So I've figured out how to publish custom blog backgrounds! Look out "Cutest Blog on the Block!"
No, just kidding - I will have to get Adobe Illustrator, and spend some time "reacquainting" myself with it, before I can publish truly original backgrounds - and even once I've done that, I'll have to spend some time building a cache of styles. BUT - I'm really excited that I figured out the technical part, because that's what I was worried about!
To see the latest background for this blog click the link (for all you subscribers who get this in email) It's a little blurry, because I had to blow it up from 900 pxls wide, but once I have Illustrator that won't be an issue...
www.katieandbas.blogspot.com
I will need to get a domain name registered and then figure out how to run ads, and drum up some web traffic - but other than that - the rest will be fun!! I love doing the backgrounds - and I'm excited about doing design work on the computer again! I'm thinking of providing a fee based service where I do real custom backgrounds with people's photo's (like the one here now) - but keep it super cheap ($15?)
P.S. - If you want to learn how to do it - keep reading Blogaroozer... I'll be covering all of the steps in different posts!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
New Blog!
Some of you may know that I have an interest in getting into web development, as a work from home opportunity - or at least as a way to make some pocket change! Well, I may be a ways off from actually accomplishing that, but I've started to make some head way...
I'm planning on teaching a class on blogging this Spring. Hopefully we have enough interested English speakers in our area to generate some interest. So as a supplement to the class, and as a means of documenting some of the things I learn as I teach myself to create custom blogs and websites, I decided to create another blog dedicated to blogging tips and helpful hints, etc. So for any fellow bloggers out there getting these posts - follow the link, and sign up for email updates!!
Blogaroozer!
P.S. - I made the entire background, and layout myself! Still needs some work - but pretty good for a beta!
I'm planning on teaching a class on blogging this Spring. Hopefully we have enough interested English speakers in our area to generate some interest. So as a supplement to the class, and as a means of documenting some of the things I learn as I teach myself to create custom blogs and websites, I decided to create another blog dedicated to blogging tips and helpful hints, etc. So for any fellow bloggers out there getting these posts - follow the link, and sign up for email updates!!
Blogaroozer!
P.S. - I made the entire background, and layout myself! Still needs some work - but pretty good for a beta!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Pictures - 24 below zero
We went to a little Christmas party here in the valley last night. It was fun - but 24 below zero. That's 56 below freezing! So I borrowed one of my Mom's fur coats - and we got so me really cute pics with Luna.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Fast Blog Posting-
OK - blogging tip alert! I've finally decided that the fastest way to upload pictures directly to a blog post is by using email. If you don't want to use a slide show, but you have multiple pictures you want to post, it's really annoying using the out-of-box uploading tool that blogger provides, because you can only pick one picture at a time, and after picking that picture you have to navigate back to the exact same file location to pick the next picture - instead of just selecting multiple pictures in one fell swoop. And there's a 5 pic limit on top of everything else.
Well, you may know that you can send an email to your blog, and it will get published as a post. If you need the email address it's on the "settings" page for your blog.
You just create an email - use Microsoft's nice robust file attachment dialog - which will allow you to select as many files as you want, put your post title in the email subject line and hit send! Superfast. Blogger does impose a 10MB file restriction on teh emails, though - so watch your file sizes fellow SLRs...
Now if you want text in there as well, you're fine as long as you just want one whole blurb. If you want text in between the pictures it gets a little more tricky - then you have to paste the pictures into the actual body of the email. As you know, normally when you attach a file into an email, it just puts the little icon in the attachments field near the subject line. But you can actually paste a picture into the body of the email inbetween text, and then send it like that. Will take a little more time, but still less than using the blogger editor I think.
Hope that was a helpful tip for all you fellow blogger/housewives (I really only have a couple minutes to get this done!) folks out there.
Well, you may know that you can send an email to your blog, and it will get published as a post. If you need the email address it's on the "settings" page for your blog.
You just create an email - use Microsoft's nice robust file attachment dialog - which will allow you to select as many files as you want, put your post title in the email subject line and hit send! Superfast. Blogger does impose a 10MB file restriction on teh emails, though - so watch your file sizes fellow SLRs...
Now if you want text in there as well, you're fine as long as you just want one whole blurb. If you want text in between the pictures it gets a little more tricky - then you have to paste the pictures into the actual body of the email. As you know, normally when you attach a file into an email, it just puts the little icon in the attachments field near the subject line. But you can actually paste a picture into the body of the email inbetween text, and then send it like that. Will take a little more time, but still less than using the blogger editor I think.
Hope that was a helpful tip for all you fellow blogger/housewives (I really only have a couple minutes to get this done!) folks out there.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
On The Way To Wall Drug
For anyone that doesn't know there's a tiny little town in SD named Wall, after a rock formation in the badlands just down the road. And in that town is a drugstore called Wall Drug, established 1931. That was when the automobile was just beginning to take over, and all the old Model-T's would come driving down what is now interstate 90 in the summer months, with no AC and the windows down in a very dry climate. Well, Wall Drug got the bright idea to start advertising free ice water for anyone who stopped by on billboards along the road, and a piece of Americana was born. All the way from Iowa and Nebraska there are still billboards advertising Wall Drug along the road. There are even signs in Alaska and very "far away lands" announcing exactly how many miles it is to Wall Drug.
Well, Wall Drug has been a bit of a family tradition for us, as we've travelled back and forth through SD on our way to and from MT. So on our trip today I took pictures of as many billboards as I could get - while zipping by at 79 miles an hour. Here are the ones that turned out OK, as well as a few of the countryside and other interesting "oddities" along the way (South Dakotans have a penchant for finding interesting ways to display their creatvity along interstates.) There are probably twice as many signs that I either missed or didn't get good shots of.
Well, Wall Drug has been a bit of a family tradition for us, as we've travelled back and forth through SD on our way to and from MT. So on our trip today I took pictures of as many billboards as I could get - while zipping by at 79 miles an hour. Here are the ones that turned out OK, as well as a few of the countryside and other interesting "oddities" along the way (South Dakotans have a penchant for finding interesting ways to display their creatvity along interstates.) There are probably twice as many signs that I either missed or didn't get good shots of.
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