/blogmenugiveaways.jpg". I would do that for each menu item I'd like to add! That's it! It seems like a lot of steps but once you have the basic idea, you can turn your blog into a full functioning website (for free!)
*If you rather not connect your menu with labels, you can always connect them with other websites you've made, including another blog URL that is devoted to one topic only (ie-Backgrounds).
**The html I've provided you with has room for 5 menu buttons plus one email button. If you want to add more or less, simply copy more or erase some to have less.
***Don't forget to adjust the spacing (padding) of your menu items if you find they are too close together or too far apart - I've shown you how to do this in the diagrams above. Enjoy!
Five Dollar Friday Giveaway: August 14
It has been a busy week around here but alas, it is Friday and time to do the draw! I just wanted to personally thank everyone for all your nice posts about me! I just love seeing how you have used the tips you found here to make your blogs so pretty (if you have, leave me a comment- I'd love to see it)!
Alright now for the fun stuff...The results are in and this week's winner is Webby Contest. Congratulations to you! For everyone else, you still have 2 more chances to win for August. Good luck, I'm rooting for ya!
On one last note, there are many good tips that I have been working on, including one of the most secret of secret tips that I hope to post this week. I will leave you in suspense about what it is...but be sure to head on back this week...It's a very good one!
It has been a busy week around here but alas, it is Friday and time to do the draw! I just wanted to personally thank everyone for all your nice posts about me! I just love seeing how you have used the tips you found here to make your blogs so pretty (if you have, leave me a comment- I'd love to see it)!
Alright now for the fun stuff...The results are in and this week's winner is Webby Contest. Congratulations to you! For everyone else, you still have 2 more chances to win for August. Good luck, I'm rooting for ya!
On one last note, there are many good tips that I have been working on, including one of the most secret of secret tips that I hope to post this week. I will leave you in suspense about what it is...but be sure to head on back this week...It's a very good one!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Anna's Adornments is under construction. These first two posts are from an earlier blog that was in both Swedish and English. I have separated the two languages. This will be my English-language blog and "Glada Smycken" will most likely become a Swedish-language only blog.
Thank you for your patience.
Please come back and visit again.
Best wishes,
Christina Wigren (aka Anna's Adornments as blog and shop on Etsy)
P.S.
Who is "Anna"? I will write more about Anna here soon. But if you are curious, read my shop profile for "Anna's Adornments "on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=7783373
How to Delete Blogger's Nav Bar
Here's one of the easiest things that you can do to make your blogs look more professional! We have all seen blogger's Nav Bar at the top of our blogs. In case you aren't too sure what that is, refresh yourself by looking at one here:
Here's one of the easiest things that you can do to make your blogs look more professional! We have all seen blogger's Nav Bar at the top of our blogs. In case you aren't too sure what that is, refresh yourself by looking at one here:
There are some advantages for having a Nav Bar on your blog. You can search for other blogs, and you can sign into your blog to edit it. But, for the most part, the colours don't match your blogs and it can be an eyesore! Getting rid of it is so simple! Just go to Layout, then Edit Html. Near the top of your html, between "Blogger Template Style" and "Variable Definitions", paste this code:
Click Save and it will disappear! Check out the visual for more help (click on the thumbnail to see large version).
Five Dollar Friday Giveaway: August 7
Hello everyone! I am sure you all are excited for the results! I have checked out all your blogs, wrote out your names on ballots, entered them in my drawing box and pulled out the winner.
-Drum Roll- The winner of this week's Five Dollar Giveway is Sree Money Spinner! Congratulations to you! For everyone else who entered, you still have 3 more opportunities to win on the upcoming draw dates. Good luck!
Hello everyone! I am sure you all are excited for the results! I have checked out all your blogs, wrote out your names on ballots, entered them in my drawing box and pulled out the winner.
-Drum Roll- The winner of this week's Five Dollar Giveway is Sree Money Spinner! Congratulations to you! For everyone else who entered, you still have 3 more opportunities to win on the upcoming draw dates. Good luck!
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