The title is a saying of Shiela Boyd's and I hope she doesn't mind my using it as my post title for today. I am SO EXCITED to have fairly successfully updated the look of my blog. I added a new background called "Fairy Dust" and a new header that I did myself using Photoshop Elements more successfully than I am usually able to. Yippee Doo! :)
It feels nice to have a new look, rather like getting a new hair style after looking the same way for a long time. I never had a background other than just the plain black before but I find "Fairy Dust" just glitzy and sparkly enough for my taste. And I loved "Juicy" as my header but it was just stuck there in the middle of the space, rather obtrusively and rather badly. This header uses "And the Ring, Please?" more successfully I think and I plan to change the header photo periodically. Now I just need more followers! I have 16, which is wonderful, but I should have more than that by now. If you are reading this blog and you'd like to receive notification when it's updated and have your photo (Facebook profile photo, blogger photo or ???) shown as a follower, please scroll down the right hand sidebar until you see the Followers area and join me as a follower here on "Mixed Messages." And maybe you know someone else who would like to follow me also. Let me know, if that's the case. And I thank you profusely for doing that! :)
I have 112 Fan Page fans on my Facebook Fan Page so I think I should be able to do better than 16 followers on my blog. I try not to post the same info both places although my blog posts are linked to Facebook and my posts are linked to Twitter. Everything is becoming nicely interconnected and I am becoming more technologically proficient by the day. Now if I could just master Photoshop Elements and Twitter, I'd be feeling pretty good about it all. On the other hand, I just heard of another social networking application called "Google Wave" that I've never heard of before yesterday. Oh, well. . . . onward and upward. Maybe tomorrow I'll check it out and see what other mischief there is to get into. :)
Hi Kathleen, the blog looks great. How did you figure out how to change background, header? I keep messing up mine! Good luck and see you on facebook!
ReplyDeleteDora, I have struggled with it before but this time I tried "The Cutest Blog on the Block"--you can click the link in the left top corner of my header/banner. They have tons of Blogger compatible backgrounds and banners. I tested a few and found that some fit and others didn't. I loved the "Fairy Dust" background but there wasn't a matching banner so I did this one with Photoshop Elements. Check out the site and see what you think. I can tell you more after you've looked at it, if you need more info.
ReplyDeleteKathleen, I like your fairy dust. I tried to be a follower, but guess I am just tired, and did not want to go to Facebook.. I get totally confused there.. Just when I think I have something going, another strange thing pops up.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you find facebook Fan page?
ReplyDeleteI like what you did here.
Vivian, it appears to me that you ARE a follower. Just take it one step at a time on Facebook--it's all pretty logical, actually. As far as the other "follower" area that you're seeing, that's in regards to being a follower of my Networked Blog and it appears that you have successfully managed that also! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGrace, if you look at the bottom left corner of the Mixed Messages Fan Page, you'll see "Create a Fan Page". Click on that and then follow the steps listed to start a fan page of your own. You may have to google for info now and then to complete the process but there is lots of good "help" advice out there.
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