Just a head's up - If anyone wants to save any info from my tutorials (meagre as they are) now would be a good time to save it.  With the new layout all my screen shots to show the steps to make changes are useless so there's not a lot of need for them if they don't make sense.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted...

*Edit*  -  Hahah, now that I'm seeing my post title show up on my notifications it reads like a flounce, lol.  "...and I'm taking my tutorials with me!"  :P

It's getting close to the end of the year but there's still time to challenge yourself to read a few more books before 2014 gets here.  If you've imported your bookshelves from somewhere else you may have already completed a challenge and you can use books already shelved (as long as the  'Date Read' column has been filled in with a date this year) for this.  Any books added to the shelf at a later date are automatically added to your widget for you (just remember to compete the 'date read' bit.)

Lets add a Booklikes Challenge Widget to our sidebar to show everyone what massive bookworms we are :)

There are quite a few tutorials on how to change the layout of your BookLikes blog. I figured it's good to have them all in one post, and I'd like to thank all who put a lot of work into making them so others can enjoy BookLikes. 

Let's start with the customization blogs posted by BookLikes: 

• Edit Your Design Theme With HTML on BookLikes 
• Your Blog on BookLikes - Custom-Made

Tutorials made by BookLikers for BookLikers: 

• Litchick's Easy Tips for Customization
• Litchick's How to Change Your Followers/Following to Something Fun
• AnHeC's How to Move/change your Followers/Following conters
• Jane's How to Customize your BookLikes Blog using CSS
• Jane's Customizing your BookLikes Blog Pt.2
• ThreeRs' Blog about Fonts
• AnHeC's How to change font colour (text, link, comment section)
• AnHeC's Background for Search Bar

Note: All links open in a new window and take you to the original posts and their creators. Leave comments, likes and reblog the hell out of them so others can see it too :) 

I was thinking of creating themes for BL but I have no idea how to do it. Seems like a lot of shiz involved, so I was thinking of just making some backgrounds, and maybe adding some suggested hex colors to go with it. Anyone interested?

Here are some resources for adding some zazz to your BookLikes blog and other pages:

Awesome wallpaper patterns at the fashion site Polyvore:

http://www.polyvore.com/decorative_frame_wallpaper_black_double/thing?id=49416815&p=1

A collection of free clip art from vintage ads, postcards, etc.:

http://www.chronicallyvintage.com/2011/11/10-great-free-vintage-clip-art-sites.html

Enjoy!