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Hello! My name is Priscilla. The contribution I have made to the blog was changing the display and default layout of the blog. I chose a photo for the background which seemed very appropriate for our blog theme as it shows books with Social Media Logos on the front cover. I also explored the advanced settings and gadgets that came with the layout, such as adding a translator gadget at the top left sidebar to let readers translate our blog posts to other languages and exploring with fonts.

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