Self Known

A few weeks back I got an email from the lovely Bryleigh, asking me how to make a homepage - something to welcome her readers and direct them toward the right path, whether it be to her services or blog posts. For an example of a minimal homepage, go to my home url (http://www.selfknownblog.com) and take a look around. That's an example of a home page, and I'm going to show you the basics of creating one. :) Before making any changes, please make sure you've downloaded your template to your computer. This tutorial is for those who have a fair knowledge of CSS. If you would like to create a home page, but don't want to go through the hassle of learning code, please contact me so we can discuss building a home page for your site today. Decide What You Want Before you can design your homepage, you'll need to have an idea of what you want it to look like. Sketching it out or coming up with a clear vision of it in your head will help create an end product tha...

Hello. I got a request from Tane to do this tutorial. I hope this is helpful. :) Now before doing this, it may be best if you set up a test blog and tested this out on there so you can tweak the code to fit your needs and then when it's ready, you can put it on your main blog. But you can do whatever works for you. :) 1. Go to your blogger dashboard and select the blog you'd like to the add the drop down menu to. 2. Go to Layout >>> Add Gadget >>> HTML/Javascript and paste the following code into it. <!-- start navmenu --> <div id='NavMenu'> <div id='NavMenuleft'> <ul id='nav'> <li><a href='LINK'>Home</a></li> <li><a href='LINK'>CATEGORY 1</a> <ul> <li><a href='URL LINK TO LABEL/WEBSITE/PAGE'>SUB-CATEGORY 1A</a></li> <li><a href='URL LINK TO LABEL/WEBSITE/PAGE'>SUB-CATEGORY 1B...