Today we’re taking a big first step in improving not just our template designs, but all the ways that you can customize the look and layout of your blog. We even made a video with jaunty music to show it off:
Here’s what we’re launching today to Blogger in Draft:
- 15 new, highly-customizable templates from our design team, split into four families: Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc, and Watermark
- One-, two-, and three-column layouts for each template, with complete control over the size and arrangement of the columns
- Hundreds of background images and patterns from iStockphoto, the leading microstock image marketplace
Go to http://draft.blogger.com/ to log in to Blogger in Draft. (If you’ve never been there before, Blogger in Draft is just like regular Blogger, except with new, in-development features like this one.) Click on your blog’s “Layout” link to go to the Layout tab. The link to the Template Designer is at the end of the row of sub-tabs.
You can use the live preview to see your new template without affecting your blog. When you find a new look that you’re happy with, just click the “Apply to Blog” button to publish it to the world. Note: You can backup your existing template ahead of time by going to Layout > Edit HTML. We recommend this if you have a customized blog design that you might want to go back to.
Classic template blogs: If you have a “Template” link or tab instead of “Layout,” you’ll first need to switch from Classic to Layouts before you can try out the Template Designer. Go to Classic > Customize Design and follow the instructions there. You’ll need to switch to one of our old templates first, but then you’ll be able to use the Template Designer to pick a new one.
Tips from the Blogger Team
- Get your links to match a background image quickly by using the Background panel’s “Main color theme” to adjust all of your blog’s colors at once. This works particularly well with Simple’s second design.
- With a three-column footer, you can fit in several gadgets to interest your readers after they’re done reading your post. For inspiration, read Derek Powazek’s post, “Embrace your bottom!”
- If you’re using our new Pages feature, put the Page List gadget in the wide section at the top of your blog. We’ve added unique tab designs to all of the new templates.
- Many of the patterns in the background image picker are semi-transparent, to let your blog’s background color show through. Look for the “transparency page curl” to see which patterns these are.
- The Attribution gadget (added to the footer by all new templates) is there to give credit not just to the designer and artist of the background image, but to you as well. Edit its settings by clicking “Edit” on Layout > Page Elements to add your own authorship or copyright information.
Get Involved
- Show off your new design on Twitter by tweeting your blog’s URL with the hashtag #newbloggertemplate. We’ll be looking for creative designs to feature in upcoming blog posts or as Blogs of Note.
- We’re taking feature requests. Let us know what else you’d like to see with our Google Moderator page. (And don’t worry: uploading your own background image is already filed and at the top of our list!)
- To report bugs or discuss the Template Designer in more detail, start a thread on our discussion forum. Include “Template Designer” in the subject so we’ll be sure to see it.
- Do you design templates for Blogger? Join our template designer group for documentation and discussion on working with the new templates, as well as details on how to get your designs into the Template Designer.
Miscellaneous Notes
- The Template Designer is not supported on Internet Explorer 6, nor, for that matter, are the new templates. While we’ve made an effort to ensure that they’ll still be readable, the new designs are not going to look particularly attractive on IE6. We strongly encourage the very small number of bloggers and readers still using IE6 to upgrade to a more modern browser. For more information about browsers, visit Google’s What Browser? site.
- The rounded corners and drop shadows used in several of the templates may not be visible in older versions of some browsers. Opera users will need to wait for Opera 10.5, currently in public pre-alpha release. IE7 and 8 users will not see these effects within the Template Designer, but will see most of them on the live blog itself.
- From within the Template Designer you can only move gadgets around, you can’t add, delete, or change their settings. Those features are still on the Layout > Page Elements page.
- Some gadgets, such as Poll, Reactions, or third-party Google Gadgets will not reflect color changes in the live preview but will after the template is applied. Others, such as Followers and AdSense, will not change colors automatically at all. It may be easiest to remove and re-add these gadgets to refresh their palettes, though you could also tweak the colors by hand by editing their settings.
