Blogspot New Feature: Design your own Blogger Template

by Priyanka Dalal on March 13, 2010

in Blogspot

This is a guest post by Priyanka, who writes at Priyanka Writing. If you like to write for Shoutmeloud, do read : Shoutmeloud revenue sharing program.

Recently Blogger introduced the Draft Blogger template maker option, I just checked it out and its very good! Without much knowledge in HTML or CSS it is possible to create some unique themes suited to the bloggers needs.

You have to go to draft.blogger.com page to start using this template maker. In the Layouts section you will see the option for Template Designer.

Starting themes

It gives the option to select from 4 basic themes, within these 4 themes there are still more options in different colors and designs.

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We can use some other custom theme or the default Blogger themes but they don’t have so many customizing options as these 4 have.

Background Image

Can be changed, with a large number of images.

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There are so many varieties that I almost did not miss the lack of ‘upload your own image’ option.

Layout

The entire layout of the blog can be chosen,

draftblogger3Footer layout can be modified and the width of the page, sidebar can be easily adjusted with scroll bars.

Advanced

The advanced settings lets us choose the font colors for title, headers and texts. It also lets us choose the tab color, background color and various other parameters.

There is also a CSS option here.

All in all its pretty awesome! Along with the Pages option that was introduced some time back, it is now possible to create some very funky templates, easily.

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1 Loudable March 13, 2010 at 15:22

Good feature for Bloggers on blogspot as they had limited options to customize their blog. Thanks for sharing Priyanka

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2 sajitharamod March 13, 2010 at 15:32

It is one of the most wanted feature that blogspot.com fans waiting for. Kudos to Priyanka for bringing it to the attention of shoutmeloud.com readers. Before editing your template, you must download full template of your blog. You may lose some of the javascript/html codes like Google analytics.

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3 Basant Singh March 13, 2010 at 15:34

Though I am using blogger I was not aware of this new feature. It looks good. Blogger is catching up with other platforms.

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4 siddharth March 13, 2010 at 16:54

This feature is too awesome . I used it . It is really nice and
And blogger is commited to have upload your own image option . it is their first priority now .
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogger-template-designer.html
@Basant singh
You may not know because it was released yesterday .

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5 Priyanka Dalal March 13, 2010 at 19:19

Thanks Loudable and Sajitha :) Its an awesome feature and has been released at a great time for me as I was looking for a way to make a small company website with theme customization, which is now very much possible using Blogger I find.

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6 kothapally Arun March 13, 2010 at 19:46

That’s a cool option.

The reason I like blogger is even a person totally ignorant in coding and other tech things he can have a great blog.

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7 Blogger Template Place March 13, 2010 at 19:52

it is new feature from blogger. So, anybody who want to make own design, but doesn’t know about HTML and CSS….can make it now.

Cheers

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8 Shahab khan March 14, 2010 at 02:19

Great move …atleast now blogspot users can also get some cool customizations in their themes.

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9 Anil Gupta March 14, 2010 at 15:28

One of the best feature that I love about blogger is how easy it is easy for newbies for to use it. And with new template designer, even newbies can customize their blog template to great extent with ease and without any programming knowledge

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10 chandan March 14, 2010 at 17:46

This is really very exciting new features by blogger. I listen about this new features yesterday.

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11 Erin Gilman March 14, 2010 at 20:34

I would be thrilled if not for the loss of google analytics, which is a complete disaster. For those of us who are serious about blogging the loss of google analytics by a company owned by google is unthinkable. I am at a lose for what to do now…

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12 idotkontji March 15, 2010 at 10:21

Have to try it now.. Thx for sharing…

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13 Anup March 15, 2010 at 10:32

Now, it’s easy to use. We can now design a template with out not much knowledge. Thanks to Blogger :)

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14 Arshid Shahul March 29, 2010 at 17:45

It is so awesome. Creating professional looking themes with blogger is so easy now. After the release of page creation and this new theme templates, I personally prefer Blogger to WP now.

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