Tuesday 24 July 2012

Modify Your Blogger Template Design

Most bloggers who are new to blogging face trouble finding a good template for their blog. Introducing third party template may lead to complication which will be difficult for beginners to handle. It is better to use the In built template designer in blogger . The template designer allows you to control almost every feature on you blog. You can change the layout, control the widths of sidebar and the page, change background color or apply a background image. You can change the text color ,font and size of your post or any page on your blog. Changing the text size or font of a page or post is directly not possible. Template designer also allows to change the link color and the hover color with extra control of your images. You can add CSS style yourself using template designer. This article gives an overview of how to use template designer to make your blog more presentable. 

You can access template designer by going to layout from the sidebar of your blogger interface. You will see "Template Designer" written at the top of your page. Click it and a new window will open .There are five major categories that you will see , that are as follow.P64QEUZJBBKZ



1-Templates 
2-Adjust Widths 
3-Background
4-Layout
5-Advanced


Templates

The templates option simply allows you to choose the template for your blog. It has further four categories. 
  • Dynamic
  • Simple
  • Picture Window
  • Awesome Inc
Explore through these categories an you will explore new templates. There are some real good templates.

Background

Background option allows you to choose the background image for your blog. This option is effective when you keep the width of your blog page is little smaller meaning the blogger page doesn't covers the whole browser window. You can choose images from categories already present or upload a new image from your computer. If you do not want to use a image as background ;  any color can be set as background color. Choosing the background is explained below.

Adjust Widths

This option allows you to change the widths of your whole blog. It also allows to change the widths of your sidebars depending on the layout you have selected.



Layout

Layout option simply allows you to choose two he layout for your blog. It has two further options body layout and footer layout. As the name suggests body layout allows you to choose the layout of the body while footer layout allows you to select the appearance of the webpage at the bottom.

Advanced

Advanced Tab is the most comprehensive option. It has a lot of further options that are as follow.

1-Page Text
2-Backgrounds
3-Links
4-Blog Title
5-Blog Description
8-Post Title
9-Date Header
10-Post Footer
12-Images
13-Mobile Button Color
14-Add CSS

Page Text

You can choose the default font , size and color for every post and page on your blog. Once you set it to your requirements you will not have to every time change the font.

Background

Backgrounds have further three options  main background, header background and outer background.
Header background color allows you to choose the color for the background where your blog title appears.Main background is the background color of your whole blog.

Links 

Links option allows you to choose the color in which your link should appear and the hover color of your blog. 

Blog Title

Allows you to choose the font, color and size of your blog title.

Post Title

Choose the color of every post title you publish and select the font from here.

Date Header

Choose the color and the background color for you date to appear.

Post Footer

Footer is the portion where the comments and posted by appears.Choose the text color and the background color of the footer on your blog below every post.

Images

Choose the border color and the background color for every image you add to your blog.

Add CSS

You can add your created CSS style to your blog using this option . But be careful using this ; use it only if you know CSS.

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