How to Add a Blog Signature to Your Posts

This is a quick tutorial on how to add a blog signature (like the one below) to your blog posts.

If you would like a blog signature created just for you, you can purchase one in my Etsy Shop - here for only $2.50.



1. Upload your blog signature to a photo hosting site of your choice. Some examples are Photobucket or Imageshack.

2. Copy the direct link url of your image after you upload it.

3. Log into Blogger and click on "Settings".

4. Click on "Posts and Comments".

5. To the right, you'll see some options appear. You'll need to click on "Add" in the Post Template area.

6. After you click add, a text area will appear. You will need to copy the following code in that box.

<br /><img style="border:none;" align="left" src="SIGNATURE URL" /><br />

7. Replace SIGNATURE URL with your image URL.

8. You can change the alignment to "center" or "right" instead of left, depending on where you'd like the signature to appear.

9. Click Save Settings and you're done!

The blog post signature will now appear on all your new blog posts!

How to Center Page Tabs in Blogger

This is a quick and easy tutorial showing you how to center your page tabs in Blogger. This tutorial only works if you are using the "Pages" gadget.

Step 1. Go to your dashboard and click the "Template" tab in the left menu under My Blogs

Step 2. Click on "Customize" under the preview for Live on Blog

Step 3. In the Blogger Template Designer, click "Advanced" from the options menu on the left and choose "Add CSS" from the secondary menu that appears.

Now add the following code in the white box:

.PageList {text-align:center !important;}

.PageList li {display:inline !important; float:none !important;}

Step 4. Make sure to press enter after the code is pasted.

Step 5. Click the "Apply to Blog" button in the upper right hand corner and your blog should be updated with the new centered tabs!

How to Install Social Media Icons on Blogger

I have had a few customers ask how to install social media icons to their blogs after they place an order with me on Etsy, so I've decided to create a quick little tutorial on how to do just that.

Step 1. Choose your social media icons

You can find the ones that I have created here.

Step 2. Download the icons to your computer

Step 3. Upload the icons to an image hosting site

Most recommend Photobucket for this sort of thing, so that is a great place to start.

Once your icons are uploaded to Photobucket, you will want to view the album and hover your mouse over the photo. A pop up with different URLS will appear. You will want to click on the direct link URL and copy the text. The direct link URL is what you'll need to link to your social media icon. I suggest opening a text editing program and copying and pasting these links. Or you can keep the Photobucket window open and come back to copy and paste the codes later.

Step 4. Setting things up

Go ahead and sign into your blogger account and go to the "Layout" area of your blog and select the "Add a Gadget" button to the far right beside the Blog Posts area. A pop up window will appear and you will need to select the "HTML/Javascript" option. A new window titled "Configure HTML/Javascript" will appear. In the title bar, you can add a title such as "Ways to Connect" or you can leave it blank if you just want the icons to appear by themselves.

Step 5. Inserting the Image Links to your Sidebar

Copy and paste this next text into the "Content" box on the "Configure HTML/Javascript" pop up window.

<a href="WEBSITELINK" target="_blank"><img src="DIRECTLINKIMAGE" border="0"></a>

This bit of code is what you'll need to link each social media icon to a website. 

The a href part of the code is where you want the icon to link to, such as Facebook or Etsy. Change "WEBSITELINK" to whatever site url you are linking to.

The img src part of the code is the link to where your social media icon is hosted. Change "DIRECTLINKIMAGE" part to the direct link url of your icon.

Make sure to keep both the website url and the image url within the quotes.

This is where you will need to go back and retrieve the direct links for each social meda icon image you uploaded to Photobucket.

Step 6. Repeat this step for every icon you use

If you do not want spaces between your icons, be sure to enter the code without any spaces in the content box.

Do it like this:

<a href="WEBSITELINK" target="_blank"><img src="DIRECTLINKIMAGE" border="0"></a>

<a href="WEBSITELINK" target="_blank"><img src="DIRECTLINKIMAGE" border="0"></a>

<a href="WEBSITELINK" target="_blank"><img src="DIRECTLINKIMAGE" border="0"></a>

<a href="WEBSITELINK" target="_blank"><img src="DIRECTLINKIMAGE" border="0"></a>

...and so on and so forth for however many icons you have.

I hope this helps! If anyone has questions, feel free to leave a comment.

How to Install Photoshop Brushes

I've had people ask me how to install photoshop brushes a lot in the past, so I thought I'd make a quick guide. By following these few simple steps, you will be able to install, and use photoshop brushes like a pro!

THE DIFFERENT FILE TYPES

First of all, I'd like to explain the ways that people distribute photoshop brushes. Most of the time you will be downloading an .abr file, which is the actual brush or brushes combined into one single file. These files are backwards compatible, so be sure to know which version of photoshop you use before downloading. For example, if you run version 7 of photoshop, you will not be able to use .abr files that were created in CS or above. Only brushes created in version 7 or lower would work for you.

The second way that brush files are distributed is with .png files. Each of these picture files is typically a grayscale image which allows you to create a brush from it. There is only one per file, so you will have to load the files one by one to create each individual brush file. However, by having .png files, you can bypass the compatibility problems between photoshop versions by loading the picture files and creating brushes yourself.

INSTALLING ABR FILES

All you have to do after downloading your brushes is copy the file to the correct directory.

Copy the *.abr files into:

Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes (X being the version of Photoshop you are using).

After doing this, the next time you start photoshop, the brushes you added will be available to use in your brush set menu.

To install a brush set without restarting photoshop, select the brush tool and click the brush selection menu. Click on the arrow that is circled at the right side to open a drop down menu, from there you can select the 'Load Brushes' option.

After doing so, you will see a dialog that allows you to select an *.abr file to load. Once you choose the file you want to open, the brush set will load at the bottom of the brush set list in Photoshop. Just remember that if you load brushes this way, they are only temporarily there. Once you change to another brush set, the ones you loaded will no longer be in the brush list.

INSTALLING PNG FILES

Installing brushes from .png files means you will have to do each picture individually. Simply open the .png file you want to create a brush from and select the 'define brush' option from the 'edit' menu. After doing so, make sure to enter a name for the brush and select ok. This will add it to the bottom of your current brush set temporarily.

To save the brushes that show up in the brush set list, choose the circled arrow on the right side to open a drop down menu (use the image from above as reference). From this menu, choose the save brushes option, type a name in the save as box, choose a location to save them to, and select save. Now your new brushes will be saved as a .abr file!