Creating Your Most Desirable Blog Background

Having your own background is the most wonderful thing you could ever do in designing your blog. Having a beautiful yet astonishing background never fails to attract other users to your blog. Customizing your background is better than downloading other background templates because most of the templates cannot be further customized i.e where to place your gadget. That is exactly why you would like to do it your own way. Most of the people would like to create their own background but they doesn't know how to do it. It is not difficult to create your own background, since creating a blog background only needs to undergo only 2 steps.


Step 1
Everyone has its own template for its blog. The first thing that you need to do is just to go to the customize tab at the top-right corner of the page. You will be able to see three main tabs just on top of the page i.e Posting, Settings and Layout . By default, the customize tab you clicked on previously brings you to the Layout tab. Now you can see that there are three 4 sub-tabs under it. Just click on the Edit HTML and walla, you just completed the very first step towards customizing your own background. By now you should be able to see the HTML codes for your template

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Step 2
Find this line

body {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background:#fff url("http://www.blablabla.com/imageblabla");
background-position: 50% 31px;
text-align:center;
font:x-small Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$textcolor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}

You can see that the yellow phrase above represents your background image URL. Lets say you already found the background image. Just replace that with the the image URL that u found.

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Jobs done!! Now you would only worry about how to customize your layout. Look at the FAQs below to help you to personalize your background if you encounter any problems or not satisfied of your blog's background.



FAQs

The default layout only allows 2 columns. Can I increase the number of columns?
Yes you can. You can increase the number of columns according to you preference. You can find more information at here.


I copied and paste the downloaded templates but it pops up an error message after I tried to save it as my default template.
Before you copy and paste the HTML codes into content template box, you need to revert your current template into classic template. It is located just below the contents box of the HTML codes. Now you should be able to copy and paste the codes into the content template box and save it with no sweat =)