Exercise 13 - Arrangement of the Blog

Again I worked on the layout early in the piece when I created the blog – due to a long established personality disorder of being in control I need to have the structure established before I can work!  Revisions can always be undertaken later but I need a foundation before I can write.

However as part of this post I did review the structure and move the labels to be the lowest gadget and changed its name to “tags”.  I also added the gadget for the number of page views. 

Exercise 12 - The Colours of the Blog...

I spent some hours personalizing my blog colours and display when I first set it up. 

The phrase ‘social media’ and the way people use it to come together reminded me of the phrase ‘social butterfly’ ...

... and I got a mental image of the famous Monarch Butterfly migration to Mexico and Southern California where they cluster together in the hundreds.  With this image in my head I wanted a butterfly motif and set out to use a photo of the butterflies as my background.  

Once I had found an image that I wanted to use, I took my cues for the colours and the rest of the page design from there.

The image I used is in the public domain (with no copyright) and was obtained from Flickr.  It is by Swallowtail Garden seeds and is entitled Monarch Butterflies Migrating.