Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

Ok, I know, I know...The title is overdone and cheesy.  But my husband would be proud.  Bowie fans, represent!  Anyhoo...As I'm sure is obvious from just the other day, I'm doing a complete design overhaul on here!  And while it is most definitely a work in progress, I can say with confidence that it is looking worlds better already.  Here is a little taste of what I've done so far, along with links to those who (however unknowingly!) helped me out:

First up, I made a new header up yonder.  More clean and simple, more my style.  I may still play around with the header design a bit in the coming weeks, but for now, it works.  Below that, I added tabs.  These will eventually actually link to what they claim to link to, but unfortunately, I haven't gotten that far!  To anyone who is interested in learning how to do this themselves, I used THIS tutorial.  Super simple and fast.  How did I get the text to turn pink?  Good question...and one I have no answer to.  Blogger just knew I wanted pink, I guess.

Next, I created title buttons for the categories in my sidebar, because the default title bars are just far too plain for my taste (sorry Blogger designers!).  I designed the title bars myself, using good old MS Paint.  I then shrunk them down to equal sizes, and used THIS tutorial to figure out how to add them to the sidebar.  Not as easy as the first tutorial, but still pretty simple.  It just takes a lot of copying and pasting if you have a lot of sidebar items like I do.  Below those, I decided to add a button, so folks can link back to my blog if they want to.  As with the tabs, this is a work in progress.  I can't quite figure out how to get the html correct to link back, but as for now, the button shows up, so that's what counts.  To get the button in my sidebar, I used THIS tutorial.  Just like the others, super-easy-peasy.

So that's the progress for now!  I really managed to get a lot done today, thanks to Google and a few generous Blogger geniuses.  Unfortunately, school starts Monday, so I don't forsee a lot of free time to finish all of my blog re-designing plans.  Maybe I will catch up on it over fall or Christmas break.  Let me know what you think of the changes!



ETA:  It has come to my attention that there is a single, years-old blog post under the same name as this blog, and it comes up when you try to subscribe to my blog through Google.  I'm not sure how to prevent this.  For now, just ignore it.  I'm not sure who this James guy is, but he's cramping my style.