How to change or upload third party templates in blogger

Some bloggers are such that they want to change templates and designs often. If you’re one of such people, blogger is a recommended platform. Changing of templates and designs are completely free unlike in WordPress. In blogger, you can also add third party templates free of cost. 

                 
To change templates, you can either use templates provided by blogger itself or templates designed by other third parties. You don’t have to pay for template change. 

Read: 5 popular advantages of opening a blog at WordPress.com 

In this tutorial, we will cover the following customization:

1. How to change the blogger template?
2. How to upload third party template?

If you don’t know how to edit blogger templates, it’s always better to use templates provided by Blogger. They are not only simple and free but also don’t contain much complicated HTMLs or CSS.

How to change a Blogger Template?

There are seven kinds of templates provided by Blogger free of cost. They are:

1. Simple
2. Dynamic views
3. Picture Window
4. Awesome Inc.
5. Water Mark
6. Ethereal 
7. Travel

There are at least three templates in each category. This means there are at least 21 free blogger templates in total. You can choose one template from any of the seven categories depending upon your preferences. All are good in their own ways. 

To change templates from any of the seven mentioned categories, consider the following steps:

1. Login to your blog
2. Select a blog (if you have more than one blog)
3. Click on Template
4. Click on Customize
5. Click on templates
6. Choose template category
7. Select a template
8. Click on Apply to Blog
9. Click on View Blog

If you’re little above common in blogging, you can also do many customizations in blog header, blog description, page tabs, post body, fonts, background and many more. Let us keep them for another post. Keep visiting TLB.
 

How to upload third party blogger template?

I have already told you not to do this if you don’t know how to edit template. If you know, you may go ahead with it.

1. Login to your blog
2. Select the blog (if you have more than one)
3. Click on Template
4. Click on Backup/Restore
5. Click on Browse 
6. Select template downloaded & saved in your computer. Read the instructions
7. Click on Upload
8. Click View Blog to see change in your blog appearance

If you know how to customize third party template, you can do by clicking Edit HTML button. If you don’t know HTML customization, just leave as it is. It is also safe on your part. 

I have given tutorials for this:

• How to reduce space between blog title & description?
• How to center align page list/tabs in blogger?
• How to remove Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Link? 
• How to remove Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Link?  

Final Words
In Blogger templates can be either one of those free blogger templates or any free or premium third party templates. If you’re newbie, don’t attempt to use third party templates. Many of them aren’t safe. Some contain unnecessary links that will hamper loading speed and traffic of your blog.
 

Over to you
Hope you got what I have tried to say on how to change blogger template and also use third party blogger templates. If not, you can always leave as a comment. I will explain your query there. If you want your query being explained in detail, mail me at stcbmtl@gmail.com. Thank you!