tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27134465.post3804817054210990049..comments2012-10-17T09:43:32.103-07:00Comments on musings: Hard thingsStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599328675880161008noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27134465.post-86076189583810168382008-03-09T01:45:00.000-08:002008-03-09T01:45:00.000-08:00Agree with you about praying when you don't want t...Agree with you about praying when you don't want to, but this is tied to #10. A little while ago, when I was down I came across this statement about <A HREF="http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/cgi-bin/egw2html?C=47801623&K=050820030910800862" REL="nofollow">living in the sunshine of the Saviour's love</A>. It really helped me then and tonight while I was looking for it I found <A HREF="http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/cgi-bin/egw2html?C=52204953&K=050820030910800862" REL="nofollow"> an even better one</A>!<BR/><BR/>One hard thing for me is to actually get around to praising God for any length of time. I don't just mean singing etc, I mean intelligently praising Him for who He is and for specific things He has done for me. <BR/><BR/>To something more mundane like making your title visible, that's easy and will only take a few minutes. I'll take you step by step because I don't know if you've messed with HTML before:<BR/><BR/>2 things to do:<BR/> 1. Jot down the default values, BEFORE you change them.<BR/> 2.Only change one value at a time, then save it and check it out.<BR/><BR/>So to make your title visible:<BR/>Go to your Blogger dashboard and choose to manage 'Layout' for this blog.<BR/>In Layout choose the tab (up the top) 'Edit HTML'<BR/>As you are only making small changes to the code you probably don't need to download a copy of the template, but it's up to you.<BR/><BR/>In the editing box, go down to the line:<BR/>/* Variable definitions<BR/><BR/>a few lines below are the lines that set your blog's title and description colours, these two lines will look something like this:<BR/><BR/>Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color"<BR/> type="color" default="#666" value="#666666"<BR/>Variable name="descriptioncolor" description="Blog Description Color"<BR/> type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"<BR/><BR/>You will need to change the last variable, the 6 numbers or letters in the 'value="#------" '. (this is the colour in hex code). These will probably read "#000000" on your blog.<BR/><BR/>The line below this sets your blog POST title colour, it is probably "#cc6600" ...I don't think this will stand out as well as old-fashioned white, "#ffffff".<BR/><BR/>You could try a red "#ff3118" or a deep yellow "#ffff10".<BR/><BR/>If these don't satisfy... there is plenty of choice at:<BR/>http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp<BR/>(use lowercase letters rather than the upper case they use on this page, though)<BR/><BR/>Every time you change a value, 'Save Template', and have a look at your blog (it is good to have your blog open in another window or tab - but you will need to reload it after each change)<BR/><BR/>Have fun (and live in the sunshine of the Saviour's love)Bruce Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906494777065930425noreply@blogger.com