#tutorial: theme

[pandorasau-blog]

Change Dashboard Theme

Go to http://userstyles.org. Then click “Stylish for Firefox” if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or “Stylish for Chrome” if you’re using Chrome. 

After you clicked what browser you’re using, click install.

After that you have to go back to http://userstyles.org again then search what you want.

Then choose your tumblr theme or section! There is a screenshot at the right side that shows how it looks like. 

Click "install with stylish"

[stephassists]

hi, i saw that in your rp you put the png on the page, and the text beside it, i was just wondering how you did that? i've seen it before but i've never really known how, and if you could tell me i'd be eternally grateful!

Upload your png wherever you want it - on the pages, I did some right after the header image and some like after the first paragraph. It should look something like below right now

Then, go and click the < html > - where all the bold, italics, blockquote stuff is. And find your image url.

Where it has the img src=”URL” part, put align=”right/left/center” RIGHT BEFORE src. 

And then click out of the html and it should be aligned however you want it. Note: It’d be better to write everything out on the page and then put the images in, that’s how I did it.

[stephassists]

How do I add a sidebar picture in the HTML? Like to a theme.

Okay, you can do this two ways - I always find the second way easier then the first, but the first is way more simple.

Go into your theme and, in the CSS put something like this:

Then, go to the body part of your theme and put something like this:

If you want the simple way, replace {image:sidebar1} with the image url:

If you want an easy way to where you can change the image straight from the customize page, put in the {image:sidebar1}:

Then, scroll up to where is - there might be meta tags there, put this in:

Then, save and refresh. On the customize page, it should now have an option to upload a sidebar image.

Hope that helped. You don't have to name the tags that, that's just what I have them named in my theme.

[stephassists]

Do you possibly know any good tutorials on theme making? please and thank you(:

Here’s some pretty helpful tutorials, a whole lot of them.

I suggest, if you wish to learn your own way without going out and following everything from a tutorial, get a base theme from here and just mess around with it. Make another blog, test it out, look around at other themes and see how you can go about it. I’m not saying copy other themes, just take note of how they do things and what types of things you need to do to make things look a certain way. I wouldn’t mind you doing that with my themes, if you wish - I’d even make a sort of base code for you if you’d like!

But, hopefully, those tutorials will help you out.

[stephassists]

do you know a tutorial that explains how to put text above your ask box? thank you in advance!

There’s this one right here that I believe explains it in an easy way. If you have any more questions about making it though, just ask. (:

[stephassists]

TUTORIAL  » POP-UP PAGE

WE’RE MAKING: THIS

DIFFICULTY: Quite Hard, though once you get the hang of it - EASY

PROGRAM USED: Just your Internet

This is a tutorial on how to get one of those neat pop-up boxes on your blog, as most rps have them for their rules/ask/nav. This tutorial just shows you how to get the actual page to pop-up, this is not a tutorial for how to put a navigation, rules, or ask-box on them - I've listed some tutorials at the end for you to follow if you want to know how to do that.

First, prepare yourself. I know it's stupid but, I promise you, you'll need it. Editing HTML or doing coding is complicated and sometimes just annoying. So prepare yourself for that. 

Actually, if you don't want to do that, just go to your blog > Customize > Custom Theme (Edit HTML). This is where you'll put your code, which I believe is 4 or 5 parts - so get ready.

Alright, copy and paste THIS CODE between the </style> and </head> tags in your code. Do not change anything in this code, this is kind of the magic code - it makes everything work. 

Now, to make the whole thing pretty - basically you're going to into the thing called your CSS - which makes the appearance of everything. Paste THIS CODE under either the start of the CSS codes or at the very end right before </style> (which is what I did)

You don't even have to go in and change the colors - I've made them match how your theme is. You can still go and change the colors if you want, though.

The next thing is what's going on the page! Just paste THIS CODE all the way down at the bottom of your HTML, right before the </body> tag.

The last thing to do is to put the link in - basically, the link you click on the main page that makes the pop-up box show. Paste THIS CODE (it's small) where your links are located, wherever you wish.

And then click save and you should now have a pop-up page? Want to make it have rules, an ask box, or navigation? I've listed some codes to each of those down below that you can use to get one of those inside your page.

GUIDELINES PAGE - TUTORIAL HERE

ASK PAGE - TUTORIAL HERE

NAVIGATION PAGE - TUTORIAL HERE