How to Fix your Header in Blogger

So, last night I was at whits end and posted about how I couldn’t upload my header without it looking blurry and pixelated (blasted Blogger). Apparently many people are experiencing the same thing.

YUCK:

Thankfully I took some of your advice to upload my photo through Photobucket. And it worked!

YAY!

And thus, I deleted the original post. But duh! I should have left it up since many of you emailed me saying you were having the same problem. So here’s the solution! (until Blogger gets it fixed)….

* upload your photo/header to Photobucket. If you don’t have an account, set up one for FREE. You need this to obtain a direct link (an html address) for your photo. Now you might think you can do this through sites such as flickr, etc. But it doesn’t seem to work. Photobucket is the answer.

* Copy the direct link from Photobucket, go back to blogger, and when uploading your header, paste the direct link in the “from the web” box, instead of uploading “from my computer””.
Wait for the image thumbnail to load, hit Save, and you should be set!

Thank you Blogger for giving us free blogs…..and for teaching us how to jump through hoops. You’re the reason I’ve learned anything about html and how to all of your settings to fit my needs.

Hopefully this helps a few of you!