Blogger
Template Designer
Blogger Template Designer is
a new way for you to easily customize the look of your blog. You can select a
variety of templates, images, colors, and column layouts to make your blog an
expression of you. To get to the Template Designer, just click on the drop-down
menu of the gray Post List icon, and select Template. From there,
you'll be able to choose and customize your template.
As you play around with the Template
Designer, you’ll see a preview of how the blog will appear based on the choices
you’ve made, which you can expand to by pressing the toggle to Expand
Preview between the Blogger Template Designer dashboard and the
preview. When you’re satisfied with the look of your blog, you can make them go
live by pressing Apply to Blog in the top right hand corner of
the Template Designer.
To get started with Blogger
Template Designer, select a template for your blog from one of the
professionally designed templates that are available. Each template appears as
a large thumbnail that when clicked will show different variations on the
template below that you can select by clicking on them. Note that clicking a
new template will erase any customizations you’ve made on a previous template.
Once you’ve chosen a template,
you can continue customizing the look of your blog.
No matter what template you are
previewing in Template Designer, you can always see what is currently live on
your blog by looking at the Live on Blog thumbnail in the
Template Designer control panel. You can also click on it to reset the template
in the Template Designer to the live version of your blog.
Background
Even though you’ve chosen a
template, you can still change the way that it looks. Using Blogger Template
Designer, you can choose the background color or image for your blog and then
play with the color scheme. To start customizing your background, click on the
thumbnail under Background Image.
One of the best new features of
Template Designer is the ability to change the color of your background image.
This is possible when a background image has transparency. You can tell that a
background image is transparent because it has a checkerboard in the top right
hand corner of the image.
Once you’ve selected your image,
you can change the color of the background by clicking on Main Color
Theme and then selecting the color of your choice.
You can only change the color of
your background if the background is transparent. Also, if the template that
you chose has a grey background, you cannot change its color.
In addition to selecting and
personalizing your blog’s background image, you can also choose a color theme
to apply to aspects of your blog, including text and links. You can do this by
playing with the Main Color Theme or by choosing one of our Suggested
Themes. Changing the color theme of your blog will change the colors for
all aspects of the blog template that can be changed.
Note: If background image is not
transparent, themes will alter the text color scheme of the blog
For information on uploading your
own custom background image, please see our article on adding custom CSS to your blog.
Layout
You can choose a variety of
layout options for your blog, from one to three columns. These layouts feature
drag and drop functionality for gadgets. You will also have a variety of layout
options for the blog footer as well.
If you want to add or remove
gadgets or edit gadget settings, you cannot do this through Blogger Template
Designer. Rather, you have to do this on the general Layout tab.
Adjust Width
You can change the width of the
blog, and the right and left columns by dragging the slider for the different
parts of blog layout. Note that the options you see here correspond to the type
of layout that you chose. If, for example, you chose a blog with left and right
columns, you will see both left and right column sliders. If, however, you
chose a blog with only a left column, you will only see that option here.
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