FAQ

These are questions I get asked pretty often/imagine you might wonder.

Q. How much does this cost?
A. Nothing! This is just a hobby of mine. It started with me talking to a friend who wanted a custom layout and was having troubles finding one so I offered to make her one and did so. Then, because I was bored (oh, how so many things start with that) and it was fun, I wanted to make more. And I ran out of friends who wanted new layouts. So I posted about it on my blog and a few months later, it's become what you see now. However, this is still and probably always will be just a hobby and something I do for fun. Therefore, there's no charge.

Q. How long will it take?
A. That depends. It depends on what you want, how complicated it is, how I'm feeling, how busy my book blog (which is my main blog and my top priority) is, how busy my life is and how many other people are in front of you, among a few other things... in general, the entire process should never take more than a few weeks, but there's no guarantee. Remember, this is just a hobby of mine and won't take over my life. But usually I'm only working on a couple layouts at a time tops, so it's really not a huge timespan between start and end.

Q. Will I lose my gadgets? What about my posts and followers?
A. Nope! I customize them so you won't lose any gadgets and I cannot affect your posts and followers. The only reason you might is if you added a gadget between sending your html to me and me completing the layout. That can be avoided by emailing me your new html if you add gadgets after the original email.

Q. Can you make me a wordpress theme?
A. I'm afraid not. Wordpress uses CSS, not html, and I know nothing about CSS.

Q. I like my header. Can I keep it when you make me a layout?
A. Of course! I'll just make sure that it fits and looks okay when I make your layout. You don't even need to send it to me, just tell me you want to keep it.

Q. I like my layout. Will you make me just a header?
A. Sure! Just let me know the general size and shape you want it to be along with the other header questions in this post.

Q. Can you make me menu buttons?
A. That I can. I'll just need your html and the general idea you want for it.

Q. Why do you need my html for a menu bar?
A. While a menu bar is a series of images, there are things you need to tweak in the html. I also like to have it to make sure the buttons look good with your layout and header. If you have a background like from cutest blog on the block, copy and paste the html from that gadget into an email and send it to me.

Q. You told me to go to your photobucket album and I chose a picture and then when I picked one, you told me it wouldn't work. What happened?
A. I'm human. To find all those backgrounds, I just search certain terms and save like crazy. I don't test them all. Sometimes things won't work. There are funny lines, things look weird. It sucks, but there's nothing I can do besides ask you to try to pick another picture.

Q. I love your photobucket pictures! Can I use one?
A. Knock yourself out. Most of them are just pictures that I've found online, with a few of very bad quality pictures I've taken. But if you want a bird pen header, you go right ahead and do that. The exception to this is other headers and menu buttons. Please don't use those, as they are other peoples'. Basically, if it has a blog name on it, it's not up for grabs.

Q. What else do you do?
A. I can make layouts, headers, menu buttons, all seperate or together, and icons. Like if you want to have a single picture to use for profiles and such, we can do that. It's photo editing and pretty simple. Just ask!

Q. Do you need my html?
A. If I'm making you a layout or html, yes. Please don't ask me this too often, I state it multiple times and depending on my mood, I might get a little testy. I'd actually rather ask you for it than have you ask me if I need because, yes, I do. If you forgot, I don't mind, just don't ask me because I'll probably assume you didn't read my instructions. Which you should.

Q. How do I use your buttons?
A. It's easy! Just go to your blogger dashboard, go to your layout page, and open a new html gadget. Then copy and paste the html from the little box under the button you like and paste it there. Then save and that's it!

Q. Did you make the buttons? Can you make me some?
A. Yes I did! Sure I can, I just need a picture. Remember that it will end up being pretty small. I tend to not make them more than 150px wide so that they fit in most sidebars, so tons of details might not work so well. Don't forget to tell me what kind of font you want and what you want it to say.

(If anyone has any questions they think I should add, let me know!)