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How to add custom theme to new blogger?

Even though blogger come with many themes they don't seems satisfying but luckily we don't have to rely on these themes you can add one of your own either by creating it by yourself or just download it from any site.
There are many such sites which will provide you free templates for blogger. Just Google for "Free blogger templates".

So below are the steps to set up a custom theme for blogger.

Step I

Go to your blogger dashboard as shown in Fig.1.


Fig. 1

Select 'Template' option from the panel to the left hand side of the dashboard. The option is circled in the Fig. 1.

Step II

Clicking on template will bring the Template page (Refer Fig.2). If you scroll down on this page you will find different basic templates provided by blogger.They are quite beautiful in-fact but we are talking about adding a custom theme so we won't go in detail of this :) .

Method 1) The one way of creating a custom theme is by clicking on "Customize" button just beside "Edit HTML" button (Red circled in Fig.2). In this you can select any theme from the basic blogger themes and then customize it. This includes changing the height/width of the sections present on blogger or changing the icon on the blogger or font etc.
You can refer this link.

Method 2) Second way (and the one that we are demoing here ) you can download a theme from any site where you can find the free blogger template.Usually the provide you zip files. Unzip the zip file and there will be couple of files, one of them would be and XML file. Open this file and copy all the contents of this file.
    - Now click on Edit HTML button (Refer Fig.2).




Fig. 2

Step III

After clicking on "Edit HTML" button a pop up will appear (Refer Fig. 3). There will be a warning asking if you really want to proceed or you can use Blogger's template designer( this is same as mention in step II in Method I).
So click on Proceed button (Shown in Fig 3.)


Fig. 3

Step IV

After clicking the Proceed button it will show you the template XML code for the current theme.Clear the contents of this template and paste the XML content of the new template that you copied in step II - Method 2. and click on "Save Template" ( Circled in Fig. 4). There might be some warnings saying that some gadgets will be lost (This is due to the new template might not have been designed for them ) or they will ask you if you want to add them to your new template select your choices.

Fig. 4


And that's it you are set. Now just click on "view blog" button on dashboard  or just hit your blogger URL and your will see the new template applied to your blogger.

Hope this tutorial helps you. If you have any doubt just add your comment and I will try to resolve it ASAP.

Happy Blogging :)
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