Taking a break from sorting out my shelf categories and I thought I'd do a tiny tutorial on changing the background colour of the comments section below posts.  I use template one (the default choice) and this method may or may not work for the other styles.

A quick and easy one this time.  Changing the colour of your sidebar.  As always this is done in template one (default).

So, sometimes the background you choose may look great as an overall image, but your links, shelves etc in your sidebar can become lost in the busy-ness of it all.  Or maybe you have a plain colour background like I do but want a bit of contrast for your sidebar. Either way, it's a quick fix.

In part 4 of my tutorials I moved the follower buttons below my avatar, but they still carried the graphic that belongs to template 1's leather look.  So, now I get to change that graphic into something that matches my own colour scheme.

There are two ways to do this and I'm picking the easiest for 3 simple reasons. 

• 1. It's easy.
• 2. It's easy.
• 3  It's easy.

I may write a part B of this tutorial to explain how to make the follower buttons more like I have mine now, if anyone would like that?

But for now...here we go...

So, the blog looks all pretty so far with the new header and the matching background, but wait...those follower buttons really spoil the look now!  They should go.  But how?

This was the problem I struggled with as it was a bit beyond my limited skills so I went on a search and find mission and luckily found AnHeC's brilliant post about that very thing!  There are lots of visuals there and she knows her stuff so if you're looking for a tutorial from a pro, I'd head over there for the masterclass. 

However, since I'm trying to gather all I've learned into one place I'm doing my own version of it here too and hopefully I'll make as good a job of it as Anhec did with her one :)

So, those buttons...they're annoying stuck there in the header, and clashing with everything... Let's move them.