Tech Tip, Google Site Themes

So I did this when I first created my site, I went through several times and changed my theme because I think the look and feel of a site really sets it off for the reader.  If the site design and look is good then the reader will be excited to read the actual information of the page.  I settled for one that looked fairly modern.  I modified the text color, the tab colors, the navigation colors, and the title colors. I really just wanted to have my hand in every piece of the design.

A Celestial Father

Tech Tip Website/Storybook

Alright so I created my storybook website and decided to mess around with the settings and templates and fonts per usual and thus created my new google website!  I really didn't know that google had this feature so it's really cool to use and learn to understand how to take it further!

A Celestial Genealogy

Tech Tip: Pinteres Research

For this extra credit Tech Tip I decided that I would look up and learn more about the the "Rules of Gibbs" a long list of rules created by the leader of the DC NCIS crew on TV.  I personally love this show and have always wanted to know what Gibbs's actual rules were!!  Its great to know now and the fact that so many people wanted to create posts on the same things that I'm interested in is awesome!!

Tech Tip: Pinterest Board, Pinterest Embedded

Alright so I use pinterest all the time so this task was really a walk in the park.  However I did not have the browser button before and I didn't know I could do that, so that's pretty cool.

So I posted a board for our Indian Epics class titled: "Indian Epics Portfolio"  pretty simple.  I chose two boards to pin from Professor Gibbs pinterest because I found the "English words from the Indian language" board pretty cool.  There are several words there that I definitely thought were just english words but were in fact based in the Indian language through time and travel.  I chose the words "shampoo" and "candy".

Shampoo apparently comes from the champoe which originally comes from the meaning "to massage" or "to knead, press"  all the way from sanskrit language.  However the word "Candy" comes originally from the word Kantu in sanskrit meaning "ball of candied sugar" and made it's way through he Persian language all the way to French and then English. Follow Briana Gordon's board Indian Epics Portfolio on Pinterest.

Tech Tip: Weather Widget

Alright so now I've added weather to my blog, which I think is pretty cool and is a lot easier to do than I actually thought!  I get excited over the smallest things!  My favorite type of weather can be found in the spring and fall, its not too cold and its not too hot, sort of in the 70-75 degree range is perfect!  My most hated weather is rainy weather or blasting heat, I don't do well in the heat with my pale skin and intolerance for heat!

Tech Tip: Sidebar Box

Okay so I added the HTML/Javascript sidebar to my blog and it reads: "Your eyes are more beautiful than a wild cows!"  I wrote this also in arabic because this was something that my introductory Arabic teacher said all the time in his homework that he created for us and it was very funny to me to think that a cow might be considered beautiful. However apparently a cows wild eyes are considered beautiful.  So I just thought it was something fun I could add to my blog.

Tech Tip: Blog Profile

Alright so I have now configured my google plus profile and it's pretty cool I think.  I decided to display that I am currently in a relationship because I am very proud of the man that I am with, he is an amazing man that I would do anything for!  He's also pretty cute....

(personal photo)

I chose to hide my e-mail, my phone number, and my address because there are some crazy people out there these days and so I gotta be kind of careful, ya know?  Overall though I think this whole thing is pretty cool, profiles, and templates and all that jazz!

Tech Tip: Blogger Template

Alright I'm not going to lie, with my background in Graphic Arts I could have made my own template purely from code if I wanted to spend that much time on this project. In fact when I was in high school I won first place in a Website design competition at state level and went onto nationals where my computer crashed, my partner got sick, and I ended up withdrawing in order to not end up at the bottom of that 26 people long list.  So in short, I had a lot of fun with this tech tip!  I wanted the look to be something sort of whimsical and not so serious, but I didn't want the design to be distracting from the actual information.  I chose my blog post text out of my preference for wanting to actually be able to read the text in both color and font, I have really bad eyes.  The purple color of the title is fairly self-explanatory and everything else was just for fun!