Color ~ And How To Change It On Your Blog ~

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As you can see, I am remodeling my blog...again. You can let me know your opinions if you'd like...right now, this background is looking like chocolate milk, a food I love but not so sure I love it as my blog background. I loved it on the Cote Bastide site. That's my favorite for bath products {and house lovelies if you can afford it!}.

I have found a wonderful new site for color codes for blogs and websites. I am experimenting. I'm thinking of starting another blog called "Art of the Eccentric" {good title, no?} and have been experimenting for a few days on that blog so you haven't seen it here. Good thing! Here is the link to the color site:

http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html


This is the best site for choosing colors I have found. I love color so am always checking these sites out. They are a lot of fun...really! A lovely bloggy friend named Gypsy Woman asked me how to change {fill in blank:} I can't answer most of her questions I'm sure, but I can share with her {and you} how to have more exciting color choices than is shown in "fonts and colors" of your blogger blog. But first things first~for Gypsy Woman!

At the top of your blog page, on the right, is the word "Customize". Click that and you will land on the page that lets you change everything, well, most things in your blog. On the left at the top, click "Layout" and then "Edit HTML" in the tabs. You can also click the tab "Fonts and Colors", where you have several choices for background, etc. for your blog. I don't usually like them so I click "Edit HTML" and it opens to lots of scary ~AND FUN! ~ looking code.

In the "Edit Template" scroll box to the left is your blog template. Above that, it says "you may want to save a copy of it" and "download full template", but for this, you won't hurt anything. Save if you don't like to live dangerously ;) and then scroll down to "Variable Definitions". Here is where you can change your colors to something other than what is offered in "Fonts and Colors", if you don't like those choices. {*It won't work to simply change the number in the box on that page*} Below "Variable Definitions" are the color variables you can change, like background color or text, etc. You can see for "Page Background Color" {your first choice}, the next line is a bunch of code. Go over to the "value=#......">. That number is the "Hex" {hexidecimal} code for the color and what your template understands as red, cerulean or olive green, etc.

On the color site you will see, if you click on the different color combinations on that page, a long table of color choices with #...... next to them. Those numbers next to each little color box are what you enter in the "value" box of your template code. Pick a color and copy the number. Now delete the number in the Variable Definitions of the color you would like to change and replace it with your new number {or combo of numbers and letters}. There needs to be 6 numbers and check to see you have not put in an extra [#] or deleted the ["] at the end of the number or it will scare you with "Error..."

Now click "Preview" or "Save Template" at the bottom of the Edit Template box. My Preview button hasn't been working but that would be the best choice because you can go back and forth checking it until you get a color you like. When you like it, click "Save Template".

In case I have forgotten or you do something wrong, always make a note of what you have changed so you can go back and fix it. No problems. Nothing will break. Promise!!

Now, back to my chocolate milk.... :)