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How can I change my blogger template?

I have been blogging pretty happily at Blogger.com for a while, but now I have decided it's time for a bit of a facelift, and I've heard that Blogger just added a bunch of new templates. Nice! How do I get to the template setting and change my appearance?


Dave's Answer:

Blogger actually has a pretty simple interface once you remember to pay attention to all of the different tabs on the screen. Let me show you how I change my template and you'll see how to do it on your own blogger account too.

First, log in and get to your Dashboard. It'll look like this:

Blogger Dashboard: Blogs

Click on the little machine wheel / cog icon (it's under "CHANGE SETTINGS") on the blog you'd like to change. The top of the subsequent screen will have the following set of tabs:

Blogger Settings

Click on "Template", and you'll see three options: Edit current, AdSense and Pick new. You want the third of these options (though the other two are worth checking out at some point too!):

Blogger Pick Template

There are lots of templates here: scroll down and see all your choices before you make a decision on what you'd like to use. I dug around and decided that Scribe was a good choice, so I clicked on "Use This Template" immediately below it:

Blogger Templates: Scribe

You then get a warning:

Blogger Template Change Warning

I'm okay with this as I haven't made any changes to my existing template, so I click "OK" and my settings are successfully changed:

Blogger Template Changes Saved!

Almost done. Just click on "Republish" and watch the pretty spinning icon:

Blogger: Publishing in progress

Before you know it, your weblog and all its individual pages will be magically rebuilt and your whole blog will look totally different!


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Categorized: Blogs and Blogging   (Article 6759, Written by )
Tagged: blog templates, blogger, blogger.com, customizing blogs
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Reader Comments To Date: 7

panamma said, on September 15, 2008 12:17 AM:

Hi
I want to 1) change the background color where the center and border are different colors ( custom colors not on the list they give you) The current template does not allow me to change these things 2) change the size of my header photo. 3) edit the size of images i upload. Currently, it seems to be pretty random, some large, some small, never what I want. And the only 'editing' you can do is keep it or delete it.
do I need HTML and CSS? I hate my blog help!

chonsom said, on July 29, 2009 11:46 PM:

i think it's just simple,if you know html or css

Jignesh said, on June 5, 2010 3:35 PM:

Great post on how to change template.

I have understood quickly by seeing screen shot.

That helped me...

thanks

Donald Nitkin said, on July 29, 2010 8:49 PM:

"Click on the little machine wheel / cog icon"
I don't have this icon on my dashboard.I also don't have a TEMPLATE tab. What is wrong?

Kewell said, on August 11, 2011 8:43 PM:

Good content, it gave me a very good solution.
Thanks for sharing.

Donald said, on August 17, 2011 7:57 AM:

Is it old version? i'm not found this menu.
Tell me, please. Thanks.

Sopa said, on August 31, 2011 10:52 PM:

Thank you very much for blogger's direction.
Follow next your article.

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