| Forums > Tips & Tricks > "**Tips on making layouts*" (120 replies)
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There are a few different questions you should ask yourself before submitting a skin.
1.) What is the main focus of my skin? Remember, this is a blog skin. The blog part should be the biggest part of the layout and should not be smaller than things like about me, links, etc.
2.) Is my skin messy/Is my skin presentable? Beats me, but a neat skin is a good skin though there are few exceptions to that rule. Use tables if you have to to make your layout organized and neat.
3.) Does my skin load fast? There are many things you can do to improve the loading time of your skin. First off, using DIV's instead of tables. Tables are good for beginners to easily organize a layout. They're not bad, but they load slower than DIV's would. Another thing to consider are images. Can you make the image out of a few DIV's? This makes for faster loading time as well. But, if you need to use an image, make sure the image's size is the size you are going to use on your page. Otherwise the computer will load the full sized picture, then resize it...which takes time. Another thing that slows down loading time are those FILTERS. Like those Opacity changing filters take lots of time to process, since IE is very slow at doing that.
4.) How much empty space is there? If you have a small layout, center it. If it's left to the side then it makes the layout look very empty and plain, but if it's centered it doesn't look empty and plain. Crazy eh? Even if you don't have much on your layout, a background color other than black or white can sometimes make up for lack of...something
5.) Who will my skin appeal to? Obviously you can't please everybody, but you should aim to please someone...other than yourself. For example, if you're making a skin with barbie dolls, make the skin girly, etc. If you're making a skin that's supposed to be depressing, make it look darker. Darker background...etc.
6.) Is it readable!? An important thing that a lot of people miss (I think I have too) is that the blog should be readable! The whole point of a blog is so that people can read it. Right? Well, then someone correct me. A light background with a light text color doesn't work, and neither does a dark and dark. Common sense.
I don't mean to make fun of anyone, just remember these things.
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anyone help me with downloading skins?? cuz i click on the skin i like and then way at the bottom they hv this place where u can download n below they write blogger main movable type or xanga..i choose blogger main and they show me the skin juz like in a preview..but the point is..how do i download the skin?!?!?!?! my knowledge of computer stuff may nt be good but i know that downloading and previewing is DEFINITELY not the same..can someone tell me wad to do?
.:lost n confused:.
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I'm glad, that's what this thread is supposed to do.
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it's really nice of you to be giving advice like these... thanks!
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Oh yeah. If you put music on and make a "playlist" or something make sure that when you click on the song it plays!
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Author: gTkw
Posted: 3.6 years ago
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what programs can be use?paintshop pro can use?
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Welll... if yall dont get it now... you never will... thanks for being so quiggy cool bout writin it all down... i think you said what we were all thinking
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Another one, Don't make like an iPod layout or anything like that just bedcause everyone is doing it.
Nobody (in my case) would not look at it because they'd get sick and tired of everybody create the same themed layout.
They might not bother looking at it
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good tips!!!
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Hey...I really want to start making my own layouts but I don't know how...can anyone tell me what yall use to make them?
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how dya make layouts. can somebody teach me?
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Author: jhxy
Posted: 3.4 years ago
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how do you make blogskins
stupid question, but i just joined. i'd really like to learn
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Not to mention, one has to be very good &conscientious in their coding. or it'll turn out horribly in Firefox etc.
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Cutting up images in programs such as Image Ready help reduce long loading time, I don't know how does using DIV as opposed to table help anything in term of loading my 0.02 cents.
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what kind of programmes do u usually use to make the tmeplates?
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"what kind of programmes do u usually use to make the tmeplates?"
Photoshop 7.0 or Paint Shop Pro 8.0 the most common and powerful graphic program available on the market.
You're talking to me right? Haha.
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thx for the tips! tips 1 and 8 r good ones, ALOT of my fren have blog posts in a very small area using a small font... -.-" and i notice many skins have layers (Not sure wat isit called, those 'boxes' displaying all yr dif content and r able to scoll individually. sry im not gd wif technical terms) on their blogs. i mean, wats wrong wif the traditional method of scrolling up and down the whole page? it can look gd too, n most importantly, u dun have to cramp everything into a small space... =)
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hmm, i have problems with my photoshop. when i saved my transparent images as PNG the EXTRA spaces - that i didn't drew on- was not transparent but the colour was something like light blue. how do i fixed that or..
and your advice are great x]
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I'm new in this blog thing and so i want to know how to create a blog. Can anyone help me? Please. I want create nice blogs for my friends and everybody else!!!Help!!!!!
