A Special Gift For My Readers...

Hey everyone,

Guess what? If you're reading this, I love you enough to give you a special gift (if you want it). As you have probably noticed, the design of my blog has changed. I've learned how to make specialized headers, and blog buttons, too. (You can check my previous post about blog buttons here)

And now that I've learned how to make awesome personalized blog designs and buttons, I'm willing to make some for you and your blog. (And no, I'm not going to be a jerkface and charge you for it) So... if you want a blog button or header, let me know in the comments, or text me or something if you're someone I know personally.

If you want a header, you need to send me this:
-the design you want for your header background (I suggest searching on Google Images)
-what you want your title and subtitle to be on the header

If you want a blog button, you need to send me this:
-nothing if you sent me the above info for a header
-if you didn't get a header, send me a picture that you want as your button background (again I suggest searching on Google Images), and the title of your blog, along with a brief message to go along with it

Send all that to: brandi.mcconahay@yahoo.com, Subject Line: Blog Header/Blog Buttons
Please make sure your subject line at least mentions "Blog Header" or "Blog Button". Thanks.

How long will I be doing this? I don't know... just assume it's still going on until I post that it's not going on anymore.

Here are some of the Blog Headers I've designed:

Here are some of the Blog Buttons I've designed:

Like I said, let me know if you want one. Also, I can make them for multiple blogs owned by the same person.

Ciao!

And I Already Changed It...

Hey everyone,

So, I was excited last night to finally make my first blog button. But today, I decided it looked kind of bland. So I made a new one using a free background I found online. I like it better. Here it is:

I think that it's important to have an awesome looking blog button, because the point is to attract people to your blog. Also, on this button, I added that we write YA Book Reviews. We also review manga and novel-to-movie screen adaptions also.

So, do you think this one is better than the one I had in yesterday's post? I'd love to get some feedback! :D

Ciao!

I Just Made My First Blog Button For My Book Blog... I'm So Excited!!! :D

Hey everyone,

In case you haven't been around the blogging world lately, blog buttons are an extremely popular way for sharing blogs. Blog buttons are small square boxes that contain some kind of graphic, and the title of the blog. On the blog it represents, a copy code will be featured under the blog. This can be copied into other blogs and it will link back to the home blog. Here are some examples from book blogs around the web:

Madame Bookworm's Button us one of my favorites I've seen so far. It's very visually appealing.... it's simple, but neat.


I'm don't care a whole lot for Awesome Bookworm's button (right)... it's too small and dark.










Personally, I feel that this button is very boring. Anyhoo, now you kind of have an idea of what blog buttons look like. The idea behind blog buttons is that you try to convince people to post this to their blogs, and that will boost your credibility with search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask, which will put you higher in the search results. After all, most people don't look beyond the first page or two of search results. If your not at the top, it's not likely you'll be found.

There isn't some kind of site that you can just easily create a blog button, though. You have to make it from scratch. So that's what I did. I searched for tutorials to teach me how, and I copied the coding from a tutorial, but other than that, everything is mine. That's part of the reason I'm so excited.

For the blog button for Wisdom From A Teenage Bookworm (http://www.bookwormwisdom.blogspot.com), the book blog I have with my friends, I used a photo that I actually took myself, because I didn't want to take the chance of liability issues with copyrights. I actually used Picnik to edit the photo and to resize it to fit the standard blog button size.

So, without further ado, here is a picture of my blog button:

I would love, love, love it if any readers of my blog would be willing to go to www.bookwormwisdom.blogspot.com and copy over the text to add it to their blogs. I already added it to this blog on your left, and I also added it to the left of my writing blog, www.brandimcconahay.blogspot.com.

Ciao!