Great Blogger Templates at Our Blogger Templates

blog-building tips and advice, with Renzie Baluyut.

There must be a lot of other bloggers out there like me- those who may have also spent a great deal of time trying on different blog templates for their Blogspot blogs.

It's both a good thing AND a bad thing: editing your blog template on Blogspot is fairly easy. Whether you make your own, or you choose one of many available free (or paid) blog templates already online, you can go right ahead and pick whatever design that suits your fancy.

Conversely, because it's so easy to customize a blog, you could just as easily lose yourself in selecting a template for your site. Or fall into the trap of changing every so often.

In any case, if you are looking around for a new blog template, you may consider these guys over at Our Blogger Templates. They got all kinds of free templates (and not just for Blogspot), so go right ahead and check them out.

In fact, I had gone right ahead picking one out for this blog, and a couple others. This one is for an old blog I plan to resurrect soon.

This one is for an entirely new blog. Generally, I'd say I'm pretty happy with how it all looks.

I almost always go for a 3-column design, with room for widgets on the side, and then put in some RSS feeds so I don't have to keep jumping from one site to another on a particular topic.

So go right ahead and check out Our Blogger Templates. They have so much going on that there's bound to be one you'd absolutely like for you blog.

Cheers, everyone.

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Resources for Blogs: BlogCrowds

I suppose it is no secret that I've been trying out all these different kinds of templates on my other blog projects.

The usual templates provided by Blogger is alright- but as I may have mentioned before, it seems that I have a preference for 3-column templates.

Now, there area a lot of sites out there- both free and paid- which features quite a number of the 3-column templates that I like, and a lot other templates. The problem is that when you start loading the .XML template file, or pasting the template file onto the existing one, more often than not, Blogger displays a variety of error messages, end result being- you find yourself unable to load that smashing new 3-column template you found.

And it does get rather frustrating after the first several tries, really. At least until Blogger fixes this nuisance altogether.

Of course, you have the option of learning how to make a template yourself. I probably could, but I'd really rather spend more time churning out blog entries than making templates on my own- but maybe much later on, who knows?

Thank goodness persistence pays off: I stumbled onto Blogcrowds. On top of the new templates they've been offering, they also have lots of useful tips, widgets and other goodies for bloggers- all bloggers, for that matter- whether begginer, intermediate or even advanced.

Nothing too fancy, really. In fact a lot of them are just the usual Blogger templates, only expanded from 2-columns to 3-column deals. As far as I'm concerned, they loaded easily enough (just take away all your previous widgets before previewing or making final changes- you can slap them back on later anyway), and they look great! And I'm already sporting them on my other blog projects.

So go check it out. I'm sure there's something in there you'd like. If it's working templates you're looking for, you can get them here.

Cheers!

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