Larissa and I both love creativity, uniqueness, and color and were not excited about having to use the templates provided in Blogger to design our blog. So we went searching for more colorful designs and being teachers, we didn’t want to spend any money. So our search brought us to Shabby Blogs, a fun site with a large number of choices for designs.
After spending a little too long looking through the options, we settled on one and chose a header to coordinate. The site has a great tutorial to help you add pictures and font to the header. It was very easy to add the header to our blog once we had saved it to the desktop.
Now that the page was colorful and creative, we continued to edit and customize, lining things up, making fonts match, and finding ways to place each part exactly where we wanted it. The web is filled with resources to tweak each part of the page. Here are a few we used in our process:
Finally, we added our own personal signature to the bottom of each post. Warning - this was more complicated than we anticipated! We used the tutorial here, but instead of using picmonkey to add our font, we added it right in paint. After that we followed the steps for adding a little doodle, and applying the signature to all of our posts. We love this personalized touch!
With the use of these tutorials, and some time just trying things out to see what would work, our page was ready! While this took some time, we feel that making our blog personal will help us to continue being excited about sharing all of our trials with our 1:1 implementation!
So try it out! In case the links above don’t work, visit our Resources page to find all of them.
Looks great! Can't wait to read future posts!
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