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This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello my friends, finally another episode in my DIY blog design series. A lot of you said they had questions about how to make a blog banner and how to get it up on your blog the way you want it. So todays topic is HOW TO MAKE A BLOG HEADER. Voor de Nederlandse dames. Voor het gemak (vooral dat van mij) schrijf ik mijn blog in het Engels en dus ook deze serie over hoe je zelf het een en ander aan je blog kunt veranderen. Dat wil  niet zeggen dat jullie mij geen vragen in het Nederlands kunnen stellen of niet om wat meer uitleg kunnen vragen. Aarzel dus niet om het mij te laten weten als je iets niet snapt of als je vragen hebt. Ik help jullie graag! A good header or banner for your blog is very important. It’s like your business card for your blog, or your front door. It is the first thing people see, when the...

This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Howdie Lovelies, I am glad you all gathered here today for the next episode in my DIY Blog Design series. I know that you are all sitting at the edge of your seat to learn the real tricks, but before I even allow you to make any changes whatsoever I have to make sure you play safe. Voor de Nederlandse dames. Voor het gemak (vooral dat van mij) schrijf ik mijn blog in het Engels en dus ook deze serie over hoe je zelf het een en ander aan je blog kunt veranderen. Dat wil  niet zeggen dat jullie mij geen vragen in het Nederlands kunnen stellen of niet om wat meer uitleg kunnen vragen. Aarzel dus niet om het mij te laten weten als je iets niet snapt of vragen hebt. Ik help jullie graag!   So today is all about taking the necessary precautions in order to make sure you never ever have to be sorry about messin...

This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   This post is an adaptation from a guest post that was posted on Beautiful Blog Designs in January 2010 Welcome to the first post in my new DIY Blog Design series . Thank you so much to everybody who left me a comment with a design question. They have all gone in my DIY Blog Design folder and I hope I’ll be able to answer most if not all of them. Keep the questions coming! In January 2010 I did a guest post on Beautiful Blog Designs (that since has moved to a new address ) outlining five things you have to think about before you start (re)designing your blog. I think that post is a good place to start my new DIY Blog Design series, so I’ll repost it here. I am DIY when it comes to blog design and I would love to share some of my insights and experiences with homemade blog designing. We home and craft loving gals...

This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi friends, have you noticed I am always fiddling with my blog design? Do you consider it improvements (like the new categorie buttons in my sidebar, noticed them?)? Watch out because there is more to come… As you all might know I am solely responsible for the way my blog looks, well with a little help of Blogger that is. Maybe one day I will invest in a proper blog design done by a professional, but right now if I want something done, I’ll have to figure it out myself. And heck, I think being called a ‘DIY girl’  is a badge of honor. My blog design has grown/ is growing with leaps and bounds. I keep discovering new things, I say goodbye to other things and I have a wish list the size of a phonebook of things still to figure out. And while fiddling around in the ‘behind the scenes’ blog world, I picked up a few tri...

This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you recognize this? You have some free time and the energy to start a new project. You are about to go get the paint, the glue gun or the fabric pile when you think ‘someone did this already, let’s look up that blog post where my inspiration came from’. And then it all falls apart with the speed of light. You start searching blog after blog, reading post after post, frantically trying to remember where you saw that idea. Going through all of the files on your computer, in the desperate hope that you were smart enough to bookmark it. But in which folder? Photo found on Flickr I have spent so many hours looking all over the net trying to retrace my steps and find that one piece of information I had seen before and I really needed now. But I have found a better way. Let me share my two favorite tools I use to organize...

This post was originally published at Songbird . If you like DIY inspiration of the home and decor kind, than please visit me there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My blog Songbird was featured at Beautiful Blog Designs Beautiful Blog Designs is a highly informational blog that provides you with buck loads of inspiration, information, tutorials and references to make your blog look and work better. I stumbled onto Amanda’s blog while bloghopping to other day. I wish I had found her a couple of months ago when I was knee deep trying to dig my way out of the HTML mess I had created while giving my blog a makeover. She could really have saved me a lot of time and headaches. My old blogdesign, handmade by yours truly too   And just in case (although I really don’t know why you would be so maybe just skip this session) any of your are interested in making my blog experience on your blog more pleasurable, here are some of the things you can do to your blog to make me really happ...