This is the beginning of the totally new era

My ladies and gentlemen!

I´m going to launch here a totally new era. Instead of posting the backgrounds and other accessories to their own blogs, I will post everything to this blog only. So for now on, you will find the new backgrounds and stuff here.  And all the new backgrounds will be right size, no matter if you add them with the code or upload them straight to your blog. I will provide both the code and the link to the background image. So you can choose, which way you want to add the background.

Some of the old backgrounds are not the right size for uploading. And I´m not going to change them, at least not all of them. You can always make a wish, if you wanted me to re-size your favorite background good for uploading. I will leave the old stuff on the other blogs as they are for sometime, so you can still explore those and even if I might close those other blogs, don´t worry, you will not loose your background, the codes won´t expire.

Complicated? I know...I try to make this transformation as simple as possible. How? I have no idea yet. By the way, if anyone knows, what would be the ideal file size for uploading, I´d be more than happy to know. If not, the background size will be 1600 x 1100 px.

PS. I am sorry, I haven´t had time to reply to comments and emails. I will empty my email box and try to find time for replying to new comments and emails.

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Centering the header in Blogger

With some new blogger template the header is not centered, but it's very simple to correct.

Go to Design > Advanced > Add CSS > Paste the code below to Add custom CSS:

.header-outer {
margin-left:50px;
}

You can adjust the pixel width, depending the size of your header. Try different widths until the header is centered. Lower pixel width moves the header left, larger to right. With the template and the header I've used in this blog, 50 px width looks right.

Instructions for uploading the background image part 2

Ok, on the previous post I gave the instructions for uploading the background image, adjusting the widths and choosing the layout. Now we go to advanced...this so exciting...I love this part.

Instructions for uploading the background image part 1

With new blogger templates it's much better to uploaded backgrounds, instead of using the background codes in gadgets. I know, this might sound surprising, because I made so long long backgrounds to use with codes. I'm going to add the new backgrounds the way, that you can copy and save to image straight onto your computer, but meanwhile and with the older backgrounds this is what you can do:

You can find the the instructions to upload the background to your blog, instead of adding background code with gadget, by clicking "read more". You can make this change and still use the same background you have chosen. This needs only a little bit effort, but the result is worthy.

Mix and match!

I´ve made a bunch of new backgrounds and headers. Mix and match, find your own favorite combination. :)

Good news and the bad news about the background disorder!

Hi Guys,

Here are the latest news about the backgrounds appearing too small:

The good news first. I fixed all the background codes, so they should work just fine. (but if there is still problems with any codes, please leave a comment and I will fix the problem).

And then the bad news. You have to replace your existing background code with a new fixed one of your own. You have to find the HTML/Java Script gadget where you have the background code and remove the old code and then add the new fixed code.

One way of fixing the shrunken background....

Thank you guys for helping (the previous post) with this shrunken background problem, here is a of linkfor the solution:

 http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=69af04ba7855635d&hl=en


But I have also fixed all the background codes, so the easiest way of fixing the background problem is to remove the old code and replace it with the fixed code.

How to add sHabby FraMes + some freebies

You can find my tutorial and some freebies from my *itKuPiLLi* ~ in the City of aNGeLs-blog.