Social Icons – Tidier Blog Design

Hello to all you bloggers and viewers out there!!! I wanted to mark the occasion by adding a few social buttons to this blog so you can follow me on any of these sites anytime.

Below are what these new social icons look like, and they are live on this blog now, to find these 5 icons, they are down at the very bottom of this site and are clickable, the same icons I have put here are preview icons but don’t contain the links, to prevent confusion.

The icons I used in the preview of the Twenty Fourteen are the same ones, but with these icons, I edited them in a editing program, similar to Adobe PhotoShop, called GIMP, and wanted to colour co-ordinate them in the form of proper social buttons. I also edited the Twitter icon and gave it the same blue colour that matches its logo, but also used a slightly darker blue to make sure it blends in nicely with the blog.

GIMP is a free-to-use program, just like Adobe Photoshop, you can create anything you want and edit anything that should or shouldn’t be in the picture: http://www.gimp.org/.

GIMP also works on “many operating systems, in many languages.”

Thank you for reading.

-Alex Smithson

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