Thursday, October 1, 2009

Change your Blogger template

If you are not happy with the range of templates offered on Blogger, go to the Blogger Templates site. You can browse the categories and choose the template you like best.

Here is a little how to:
  • click on the image of the template you like
  • click on 'download' and when the 'file download' box pops up, click on SAVE
  • choose the location where you want to save the zipped file and click SAVE
  • find the location where you saved the zipped file and 'unzipp' it.
  • On Blogger, click on 'Layout' and then click on 'Edit HTML'
  • next to 'Upload a template from a file on your hard drive' click on 'Browse'
  • find your unzipped template folder, double click on it and highlight the .xml file and click on 'Open' and 'Upload'
  • Blogger will ask you to confirm the change to the new folder, click on 'Confirm and Save'
I made a little tutorial so you can see how it looks like when you actually do it:



Now you have a new template! But be aware that:
  1. one can't change the colors
  2. any widgets you previously had on your blog will be lost. You'll have to re-create them.

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