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How to make your blog look cute and professional!

So hi there everyone! 
How has your weekend been? And how is your weekday going so far?! 

I've only just started going back to college (I know, my college does things really late lmao) so I've been settling into my second year. It's only been two days and they have already given me 3 pieces of homework to do, I think that's a little crazy haha! 

Since I updated my blog layout I've gotten a ton of questions on how to do certain things so I decided to move my original planned post to Thursday and get this post out for you guys as soon as possible. 

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Before I begin I would just like to say that I actually bought my theme from the talented people at Kay Luxe Design. They're the masterminds of my blog layout and I didn't really do much at all, I just paid for it and installed the blog. 

I bought the theme November because it was on sale, so I only had to pay £7 for it! To be honest this was nothing for me since that's pretty much my lunch money for two days. Other themes tend to range from £7 - £16 which I personally think is very reasonable since most theme makers sell them for at least £20. 

If you want to check out their themes (And I really urge you to!) please click the cinnamon roll below! 


Now time for the tips! This blog will include various html codes and general tips that I use to make my blog look cute, simple and professional. I like my blog to have my style incorporated to it so the tips I'm giving here are only things that I personally would use on my own blog~! They will only be a few things but I hope you find something useful to you!

Note; this is only for Blogger, but you can use some of this for other blogging platforms.
So let's begin! 



Stick to one font in your posts
This will make your blog look much more consistent and neater. If you want to switch it up a little, change the colour of your text once in a while to make things stand out and look cute! 



Social Media Icons! 
Here are some cute social media icons for you guys to use on your blog! 

     

      

       


Enlarge your images 
This is an extremely simple thing to do, and all it takes is a few clicks. Here are a few steps.
1) Upload your photo using the default blogger image upload or just copy and paste the photo directly. 
2) Right click the photo
3) On the bar that says "small - medium - large - extra large", click on extra large. 

It should go from this; 



To this; 





Add a 'Read More' link to your posts.

When writing your posts, choose the place where you want to add the 'read more' button and click on 'Insert Jump Break' (this is the button that looks like a ripped paper, in between the film click-board image and the Alignment drop down). 



Add page links
Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >> Pages >>  “Edit” link >> “+ Add external link” 
Add a Page Title and a Web address (URL) for the page and click “Save”.

Remove the default blogger Navigation bar. 

Dashboard >> Layout >> click Edit on the Navbar gadget >> Off >> Save



Add a drop down menu to your Navigation bar.
This is one of the highly requested ones, here is a simple HTML code that you have to include. 

Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Add gadget > HTML/JavaScript 

copy+paste the following code in the box:

<!-- START NAVIGATION -->
<div id='Navbar'>
<ul id='cssnav'>

<li><a href='LINK'>TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href='LINK'>TITLE</a></li>
<li class='sub'><a href='#'>CATEGORIES</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='LINK'>SUBTITLE 1</a></li>
<li><a href='LINK'>SUBTITLE 2</a></li>
<li><a href='LINK'>SUBTITLE 3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='LINK'>TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href='LINK'>TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href='LINK'>TITLE</a></li>

</ul>
</div>
<!-- END NAVIGATION -->

Preview to check the navigation works then click save. 


Change your blogs Favicon 

1) Go to Layout
2) Click Edit on the Favicon gadget
3) Select 'Browse' then select your image (make sure the image fits bloggers width and length guidelines. 
4) Save 


Here are some cute favicons you can use for your blog! 

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How to link your blog comment signature to your blog! 

This is something that I see a lot of people having trouble with, so here is a very simple html for you to use on your blog. This works with almost every comments section, I think the only one it has trouble on is on google+ comment section. If you want to test it out, feel free to write up a comment in my comments section saying "MINAE IS THE BEST!" 
Just kidding haha, but feel free to try it out! Here is the html~ 

YOUR NAME HERE | <a href="YOUR BLOG URL HERE">NAME OF YOUR BLOG HERE</a>  <a href="RANDOM BLOG POST URL HERE">PROMOTE YOUR LATEST BLOG POST HERE</a>


Some other icons for your blog! 

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And that's it! I hope you all liked these little tips and tricks I gave you all to get your blogs looking all cute! If you want to find out anything else about my blog and what I've done for it, please just send me an email or contact me through twitter! You can also send me a comment!

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