How to Customize a Google Blogger Template

How to Customize a Google Blogger Template

• Go to your Blogger Dashboard and launch the Template Designer by clicking the Design link. Then click the Template Designer tab. The Template Designer has five sections, and the first one that appears here is the Templates section.
• Choose a base theme to modify by scrolling through the thumbnails and clicking a thumbnail to preview the theme. Scroll through the existing template designs and click various thumbnails to preview the theme on your blog on the bottom half of the screen. There are more selections here than when you first set up your blog. Each template layout also has alternative color palettes. When you’ve chosen a template to use, click it and move on to the next step.
• Click the Background tab, and then click the arrow next to the thumbnail of the existing background image. The Select Background Image window appears.
• Click a tab along the left side of the Select Background Image window to choose a different image theme, and select the image you want. Click Done when you’re satisfied.
• Click the Adjust Widths tab and use the sliders to change the Entire Blog and Right Sidebar widths. For best browser compatibility, keep the width of your Entire Blog at or under 930 pixels. If you want to add advertising to your sidebar, you will want to make sure that the Right Sidebar is at least 300 pixels wide.
• Click the Layout tab and select your blog layout. Blogger has several pre-determined layouts that you can choose from. These will adjust how many sidebars you have, where your sidebars will appear, and how many sections you want in your blog footer.
• Click the Apply to Blog button at the top right. Your changes are now live on your blog.

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How to Install a Google Blogger Template

How to Install a Google Blogger Template

Here’s how to install a Blogger template you’ve downloaded from another site:

1. Log in to Blogger, and on your Blogger Dashboard, click the Design link.
2. Click the Edit HTML tab.
3. Click the Download Full Template link and save it to your computer.
   Make a note of the file name and where you saved it in case you need it later!
4. Unzip the template file you downloaded from another site.
5. Back on the Edit HTML page, click the Choose File button.
6. Navigate to where you saved the unzipped files on your computer, and double-click the one that ends in .xml.
7. Click the Upload button.

If you already have some existing widgets on your Blogger blog, you may get a warning message asking whether you want to keep them or delete them. If you want to preserve the work you’ve done before, click the Keep Widgets button. If you don’t need them anymore, click the Delete Widgets button.

When the upload is complete, you get a message at the top of the page that says Your Changes Have Been Saved.

  8.  Click the View Blog button to ensure that your blog looks the way you want it to          look.

You may have to remove or move some page elements in order to get the template to display properly.

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