HOW I CHANGED MY BLOG

I’m not a big fan of the standard theme templates that most sites provide, but unfortunately I did not have time to find and edit a template to my liking so I had to settle for a Blogger theme and change up the HTML just a little bit. However, I realized that I don’t know as much about HTML --especially in Blogger, since it’s not the host site I use for my own website-- as I thought I did. So, I decided to put that on hold until I have more time to fully dissect the HTML of this particular theme I am using.

One of the primary things I changed on my blog were the fonts. I chose a script font that I have downloaded on my computer as the blog title, and to do that I put it directly onto the background image in Photoshop, since it would not be recognized by Google. I wanted the post title font to be a narrower Sans font to pair with the script, but I couldn’t find a font available in Google that was exactly what I wanted so I had to settle for ‘Open Sans.’ I used ‘Times New Roman’ for all the other fonts on the blog, since everything else is a Sans font, I wanted to add a Sans Serif for contrast. The background image that I chose is a photo I took last summer, because I wanted an image but did not want to have to use someone else’s art on my own blog. I made the post background the same shade as the darkest colors in my image in order to make everything look put together. I chose white for the post titles and a light grey for the body text to create contrast. All the colors used are within the same color family to keep up the repetition of the blog. I kept the theme’s standard alignment and proximity, which consists of a centered post with left aligned text since I believe that is the easiest to look at and read for this type of blog.