I want to learn how to make blog layouts (like blogger, xaga, livejournal)?

I am very interrested in learning how to make layouts for webpages and blogs. A future in webdesigning is my aspiration. Could anyone please give me advice or a link that I can read all about designing blogging layouts. Like those people in createblog.com...how do you make those? I would really love any educated answer.





Thanks.

I want to learn how to make blog layouts (like blogger, xaga, livejournal)?
Techniques to creating custom layouts are specific to the blog you are using. What works with Blogger's templating system won't necessaily work with LiveJournal's. You need to look at the documentation for the blog you want to design the layout for.
Reply:http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp


http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.as...





These two links are what you are going to need to know first, because this will allow you to work with the code from myspace, xanga or any website.








Layouts consist of something in HTML called a table or a div (divider). Let's say you have a table that had a blog entry in it.





You would use html to make the table, and a table would have a class assigned to it. This "class" defines how the table will look. If it has yellow borders, no borders, large borders or a green background.





myspace/xanga/websites have the html written for you, but you can edit the class code.





%26lt;style type="text/css"%26gt;


.table


{


background-color: yellow


}


%26lt;/style%26gt;





As you guessed, this will make any table you create to have a yellow background. It's a lot harder than you think, but you should not give up because I remember a long time ago not knowing anything and you just slowly learn different things over the years. There was a time I didn't understand HTML or CSS, and now I do. But compare to others, I don't know much.





Before messing with those other places, take time to learn the basics of HTML and CSS. You can create an html page on your computer using notepad and open it up with your webbrowser like internet explorer and you can practice there.
Reply:Ok, I used to own a popular Xanga layout site. First thing to do is find a style of layout you like and then copy the code to notepad or something. There should be spots for a picture you want, you know these by the links that end with jpg, png, gif, etc. Either design a picture with a program like Gimp or Photoshop, or get one from off of another site. Anytime you see a code like #000000, that's a color. You can change it by using number codes like the ones here, http://html-color-codes.com





If you see text that says bold, under line, size, etc. it should tell you what text it will change and where it will. The best advice I can give you is to experiment with different codings until you come up with something you like. Hope this helped!





P.S. And I've never used blogger or livejournal, so I'm not sure if the coding on them differs, but the basics should stay the same.