New Course: Blog (Design) Love

We are excited to announce our latest e-course: Blog (Design) Love! Over the years we have received many emails from fellow bloggers wanting to know how they could add more personality to their blog designs, like we do here on A Beautiful Mess. Elsie teamed up with Elise to create a course all about designing and coding your own blog. In this course you will learn how to design the perfect blog layout for you! Elsie shares her personal tips and techniques for developing your blog branding and style. You will learn how to bring your designs to life through simple Photoshop tutorials (all lessons taught with Photoshop CS5). Learn how to create a customized banner, navigation bar and sidebar elements. The best part is, you'll know how to create and change all of the artwork on your blog whenever you like! 
As you learn to create the perfect design, Elise will teach you how to code your designs into your blog. Sessions include tutorials for Typepad, Blogger and Wordpress.com bloggers (Sessions 8,9 and 12 do not teach custom CSS for Wordpress.com users.). You will learn how to create clickable archives (just like the A Beautiful Mess archives!), how to get started setting up and managing your own advertising program and how to customize the size of your content column and install web fonts.

All lesson tutorials are taught through a private blog created just for this course. For a full description of each session click here.

We are so excited to share our design secrets with you. Blog Design Love is packed with information and personal tips! The course cost is only $34.00 US.

To sign up, click here. xo. Elsie

Comments

[Pili]

Wow that's so cool! I think I'm gonna get it ^^
xo,
Pili.

http://inavintageworld.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/simple-friday.html

[Lauren]

girls! oh my goodness, you could not have planned this at a better time! I've been struggling with teaching myself coding. yay!

[Sara Al Kiyumi]

Thats so cool! blog love was a blast I'm sure this will be as well!!

[Kate]

So excited for this, it's definitely going on my Christmas wish list!

[Jamie]

Done. Ladies, is this course something we will be able to access forever?

[Aoife Blake]

Oh! Love it! Now to subtly hint to Santa for this :p

Aoife x

http://aoife-blake.com

[harley]

Will the coding element of this course only cover wordpress? or will blogger be covered as well?

[Jennifer]

Is this course permanately open? Could I buy it in a few weeks, months, etc?

xo Jennifer

http://seekingstyleblog.wordpress.com

[Tessa Lynn]

Oh my good-golly-gosh!! This is EXACTLY what I've been needing and wanting!! I've JUST started blogging and have created my site on my own but I feel it lacks a professional touch. I've been looking at lots of web designers but I didn't want to pay a bucketload so you can imagine my excitement when I pulled up your webpage (to look at how you organized your side bar) when I saw your course! I honestly leapt for joy!! I can't wait!!

[Sierra]

This is a fantastic deal & I already purchased it, but I have a question. I have Photoshop Elements 10, will I still be able to follow along easily?

[Ella @ An Old-Fashioned Girl]

Oh my word! I just contacted Katrina Tan @ Pugly Pixel asking about design this past week! I am so glad that I found this for such an affordable price. Thanks so much! Just one question. I have Photoshop Elements (a pretty old version) do you think it will still work if I chose to take this? I'm 15, so I might be able to get a student discount for Photoshop.

xo, Ella

[Eva]

So cool!
x

www.creativityandchocolate.blogspot.com

[Sierra]

P.S. A BIG thank you for making it affordable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alicia Standridge]

This is wonderful! I have been so anxious to start a blog but just so clueless as to all of the technical aspects of the process. Cannot wait to start Elsie!!!!

[Rachael]

Ohh tempted, I can't even work out how to get two images parallel! Rx

http://sandersonsmithstory.blogspot.co.uk/

[Natalie / Half Asleep Studio]

Great idea!

[Rachel]

I read the full description and the asterisk at the bottom says that those lessons are only for existing wordpress templates. Does this mean if I use blogger those lessons wouldn't apply to me?

[Amanda]

Great skills!

[Elsie]

Q: Ladies, is this course something we will be able to access forever?
A: Yes.

[Elsie]

Q: Will the coding element of this course only cover wordpress? or will blogger be covered as well?
A: The course covers Typepad, Blogger + Wordpress. The note just means that a few of the sessions are different in Wordpress. :)