Changing Your Template

To choose a template other than the default one that you get if you didn't select one of the choices you were offered, I suggest looking at some of the ones that other people are using. I kept clicking on the "Next Blog" button up in the right-hand corner to see what was out there. I found that I had trouble seeing text on the blogs with a black background. Some colors didn't appeal to me. All of my blogs use different templates so you could just click on each of them to see some choices. (This one has the default template that I really find a little dull, but I use it because it's the "default" example.)

I just changed my template and got a pretty green one, but I will change it back again after I write this post so that I will again have the default template.

Steps:
1. Click the "Blogger" button up at the top left of the blogger window.
2. Click "Change Settings".
3. Click on the "Template" tab.
4. Click "Pick One".
5. Click on the picture of the template you like if you want to see a larger version. Close this window to go back to the choices.
6. Click on "Use This Template" to change your template.
7. Click "OK" on the warning message. (We beginners don't do customizations.)
8. You will get the message that the settings were successfully saved.
9. Important! You must click on the "Republish" button.
10. Beginners can choose "Republish Entire Blog" because we don't usually have enough entries to make this a very long procedure. This "Publish Index" can be learned later when we have lots more experience.
11. Important again! When you go back to your blog and nothing looks different, remember to click on the menu item "View" at the top of the screen, and click on "Refresh" so that your computer reloads the new blog.