When creating your own blog website, it's important that you make it look attractive, eye-catching and unique. Your blog’s content should be well organized and easy to navigate so that users can easily access it. For creating a blog template, you will need to choose among the several blogger templates available online. BlogSpot or Blogger is one of the most popular blog websites hosted by Google that offers a large number of template designs.
Creating new Blogger templates has always been a complicated task especially for those who don’t know how to work with HTML language, tags and script. However, this is not a concern as they can easily choose professionally designed default blog templates provided by Blogger. Customizing the look of your blog template will give your blog a unique appearance and make it different from other generic blogs.
This tutorial will give you a step-by-step guide on how to customize a Blogger template to your blog. This process depends upon several factors including the quality of the code used in the blog template and existing widgets etc., so you need to be careful while customizing your template.
Blogger offers Template Designer tool that is a new and easy way to customize the look of your blog. You can choose a variety of templates, layouts, images and color combinations to make your blog look attractive.
To customize your default template with Blogger’s Template Designer, do follow these steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard and click design link to launch ‘Template Designer’. Then click the Template Designer tab, here you will see five sections and choose the first one that is your Templates section.
2. Select a template for your blog. Each template appears as a large thumbnail that will show you different deviations on the bottom of template after clicking. Each template layout provides alternative colour palettes and here you can select your template to use, and move to the next step.
3. After this step, click the ‘Background’ tab, and then click on the arrow next to the thumbnail of an existing template image that will redirect you to Select ‘Background Image’ window.
4. Click the left side tab of the ‘Select Background Image’ window in order to choose a different image theme, and select the image which you want then click done.
5. Now click the ‘Adjust Widths tab’ and here you can use the sliders to adjust the entire blog and right sidebar widths.
6. Click ‘Layout tab’ and select your blog layout.
7. Click ‘Apply Blog’ button at the top right.
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