Customizing Print on a Free Theme
Do you want to spend $29 to $129 or more for a custom theme? By accident I discovered a free way to change the look of your post. By the way, if I write about something, it’s because some pesky problem cropped up on my blog, or I copied someone and something worked right!
My first discovery came when I copied part of someone’s post. I lifted an Interview Format post right from http://hacktheentrepreneur.com/, then customized it to my needs. (They said OK right on their website.) Amazingly all of their formatting came along with the post. Hmmmm.
Next I tried creating a post in Google Docs. Guess what? Some of the formatting followed that document, too. In the Google Docs version of this post I created headings in Arial and the normal text in Verdana. I cannot create a heading or change fonts within the free Twenty-Sixteen Theme on WordPress, but I can make it look better using a word processing program. In this article the it seems that although the font size changed, the font did not, but on the Interview Format post, it did. However, in this post I was able to create a heading size font. Score!
An Aside About Word Processing
I love Google Docs, even more than Word now first because of the simplicity and ease of use, second, and even more importantly it saves automatically. (Another sad story when I wrote Girls on Fire, my first fiction which is still not ready for your eyes.) Most people love it because it’s so easy to collaborate. That is true enough. It also has a research component that is easy to use. Yes, Google Docs is free, my favorite price, and so is the storage unless you have, I don’t know – twenty years of stuff.
Sometimes Free Is Better
If you want to save money, and want to spend some time experimenting, always try free first. If you do not want to experiment, contact me and I’ll try it, or subscribe to my blog and get advice as I stick out my blogging neck, and have it hacked and nicked.
Marsha over and out!
Very interesting. Does Google docs work with Dropbox?
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Not automatically. Drop Box works better with Word. Drop Box does not have its own programs like Google Docs does. It works more with Word or other programs that are computer based. You can link either Drop Box or Google to work offline with your computer, but I don’t know how you link the two of them. I used to use Drop Box a lot more than Google Docs, but now I use Google Docs almost exclusively. I hope that helps. Maybe other folks can share their thoughts as well.
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Never tried Google docs. I use Dropbox for sending full res photographs sometimes. I’ve recently moved from Windows to MacBook, does this make any difference?
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I use them both. I admit that I like Google Docs better now because it saves everything. When I write in Word, it does not save automatically, and that is what is eventually saved in DropBox. If you lose it in Word first, it never makes it to Drop Box, as far as I have experienced. Losing a chapter of writing is pretty frustrating! 🙂
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It is all so confusing.
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OH, NO! I’m sorry. That wasn’t supposed to be confusing! I was just frustrated that I could make larger type for headings. So I tried it in Google Docs and cut and paste it into my blog and it worked. 🙂
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You’re brave to try all the changes. I’m not game and I don’t think I could be bothered in case it all goes haywire and I don’t know how to fix it.
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I don’t think there is any reason to try to change unless you are making big changes in your website, or like me always experimenting as part of the fun of blogging! 🙂
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You’re very adventurous, Marsha. I’ll just stick with what works for me. 🙂
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You’re way ahead of me! That’s pretty smart! 🙂
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😉
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