New Blogger Template Designer: Backgrounds

I told you about the new Blogger Template Designer the other day. I talked then about Templates. Today I'm going to tell you about the Backgrounds they have available. 

Using the new Designer you can pretty much make your blog look any way you'd like. After you have chosen which Template you want to use, you can spruce it up with a background image. There are TONS of images to choose from under the following categories:

• Abstract
• The Arts
• Business
• Celebrations
• Entertainment
• Family
• Food & Drink
• Health & Beauty
• Hobbies & Crafts
• Home & Garden
• Nature
• Patterns
• Recreation
• Science
• Shopping
• Technology
• Textures
• Transparent
• Travel

For example, this blog is using the hearts that can be found under both Celebrations and under Transparent and my cookbook is using a background that can be found under Food & Drink (click here to view my cookbook).

Once you've found the background image that you'd like to use, simply click on Apply To Blog in the upper right hand corner. Simple as that! Next time I'll tell you about the Layout options. Have a great day everyone!

I'm no expert...

ex·pert:

–noun

a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority: a language expert. 

–adjective

possessing special skill or knowledge; trained by practice; skillful or skilled (often fol. by in or at): an expert driver; to be expert at driving a car. 

pertaining to, coming from, or characteristic of an expert: expert work; expert advice. 

No, I'm no expert. I like to help people out by telling them how to do things that I had to figure out on my own. But I'm no expert.

I'm just a girl that likes to blog and likes to help other people blog.

I respect people who have been blogging longer than I have and I respect what they have accomplished.

(In case you're wondering, I've been blogging since 2008.)

I never second guess anybody or act like I knew something that I didn't know. I think that's just wrong. But (you knew there was going to be a but there didn't you?), I have to say that the sites I've found to have GREAT blog backgrounds bite the big one when it comes to Twitter backgrounds!

For real. They don't show up at all on my page! Grrr! So, just so you know, be wary of Twitter background sites. They aren't working for me. Of course that doesn't mean they won't work for you. It could totally be me. I told you, I'm no expert.

Just so you don't go away feeling jipped of a Blog Love real post today, here are some new sites I'm following:

• Capt'n Nancy
• Us and Them
• YOU ARE NEVER ALONE!