As you can see, I’m still working on the look of my blog. I just didn’t care for some of the Sight theme format, so I changed back to the Bueno theme.
In all my playing around with themes I found out how to add widgets, customize themes, font, color, and many other useful stuff. I’ve learned that the different themes have different built in atributes, many which can be customized. I changed back to Bueno promarily because I like way it displays my posts–the entire new post, followed by the other recent posts. I prefer it to the Sight method of displaying only a portion of each post. When I changed back to Bueno I was also able to spell out my full title with the tagline appearing above instead of behind the title.
I’ve found out the there are different places on my dashboard where I can change different things. For instance, there is a Header tab under Appearance, which seemed to me the logical place to resize the title. But it isn’t. I had to choose Custom Design under Appearance. From there I could change the font–which is how I changed the size–and the color of the title. However, I had to go to Settings, General to change the spelling of the title. The Header tab is where I can change the title color. The Background (under Apprearance) is where, experimenting to find out what it did, I produced the green color. I also choose gray for something, but can’t remember what or the tab from where I changed it. I haven’t noticed any gray on the post, so maybe it was something I changed back again. Images can also be added both in background and in headers, but I haven’t experimented enough with images yet.
I really haven’t decided whether to keep the current color scheme or not. Once I got the title size and color changed, Bueno was still displaying the dates and the search box in red, which didn’t go at all with the purple title. So I again experimented changing colors. This is what I currently came up with. The green is a little bright, but it is eye catchig and goes well with purple. I’m still expermenting with different fonts for the title.
I’ve tried learning some from Support and the Forums, but mostly I have just experiemtned. It anoys me that I still haven’t learned how to preview the public view of my blog from the dashboard. When I make some changes it lets me preview, but not others. It is very frustrating to have to log back in to the site just to see a change. I know it surely must be possible to view from the dashboard, but I haven’t found it yet. I’m glad that I have found out how to preview posts before publishing them, So much of this blog is a learning work in pogress!
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