COLOUR PALETTE - BLUE SKIES..

One of the best things about summer has got to be the beautiful clear blue skies. Sometimes it feels like we don't get enough of them here in England so when we do I always feel like I should be out enjoying them.

These are some of the skies and colours that filled my weekend.

FAVOURITE THINGS.

Sunlight through the leaves. One of my favourite things about summer.

BLOG DESIGN TIPS AND TRICKS. PART 2 - HOW TO MAKE A BLOGGER BLOG NOT LOOK LIKE A BLOGGER BLOG.

Here's a few more tips and tricks to help in designing your own blog. This time how to make your Blogger blog not look like a Blogger blog.

I love Blogger and I know a lot of other people do too but sometimes that means you get a lot of blogs that look exactly the same and just like a Blogger blog should. Here's a few ways you can customise your blog and make it stand out from the crowd.

Create a custom header with navigation links.

Remove the blogger navbar at the top of your blog.

Remove the box shadows surrounding your images.

Create a custom favicon.

Remove the 'Showing posts with label ... show all posts' box.

I know Blogger recently changed the way you edit the html in your blog. A lot of the tutorials out there ask you to select the 'expand widget templates' box which doesn't exist anymore. If you get stuck, like I did, you should read this post over on Code it Pretty about how to use the new template editor. It really helped.

And finally, if you want to start from scratch with a blank page Pugly Pixel has a great tutorial for creating a static website out of a blogger blog. It shows you how to remove all the standard blogger attributes including the pesky dashed border at the bottom of the page.

If you missed it here's Part 1 Blog Design Tips and Tricks - The Basics.

Next up, Part 3 - Making your blog pretty.

AROUND HERE.

This week there's been a lot of stripes and the colour red.