Starting a new blog – step 1: setting up a WordPress site
Setting up a blog
Day one of My Goat – the first steps
Sunday 12 July 2009Step 2 – changing the look of the blog
Sunday 12 July 2009Using royalty free stock photos and images to change the look of a blog
Step 3 – changing the masthead
Sunday 12 July 2009Adding an image to the masthead to change the blog’s appearance
Step 4 – colour palettes
Sunday 12 July 2009I have a couple of favourite sites where I get inspiration for colour palettes. And the good news is that they’re free to use! There’s Colour Lovers and Color Combos. Another quite useful tool is the Color Palette Generator. I was a little bit disappointed as I’d particularly like the bluish-purple colour in the image [...]
Step 5 – changing the masthead colour
Sunday 12 July 2009Trying various colours for the new masthead
Step 6 – a few more tweaks to the colour scheme
Sunday 12 July 2009We’ve changed the masthead and the page background to a much paler colour: #FFF5EA. But we’ve left the page footer colour as #FDEDDD to distinguish the boring admin stuff from the rest of the page. Not surprisingly, you can’t read the My Goat in the title now. Better change that pronto. LOL! A quick shot [...]
Step 7 – free fonts
Sunday 12 July 2009Choosing a free font for a masthead image
Step 8 – some more tweaks to the appearance
Sunday 12 July 2009Just a few last tweaks to the blog’s appearance
Step 9 – heading hierarchies
Monday 13 July 2009Properly formatted heading tags (h1, h2, h3 etc) are good for your reader and help you with the search engines.