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Saturday, August 18, 2007

New Design: Editing a Blogger Template

So I spent all my free time, excluding family time and work time, redesigning my blog. At first I tried to just use a template that I downloaded for free, but every time I customized the template to fit my needs I received the following error:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.


So then I tried to use the download link under edit html. I edited it, and re uploaded it. I received a message regarding the deletion of widget navbar. Well that is the blogger navbar, that cannot be deleted. So I clicked confirm, and it gave me an error. Odd, so note to self, when backing up your template, do not use the download template method as it drops the navbar widget and you cannot re upload it.

So then I just copied the text out of the text area and pasted it into dreamweaver. Edited as necessary, then pasted back into text area, hit preview, then save. Voila. I will modify the template slightly and then offer it as a free download.

Chris

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