Monday, February 7, 2011

Clearing Things Up.

I'm feeling kind of lazy tonight so just a quick tutorial on making the background to your posts invisible, so it doesnt block the view of your blog background...
Most of you probably know this already or don't care but I'm lazy and don't know what else to talk about.  This might work better with some backgrounds than others but if you think it'd fit with whatever theme you've got going, then here's how I did it.

1.) just log in and go to design, template designer

2.) Go to advanced, scroll down to post background, and set it to transparent.  If you scroll down a bit more you'll see gadget background and you might want to blank that as well.
3.) Click apply to blog and check out your new clear post background.

Three easy steps and a pretty cool effect if used well.  With some backgrounds it could make it hard to read the post, but I don't think that's the case on mine(is it?), so I assume this could benefit some other people as well.  Let me know what you guys think and if you have any suggestions for what I should write about next.  I could always go back to posting about explosives and "kitchen chemistry" but for now I'm pretty much out of ideas for the blog tutorial series.  Let me know if theres something I should cover or something you need help with.

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49 comments:

  1. NeuroFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:16 AM

    Neat, i'll have to apply that to my own blog.

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  2. red fredFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:19 AM

    just post whatever you can until you get a good idea. we don't mind.
    redisfred.blogspot.com
    redfredramble.blogspot.com

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  3. codgirlFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:41 AM

    Very cool, I'll make sure I do this. Right after I get around to taking the spam security of my comments. :p

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  4. AnonymouseFebruary 7, 2011 at 1:22 AM

    @codgirl, rofl, i noticed earlier that you still have captcha on. :)

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  5. SamFebruary 7, 2011 at 1:37 AM

    We all feel lazy on a sunday night! hehe thanks for the tips.

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  6. Arthur FoxFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:58 AM

    decent info. will get round to that soon :)

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  7. kalFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:56 AM

    got anything to make it semi-transparent?

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  8. Obi-wan MikenobiFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:00 AM

    You should cover the phsyics behind a mouse being able to a keyboard! o_O

    Or are you like this mouse? :P

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y23hqzbOYM&feature=fvst

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  9. ChrisFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:40 AM

    Cool tip!

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  10. murz90February 7, 2011 at 5:46 AM

    I'm gonna use it when I'll have some time for personalizing my blog

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  11. DooFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:42 AM

    I knew about this :) I need to redesign my whole blog, forcing myself to do that for a while.

    However this is one more quality tutorial from you! :)

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  12. FunkyTechDudeFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:44 AM

    another great one.

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  13. DudemeisterFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:47 AM

    As always, we appreciate it.

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  14. Anon ReaderFebruary 7, 2011 at 8:17 AM

    Taking the captcha off was probly the best thing I've learnt from your blog - it's so irritating and so easy to remove. The tutorial series has been really helpful - but kitchen chemistry is always fun!

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  15. gas gasFebruary 7, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    I trust you..Put anything you like,i always find your advices useful...
    http://crossroads-blues.blogspot.com/

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  16. TasosFebruary 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    @Anonymouse, when are going to make a tutorial on pictures for titles?

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  17. Penguin941February 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    seriously, this blog rocks

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  18. World of ZeroFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    Nice tutorials. I might use a few of these to spice up my blog.

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  19. AnonymouseFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    @kal, i wish i knew how to do that.

    @obi-wan, yes i'm a very talented mouse!

    @tasos, what do you mean? i already covered using a pic for the blog title. you can see how to do that here.

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  20. RoseFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    so good so good

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  21. AugustineOfRhinoFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Your blog uses this effect extremely well...I'd have to find a suitably epic pic before I could do this with my own.

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  22. AnonymouseFebruary 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM

    well thanks, Augustine. :)

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  23. PlansetasFebruary 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    Thanks i might actually do this on my blog. Very usefull.

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  24. GarthFebruary 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM

    another great guide, keep up the good work

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  25. TastyFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    I want to know how you hid the rest of this post and linked to here. :x

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  26. JamesFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Great info!

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  27. thegoldenchildFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    your blog is the definition of quality. good stuff.

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  28. RondarielFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    Don't think I'll use it because I think it will make the writing unreadable on my blog, but thanks, should I ever intend to change the background :)

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  29. AnonymouseFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    @tasty, then that's what i'll cover next, check back here around midnight CST when my posts usually go up. thanks for the idea, i was thinking of doing that next anyway. :)

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  30. Futile PhenomFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    this blog is amazing. i have so many things i would like to ask but you are teaching me something new in every post so ill wait until i learn all this stuff. one quick question tho: on the reactions does it tell you who left them? ie does it tell you who clicked cool, who clicked useful etc? thanks!

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  31. shishimaruFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    Keep up the sweet tutorials dood. Much appreciated. Now if only I had a few mins to fix up my blog... >:3

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  32. YouKnowMeFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    Cool, gonna do that probably

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  33. AssortedNewsFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Awesome tutorial bro!

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  34. Blops KillerFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    Nice I might try this out.

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  35. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM

    cool tutorial, I might have to try this on mine

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  36. Poetry of the DayFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    cool tutorial man!!

    - <3 Famous Poetry about life

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  37. GFebruary 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    Great tutorial again...such a cool blog

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  38. RabidmooseFebruary 7, 2011 at 6:38 PM

    Cool I'll remember this for when / if I change my background.

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  39. philFebruary 7, 2011 at 6:41 PM

    All ideas extremely welcome bro!

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  40. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    Thanks again man

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  41. rickyshaFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:29 PM

    I should do this. Still rocking the pre-made background template.

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  42. OkkoFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:35 PM

    its a neat feature but make it rather hard to read the actual text so I prefer using solid backgrounds for posts

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  43. FrostyFebruary 7, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    Lazy or not it's still helpful!

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  44. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    i was scrolling thro ur blog and was about to scream "my eyes!myeyes" then expanded it and worked well:)
    Kool background - listening to music while having favorite puff

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  45. Das Auto!February 7, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    indubatively, good sir.

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  46. loveblogginFebruary 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    thank you! these are all so helpful

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  47. !sense!February 8, 2011 at 3:11 AM

    why would they have fifty blogs up?

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  48. AnonymouseFebruary 8, 2011 at 3:34 AM

    @!sense! i regularly open 50+ blogs at a time because i follow so many.

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  49. OkkoFebruary 10, 2011 at 11:54 PM

    you still need to tweak your sidebar a bit..it's nice to see the girl and all but its terribly hard to read the text in the boxes because of her.

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