Did You Know?: Using a Banner with Your Blog
June 13, 2011
Building on last week’s theme builder “Did You Know?” post, it’s fairly straightforward to add your own, personal banner to your TypePad blog. Using your own banner can really strengthen your blog’s brand or identity and solidify its theme with your readers.
To do this with the Theme Builder, simply go to the Design tab and click the Theme Builder link. There, click the “Text or Image” header, select the Image option, click the Browse button, navigate to the image on your computer, select it, and save your changes. Viola!
The Mosaic and Chroma themes also make it easy to add your own banner as well.
If you change your banner and still aren’t seeing the new one, you may be viewing a cached (older) version of your site and may need to clear browser’s cache and/or do a hard refresh. To do a hard refresh, on a PC, hold the Ctrl and F5 keys at the same time while viewing your blog. On a Mac, hold down the Command key and click the Refresh button. We have information on how to do this in various browsers here.
If you’re a Pro Unlimited subscriber and using one of our many pre-defined themes, you can also use custom CSS to place your own banner on a blog using one of our designs.
If you haven’t created a custom banner, but are eager to make your blog as personal as it can be, we’ve got instructions on how to make your own.
We can even create a banner for you with our banner design service, if designing your own is a little out of reach. You can see some examples of our banners at April 1886, The Nesting Corner, and Adventures in the World of Mobile Knowledge Workers.
We hope you found this useful! Check back every other week for more "Did You Know?" tips to help make your blog even better!
RE: "Using your own banner can really strengthen your blog’s brand or identity and solidify its theme with your readers."
Exactly!
Well, that's the hope anyway. ;-D
This is why, after a year & a half, my cats, and I decided to ask a friend who does such things for other critter bloggers, from time to time, to take our ideas, and give them life, with a new header that gives a visual to the concept of their blog. ;-D
The Cats would love to know what people think, of the banner, and the blog itself. ;-D
Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat
http://www.opinionatedpussycat.com
Posted by: Kiril Kundurazieff | June 13, 2011 at 10:03 PM
I think the new blog banner is very, very professional and inviting. I love blogs about kitties and yours especially. Just for good measure I gave it a little promotion juice on Facebook. I have several friends and family who love to read about cats.
Posted by: Carol Wilkerson | June 14, 2011 at 11:57 PM
Thank you, Carol, for the compliument, I will pass it on the to maker of the banner.
I don't know how the FB plug will pan out, but every little but helps! ;-D
Sadly, on my own blog, I've not touched my Genealogy hardly at all, since the Genealogy Convention I went to in Burbank a few years ago.
Posted by: Kiril Kundurazieff | June 15, 2011 at 08:22 AM
Kiril, just a bit of related info, they just had a genealogy Jamboree in Burbank last weekend and had about 1500+ in attendance. It was the Southern CA Genealogy Society that was hosting.
Posted by: Carol Wilkerson | June 15, 2011 at 02:59 PM