aligning the top of your columns in blogspot
Elif Ayiter7:10 PM
You may already have noticed that the top of the post column at blogspot stands a few pixels above the gadget columns, and if you are like ...
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playing with blogspot widgets (gadgets)
selimkurar2:15 AM
As we have talked in the class last week, it is possible to separately edit every widget, give them different backgrounds, alignments, bord...
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backgrounds: one size fits all
selimkurar1:26 AM
Here is what to do if you want to have a background image that will automatically re-size itself according to the browser windows size (thu...
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no more bands underneath your top gadgets in blogspot
Elif Ayiter10:37 PM
And following closely, is another really good one from SouthernSpeakers : Unfortunately it isn't only your pages gadget! Any gadget y...
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how to stop your pages gadget stretching all the way across your blogspot site
Elif Ayiter10:08 PM
The fact that this happens is one of the reasons why I have not been using this gadget since it breaks up your page in a really nasty way. ...
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nice clean search box
Elif Ayiter4:21 PM
I don't know about others, but I was hugely bothered by the way the default search gadget looks on blogspot - the way the 'search&#...
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how to get google to like you
selimkurar2:53 AM
Want to get a top ranking in search engines? Be sure to have proper meta tags included in your html. Meta tags are not a magic trick to get...
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pixie CMS
Elif Ayiter8:11 PM
http://www.getpixie.co.uk/ Pixie, a "small, simple", user friendly, (and free!) HTML editor, again comes to us via four Yip , my...
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free icon editor
Elif Ayiter7:44 PM
Nice little tool: http://www.free-icon-editor.com/ :-) ...................................................................................
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design: creating visual continuity
Elif Ayiter6:14 PM
Time for a design tutorial now! ;-) We shall be doing this by examining the structure and visual continuity of a professionally designed w...
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professional web templates: a lesson in good web design
Elif Ayiter6:00 PM
It really is... Dreamtemplate is one of the best and largest ones and it pays to look at their humongous selection of templates in order...
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custom cursors
Elif Ayiter8:29 PM
A friend of mine from Second Life, four Yip , has seen the easy peasy site and has given me a huge list of resources, of which I will be mak...
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image tracking
Elif Ayiter3:21 PM
Here it is folks: http://www.picscout.com/ This site lets the owner of an image find out where and how their images are being used. It als...
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can you resize a full background image on an HTML/CSS website?...
Elif Ayiter12:54 AM
... one of my students wanted to know last week. Well, seems that you can: http://css-tricks.com/how-to-resizeable-background-image/ And yo...
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"handwritten" fonts
Elif Ayiter9:12 PM
I was going over my student's homework blogs and there seem to be quite a few of them who want to use handwritten fonts for post titles ...
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playing around with (HTML) type
Elif Ayiter3:00 AM
I haven't really been looking too carefully at the compose tab when I am entering a post, I guess. Just noticed now that (unlike wordpr...
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structure: having the best of both worlds?
Elif Ayiter9:09 PM
Ahumm... All these pull-down menus and so forth... Very nice and everything, but let's face it, what use can they possibly be on a blogs...
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HTML codes for the ASCII
selimkurar2:09 AM
or simply put, how to get any symbol, letter etc. to show up properly on your website. Writing simple blocks of text into your site is no ...
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creating a good color scheme
Elif Ayiter6:35 PM
A color scheme is a number of colors which are expected to work together as a unit. A scheme can be pure black and white, can be made up of ...
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adding a favicon to your site
Elif Ayiter2:49 PM
A favicon is the tiny image which sits on the tab of the browser, right next to the name of your site. At blogspot you will get the f...
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lynda.com
Elif Ayiter2:48 PM
lynda.com is one of the best (if not in fact the very best) software tutorial domains online. Lynda has been around for a very long time...
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perfectly clean images at all sizes for blogspot
Elif Ayiter10:40 PM
A small but highly annoying problem comes along when you upload images from your computer to your blogspot blog. Linking images from other s...
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design: hierarchy / text / lightness values
Elif Ayiter10:02 PM
Since a website usually has very little white space (space which is empty of informational content, that is) the hierarchical components of ...
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auto-cycling backgrounds
selimkurar3:28 PM
If you want to have multiple backgrounds on your blog that randomly appear on every refresh, then you should add the following javascript c...
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putting an image into the background of a post!
Elif Ayiter1:37 AM
Verrry nice indeed! Here's how it works folks: Place this line of code at the very top of the post: <div style="background: t...
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starting to think about page structure
Elif Ayiter12:51 AM
The diagram above shows you the three distinctive design areas, which are determined by the content of a website. First off, the image is...
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tutorial: making a big background image and/or seamless tiling
Elif Ayiter7:14 PM
Note: I found out since I wrote this post that pixlr (a free online editor) also has layer masks. Which means that you can do the exact s...
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starting out with some design stuff now :-): background images and screen sizes
Elif Ayiter12:07 PM
OK! Almost ready for some design fun! I figured that it might be nice to let you guyz start out with something that should be quite enj...
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