Blogger Templates For Your Home Business?
June 24, 2008 by Glenn
When it comes to choosing a template for our home business blog, blogspot makes it quite simple. Personally I like to keep my sites and therefore templates on the easy to read side. This does not appeal to everyone though.
In order to choose our template within the blogspot site, we first need to login to the site. There are several ways to do this, the first one is to just goto blogger.com and sign in.
From here we will see the dashboard showing you the blog that you’ve created. From this window we can click on, make a new post. We can manage Posts, Settings and Layout.
When we click on the layout tab, we will want to select “Pick New Template.” From here we can choose from the many templates that are already in they blogspot system.
The template style I prefer is called Minima which is the first one that appears in the top corner. The important thing is to choose the template you like. “Don’t forget to save your settings once you’ve picked a template!”
Once we’ve chosen the blog template we like we can then proceed to the Settings tab. Under this tab you’ll notice that we have many different options to choose from, we’ll start with the Basic tab.
Most of it is pretty self explanatory. Think of a great title, and remember to brand yourself as well. After you’ve made your changes, again save them!
The next tab Publishing under Settings we should not have to mess with this.
The next tab Formatting, has a few items that you may want to change based on your personal preferences. The first one “Show” as it indicates will set the number of posts that you want to show on your index page.
Personally I don’t like pages that take anymore then 3 clicks in the side bar to get to the bottom. So depending on the length of your posts will determine how many posts I would show on the main page.
Hopefully by now you have though about the theme you want your blog to convey to your readers.
Google has many useful tools that we can implement with blogger, yet it is not the only service that has blogs. The integration with your gmail and other tools makes it quite unique though.
I’ve seen some pretty incredible blogs built with the system, yet you do give up some of the control that you have with other blog software like Wordpress or one of the many content management systems like Drupal.
On a difficulty level Blogger is of course one of the easiest unless you want to get into modifying a template then the difficulty level rises exponentially.
The good thing is that there are many websites and blogs that can address many of the challenges you may come across.
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