Better themes for your blogger page! Really!!

              If you have been on blogger for more than a while, you would have noticed that blogger doesn't actually have the best themes as compared to other blogs, wordpress, for instance. Still, you've been loyal to blogger but always had this feel that "what If my blog page looked cooler"...

Fret not, for there are a huge number of third party designers who have been making really nice themes for your blogger page. Most of the themes resemble or have been ported from Wordpress themes, so guaranteed these themes will re-kindle that fresh feel you had on day 1 of your blog.

Follow the step by step instructions below for totally revamping your blog page

#1 Browse for themes
      Here's a list of websites that I recommend personally. Good collections of XML based themes (instructions below) , neatly organized into categories.
                                  http://www.bloggerthemes.net/
                                  http://templates.bloggertricks.com/
Just download their Zip/Rar theme files and continue reading.

#2 Backup
     Now that you have downloaded a theme of your choice to your desktop, lets backup the current blog. Head over to your dashboard, choose Layout -> Edit Html
Its very important that you backup everything by clicking on Download Full Template. See screenshot below

And if you have been using widgets, make sure to make a note of them, as sometimes changing theme messes up the widget layout.

#3 Upload New theme
      Select Browse from the same page, navigate to the folder where you have saved your new unzipped XML theme. Choose the xml doc and click upload. Thats it!You should have the new theme codes in the edit Html canvas box.

#4 Edit the theme
     The theme usually comes with general setup. The following instruction is applicable for 99% of the blogger themes, so follow along.
In the html code, you should see something like

li class='navlinks' a href='YOUR LINK HERE'>Home
li class='navlinks' a href='YOUR LINK HERE'>page 2
li class='navlinks' a href='YOUR LINK HERE'>Contact me

Just replace the "Link here" with your blogger pages links and feel free to rename the tabs to whatever you wish. Just make sure the code is intact, i.e the XML patterns are left untouched.

#5 Add Widgets
     Now that your basic setup is ready, lets add some widgets. We are going to use native blogger widgets, which you can find in the "Page Elements" tab under the Layout menu (see screenshot on step#2) 
Add, config and arrange using drag drop methods and click save.

#6 Save and Preview
    All done!! Now hit that save button and view your revamped blog! Nice right? Leave comments below and a few screenshots of your new themed blog for all to see :)

   

Give ur blog a cool makeover!

Hello all,
      I found a bit of free time today and guess what, I decided to give my blog a total makeover. And here it is! Do you like it? Seems strangely unbelievable right? Wordpress isn't the only blog that has great themes. There's a little workaround to add themes to your vintage looking Blogspot (blogger) too! Stay tuned for tutorials on how to do it. And yeah, follow me on twitter for fast updates. Cheers!


Update: Tutorial for adding newer cooler themes for your blogger account 

Day 1 of a mighty long journey

Hey all,
     Today, I had a lot of stuff running through my mind. One of those which urged me to create a blog page which I sheepishly swear I will update it regularly to woo in readers ;)
So here it is, a blog with a pretty basic template and only ONE post. Since i didn't want this blog to be specifically tied up with one static topic, i've decided that I should write about a whole range of topics, categorizing them sequentially, of course!!  In case you happen to read this "Intro" post of mine, please do leave a feedback/comment/critique so I may improve, in-turn I'll get to know what you really want.
And yes, this blog would host topics like technology, tutorials, Must read news from the internet, hot finds as  starters.

Actually, I created this blog account in dec 2007 :p But rarely posted anything coz of my busy academic  schedule...yes India is strict in studies :( (lame excuse..? )

Finally, I will strive to keep this blog as exciting as the name "Superexcitinglyamazingblog" ;) and the road to a long journey begins tonight. Cheers!!

^_^