Blogger Template Designer

I finally tried out the Blogger Template Designer. It was easy to use, had great options, and it may have made my blog better! Well, I can't vouch for the content, but it looks nicer.

I chose a salt background because I am currently preaching though the Sermon on the Mount at Church. Here is a screen shot for all of you people reading through a reader.

Click on through and check it out...

Here is a little video for the template designer.

RefTagger

Special thanks to a former student for sending me to RefTagger.

With RefTagger I can type in a scripture reference, like John 3:16 for example, and it will automatically add a hyper link and it will even add a hover window of the scripture's text. (Is that what you call it? A "hover window"?)

Check it out.

Add This...

You know all of those cool little links down at the bottom of the post? The ones that all of the really cool bloggers have? Well, I always wanted some of those, but it seemed like a lot of work.

You know, go to all of those sites and figure out where the html code is... Figure out if I need to upload the icons... Hang out with the cool blogs to determine which sites I need to link to... You don't want to leave the most helpful sites off of your list.

Then you run the risk of cluttering up your blog. A few little icons are fine, but if you have 20 little pictures down at the bottom of each post, it can be visually overwhelming.

Well, I found an alternative. It is a site called Add This. You can visit them at http://www.addthis.com.  They have done all of the leg-work for you.  Notice down at the bottom of this post the "add this" button.  

Click it.  Try it out.  See what it does.

The New Blockquote Code

Here is the code for my all new chalkboard looking <blockquote>!

(Of course this is through Blogger...)


.post blockquote {
margin:1em 20px;
border: solid 4px #D2691E;
padding: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC';
font-size: 1.5em;
border-style: inset;
background: url(http://www.harmlessonline.net-a.googlepages.com/chalkboard2.JPG);
}


(I also had to re-teach myself how to show code in a post.)