It was fun to try different things with customizing my previously very boring blog page. I added the gadget that shows how many people visit your page. I have discovered I am not terribly popular, and most of the visits to my site are me, myself and I, but at least the three of us usually agree on things. Using the Blogger Template Designer you can poke around at the various features and change your layout, font, colors, borders etc. Most of these changes, including fancy roll-over effects, can be found clicking on the "advanced" feature.
I changed the colors of the fonts and some of the borders to give the page a cohesive look, (going for sort of this jarring "shock and awe" color theme!?) and picked one of Blogger's standard patterns for the background of the page. Voila!
To change my header I created a simple pattern in Illustrator. Turning on the gradient panel I drew some circles, and then saved the image as a GIF for Web and Devices. After clicking the blogger Design tab, one reaches the "Add and arrange Elements" page. Click "edit" in the header bar and here you can pick one of their backgrounds or upload one of your designs as I did.
I would have liked my custom background header to go all the way across the header but it would not repeat, and changing the size of the illustrator-created-drawing/GIF did not solve this. When I tried creating an image for the page background it did repeat however. (I did not keep that particular experimental background though) Perhaps I will go back and and try to solve the puzzle of why the header did not repeat, perhaps I could go into the htlm code and try to resolve that, but then again, perhaps I should work on my midterm project.
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