So, THANK YOU, EVERYONE ♥ I'm a lucky lady to have you all.
Aaaand as promised, here's my little present to myself: the new Matthewsers page! Brought to you entirely by kind internet strangers who post HTML tutorials, and my (desperately naive) late night grit and determination:
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There were a few blooper reels-- for a while, I thought it would be a genius idea to draw cartoons of us on the sketchbook. After an hour or two of drawing, I got halfway done and decided STRONGLY against it:
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| (for the record, Jason requested to be upside down) |
Why does it look cool on these guys and cheesy here? I don't know. But I can't bring myself to go through with it.
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Here are a few tutorials I found especially easy and valuable:How to make your post titles and widget titles a custom font.
How to make the top Blogger Navbar invisible until you hover over it.
How to make a custom browser icon (favicon).
And, for old times' sake, a screenshot of the original Matthewsers layout:
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| I'm sure the chalkboard will return again someday : ) |
16 comments:
I LOVE it!! I see what you mean about the drawings of you guys but they're cute anyway! happy birthday :)
and thanks for the tutorial links, I'm definitely inspired to go play with my blog now!!!
Oooh; lovely makeover :3
I'm loving your font choices. And I'm a suoer fan of the [for lack of a better name] Featured Post graphics. Very slick and fun. :D
PS custom favicons make you feel so special, don't they? I just did mine a week ago.
PS your blog totally convinced me to put rounded borders on all the images on my blog. I feel so classy now.
PPS: the captcha for this post is "whoppec" which is entirely appropriate, I think.
PPPS I got the depth of my postscripts messed up; in your head just prefix all but the first one with an extra P. Including this one.
Nice job April! I love the creativity and most importantly the UNIQUE quality & originality of your blog! In a world of copy cats - I respect that :)
Happy Birthday April!! Hope you had a great workout last night! Looked fun! :)
Why thank you amigas! Glad you liked the links, Jenna.
Thanks, Kelley! What a sweet compliment, that makes my day : ) Your blog design is looking really great lately, too!
& Nan, I think yours is one of the best-looking blogs I've ever seen. (Although in my biased opinion it would look even better with rounded corners!)
& I noticed your favicon, nice use of a transparent GIF!! listen to me trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about : )
Thanks Emilee!! It was great to see you last night, you were totally cracking me up-- as usual. & I kept smiling about the little baby you told me about : )
I guess your baby birthday buddy has finally been named--Bronwen Calla :)
Your site looks awesome! And thanks for the links - I like the idea of making the top navbar invisible.
Im curious - have you thought about installing a comment widget? I'm currently debating and I can't decide.
Thanks pal! & yes, I've definitely been considering a comment widget. I love how the "reply" feature makes things more organized.
I hope it wouldn't delete all the previous comments, though...! That would break my heart.
I've been wanting to figure out what to do with the Nav Bar thing so THANK YOU for sharing the link to make it invisible. I was a little nervous to try this HTML business, but it seems to have worked out fine :)
I thought you'd changed something major!
& yeah, it's so intimidating to click "edit html" and look at that giant wall of gobbeldygook... yiiiikes.
loving the new look and i agree with Kelly, your blog is unique indeed! but i do miss the chalkboard. but maybe i'm biased because i love chalkboards.
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