How To: The New Blogger Template Designer

This is a short how to on how to use the new Blogger Template Design. My current template right now is from the new Blogger Template Designer - theres so many to choose from - 15 templates, hundreds of backgrounds, very easy to customize!  Here we go!

First go to www.draft.blogger.com

Notice the draft part. There is not difference between draft and normal kind of blogger, but draft includes all the cool new features like this one - the Template Designer. 

Now, you should be on the Blogger in draft: Dashboard. 

At the section, "Manage Blogs" click on the Layout button, which is between Settings and Monetize. 

Now look at the top, there is a button to the right of Pick New Template, called Template Designer. Click on that.

Now you should be at the Template Designer. There are 4 categories - Template, Background, Layout, and Advanced.

The templates are Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc., and Watermark.

Simple: There is a simple blue, simple orange, simple gray, a simple tanish colour, and a rough simple colour.

Picture Window: They have a nature blue one, a red one, and a rainy one.

Awesome Inc,: They have a Awesome Dark Gray, Awesome Light Gray, Awesome Orange, Awesome Green. (Thats the one I'm using)

Watermark: They have a oak - tan colour one with birds, a dark red one with a map, a light blue, and a pink.

Now click underneath Templates, which is Backgrounds.

At the window under Background image, there is a arrow, click it, and there is a list of backgrounds - HUNDREDS!

There are tons of backgrounds to choose from. And everything you click, there is a preview at the bottom.

The one I'm using right now is Awesome Inc - The Green One - with the water background which is listed at Beauty and Health. 

There are a lot of backgrounds to choose from.

Now when you're done - click Layout - which is under Background.

It's basically how you want your blog to be like - one column, two column, three column, etc. The light gray part of the picture is your blog posts, and the dark gray part is the gadgets.

Underneath Body Layout is Footer Layout and Adjust Width. You can play around with those settings. The preview is always underneath! :)

The last section is Advanced.

You can choose your fonts, colours, if you mess up at the advanced settings, click on the blue link, Clear advanced changes to page. And theres a "Remove Customizations" link.

At Page, you can edit the font, and the colour, there's actually quite a lot, you can play around with them! :D

Theres a lot of categories in Advanced: Page, Links, Blog Title, Tabs Text, Tabs Background, Date Header, Post Title, Gadget Text, Gadget Background, Images, Feed Links, and lastly, Add CSS.

Theres a lot of options in each of those categories.

Well that's about it - I want to see if you can come up with anything good. I hope your new template will be better than mine! :)

BYEEE!!!!!!