- Customizations to widget templates will be cleared when applying a new template to preserve the new layout. If you have made changes to your widget templates, save them first by going to Layout > Edit HTML and clicking “Download Full Template.” You’ll be able to copy them back in as needed after you apply your new template.
530 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 530 Newer› Newest»I love this... how wonderful. Can't wait to try it.
WOW, looks great.
Kudos to the Blogger for this huge improvement
Wow! Great additions! I'm looking forward to checking them out for myself. Thanks so much!
Waw! Very very nice!
wow nice, thank you blogger
Ok, beautiful, very nice... but nowhere are my comments?
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Compulsivo
Wonderful news =]
Just wondering if we will see more designs added to the list soon..?
Looks really good and so simple. I cannot believe that I just bought Artiseer to do exactly the same thing!
Ohwwoooh... its very beautiful... u rock blogger
This is a great improvement! It's intuitive and easy to use. I think this addresses many of the issues Blogger users had with the layout. Hopefully it will rolled out to the 'normal' Blogger soon.
amazing !! this should and could be very useful in youtube,gmail,voice,wave !!! please re-vamp
Yay!!
great.
but useless if you have a highly customized template.
wonder if it will be possible some time to work on the customized template without losing information
That's simply owesome at all, But will be more happy if i see more Pro designs in the list but, its a good starting
amazing news!!!!! hope the next step will be about comment system :)
Nice, but the presentation goes too fast, turns into a lot of "visual noise" instead of informative features showcase.
This is awesome, all we need now is a way to store our scripts and enable us to use them in our templates, you know just a few MBs that is all.
or am I asking for too much?
I am very happy with the Blogger Template Designer is. I'll try it.
wow !
simply loving it.
Excelente!!!
probando y resulto esto: http://notriste.blogspot.com/
Can't preview my custom template. :/
Very Neat! I was just thinking that Blogger needed new templates. I hope that you will always keep the ability to edit all the HTML.
nice work, now I do it myself to modify blogger template
I joined the new "Blogger Designer Group"
Specialty in custom "Blogger Template SEO" code.
Is this enabled on Blogger Draft in Spanish?
That's a great, great thing!
Great job, gratulations!
Amazing !
I like it.
Have to try it.
Maybe a redesign of my blog?
I have visited the template designer i found it very experimental and flexible, I have just made my post about blogger template designer http://bloggerchamps.blogspot.com/2010/03/good-news-for-blogger-users-blogger-has.html And linked this post with my one
I'm enjoying experimenting but am wondering what happened to the stretch templates which worked on percentage terms? I've got an awful lot of blank space on my screen.
wonderful ideas
Uau! This is amazing!!!
Wow!
That's a huge evolution for Blogger! I'm gonna test it. It seems to solve some big problems I had with my design.
Thanks a lot!
Above in "Get Involved" you say; "We’re taking feature requests. Let us know what else you’d like to see with our Google Moderator page." But, already just a few minutes after this blog posting, the page says no longer taking requests.
I want to request a simple but fundamental page layout option for liquid (fluid) layout like wikipedia and some of your google sites template. so that the content of pages fills the browser viewport adjusting to the size of the browser without the static layout pixel size.
Thansk for the great new tool! Keep em coming google.
Love it!
Awesome! Too bad it nukes customized widgets, though. I hope that can be resolved at some point.
This is great! I've been looking around to see if there was an easy way to make my blog look better without having to be a programmer or spending a lot of money, so this is perfect! Thanks!
I'm excited about this. I just played with it for a few minutes and I know this is now going to take up a lot of my time! In a good way. Full blog nerd is coming out of me right now.
What could be better than this for Blogger users? I feel honored to be a Blogger user!! Thanks Blogger Team! Thanks Google!
hep birlikte deneyip görelim :-) thank you blogger!
Excellent! Have been trying it out on my personal blog. Many thanks!
ooh! i'm ESPECIALLY thrilled with the drag-and-drop, gadgets go exactly where i want them without having to fuss them into position or rearrange the whole column. JOY!
did have some issues in the advanced section, the options pane kept going blank (for example, say the 'post title' tab was selected; but nooo option tools would show, nothing) - i was able to work around it by switching to another section altogether (say, layout) and then coming right back to the advanced section: then the options would show. every time i wanted to switch to a different section within advanced, i had to select it, leave advanced, and then come back in order to have the selection tools showing for me.
other than that, everything is great! thank you so much for this. =)
Wow!
