Up, Down and All Around

New Template

Finally had some time to surf around a bit and look for a new template for this blog. I was using one of the pre-existing Blogger templates, and wasn't particularly excited by it.

So after a bit of Googling around, I found Beccary.com and immediately fell in love with the Serenity template that was listed under her Blogger Templates section.

Took me a while to figure out how to get it right. I wanted to make a few changes, particularly:

• Reduce the width of the post area, and increase the width of the sidebar;
• Switch the fonts of the headers and body text;
  
• Increase the overall line-spacing; and
  
• Increase the font sizes used.

There are two changes that I want to make but I haven't quite figured out how yet:

• Reduce the top margin so that the top of the blog is closer to the edge of the browser window; and
  
• Increase the overall width of the blog frame (sidebar + body)

I guess those final two changes will have to come later.

Update (Oct 2): Figured out how to reduce the top margin. One down, one more final modification to figure out.

Update (Oct 3): Just realized today that the sidebar disappears to the bottom of the page when you use Internet Explorer to view this blog, even though it looks fine in Firefox (which is the browser I use). Took me over two hours to figure out how to fix it! * sigh *

Tags: Blogging

Posted by CF at 11:35 PM