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Once you have completed your WordPress installation you have a blog ready for your first post. The sooner you start posting good content, the better. But you probably want to customize your blog’s appearance to make it more unique and to add your own branding or personal touches.
Theme Options
One of the first steps is to decide on your color scheme and layout which you will set on the Theme Options page under the Appearance section of your dashboard.
For the Twenty Eleven theme you have a choice of two different color schemes – “Light” and “Dark” – as well as the ability to set the color of the hyperlinks that appear on your website. These two options give you the ability to subtly change how your blog will seem to your readers. Using other themes besides Twenty Eleven will likely provide you with additional options. Some themes offer a number of different color scheme options, as well as the ability to fully customize those schemes.
The “Default Layout” portion of the theme options section lets you decide whether to display a sidebar, and if so, where. Because it’s so easy to change this aspect of the layout, you should take a few minutes to activate and then look at each of the selections in order to decide which is best for your blog. If you’re using a theme other than the Twenty Eleven default theme then your layout choices will likely be different.
Background
Another easy way to customize the look of your blog is setting up a custom background. The background can be a picture or a color that you choose. To change your background, click the Background selection under the Appearance section of your dashboard.
If you have an image you’d like to use as your background, navigate to it using the “Choose File” button. Make sure to preview how your updated blog looks before you settle on an image. If an image is not big enough to cover the entire screen, then WordPress will “tile” it to cover the entire background. Tiling looks good for some images, but not others.
If you want to use a solid color as your background, simply click the “select a color” link under Display Options. You’ll be taken to a color wheel, where you can select any web ready color as your background. Again, make sure to preview how your blog looks when you select a new color, to make sure you are happy with the results. Depending on the header image you use, and the other types of images you are going to be displayed on your blog, some background colors will definitely work better than others. Keep in mind that this only changes the background that appears behind all of the other areas of your blog.
It’s a good idea to “play around” with different combinations of theme options and backgrounds before you decide on what’s going to be the most effective for your blog.
Next, customize your header.
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