#basic faq

[ramyeons-blog]

will you be making a storenvy theme? or maybe a tutorial? thanks!

I approached storenvy themes very informally, I haven't learned how to make it customizable for everyone yet, and I don't think I'll be making a tutorial for it anytime soon :/ 

If i ever decide to make a storenvy theme, it will of course be published for free, public use ~

[ramyeons-blog]

I couldn't find the question in your FAQ.. So, Imma ask instead. In the theme stolen, there's that "Music Player Icon". I know I'm suppose to put in a code or smth.. But, where do I find those codes?

You have to put in your desired music player icon image URL, which you can right click for.

[ramyeons-blog]

sorry i kinda asked you this a while ago but um i forgot to clarify what i was asking about sorry (;_;) but how did you get your counter to be like it it is? thanks :)

I will try and make a template code for counters to look like mine ~

[ramyeons-blog]

How do you make your asks say "whispered" instead of "said"?

Scroll down to your theme code and find the Ask block, then replace "said" with whatever you like :3

[ramyeons-blog]

I've seen your post on how to put an image in your background, and I was wondering if you knew how to edit the images so that the background of the image disappears completely? When I try to erase the background of the photo on Photoshop and put it in my blog background a white background appears behind my photo so it looks really bad. I hope I made sense and that this kind of question wasn't answered before!! Thank you!!

You can try the magic background eraser tool, or try and use the lasso to crop out the whites by hand ~

[ramyeons-blog]

Hi dita!! this summer i wanted to try and take up coding and stuff and try to make themes, and i started to learn html from a site called w3schools. I was just wondering..how long did you learn this stuff before actually making the themes? Was it difficult? Im considering taking programming as an elective next year, but im unsure. Thanks!

Programming sounds so much fun ^-^

I actually didn’t learn how to code by sitting down and studying, my coding experience built up over an X amount of years. I would learn one day, then not do anything for half a year, then go back into coding, then stop, etc. lol

I just picked up stuff over time, and I learned through experiments and by looking at example codes. I saw what the codes did through an actual theme HTML, and learned from there. I don’t quite remember going on a website and actually learning from their lessons. 

For themes, since I had coding background already, I basically just had to learn how to use Tumblr’s theme variables, meta tags and blocks. Once I learned how, making themes was possible! For learning how to code tumblr themes, this webpage is really helpful. They give you a sample code of a theme, and I sort of used that as a base where I learned from. After that, I just strolled around more experienced theme maker’s theme blogs and saw how they worked with the meta tags. I also used to change my theme a lot, I edited the sidebars, etc. so that also helped me recognize a pattern in Tumblr themes ^-^

If I had to literally compress the amount of time I used on learning coding and making themes, I guess around half a year? I don’t use my entire day to ‘study’, just whenever I feel like it ; u ; After you learn divs, CSS, basic tags, etc. you’d be able to jump into making themes easily! Most important for a more complex theme is CSS! If you know CSS really well and the properties they offer (text-transform, font-size, etc.) then HTML is easy-peasy. I don’t really use much HTML in my themes, most of them are controlled by CSS ~ 

Good luck! 

[ramyeons-blog]

Where did you get the pixels for Macadamia theme ?

All cute icons/pixels I use for my themes are either in the resources section, or from pixel-diary.tumblr.com ~

[ramyeons-blog]

Hi, I've been using your Aigi and Gyeong theme, but whenever I try to scroll down it spazzes out, then goes back to normal. I've tried refreshing and even reseting everyting but nothing seems to work. :[

What do you mean by spazzing out? If the posts “spazz” (how do you even spell that lol) it probably means you’re scrolling down too fast, since the posts come out from the top. Refreshing and waiting a while is a good idea, try scrolling a little slower ?