Finally. ... I like it.
AMAZING ! Wordpress is gonna die ;)
I absolutely love the idea and had fun playing with the settings but until I can upload my background picture this option will have stay on the shelf. [taps fingers] Can I do it yet? I can't wait!
very nice :)Bloggerden Yeni Özellik : Şablon Tasarımcısı
Great! Finally, I can do some designing with my own Blogger template :-)
wew its great.. so easy to customuze blogger template b...^_^...d
very nice !
Another thought. I'd really like to know more about which templates deliver the cleanest code in terms of fast loading. With a four year old blog with nearly 2,000 posts and a tendency to do heavy duty posts in terms of text and images I'd like the most efficient script possible.
Fancy script which slows my blog down does not interest me. Can we maybe have some sort of 'efficiency' rating for each of the templates so we know when functionality is losing out to style
Amazing
I think, it will kick Blogger Template Designer Blog ;)
DITTO to this request nade by Don Spark:
"I want to request a simple but fundamental page layout option for liquid (fluid) layout like wikipedia and some of your google sites template. so that the content of pages fills the browser viewport adjusting to the size of the browser without the static layout pixel size."
Absolutely essential.
thank you!
now u should focus on comment system !
everyne can comment through google / blogger/ twitter /facebook/ orkut / digg / disques/ intensedebate / i.e. 2 say from every profile a user can had ?
Why is the Document type is set to "null"?
My God, this is very wonderful... no reason not to try.... thanks.
nice, very helpful
Awesome job guys, this is definitely worth trying and hope it'll save my time ;)
Yeah. This feature help to many blogger lover. It will be easy to those people who doesn't know about CSS. And they can design their own template.
Blogger keep update many more for blogger user thank you lets creation good template
I saw it today.. and I am very much excited.. I use to search templetes on net but now my problem solved.. thank you!!! Now I will try this features.
Great solution!
Kudos Blogger, it works like a charm!
What a great work! I love it and support it. Going to announce this news in Bangla in my blog.
www.banglahacks.com
Thank you blogger team.
fabulous.....I'll try it.. looks amazing.
is cool ... maknyus.... i like it.....
Something I had been waiting for a long time! :D
Excellent hope in soon future that can modify custom template using this tool
iyide bu blogcu.com şablonmatik'in aynısı? :))))
wow!!!it's so amazing..thats why i like to use blogger in draft..thumbs up!!!
no doubt you people made wonderful designer...its amazingly easy and convenient!!!
It's really amazing, very good bloggers in service to its users, good luck. But one message from me, not to be a slow dikoneksi bloggers.
Is it not comptible with IE6 ? we are getting below details.. I don't know what does mean and how can get rid of it ?
x-ua-compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
How about to make Your templates to validate nicely and to be even more SEO friendly. (U all know what I mean ;-)
Yes, finally it comes. I'm waiting for a long long time for this feature. Thanks for the great work.
great...more powerful now.
Really Great!!!!!!! Thanks Great Team!!!
nice.
In my blog I use large photos, but I have not found the opportunity to establish the use of 100% page width. Slider allows you to set the width of 1000px, but not enough in my case. I hope you add the possibility to use 100% page width.
P.S. The new template looks great. Thank you!
Congrats guys!!!!!! I´ll share this great info. Keep good job.
I use Windows Live Writer for my posts, how do these changes affect my ability to continue using this?
Все классно, только вот когда сделают одинаковое отображение во всех браузерах...
А то в Firefox все смотрится просто чудесно, а вот в остальных браузерах, в Opera 10.10 и IE8 отображение немного хромает.... Нет эффекта закругленных углов...
Вот как здесь http://testlynx.blogspot.com/
All the class, only here when will do an identical reflection in all of browsers...
