Learning How To Blog Continues!!!!

Okay, so I know its been about a week since I was onlast, but I have been busy, busy. Any how, I have learned how to get my personalized signature....yay..*appluase*. It actually took me two attempts to do it and it is a very simplistic signature and I may change it in the future(once I figure out how to make one a little more complex) but this onw ill do for now.
In figureing this out I started by checking out the tutorials on the Shabby Blogs blog page where there is a step by step instruction on it. So I found a website to create my personalized signature @ www.mylivesignature.com . I preoceeded without registering. The first page you type your name, next you pick font then size. After that you pick backgroung colour n text colour and voila....you have a personal signature.
To have it added to the end of each post, on the page after your signature is made, I clicked the link under it to download signatue and that produed the url for my signature. I coppied that then went to my blog page n clicked on design then into the setting tab. The last item in setting is for setting up a personal signature. I got the html code for it from Shabby Blogs and entered my url in place in plaxe of where it said signature url.
Here is the link to the tutoial page for Shabby blogs so you can try it yourself:
http://shabbyblogsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/tutorials

Have a fantastic day!!!!

Day 8 of Learning to Blog

Okay so i have had my blog here for just over a week now. I think it is coming around. I have had some positive feed back from people, which makes me real happy. I keep checking our other blogs to see if I can get any ideas from them too.
Well today I added a new widget to my blog...if you look to the left here you will see my Currently Reading shelf which has been added thru www.shelfari.com. I saw it on another blog and really liked it and best of all it was so simple to add. All I had to do was click the link off the shelf and I believe it was only 4 steps. Pick the shlf you want to have viewed n the book that will be on that shelf, pick the kind of shelf you want, enter your blog URL then add widget...or something really easy like that...lol..
But anyway, if your checking this out, keep coming back to check my progress,any comments or suggestions are all ways welcome!!!

I think next will be making a personalized signature!!


Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

On to Day 7

Okay so this is day 7 for blogging!!! Didn't do anyuthing over the week because I was working and busy, but I am back.
Today I have added a couple of new pages. One that is about Me and what is going on in my life. Then I have a goals and chellenges page and favourites page. I have not yet posted anything on these pages but I will be over the next couple days.
I am getting excited because this blogg is coming together better than I thought and feels like it is a bit easier but I know there is still alot to learn and I do't understand it all yet. But I will get there:)

Day 3 Learing How to Blog

First I would just like to say thank you to Julie!!! I checked out that link you commented on my yesterday post and who would have thought adding a page would be so easy!!! I had figured out labelling but was originally trying to make a new page.
So, I checked out this link http://shabbyblogsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-add-pages-to-your-blog.html that Julie posted for me and it was a world of help. Now I need to decide just what pages I would like to start and go from there next. My next step is giving myself a little more of a plan for how I want this blog to develope and start to publish on those ideas.
This morning I also played around a little more with the page design (really just experimented with colour changes). Just doing a little at a time witht he design til I get just the way I want!

Day 2 of Learning How to Blog

So, I was up early today and started to play with my blog here. Since I am still experimenting, I started with a small Book review of one of my Favourite books.
So easy enough to put up a new post, but it I wanted to set it as it in it's own page that will be listed in a category or topic of just book review's. I wasn't sure how to do that but yay for me I think I figured it out by creating a label for it so it has a folder now.
So, needless to say I learned something new about blogging today even though it took me at least an hour to figure out. So here is the official start to my walk along to road of blogging!!!

Welcome to My Secret Life of Books

Hello Everyone
This is my first blog and kind of like an experiment because I have noo Idea of what I am really doing. So just to get started I am gong to be trying to get back here once a day or every other day(time permitting) to put new posts such as book reviews, movie reiews and just randoms postings. During these times I will also be experimenting to templates and formatting things. Please feel free to give advice because this is new for me and I am excited to be trying this and hope I can learn what I am doing to make this a semi interesting page and i hope you will enjoy my Secret Life of Books.

All the best, Carla