So you wanna make a layout? Allright, I'll enlighten you. Just read on.
The Basic Layout Code
Worship the code. Respect the code. Love the code.
Colors
That code in the box above is black with white text stuff without any pictures or anything. Notice the #FFFFFF and #000000 things? Those are HEX CODES. That's what gives your site color. So how do I get this things, you ask? Go to your handy-dandy look and feel section, click on where you change a color for something and click a color on the palette. In the small box beside the color will be a string of letters and numbers, like the Fs and 0s mentioned before. Copy that, stick it in somewhere the Fs or 0s were in the code and voila! No more black and white.
Images and Fonts
Whoohoo! Your colors are just the way you want them. But you want a header or background pic and your fonts are wicked fugly. For fonts, simply change where it says "helvetica" or whatever to what you want, like Quill or something. Quick, easy headers can be designed on Mytheme Animation Studio or Paint. If you want to get a little funky with it, you can use programs like Photoshop, or Gimp. You can download Gimp for free HERE. After you've made it all beautiful, save it to your computer then upload it to the internet. These sites are good:
1. Tinypic -- The links are short, but the words on your image gets blurred.
2. Photobucket -- This is good because you won't ever lose your codes because they're all under your screenname.
3. Imageshack -- This site is the best. The words don't blur, it takes animations, and it takes files up to 1024 kilobytes, which is BIG. I use this for my headers.
Now that you've got your link, put this <img src="PUTYOURLINKHERE"> above everything else on your code. To make it a background pic, put the image link where it says backgroundpic: ( LINKHERE)
Customize It
Border
Blink Boxes
Go crazy with the blink boxes. They're very versatile and fun to mess with.
Tag
That's all, folks. Questions, comments, concerns, suggestions?
