As more and more friends and colleagues set up blogs, it becomes harder to distinguish between so many identical looking pages. While the default Blogger templates are generally attractive, they have now been used so many times that anything written on one automatically looks generic.
A good template should, above all, be clear and readable. Next, it helps for it to look stylish and professional as well. While it is beyond the means of most beginner bloggers to create their own template, there are masses available to be downloaded for free. Regardless of whether you use Blogger, WordPress, or something else, changing your template is a quick way to make your blog more distinctive and memorable.
If you want to see the snazziest of templates (though many are more beautiful than usable), have a look at Zen Garden.
Listed below are a few places where decent, free templates can be picked up. Dozens more can be found in less than a minute, through Google.
For Blogger:
You can easily find instructions online on how to change your Blogger template. One thing to note: because Blogger generates every page of your blog in advance, before they are requested, you will need to republish the whole blog before the template will appear everywhere.
For WordPress:
- Theme Viewer on WordPress.net
- GFXedit.com
- WordPressTheme.com
There are so many such sites, and they are so easy to find, that it is almost pointless to list them. Instructions for changing WordPress themes are likewise easily available.
If you are using a system other than Blogger or WordPress, Google and ye shall find. You can also find some basic tutorials on customizing a template that you find, so as to make it individualized. Here is an example.
While you may not like it as a platform, it is worth pointing out that there are LiveJournal templates, as well.
The Beccary WordPress themes are also very good: elegant and accessible.
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