Blog Design

A few weeks ago blogger started showing that it had a new template design option.  I had been avoiding looking at it for a while but finally ventured there and have spent some time looking at various ones. Here are some screen shots I took of my blog in some potential designs.

I really liked this one - the sky and clouds most especially.  The thing that put me off was the way the trees stay put on the screen when you scroll down - minor quibble but... 

Quite funky water and bubbleness but just a little on the dark side for me.

Quite nice.  Quite like my old one before I started messing around.

Not actually the one I'd one, but quite fun having a library.  And these books moved down (or up) as you scrolled,

Quite nice, but I would want to change the screen background of the text to blue, which might be possible.

One of the final ones I came to try and the winner for now!

None of these blog designs seem to be stretch ones which forces me back to the fixed width thing.  Which is kinda what I was wanting to do with the thought that other people might look at the blog and it would not make sense to them if they didn't stretch their screens the same as me.  But I was reluctant to, because it was right for my screen (my primary audience!) and now all my previous posts are going to look oddly formatted!  Oh well!

Do you have any favourites on the designs?  Let me know which one you like.

The next thing I'd like to fathom is pages.  Ideally I'd like to have links to pages at the top of my blog linking to things I blog about more often, like Musicals, F1, Photos of the Year etc.