New! Add text, HTML, and images to your header and footer.

Yes, you read right! I just added this feature, and redesigned the footers to use the same color schemes as the headers. To add text or HTML to your header, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your Thripp.com account.
2. From your blog, click Design > Widgets in the toolbar above the header.
3. Click the drop-down box that defaults to “1: Sidebar.” Select “2: Header,” then click Show.
4. Look for the widget “Text: Arbitrary text or HTML” in the list on the left. Click Add.
5. In the blue box that appears on the right, click “Edit” and then type whatever text or HTML you want.

For your footer, do the same except select “3: Footer” in step 3. You can also add text to your sidebar (this has been available since the beginning) by skipping step 3.

The text or HTML you enter will appear below your blog’s title in the header, or for the footer, below the normal footer text. You can use links and HTML and images too. If you don’t know HTML, links look like this:

<a href=”http://thripp.com/”>Click here to go to Thripp.com</a>

Images look like this:

<img src=”http://thripp.com/someimage.jpg” alt=”Thripp.com” />

And image links are this:

<a href=”http://thripp.com/”><img src=”http://thripp.com/someimage.jpg” alt=”Thripp.com” /></a>

I used Thripp.com for this example, but you can replace the link in the a href tag and the image in the img src tag with whatever you’d like.

You can also add any of the sidebar widgets to your header or footer, but that’s an unsupported feature. It won’t look good because the widgets are designed for the narrow width of the sidebar.

Check out an example of the header text at Daytona State College News. I also have a notice on this development blog for now.

This is a feature I’ve been using on Brilliant Photography for a while, but I wanted to make it available to the community. Unfortunately I can’t let you replace your blog’s name with a banner like I do, but you can add a banner below with HTML in the text widget. Enjoy!