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Strange Behaviour By GUI Template Wizards

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Several bloggers are reporting inability to change the blog template, using the GUI Fonts and Colors, and Page Elements, wizards. The screen space which should contain the visual information - a view of the main page (for Fonts and Colors), or a block view of the gadgets (for Page Elements) - is replaced by a copy of the Blogger sign in screen.
The frame below then contains the Blogger Sign in page: To access your blog, sign in with your Google Account and then the actual sign in fields/sign in button
Alternately, the screen contents are normal, but no controls work, or page elements can't be moved around.
When I go to my Add and Arrange Page Elements page all I see is a google sign in page. This is when I am using IE. When I use Firefox I can see the Layout screen with all of the information but I can't make any editing changes.


If you are one of the victims of this mystery, help diagnose the scope of the problem.
  • From the dashboard entry for your blog, you have 4 links which lead to blog maintenance wizards:
    1. New post.
    2. Edit posts.
    3. Settings.
    4. Layout, which itself contains 4 wizards.
      1. Page Elements.
      2. Fonts and Colors.
      3. Edit HTML.
      4. Pick New Template.
  • Starting from your dashboard, click on each in turn (Test #4 with 4 sub tests), and observe, explicitly, which give you a wizard that operates properly and which do not.
  • Setup a new blog (blogs are free), and make it as like the current one as you dare. Repeat the above 7 observations, with the new blog.
  • Specify the name and version / service pack level of the operating system on your computer, and the name and version of the browser(s) that you have tried using.
  • If your computer has a Microsoft Windows operating system, check your Windows Update Log, and try to correlate when the latest updates were done, relative to first observing your problems.
  • Report your details, objectively, in a thread in GBH: Something Is Broken.


(Update 10/27 23:30): One blogger found the problem to involve an update to Java.
I uninstalled my java update 7 and now everything is better.


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