And in Firefox all looks at oneself simply wonderfully, and in other browsers, in Opera 10.10 and Ie8 a reflection a bit limps.... There is not an effect of the rounded corners...
That is here http://testlynx.blogspot.com/
I Love it,, It's Beautyfull..
BLOGSPOT is the best
Great news!
The blogger always presenting!
Thanks!
About time ...
Not complaining though, I understand that it is a free service.
Wow awesome!
That's great. I love it!!!!! Thanks for this amazing free tool that is Blogger!
eline sağlık blogger...gittikçe güzelleşiyorsun.
Very cool. I wish that a long long time. Thank a lot to you all. Very nice. Great. :)
WOW...Awesome feature. The templates are very professionals.
I hope you'll implement more new features that we can find only in wordpress.
Congratulations.
This is awesome! For some reason, the images on my custom template disappeared this morning, and I was able to put up a temporary template in about 12 seconds! Thanks!
this is very very good blogger..
Thanx :-)
its good..thanx blogger
Thanks Blogger .. Very useful
hey Blogger Team: the star rating widget has been active for a long time, and there's no "highest-rated posts" widget yet. The data for this is out there: total votes times average score is the post's ranking score. rank the posts by this score. The widget will define the number of posts to list. bing-bang-boom.
Smart Google guys like you should have this worked out already. :-) Thanks for your help.
Http://teampyro.blogspot.com
Very2 I like it...:) go2 blogger I Luv u.... ^_^
Dont forget, I need New Template and icon fun... ok!
You are welcome. It's just what I wanted.
Nice Template..:) and good Job... I love u full..... udah ah... ah..
Hey I installed a new template on my blog http://rajcomicscollection.blogspot.com have a look..!! , I am loving it, I installed watermark second template. But my viewers are complaining that the background image is not loading properly so pages are visible properly because font color is white. Kindly fix this template problem . I am loving this so I will not change it. Fix it soon. Have a look...!!
Made a new beginning with the #newbloggertemplates . Thank you. It's been worth the wait. Cheers
http://mactweets.blogspot.com/
please introduce random function for background image selection. each time a user opens site any random image from the categories selected should be used.
Thank you for finally introducing template editing! Been waiting for this tool for a while.
It's great for me when I don't really know much about scripting.
Hope this tool will get better and better as time go by =]
cool~~I love blogger and google so much~
Great!!!
Wonderfull! Really a very good tool!
Wow.. this truly awesome...
Thanks to Blogger Team !!
Finally some nice template for Blogger's blog !
Wow! It's about time though Blogger, I was about to jump ship and go to WordPress if something wasn't done to improve the selection of Blogger templates! Now I don't have to and can remain a loyal blogger since 2004 when I started!
The Wicker Woman®-Cathryn Peters
http://www.WickerWoman.com
I tried it out, it's really great, but it's still limiting, don't you think? I'll be happier when you create something similar to wix. Check it out at wix.com
Thank you.
I do not see the new Design Templates option on my blog... How do i get there??
its seems and its fine tool!!!
#ckeck it out
http://www.freehours-stuff.blogspot.com
This is awesome!
The following section is a CSS bug in the new template by Josh Peterson. With the transparent border, the pictures end up with an ugly white border adjacent to the text around them.
.post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container, .Profile img, .Image img,
.BlogList .item-thumbnail img {
padding: 0px;
background: #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5); */
}
I first fixed it by making the erronous #fff transparent, but I still didn't like the border, so I commented out the entire section like below.
.post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container, .Profile img, .Image img,
.BlogList .item-thumbnail img {
padding: 0px;
/* background: #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5); */
}
I believe when you make your push to make these new and well designed templates production and not beta, at the very least you'll want the #fff changed to transparent, or decide to drop the shadow box all together. I still think the border being adjacent to the text with no padding was ugly.
Nice stuff! I like it!
.: I Love it soooooo much! But the bad side of using Blogger new template - the loading time is quite slow... :-( :.
Great feature, but can implement this great features a little bit faster.
PS: Jumplink good one too, but came to late.
