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Customizing Your Tumblr Blog - how to change the way your Tumblr blog looks
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in this video we are going to dive
deeper into editing the way your blog
looks we're also gonna look at the way
the themes work and how themes change
the settings you have and options you
have on that theme we will then look and
paid for paid and free themes on tumblr
to get started with this we need to go
to the blog settings section so to do
that we have to go to accounts and we go
down to edit appearance your appearance
section will open up for that blog that
you selected what you need to now do is
go down to the website theme section and
say edit theme a new box will then come
up or window rather and this is the edit
appearance section of tumblr you've got
a lot more settings on the left hand
side you can see here you've got the
title which we added previously we've
also that got that description the
header image which is this image over
here on the top of the blog and you've
got the avatar shape and the avatar
where you can add the avatar as you can
see my blog looks fairly good and I'm
actually really happy with it
I wouldn't change my blog theme to a
different theme because I actually like
the way this goes and it actually works
well with Trude social but in this video
we are going to go through all these
settings and how we can change them so
that they look better all the way your
blog you'd like your blog to look so
let's go back to the left hand side and
as you can see as I mentioned those are
all the things we changed in the
previous video what we've now got is the
title font which we're able to change so
we're able to change the title of the
font so let's go down and let's find one
that I might be more happy with it's
Travis one and as you can see it's just
changed the logo all my my title of the
blog and I'm able to even make it bold
or not bold so I'm gonna leave it not
bold like that and then background color
we talked about background color in the
previous video but share you're able to
change the way your background color
now I'm gonna keep mine whines but as
you can see you can just go run around
here and you can change the way your
buddy background colors I'm just gonna
go back to white and there we go then
title color we did this in a previous
video but you've got a little bit more
options here you're able to select it
better so I'm just gonna go and choose
one that's a little bit more crude
socially and there we go and then you've
got your accent color which is all of
these things so it's like this ask me
anything as you can see as soon as I
start moving it that's what starts
changing so I'm gonna make a little bit
more darker blue like so okay great so
that's just to change like the buttons
on your on your blog and stuff like that
now you need to remember that all of
these things on the left hand side you
have changed depending on the theme you
have so what we have missed the might be
different for theme you choose
ultimately at the end of this video but
I figured that a lot of people will use
the default theme so that's why I'm
going through the default section of
this theme itself show you here that
image will turn the hitter image on and
off as you can see as soon as I turn it
off the display showed that the header
image was now gone I'm gonna return that
back on and stretch header image would
stretch that image across the whole of
the screen so as you can see my header
image is across the whole screen is
because I actually made this hidden
image in Photoshop but if you didn't you
could select this option and it would
actually stretch that image across I'm
gonna keep that enabled anyways sure
avatar would hide that truth social
avatar so I'm going to hide the true
social avatar and as you can see it's
now gone I also like having it there so
I'm going to keep it there on show title
would hide root social as you can see
it's now gone I'm gonna keep it enabled
and show description would hide or show
the description which I'll also keep
enabled now we down to the theme options
which as I mentioned would change and
you're able to change the layout so I'm
on regular now narrow would make
more narrow and good would put all the
images in a grid format pretty much like
the Explorer feature on tumblr already
it just puts them like this it looks
very much like Google+ I prefer having
it in the regular view so I'm gonna just
gonna keep it like that
the next section just changes the way
people interact with your blog so
showing navigation for a neighbor would
enable enable or disable show navigation
in the scrolling would mean when people
are scrolling on your blog it carries on
just automatically adding that content I
would keep that on related posts would
add related posts to your blog which
I'll keep off because you want to track
key people on your blog and interested
in your content then finally you're able
to add things like your discuss short
name so that you can have a link back
and your Google Analytics ID now Google
Analytics is a tool to see how many
people are on have been following your
blog what they've been checking on it's
like an analytical tool to see how
popular your content is I would really
recommend adding your Google Analytics
ID here to do that you would go to
Google to stop Google and lytx and you
would fill out all these and all this
information to get a Google Analytics
account now if you've got a Google
account you'll have a Google Analytics
account but you will need to set it up
and you will need to just go on there
and play around it
now let's go through some different
themes so if we go back to the top of
the screen we will see that I am using
the
optica theme and I can edit the HTML
over here but just under that we can say
browse themes so let's click on browse
themes and some themes are gonna come up
on the left-hand side and it's really
cool because we can see exactly how
these themes look on our tumblr blog so
let's go I'm gonna see what minimal
looks like I just click on it and that's
what minimal would look like now
as I said I actually prefer the other
blog but let's go to rubber and it
automatically starts changing the vlog
and that's what rubber would look like
and you can go through here and you can
find a blog or a theme rather that you
like the other way to do it is to go to
you see it says all themes at the top
here we can now go through and choose
theme so if we want a team that works
with grid mode you would select grid if
you want to pay for theme you can say
click premium themes and then will come
up and we'll show all of the teams that
you actually have to buy now these
themes you as I mentioned you do have to
pay for them but that means that you are
gonna get a little there's a little bit
more features and options available on
these themes they do look a little bit
nicer and they're gonna be very unique
the other way to do it is by going onto
the internet and finding a theme that
you're interested in and buying it on
places like theme forest for example but
that's a little bit more advanced so
just go and find a theme here that
you're interested in and then let's use
that theme so I'm going to go back to
free themes and then I'm gonna find a
different theme let's try to simplify ok
great so let's say I wanted to use
simplify which I don't really but it's
just do it for the sake of the video I'm
going to say use and now you'll see that
my appearance has changed quite a lot I
don't have as many settings as I did in
my previous theme which is ok what I'm
trying to say is every theme has
different appearance options and
different theme options so go through
your theme find what you want and then
work through those theme and appearance
options you now know how to work with
your appearance and theme options and
you know how to change your theme go and
find yourself a really great theme and
let us know in the comment box what kind
of theme you chose and why you chose it
for your blog
