How Often Do You Tweak Your Template?

Sweeping! I don't do the blogroll thing, but I often poke at things, adding a rounded edge here or a shadow effect there, or whatever. Currently looking to shunt a lot of posts to another domain entirely (aiming to seperate my professional writing from general gibberish)

I try to post once a week, to keep interest up. I have a fan! Yay! Yes, I said 'a', gotta start somewhere.

I am trying to figure out how to post books I have read on the right side, any suggestions?

Posting Books

Paint said:

I try to post once a week, to keep interest up. I have a fan! Yay! Yes, I said 'a', gotta start somewhere.

I am trying to figure out how to post books I have read on the right side, any suggestions?

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I don't have the link with me, but Blogger gives a cool way to do that in the Help section.

Basically what you do is mess with the template a little bit. It's a html thing, and you can list the book either as a title or you can also make the title into a hyperlink to whatever place you like to send people to, to get a book. For me, that place is Amazon, simply because I know Amazon. If it were a better site that I knew real well, I'd be willing to change everything so as to not be pushing the potential readers so much into buying them right away.

But I digress. The fact is, Blogger has the information you'll need. (I noticed you've got a blogspot site, that's why I mention Blogger.) Just go to the Dashboard, and go to the bunch of links at the very bottom, click on the 'help' link, and it'll take you to a fairly user-friendly help section.


I hope this helps, and that you have a great weekend!

A couple times a month, but normally only to add to the manual archive list on the right-hand column.

I tend to completely change the look every 6-8 months; I add things and remove things from the sidebars on an as-needed basis. Keeping up the blogroll is easy enough: I keep a Blogroll It tag on my browser's toolbar, so if I hit a site I want to keep, it's just a matter of clicking.

I would love to update my site and make it look more 'royal' - so far I haven't found a template that reflects that.

I mainly update my blog with royal links. If I find a royal site that's really interesting or other people might enjoy, I will add it to my list of links.

Dawno said:

I've been thinking about blogroll it - would using it mean I'd have to put all the current stuff in there? (as in yikes, too much work)

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Yep, you'd have to add everything in if you're not already using Blogrolling...but it's not time consuming. Keep 2 browser windows open, one with your blog and one with Blogrolling...right click on the link in your blog, select "Copy Link" or "Copy Shortcut" (depends on what browser you're using) and then go to the Blogrolling add links thingy, and paste it in.

When you're done you'll have to get into your blog template and add the Blogrolling code (and remove all your current blog links) and republish.

I think when I first started I had 20-25 links and it only took 5 minutes to cut and paste them all.

I'm a bit disappointed in this thread. I thought "template" was another euphemism for "naughty bits."

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