May | 31 | 2007

Five Steps To Quickly Change Your Blog’s CSS Design

Posted by Brix as Design, Design and Themes

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an HTML standard that Web site developers use to control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear.

If you are already familiar with CSS, here’s a way to quickly make test changes on your blog’s design:

1. Download and install the Mozilla Browser.

2. Download in install the Firebug plugin. This plugin will allow you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

3. Open your blog in Mozilla. Click on the Firebug icon at the lower right corner of Mozilla. A small tab should appear.FireBug

4. Inspect the various elements in your blog. Edit the CSS files and see how the changes are immediately shown.For instance, look at the body CSS settings and try to change the general fonts used.

FireBug Inspect

5. Once you you are satisfied with the new blog look, Copy your CSS changes and replace the CSS file on your blog’s server.

I often make design changes in my blog and follow this procedure myself.

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Comments (7)

7 Responses

  1. anatol

    31|May|2007

    Nise site!

  2. Sugar Mouse In The Rain

    31|May|2007

    Thanks for this useful information.

  3. Ia Lucero

    01|Jun|2007

    I love Firebug. It’s a great way to learn HTML and CSS and even JavaScript.

    I wish IE and the other browsers supported it (there’s a portable version but it’s not quite the same) so that debugging for cross-browser compatibility comes easier.

  4. Geo

    01|Jun|2007

    Neat! I’ll try this :D

  5. Brix

    06|Jun|2007

    Yes GEO, I agree – wish FireBug was on IE too. It’s annoying when I can’t get a website cross-browser complaint.

  6. Geo

    06|Jun|2007

    :) Well you can’t have everything.
    Lol, I can now easily edit CSS, but the problem is, im not that artistic! Oh well. Can’t have everything :D

  7. Thomas Sebastiani

    20|Jul|2009

    Great tips, thank you!!

  


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