Everyone loves Blogger because
it possesses numberless features, which attract a publisher like a bee to a honey.
There is no doubt that Blogger is not the leading blogging platform but still
it is giving a real hard time to WordPress (Most preferred Blogging Platform). The
only thing which makes blogger 2nd best blogging platform is it’s
instability towards designing. Nevertheless, this post is not dedicated to the
greatest debate of all time Blogger vs. WordPress, today we will be discuss “The
Things Which We Need to Remember before Making Any Changes in Our Blogger
Template”. If you are our frequent visitors (loyal Reader) then you possibly
have noticed a slight change in our Template from past two days I have been
working to optimize my Blogger template, and so far it has given quite perfect results.
This is the reason why I thought to share my views so you may not get stuck in
a chunk of coding while editing your template.
1. First Thing First Learn HTML and CSS:
To edit or personalize a
blogger template you need to learn the basics of HTML and CSS, you don’t need
to spend lots of money in learning advance HTML coding because basics things
are required to edit a blogger template which can be learned from Internet
(Just Google It). Usually Blogger Template revolves around IDs (<div id>)
and Classes (<div class>) so if you aware from HTML and CSS IDs then you
will not feel any stress while editing a template.
2. Don’t Forget To Take a Backup of Your Template:
It appears extremely illogical
if you straight away start editing your template without even creating a backup.
Usually new bloggers don’t realize the significance of the template they take
it as noting, and that causes them a significant decrease in their Traffic. For
instance, while editing a Blogger template if you committed a childish mistake then
nobody can save your blog from becoming the mother of all the messes but if you
had downloaded the backup before editing your template then it could be a life
saver.
- To download a Backup of your Template Go to Blogger >> Template >> BackUp/Restore >> Download Full Template.
3. Changing the Complete Blogger Template May Loose Your SEO:
Changing a blogger template on
regularly is not consider as the most desirable act, because Blogger has no additional
files in it thus the entire SEO functions depends solely on your Template. If
you are getting tons of visitors, then changing a blogger template is not the
right choice as it will entirely kill your Search engine ranking.
If you want to do slight
optimizations in your template then make sure you don’t do loads of changings because
doing many changes might confuse the search bots, and they might rank you down so
do changes in small packets like once a week.
4. Divide the Work Load by Establishing a Team:
It’s always proved quite promising
if you work with a team of dedicated workers, try to divide work load so it may
take less time and would give most prominent results. I will not recommend you
to create a team of more than 2 members because you will not require more than
that. You may divide departs like one member should work on CSS Style sheet
while other concentrate on building correct HTML structure.
5. Edit Template on Blogger Template Editor Don’t Use Custom Tools:
Blogger templates are designed
with XML language so if you would try to optimize it on your personal HTML
tools, then it might run on your Local-Host but it will not execute properly on
your Blogger blog and will give you common errors like “the template is not
well formed” so be conscious while editing your template, and try to preview
after every editing interval.
What’s next?
Currently we have reshaped our
Navigation menu and are trying to optimize our Sidebar plus Post body. We apologies for any errors that you may have
faced while this up gradation. We will make sure that the site remains active
while we are performing maintenance. In this week, you will continue to see lots
of changes in designing but don’t forget to send your suggestion till then
peace, blessings and happy designing.
About the Editorial Team
The Editorial Team of MyBloggerLab consists of a group of Professional Blogger geeks Led by Syed Faizan Ali (Founder of MyBloggerLab).
2 comments
great post.
Your theme is now amazing. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Ahmed Safwan
ToStartBlogging.Com
Nice Work Faizan
I like this theme very much, looks very good.
Regards
Tech Blog
Post a Comment
We’re eager to see your comment. However, Please Keep in mind that all comments are moderated manually by our human reviewers according to our comment policy, and all the links are nofollow. Using Keywords in the name field area is forbidden. Let’s enjoy a personal and evocative conversation.