)Google added another feature in Blog Template Designer , that you can upload your own photo or from iStockPhoto to be used as background image of your blog.
Now steps for Use Your Own Photo for Your Blog’s Background :
1.Go to Design | Template Designer | Background, click on Background Image, and you’ll notice a new “Upload image” option, which will allow you to select and upload your image.
Tips for Image to be set as background for your blog ( so revealed by Google) :
- Recommended resolution of a image is 1800/1600 pixels
- File size less than 200KB to minimize loading time
- Supported fromat are JPEG, GIF, and PNG
2.Once you upload the picture , you will get options such as
- Alignment: You can adjust horizontal (left, center, right) and vertical (top and bottom) alignment of your background image.
- Repeat (Tile): If you have a small image, you can have it repeat horizontally and/or vertically to fill the page. Otherwise, we recommend that you choose a page background color that blends in with your background image.
- Scroll: By default, your image stays in place while readers scroll the page contents. By selecting the “Scroll with page” option, both the background image and page contents scroll together. We recommend that you use an image that blends into your background color or set your image to tile vertically if you choose this option.
This feature is available on Blogger in Draft right now, so please go ahead and check it out!
Scraps are messages that one Orkut user can send to other user in their profile. Ideally, a scrap is visible to every user linked to your Orkut. Sending the private scraps feature is now enabled on Orkut .
Now you can choose to send a private scrap to a friend. On the new orkut, before posting a scrap, just change its visibility to “private”, and that scrap will remain visible only to you and the person receiving the scrap, so it stays completely secret.
If you don’t change the default options, your scraps will have exactly the same behavior as before, so there’s nothing to worry about, things only change if that’s what you want.
Every scrap (as well as photos, videos, etc) will now have a privacy label, so you can easily tell who else can see it. These are exactly the same as the privacy levels that we already had on photos: private, friends and public,” informs Google.
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