Giving Your Blogger Site a Facelift

Once you sign up Blogger and get your own blog, the next thing you'll want to do is change the look of your blog. Fortunately, a site called btemplates offers many free Blogger templates to try on your Blogger site. Here's the steps to follow to change the template of your blog.

1. Download the template you like. For this example, let's say we want to try Japanese Fleur. Save the template on the Desktop and extract it.
   
   
   
2. Go to www.blogger.com and log in. Click Layout next to the blog you want to change.
   
3. Click Edit HTML under Layout tab.
   
4. Click Download Full Template to first back up the current template.
   
5. Click Browse... and select japanesefluer.xml that was extracted from the downloaded archive. Click Upload.
   
6. If you are told some widgets are to be deleted, click "CONFIRM AND SAVE". Before doing so, make sure you write down your settings for widgets.
   
7. Upload image files in images(incase if you lost) folder to somewhere on the Internet. In Layout > Edit HTML section, edit the HTML codes so that every image file points to the correct location on the Internet. After modifying HTML codes, make sure to click SAVE TEMPLATE.
   
8. Check your blog to see if the blogger template was successfully applied.
   

Well, in retrospect, Japanese Fleur is a bad example that's hard to set up. I chose it because it's the second most downloaded. Anyway, I hope you at least understand the steps.