If you use Blogger, you’re going to see some changes. There is now a new Template Designer, as seen above.
There’s all sorts of things you can now do with your template to customize your blog. You can select a variety of templates, images, colors and column layouts.
This will be fun to play with.
Then in Background (see photo above, far left) once you’ve chosen a template, you can change the way it looks.
One of the best new features of the Template Designer is the ability to change the color of your background image. This is possible when a background image has transparency. You can tell the background image is transparent because it will have a checkerboard in the top right hand corner of the image.
Once you’ve selected your image, you can then change the color of the background by clicking on Main Color Theme and then selecting a color. You can only change the color of your background if it is transparent.
In Layout, you have new choices as well. You can choose from a variety of layout options, from one to three columns. Hey, that’s pretty exciting! These layouts feature drag and drop functionality for gadgets. You will also have a variety of layout options for your blog footer also.
If you want to add or remove gadgets, or edit the settings, you can’t do this through Blogger Template Designer. You have to do this on the general Layout tab.
You can now change the width of your blog. And also the right and left columns, by dragging the slider for the different parts of the blog layout. Note that the options you will see correspond to the type of layout you choose. For example, if you chose a blog with left and right columns, you will see both left and right sliders. If you chose a blog with only a left column, you will that only that option.
I haven’t played with this yet. Just looked up all the information. I’ll fiddle around with it over the weekend.
Another thing I want to bring up in Blog Talk is the Comment Verification. Everyone knows by now how much I hate to type in those little numbers and letters. Yet I also understand your worries about wanting to keep spam at bay.
I for one have been blogging for over two years, and have never enabled Word Verification or Comment Moderation. If I ever have to do anything, I will opt for Comment Moderation. Then this takes the work off you and puts it on me, which I think is only fair.
I’m saying this because I think Blogger automatically enables Word Verification when you start a new blog. Because most every new blog I run across has it enabled. If you decide to try not having the Word Verification enabled, you must go to Settings, then Comments. Then scroll down. You’ll see Comment Moderation and down further, Word Verification. If you want to try turning it off, you indicate this by checking that box, then saving your Settings.
I will freely admit that when I find a new blog and type a comment, then see that I have to type in Word Verification, I inwardly groan. I am much more likely to be a reader if I can skip this step. Just being honest here.
Blogger has a delete bucket next to comments if there is a comment you choose not to have on your blog. It is as easy as that. I personally have only had to do this a couple of times.
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