Those of you who are artistic, and handy with Photoshop or another image processor, eventually decide that having a blog labeled in text is boring. So you spice it up. And one of the easiest things you can do is to replace the blog title with a picture.
(Question): Does this blog use a Layouts template? If so, read about Customising The Header In A Layouts Template Blog, first.
(Note): The code below has extra line breaks liberally inserted, to avoid yet another post / sidebar alignment problem.
The hardest part in doing this is to get the image hosted somewhere. If you use Flickr, Photobucket, et al, this is not an issue (hopefully you know the URL). You can't do image upload when editing your template. If I want my image hosted by Blogger, this is what I do.
Go to template edit.
Easy, no? That part was. To make it as it is now (see the top of the blog), you'll have to do just a little more work.
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(Question): Does this blog use a Layouts template? If so, read about Customising The Header In A Layouts Template Blog, first.
(Note): The code below has extra line breaks liberally inserted, to avoid yet another post / sidebar alignment problem.
The hardest part in doing this is to get the image hosted somewhere. If you use Flickr, Photobucket, et al, this is not an issue (hopefully you know the URL). You can't do image upload when editing your template. If I want my image hosted by Blogger, this is what I do.
- Create a new post in the blog, and Title it "Photos" or whatever.
- Upload my picture to the post.
- Look carefully at the code created in the upload. In my case, I have
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"
href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/
560/527000594325287/
1600/RBS%20Header%201.gif"><img
style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"
src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/
560/527000594325287/
320/RBS%20Header%201.gif"
border="0" alt="" /></a> - My picture is now
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/
560/527000594325287/
1600/RBS%20Header%201.gif - Very important: Save the post as Draft. I don't want my title image showing up in a post, in the middle of the blog. Untidy to say the least.
Go to template edit.
- Find the coding for the blog title.
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<$BlogTitle$>
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage> - And replace it with
<ItemPage><a href="<$BlogURL$>"></ItemPage>
<img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/
560/527000594325287/
1600/RBS%20Header%201.gif">
<ItemPage></a></ItemPage> - Save, and Republish.
Easy, no? That part was. To make it as it is now (see the top of the blog), you'll have to do just a little more work.
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Comments
so, if you have a custom domain, do not host your title bar (or any image larger than 400p) at blogspot but at some other place. i've read that they're working on this.
this limitation is currently labeled as a bandwidth control limitation for the blogspot servers.
hope this information is useful to you, (reader)!
Thanks man.