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plz help me..im using microsoft frontpage to make a skin but i dont know a thng about making blogs.....i inserted a picture in normal mode but when i tried to view it in my blog it doesnt appear...and i dont know how to make the posts appear on the skin....sum1 plz help me.
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sorry for the double posting.. about the topic. i read all your tips on making layouts.. thanks to it ^^ and in addition, for me a good layout must be pleasing to the audience.. colors are like moods and personalities.. so better be careful on mixing colors..
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how excatly do i make a blog with navitigations?
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does anyone know the blogger code ??? or a site that can help me make a skin for blogger.? thanks
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host image frm "http://imageshack.us/"
some HTML Code to help, can even gt HTML Colour Codes here "http://www.freewebs.com/evenstar_09/basichtml.htm"
And i oso view ppl's template, and stole sum codes, like d avatar pics, and codes for d bottom of d windows
=))
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Don't know if this one has been posted yet..
- Don't use text decoration!
- Don't use any mouse trails/tails
They are somehow annoying.
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guyz...when i'd download templete here then i put into new templete at my blog..but da problm is when i preview it's juz show the picture...title blog n all that stuff lost..so anyhoo can help me to edit the new templete that we're dload here???
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thanx for the tips...
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hey, great tips. but now, i'm waiting till i've learned more about html before i can use those tips. i just started reading and learning bout html on the net. but i have no idea where am i suppose to actually DO it. they said on wordpad, is it right then? and how do i view it?
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Author: `cyn
Posted: 2.7 years ago
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eu shuld do it on blogger. make a lil blogspot for your skin den anitime you can click preview den can see how your blog is goin. its a good tip ^^
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Author: `cyn
Posted: 2.7 years ago
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eu shuld do it on blogger. make a lil blogspot for your skin den anitime you can click preview den can see how your blog is goin. its a good tip ^^
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can someone pls teach me how to start designing a skin..im seriousely desperate!!! pls help!
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this is great (:
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hi. i wanna know how to link a certain spot in the picture to the textbox.
i use photoshop to make pictures and imageready to edit them. i am currently learning how to make a skin and am at the stage where i know to position all the textboxes of "archives", "entries", "tag" at the same spot. i am ready to link all of them to their respective buttons but i don't know to.
it's something like those blogs where u click on the "blog" button and the entries would appear. click on the "tag" button and the tagboard would appear.
can anyone help me??
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hiie. erm, sso sorwee. cann aniie o.n.e tel mie how ttu create a blogskin.? me don understand. too difficult for me to understand le.
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ok... thx, good work
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Whoa there, haven't visited here in awhile. Good to see that my thread still lives, however.
A lot of you are asking, simply, "How do I make a skin/layout/template/any-other-word-that-goes-with ?"
No one can tell you "Do this, this and that, and you have a template."
A template/skin/blog is simply a webpage, with dynamic code inserted into it. The dynamic code is, of course, the text of your blog.
Coding/making a blogskin is no easier than making a full out webpage. In fact, I might say it's harder considering you need to use the Blogger code. What everyone should know is that you can just decide one day you wanna make blogskins and then BOOM, you're on the top 10 most downloaded. This takes time, it's like an art. You need to learn the basics, like in drawing.
Start with even the simplest things. In drawing, for example, how to hold your pencil correctly. Then when you get more advanced, shading, perspective, how to use the eye to trick the mind into seeing different things...
If you wanna learn how to make a BlogSkin, gotta start from the basics. Learn HTML. Quite simply, it's better than using a program such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Only after you have a good handle on HTML, you can then go into Frontpage and those "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) editors.
Anyway, my point is, be patient and try and learn how. I suggest starting at w3schools.com to learn about HTML.
Good luck everyone.
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hey met3ora, um im learning from scratch you wouldnt know a free program or something to teach me how to make skins cause i really wanna know where i can start plzz help me!!
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hey, you're styles are good huh... but that's the basics of this blog making...
Personally, i think people tend to like simple and over-decorated... They do not like anything in between. So if I were you, choose from the two. And it would surely be a good skin Ü
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eyy..WHAT ABOUT IMAGE MAPPING?lol am i lyk late or something?GAGAGA.pls DO reply.ehehs
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