It is new to me really
Great thing!!! Many thanks for this to GOOGLE. You are doing really great
very...very wonderfullllll articles
Thank you so much to the Blogger team!This is much appreciated! I tried changing my blog's look and it is easy even for someone who does not know the technical stuff. Thanks!
i was greatly helped by yhe designer of this template may forward the draft blogger provides the last feature.thank
I really appreciate the time and effort the blogger's team put in to all of this, to improve our blogs and for that, we say thanks and keep up the good work we need it.
Merhabalar. Bu güzel oldu ve uygulamayı yeni gördüm.
Teşekkürler - Thank you
I got HTML validation error at validator.w3.org. I checked the html source it read:
and few lines after
Why did this happen? Please help.
Yippeee!!
Conception of template editor is nice........but thats too minimal choices at present. I think the Google engineers are wasting time. They should have done it long before. The main body post space is too less. My earnest suggestion is that most blogger templates must come with all the widgets like.....related post, featured post, popular post, a comment box editor, roomy ads space at header & sidebars, option for home, about, contact tab at nav bar etc... I'm not demanding too much , as of Google engineers are well paid isn't it? M not harsh to say this, as of now they are just busy useless. Google thanks for the plalform but we expect more of you. Blogger is just too rudimentary as of now. Hope all the engineers will look into this.
xxxx With lots of love xxxxxxxx
xxxx http://www.learnthisblog.co.cc/
very cool new feature. thanks
finally
I've been having a lot of fun playing with this. It's so simple to use. My one main question right now. Is it possible... or will it be possible... to use your own photo as your background? I love the stockphoto backgrounds... but it would be really great to be able to personalize the templates even more by using one of my own photos. It would really make my blog my own.
I have a simple question and it's probably stupid , but : How do make a post that shows up in the 'create a link' feature ?
Awesome ! I didn´t know this feature neither the draft page. Today i came across a site called Blog & Web where i got all this stuff and now i´m using a new blogger template.
:D
very nice
Wow too cool. Starting my Blog Now!!!
It will be great if we can select our own background and insert photos to the header :)
Blogger blog has lots of customization features than the wordpress. I just get the option template designer so i have to design it on my own. There are some software that let us design the template but in that we cannot edit the template that we currently have.
Web design preston
I love it !
i've tried it, is AWESOME!!!
That's great... It will be helpfull in creating blog and managing it in an effective way...!!
wow, wonderfull tools,..
very usefull for design new templates for newbie
Wooohoooo.... really great news!
for free blogging platform, nothing can beat Blogger!
thanks a lot!
.
Since we updated out FTP blog are new posts have
ceased to be picked up by Google Search engines.
How can we correct this???? We've lost our audience!!!
http://blog.OUTTAKEonline.com
Cool templates - great layouts. But there seems to be a bug when switching templates, when viewing — locks on the prior viewing choice. Also, the blog title border color is gone, which I hope can be integrated into the new editor. Otherwise, cool.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! <3
Hi:)
Just want to say that i absolutely love the new template design...
Keep more coming...and more features for the pages gadget:)
Thank you:)
www.soul-princess.com
SP
Once again, Blogger rocks my socks!! Thanks so much, Blog team! You know we love you guys!
Deb
Thanks, Blogger! Spent most of Saturday re-doing my blog with the new template designer. Can't wait to see more designs in the future.
It's a great development...I've try it and I love it much...I apply it on my new blog: http://geostringaction.blogspot.com
I can access the new area, but no new templates will load for me to choose from. any help????
Is it just me or does it slow scrolling down to a crawl??? Even on this blog, with a DSL connection, the scrolling is slow and choppy. I put my old template back with a background and header image and it's back to normal.
good post,good function
thank you blogspot.
I will learn more about this :)
This looks great!
Ok, I was here yesterday and I mentioned that Blogger rocks my socks. And that was *before* I even got to play with the template editor.
Now I've played with the template editor, and I updated one of my sites, www.TodaysTeenWriter.com, using your template editor.
