Figured out a trick in my photo editing software, now I’m 5 times as fast.
That’s just making them though, still takes forever to link them all up.
Which these are not.
And four new headers.
Blog tag = Sidebar Art
Made New Sidebar Art & Headers
37 new sidebar images.
12 new headers.
That’s the catch about rotating content areas – unless they’re kept fresh, they have the opposite intended effect.
Each sidebar leads to somewhere different.
Picked from 1,400 posts, 5 times as many images, so ya probably trying to tell you something.
The Sidebar is Looking Pretty Great, eh?!
Have you noticed the beauty? Big blog doings, since the Sidebar is the Essence of a Blog
The new KeriBlog.com sidebar, now with: less placeholders and more widgets; a new bio with a current photo; the return of ‘This Week’s Car’; drop down menus and multiple search bars, rotating photos, come ON
I’m being dramatic, it’s okay, it looks like nothing, I know. But that’s 14 hours straight, no dramatics, eating at my computer, it was a Saturday, my shoulder was burning, no wonder I procrastinated so hard.
But two weekends ago, remember the big storm? I was supposed to be travelling, so my whole day got cancelled, so I settled in, bit the bullet and built it.
I also made 50 more Sidebar Art pieces.
There’s an accompanying spreadsheet, each leads to a different post. They’re not installed yet though, just the prep work is done.
After these are live, there’s one more batch of sidebars to make, ‘Car Reviews’… I guess I can link up about 30 reviews.
After that’s done, the next project is ‘Pages’.
Have you ever clicked a link in the top nav bar? Don’t.
Made a couple headers too.
New Sidebar Art
Set up an assembly line the other night, made these 30. The sidebar is the essence of a blog.
There’s an accompanying spreadsheet, each one links to a specific post.
Separated them into 5 topics: Cars, Lifestyle, and Security, TIFWGAL.com, and Food.
Each topic will have it’s own area to your right, and the images will rotate through YES rotating sidebar art; that’s been 3 years on the want-for-my-blog list.
Some of these you’ve seen before, from the old blog design.
The other side of the sidebar.
There’s another spreadsheet, of individual sidebars to make too. Like, my printing, favourite videos, this week’s car….
Most excited to make the badge-collage one: the Cars section, broken down by auto manufacturer. I’m betting 75% of all badges have been blogged about.
New Sidebar Art
The best way to get to know me is in my sidebars.
I’d like to throw a KeriBlog party, and I’ll print off all my sidebar art and nail them along a wall in one long continuous row, tada, now my party is an artshow, too.
Don’t bother clicking through, I haven’t yet linked them up to their proper destinations.
I keep a list on my phone of sidebar art ideas. It’s 50+ strong.
Click here and here for past sidebar art posts.
