When you first create a blog you are given the choice to select between various ready-made themes to setup your blog with. The problem with that is that most of the Internet users have got really bored of them because you see them everywhere.
Most people for some reasons, beyond me, do not change them. This ends up in half the blogs out there using the same themes. You want your blog to be unique, you do not want it to look like every other blog. In addition, ready-made blogger templates found on your control panel use only one column. What if you need two or more columns? What if you you need side panels on the left and on the right of screen? Default blogger templates cannot help you there.
Changing or editing your blog theme is fairly easy (or dead easy when using ready-made templates that you downloaded off the internet). When you are at any of your control panel's pages, click on the “Layout” tab. Then, clicking on edit HTML presents you with your current template's code.
The format followed by most templates is the same: At the top you have your CSS elements corresponding to the various components on screen(such as the posts, the lists etc) and at the bottom you have your template's structure in HTML. Inside the code you will find some blogger specifc tags, but do not be worried, because they are not too many and it is easy to understand what they do.
From the same page you can upload new templates that you find around the internet. Before any major changes though, make sure to save your template. If anything goes wrong you do not want to start all over gain. It is very important to note, though, that when you change your template you loose all the elements in your blog. For example, if you added an element holding links and you change your template this list will be gone. So, make sure you note everything dow and back up what you can.
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The template is a very important aspect of you blog. It helps your readers identify it. It makes it unique and stand out from the crowd. You want your blog to have personality and even though your posts are that count in that, the template is not to be ignored.
