Today's featured blog design source is Dotty Dot Dot Designs. This site is fabulous not only for its great assortment of free cute backgrounds (many in both two and three column variations), but also for its free matching headers and its tutorials about how to install stuff, including details about three column blogs. Additionally, Dotty Dot Dot Designs offers a variety of blinkies, for all you blinkie fans, including an Award blinkie you can grab for your site (and that, my friends is how I got my first blog award). I first discovered Dotty Dot Dot through its sister sites that specializes in relgious-themed backgrounds; you can reach that site through the main site:
http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/
For those of you wanting custom header work, Dotty Dot Dot Designs will customize for you for $5. So, check it out! There are lots of fun things to see.
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Southern Girl Blog Designs & 3-column blogs
Today I discovered Southern Girl Blog Designs. Although she does not appear to offer any free blog backgrounds, her portfolio suggests that whatever she charges is well worth it. In addition to doing complete blog schemes for Blogger blogs, she also does headers for WordPress & TypePad. She also designs Etsy banners and avatars. My favorite parts of her site (as one who cannot afford a professional blog makeover at this time): Her monthly giveaways to Followers and her tutorial sections. Here is a link to her instructions on creating a 3rd column in a Mininma template:
http://southerngirlblogdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/creating-3-columns-in-blogger-minima.html
http://southerngirlblogdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/creating-3-columns-in-blogger-minima.html
The Cutest Blog on the Block
Site Features:
Custom design
Blog to book publication
Free Blogger backgrounds, Wordpress themes, Twitter backgrounds, and MySpace layouts
Free buttons, banners, and blinkies
Free sidebar header & post divider packs
Tutorials
Commentary:
This is the first free background site I found when I discovered blogging. Not only are their backgrounds cool, but they also had very clear instructions on how to install them using Gadgets on Blogger. They are the ones who got me hooked on blog design; I started making extra blogs just so I could try out their designs! In addition to their backgrounds, they also offer free matching banners and blinkies for many designs. TCBOTB also offers custom design and blog-to-book publication. My absolute favorite thing about them, besides their designs? Their wealth of blogging secrets. Check them out for all sorts of goodies like removing the lines between your sidebar items, adding signatures to your posts, centering sidebar gadgets, and creating your own backgrounds, just to name a few. Thank you, TCBOTB!
Three Column Blogger
Site Features:
Tutorials
Commentary: This is where I learned to create three column blogs, although what you see on this blog is my own modification of what I found there. There are other tutorials about 3 column blogs out there, but I want the world to know that they get the credit for teaching me.
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