Wednesday, 6 March 2013

How to choose and install a blogger template

Google’s Blogger is one of the most popular free platforms for writing blogs. The popularity of Google’s blogger is owing to the presence of its multiple features and as well as Google’s heavy weightage. Thus, if you have fascination for writing, you have the blogger platform to let the whole world know your writing skill. The advantage of using blogger is that it will always be given preference by google, when someone searches for some information.



Along with many other features, google’s blogger has come up with plethora of blogger templates. Apart from Google’s own templates, you can opt to download blog template available at many websites. Many templates are available for free and some are available at cost. You can download blog template from any of these websites.

 

Once, you download it, go to the design mode of your blog. On the left-hand side menu, click on “Template” and then click on “BackupRestore” on the right hand corner.


Blogger Template

Click on “Download Full Template”, to download your template. This can be used, if something is messed up during the installation process. Now click on “choose file” and select your downloaded template. Now your new template should be installed.


 

Choosing a blogger template – When choosing a blogger template, you may check few options.


 

Style – Most of the websites including Google’s blogger templates are categorized in different styles. You may want to choose the most appropriate for your kind of blog. For example, you can see Templates based on Travel in blogger. That may not suit to your blog. So you may have to spend good time to find out a suitable style, which matches to your blog.


 

Color – Color is very important. Your subject and color walk hand in hand. For example, it is inappropriate to choose a black color for a kid’s website.


 

Columns – Once you select your style and color, concentrate on the organization of the template. You need to decide on the number of columns, you want for your blog. 1 column blogger template means that you have the original contents in place. 2 column blogger template means that you have a side bar and so on.


 

For the premium blogger templates, you may have sliding photos, designed tab and many other features. So, if you have any special need, you may have to search the webs quite a bit.


 

You can download blog template from some of the websites listed below for your easy reference


 

BTemplates (http://btemplates.com/) : One of my favourite websites for free blogger templates. This website has blogs categorized in column 1, column 2 etc. It has approximately 4360 blogger templates.


 

Besttheme (http://besttheme.net/category/blogger-template/) : This has around 65 free blogger templates in stock


 

Bloggermint (http://www.bloggermint.com/tag/blogger-templates/) : It contains both free and as well as premium blogger template.


 

Makingdifferent (http://www.makingdifferent.com/search/label/Templates) : This website has responsive template. A responsive template is a template, which changes its size according to the screen size of the device.


 

Hongkiat(http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-free-beautiful-blogger-templates-part-iii/) : A good website for blogger templates.

No comments:

Post a Comment