Information Technology Reference
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(read: break) some parts of your theme's design to improve browsing on mo-
bile devices.
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Use Descriptive URLs:
This is a smart option that embeds your keyword tags
within your URLs to help make your pages more search-engine-friendly. For
instance, Tumblr may change the URL for your post from just numbers to
something with a text summary such as
yoursite.tumblr.com/post/
12345/eating-cake
. Only private blogs may want to disable this feature.
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Promote Tumblr!:
Keep this option checked to have a Follow button added to
your blog so that non-Tumblr visitors can join Tumblr and start following
you.
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Add Custom CSS:
To add any custom CSS to style and position content on
your site, enter it here. You may also add CSS to the theme's code by clicking
the Edit HTML button at the top of the Customize page. For example, if you
want to override the current color for all
<p>
tags and make it orange, you'd
enter:
p {color: #FF9900;}
To modify the theme's code directly, click the Edit HTML button at the
top of the Customize Theme page. You can get the lowdown on this feature in the
section about editing a theme's HTML in Chapter 9.
3. When you've finished entering your Advanced settings, click the green Save but-
ton at the top of the page.
4. To close the Customize page and return to your Dashboard, click the Close but-
ton.
To see how your new theme and customized settings look, click your newly titled
Tumblr blog link at the top of the screen next to where it says Dashboard (or if you've
created more than one blog with the same e-mail address, select your blog by name
from the My Blogs menu icon); then click the Open link at the top of the sidebar. The
link opens your page in a new browser tab or window.
