Template designer

Q:  I can't seem to find a place where I can easily change the font style of my blog description. How?
A: To change font under Advanced tab in template designer, you have to specify exactly which text you wish the font to change. It is not possible to change the font for every text all at once. Select one of these: Page, blog title, blog description, tabs text, date header, post title, gadget tile, gadget text, etc

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The answer to your question

design>template designer>advanced>blog description>font

Pick a font style

Click [apply to blog] to save changes

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design>template designer>templates

The permutations are unlimited under the template designer. No one has been to every corner of the template designer yet. Also, not every choice of template has the same features offered. Some times you may need to change the whole template, just to get a special feature you want:

On Blogger, we have 27 different templates under design>>template designer

Simple              7
Picture window  3
Awesome inc    6
Watermark        4
Ethereal            3
Travel                4

You can change the background, layout, adjust widths, advanced, etc to give you a unique template, different from everyone else. To save all your changes, click "apply to blog". 

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Use a test blog

I would suggest starting a test blog and use that for finding your way around your blog:

On your dashboard, click [create a blog]. One Google account is good for 100 blogs

Here are my own test blogs: 

http://davidchin8888.blogspot.com/

http://davidchin88888.blogspot.com/

Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. If we only have the help forum, the learning process will become too slow. We will be spending too much time asking questions and waiting for answers on the help forum. This is a slow way of learning. A quicker method is by using a test blog to try out ideas for ourselves. This is especially useful when we go into the the design tab to change the template in 1001 ways and we do not wish to screw up our main blog permanently. A test blog is very expendable. Please try using one or two test blogs. I know what I know now because I use test blogs, several of them.

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=306e5795ccec1201&hl=en&fid=306e5795ccec12010004a9dd23d18f2c

Template background colour

Q: How do I add a solid background to the blog title and description?
A: Remove your header image and choose a light colour background:

design>template designer>backgrounds

The permutations are unlimited. No one has been to every corner of the template designer yet. Also, not every choice of template has the same features offered.

You can even decide to change the whole template, just to get some special feature:

design>template designer>templates 

I would suggest starting a test blog and use that for finding your way around your blog:

On your dashboard, click [create a blog]. One Google account is good for 100 blogs

Here are my own test blogs: 

http://davidchin8888.blogspot.com/

http://davidchin88888.blogspot.com/

Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. If we only have the help forum, the learning process will become too slow. We will be spending too much time asking questions and waiting for answers on the help forum. This is a slow way of learning. A quicker method is by using a test blog to try out ideas for ourselves. This is especially useful when we go into the the design tab to change the template in 1001 ways and we do not wish to screw up our main blog permanently. A test blog is very expendable. Please try using one or two test blogs.

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=42da481cd8273292&hl=en&fid=42da481cd82732920004a96f860248e3

Delete blog

Q: I have 4 blogs on my account, and I want to delete 3 of them. How do I delete a blog?
A: Deletion does not solve any problem in Blogger. It merely puts things out of your own reach. When you deleted an URL (blog address), it is locked for 90 days. You cannot re-use that URL.

Many new bloggers assume that deleting an item will make the problem go away. It doesn't. Your deleted blog will continue to haunt you for 90 days; some times for a much longer period. If the search engines already found and indexed your blog, a cached copy will remain for months on Google servers.

It is much better to change your unwanted blogs into stub blogs, removing all personal details, photos and posts on it. This way you retain control over all your blogs. Here is my stub blog: http://davidchin88.blogspot.com

Better still, change it into a test blog and use it to try out new ideas. Here is my test blog: http://davidchin8888.blogspot.com

but if you insist...

delete blog
Sign on using your ID and password here: www.blogger.com
Go to dashboard and click on:
1. settings
2. basic
(under "blog tools" you have 3 options. One of them is "delete blog")
3. delete blog
4. delete this blog


You are now on your own...


