Dec 29
I admit it… I’m a tweaking whore…
I tweak templates for blogging friends at times. I love doing that shit. It’s something I like to do when I am bored.
Make no mistake: I have NO clue on actually designing templates from scratch… I have no clue about setting up CSS or HTML coding from nuttin’ to a fully operational template.
I just take an existing template, preferably one with some basic design and tweak them into something fitting for my friend’s blogs. I have some understanding of HTML coding on fonts, size, colors, and I can design and put in banner pictures and sidebar stuff.
So I take a basic template design and tweak it into something I think will fit their blog and their writing. Nothing fancy, just some tweaking and changing here and there. I sometimes do so just for the fun of it, without asking people first… I just think of something that would fit their blog, work on it and then email it to show it to them and if they want they can use it, and if not, that’s fine too. The tweaking takes away boredom at times and improves my coding understanding up to a point, so it’s good anyway… Yeah, I’m a template stalking bitch like that.
I did it first for Blogarita, who I can happily say, though she has taken a break from blogging for a while, has started blogging again recently. I tweaked a template for her without her even asking me to do it and just emailed it to her to show her what I had been doing while I was bored and she wanted to use it. She still is to this day.
I also did so for Froggy once. He closed that particular blog and is using a new template of his own right now. But on his last blog I offered him a banner picture with a frog and he used it for a while.
Catalin, from Flying Into Cold Deep Waters, I did 2 templates for. He was commenting on my blog for a while and contemplating starting blogging and I offered to help him set up if he ever decide to go ahead with the blogging. He did and so I did. One for his “old” blog on Blogger and recently he switched to Wordpress and I tweaked a template on there for him. I am so glad it convinced him to start blogging.
Then my Brazilian friend and colleague Carolina decided to start a blog as well, which is called “La Bra-Dutch“. I tweaked her template from the Minima template, like I did for Blogarita, from Blogger. I didn’t do too much tweaking there other than design her banner picture and set up the account for her. I like the way her banner turned out. I just need to tweak my Brazilian a bit to keep up with her blog…
Recently I did, again from the Minima template, the banner picture and color tweaking for Severity’s Realm. I love how simple it is and how it still is hot and getting the message across…
And then a few weeks ago Marty, from The Life of Marty, told me that he felt forced to delete his blog. I immediately offered him, if he would ever start again, that I could tweak a new template for him. He started again yesterday, with The Life of Marty - Take Two, and I tweaked a nice and simple template for him. I am so glad he’s back, please go over and see him, especially if you still remember him from before.
I know. I am crazy. I am a template tweaking addict. STFU! Deal with it!
I am working on a new design for my own blog again. Fab has been the only one to have gotten a sneak preview yet. But then he’s the fiance and I need his approval, right? I just have to patiently wait for Lucy to get her pretty ass back from Vegas to download the basic template for me, as she is still graciously hosting my blog on her domain (PPH Luce!). It won’t be anything fancy, just a change, just a tweaked basic template like I did for the above and like I’ve always done for my own blog… I’ll let you know as soon as it’s there… Oh well, I guess you’ll see it once it done and on here…
You’re great at doing it and passionate - I wouldn’t say whore but if you like it so be it lol.
You’re the kind of friend everybody would like to have.
Ya rock Dutchie
Ohhh yes did she tweak me, though I think blogger is having PMS with a blink of an eye it changes.
I owe you a tweak Dutchy MMmmm I got nipple clamps around here somewhere!
FroggyWoogie: LOL ok maybe not whore… then…
Severity: I think Blogger is having issues. There are more templates that don’t look the way they should… Fucking Blogger!
YOU ROCK!
I don’t know so much about the others, but the template you did for me it’s WONDERFUL, I simply love it!!!
Thanks again and keep up the good work ;)
Catalin: Awww Hon, thanks! I didn’t write the post to have all of you thank me, just to show what is possible and how much I like doing it, but thanks anyway!
mmmmm… whores…… What was the question again?
Buff: I am not at all sure there was a question in there.. Was there?
I love Catalin’s template. You did a great job on that one! I feel out of the loop….I like a good tweak!
Metalmom: I would happily do so but… your template looks great! I wouldn’t know what to tweak about that!
I’ll be home tonight, so check on it tomorrow Dutchytime and it shall be there my sweet friend!
Lucy: That’s great Hon! But like I said: get home, rest up and simmer along on your Sin City experiences (and fucking email me about the details!!!) and then, when you feel like it, download the template…
I tweak my own stuff all the time…wait that sounds dirty. I of course mean masturbation not web design editing :D
Robin: Of course, that’s what I’ve been talking about all the time as well..
I saw your work on Marty’s site - very spiffy! It’s been over a year since I’ve changed my site’s template . . . hmmm . . . you’ve given me my first New Year’s resolution.
I don’t so much tweak other people’s sites as I help them when something gets broken… especially at Blogger. ;)
Um…who’s Brad?
Everybody can use a good tweakin now and then. Thank you, Dutch.
Good, I’m glad I was following this time.
It’s like getting a free pair of designer shoes - who can bitch about that? You go, girl!
Nanuk: Go tweak!
Fab: Brad? Brad? where does it say Brad?
Marty: you are welcome, babe
Robin: aren’t you always?
Martine: LOL, I will I will!