The new Template Designer, previously a Draft Blogger feature, was added to Production Blogger this week. And just as some bloggers are discovering how exciting they are, others are discovering that the Designer templates have downsides.
Fortunately, even though the Template Designer wizard is part of Production (Orange) Blogger, you can revert your blog and recover the Layout template, if you decide that the Designer template isn't to your taste.
Just go to the "Edit Template" wizard, and look at the bottom section "Old Templates". If your blog has a Designer template, you should have a link to "Select Layout Template".
Under "Old Templates", find "Select Layout Template".
Next, pick a new Layout template. Hopefully, you remember how to do this.
Now that the blog has a Layout template again, and hoping that you backed up the Layout template before you setup the Designer template earlier, just restore your backed up Layout template, if you find any remembered details missing.
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Fortunately, even though the Template Designer wizard is part of Production (Orange) Blogger, you can revert your blog and recover the Layout template, if you decide that the Designer template isn't to your taste.
Just go to the "Edit Template" wizard, and look at the bottom section "Old Templates". If your blog has a Designer template, you should have a link to "Select Layout Template".
Under "Old Templates", find "Select Layout Template".
Next, pick a new Layout template. Hopefully, you remember how to do this.
Now that the blog has a Layout template again, and hoping that you backed up the Layout template before you setup the Designer template earlier, just restore your backed up Layout template, if you find any remembered details missing.
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Good questions, there. I think that Designer templates will help a lot, for blogs which have extensively customised CSS rules, because those rules can be customised using the "Add CSS" wizard.
Customised meta tags and external services, and updates to the template body, may be another issue.
Judging from the gradual implementation of the code, so far, I'd bet that Blogger has mode tweaks up their sleeves. I'll bet that there's some way of standardising template body customisations, like "Add CSS". We may have to be patient.
Help!!
I would like to work on this with you - but that will go much better if you post in BHF: Something Is Broken, so we can have a decent dialogue.
This is an excellent subject for discussion in BHF: Something Is Broken.