source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=1b6ea27b8606ec86&hl=en&fid=1b6ea27b8606ec860004a5a23b28d28d

This help forum is useless

Q: This help forum is pretty useless. Why aren't there easy, straight forward answers that even a child could understand?
A: 1. Experiment first with a test blog. 
Here is mine: http://davidchin8888.blogspot.com

Perhaps that is what you need to do now: start a test blog. It is free. Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. If we only have the help forum, then blogging will become too slow. We will be spending too much time asking questions and waiting for answers. This is a slow way of learning, especially for those with a steep learning curve.
2. Help someone else with their problems and in the process learn something new yourself. Try your hand also at posting answers rather than only questions on this help forum. Here are the answers I have posted on this forum: http://davidchin342.blogspot.com I have learned a lot just by looking for the answers for other bloggers. I recorded all the answers on this blog so that I do not have to look again. Perhaps you can find answers to all your questions. Please use the label list in the side bar.

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=51b88067b7307cb9&hl=en

Test blog

Q: Why can I not move my photos around?
A: Every one else can move their photos around because they tried it first on a test blog. Here is mine: http://davidchin8888.blogspot.com You may take a peek, if you like.

1. Experiment first with a test blog. Perhaps that is what you need to do now: start a test blog. It is free. Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. If we only have the help forum, then blogging will become too slow for some people. We will be spending too much time asking questions and waiting for answers. This is a slow way of learning, especially for those with a steep learning curve.
2. Help someone else with their problems and in the process learn something new yourself. Try your hand also at posting answers rather than only asking questions on this help forum. 

Just in case you do have some more questions like this one; but do not wish to start a test blog, please hover your mouse over my name and click on [FAQ & answers]. Click on "photos" or any label in my labels list. I also have answers for your next 20 questions! If you cannot find the answer there, refer to my blog list at the bottom of the page. We have just found another way of learning about blogger blogs: learn from others who know about blogs; no need to reinvent the wheel. When you have no more questions to ask, read the other answers on the help forum which are marked in green [Best Answer]. These are worth reading.

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=544c0321c16451f1&hl=en&fid=544c0321c16451f10004a03255484326

Posting picture neatly

Q: How do you post pictures neatly?
A:

1. Experiment first with a test blog. Perhaps that is what you need to do now: start a test blog. It is free. Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. If we only have the help forum, then blogging will become too slow. We will be spending too much time asking questions and waiting for answers. This is a slow way of learning, especially for those with a steep learning curve.
2. Help someone else with their problems and in the process learn something new yourself. Try your hand also at posting answers rather than only questions on this help forum. 

Just in case you do have some more questions like this one, please hover your mouse over my name and click on [FAQ & answers] and click on sticky post in my labels list. I also have answers for your next 50 questions! If you cannot find the answer there, refer to my blog list at the bottom of the page. We have just found another way of learning about blogger blogs: learn from others who know about blogs; no need to reinvent the wheel. When you have no more questions to ask, read the other answers on the help forum which are marked in green [Best Answer]. These are worth reading.

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=66702a3db22eb61d&hl=en

Designing a unique blog

Q: How do I make my blog look different from others?

A: On blogger, we have 27 different templates under design>>template designer

Simple              7
Picture window  3
Awesome inc    6
Watermark        4
Ethereal            3
Travel                4

You can change the background, layout, adjust widths, advanced, etc to give you a unique template different from everyone else. To save all your changes, click on "apply to blog". Blogging is really a personal journey of discovery. I would strongly suggest that you create a test blog to try using the features offered in the template designer. Here is a tutorial:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176245

You can further add gadgets to your blog to make it look even more outstanding.

Add gadgets
Dashboard>>design>>add a gadget.
You will see all the gadgets listed under 4 categories:
Basics (23)
featured (15)
most popular (4)
more gadgets (1638) 

However, please remember that visitors are attracted to come back to your blog because of the quality and quantity of the posts, not so much because of its appearance.