I have to say I love all the features! Everything works wonderfully. The only area I feel the Blogger Team overlooked was the backgrounds. You have a stunning supply of beautiful background images that I love.
However, I don't want a background image on this site. I'd just like a plain background color but the template editor won't let me pick my own background color. At least not from what I've seen. If there's another way to pick it, I'd love to know!
Just wanted to let you know in case this was an overlooked feature. You guys still totally rock my socks. :)
Deb
I also meant to mention that I think it would be cool if Blogger updated their existing template collection (the usual 15 or so templates) to work with the template designer...because really those are great templates. That's why Blogger kept them for so long. :)
Just a suggestion,
Deb
Once I click on a new template, Internet Explorer shuts down on me. And I don't have IE 6. Am I the only one? They look nice...at least what I get to see before IE closes.
Any help would be so appreciated.
is it only can use using blogger script?or it can be freely use on others script?
because i want use to my wordpress blog website on www.iklangadget.com
Very nice addition!!! Thank you, I have more faith in the future of Blogger now. This year you've been adding all the heavyweight features! Picasa Web Albums, Pages, and now this! Very cool!!! Keep up the great work!
Kind regards,
Hoctro
Nice update, however, a stretch template would be appreciated. Only the simple template works with my current Stretch Minima set up; the other templates cause the columns to overlap on top of each other, not pretty. Will play around with it to see if there's some way to easily modify these templates to fill the screen. Would also appreciate an easy way to add a banner title to the top of the page. Agree with requests for "a simple but fundamental page layout option for liquid (fluid) layout like wikipedia and some of your google sites template. so that the content of pages fills the browser viewport adjusting to the size of the browser without the static layout pixel size", to "allow users to use own photos for background image", and to "introduce random function for background image selection. each time a user opens site any random image from the categories selected should be used."
Thanks.
very nice.
More template?
Gran mejoría en el diseño de los blogs con estas nuevas funcionalidades.
i went through this page four times
i understood this post is very interesting ....
am learning for social work
Thanks
Looking forward to trying it out, looks like fun.
رحبا اذا امكن اصدقاء جادين من كله الطرفين وشكرا
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great work. :)
since every one can design their blog now, they will soon say goodbye to me. LOL.
Thank you, this is great, now I can't decide which pic to use as a background, I think I'm just going to change backgrounds everyday, they all look unbelievable
Just saw this, great stuff guys, off to try it out! Thanks.
Nice blog I like this
hai.. how to remove navbar for use template designer
oh my ggod, you really give a better service than a private host providesç
Wow Wonderful design templates.
cool feature... but there should be an option for hiding / removing the blogger bar at the top... many users don't prefer keeping it there... it sort of kills the look and feel of a blog...
thanks to blogger in draft team for a wonderful add-in to blogger... :)
thank tou so much , i wait this template designe,
People give free things to other like this will rock the world.
Thanks for this, continue sharing to the needy. :-)
There should be more templates for definete! A cleaner, black and white, minimalistic template is needed among all the bright new ones.
Pleeeeease?
Very nice I will use it, I love blogging.
I love to use new templates. Greattttt
Great! I already changed, and I am very happy with the result but.. I lost my visit counter from Sitemeter.
:-((((((((((((
Yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, they looks really good, but so so slow, some templates, like this one (This blog template) works so slow in scroll.
não gostei, parece que suja muito o codigo ...
ALL ABOUT BALI , BALI INFORMATION, BALI DANCES, BALI HOTELS, BALI RENT CAR, BALI DIVING, BALI GIRLS, Etc.
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it's marvelous, I can change template without dizzy about scripting code. check it out on my blog :)
it's interesting, but I still afraid to change my template. is metatags still working in new template?
Very nice - I was able to update my website with all the features I needed. I like using the Pages feature as a way to archive older posts (and I'm on my 780th post!) by topic - visual arts, architecture, music, etc. Also, one of your StockPhoto images turned out be to be a perfect match for my content. Still, and I know you know, I'd like to be able to use one of my own images. Liking the ability, too, to modify many of the features.
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