Wa-a-a-y too much fun . . .

I'm playing with blog skinning lately, and I'm having way too much fun with it, and staying up rather too late. :P But it's exciting! I'm learning so many cool tricks . . . :D For instance, you may notice that I've removed the top NavBar from most of my blogs, because it really doesn't match anything, ever. That's the super easy part, though--hundreds of forums show various hacks to accomplish that. (And yes, it's legal--Google has officially that while they encourage people to keep the NavBar, they don't require it.)

The tricky part was retaining some of the buttons like the "new post" and "customize" and "dashboard" links. That hack was much harder to find, and while I can't take the credit for creating it, I'm still uber proud I found it and fitted it to my purposes! Of course, non of you can *see* my triumph, because "Blogger Buster" taught me this nifty way of making an "admin toolbar" that only shows up to the blog owner (me) when I'm signed in. It disappoears for you guys. Isn't that NEAT? :D
Yeah, yeah, y'all probably don't care. But I'm having a great deal of fun learning these tricks!

A couple of blogs I've skinned are in my bloglist to the right (Tryn's stories). They're also the intros to a couple of my stories, if you care to read them. I plan on actually working on the werewolf one for a while in the near future . . . I also plan to pop up any of my other story starters that I feel like sharing, just so I can design new skins for each of them! ;D
Yeah, way too much fun.

Most of the skins I've "created" so far are actually just modifications of layouts designed by others, who are still credited at the bottom of each blog. I'm just tweaking each one to fit my tastes. For instance, I hate a blog that's too skinny, and almost everyone's layout is too skinny. I need at least 900 pixels to feel comfortable. :) (This one's probably an exception right now--I'm still working on it.) The skin on "Tryn's Crow Story" is more or less mine, though. Not sure where I stole the image from . . . I guess Apple uses it a lot? I'll have to see if I can find a credit for it . . . Anywho.

That's what I'm up to the last few days. Blog skinning, and mostly keeping up on my homework. (hooray!) Oh, and starting a writing group with Merry. :D Huzzah, werewolf story!