You know I’m always looking out for you and ways to beautiful your blog. Well, I’ve found 3 more sites that offer FREE blog templates.
They’re beautiful and offer free tutorials and other how-to’s for uploading.
Made by Lena – I’ve actually helped 2 friends create their blog using Lena’s designs. At first, I had problems downloading it but, thanks to my webmaster honey, I figured it out.
Here are easy directions on how to download & then upload her templates:
1. Browse her blog and find the template you like.
2. When you find it, on the Download link, right click your mouse and click Save Target As.
3. Save it as a .txt file on your desktop.
4. Open the .txt file you just saved then Select All then then copy all the text.
5. Go to Layout, then Edit HTML in your blog.
*Warning* If you are updating an existing blog – you MUST copy all your widgets in your side bar FIRST. If you past the code into your HTML it will delete all widgets. So you’ll have to go into each one and copy the code before you proceed.
If your blog is brand new – you don’t need to worry about this.
6. Select all of the code and then press right click Paste.
7. Save then view your beautiful new template.
Another site is The Cutest Blog on the Block. I haven’t used it personally but I’ve seen tons of these layouts being used lately and they’re fun.
Note: The background template doesn’t move along with your posts, it stays stagnate. Just be aware of that while you’re browsing.
Lastly, there’s Leelou Blogs that also has free templates or custom blog designs. They’re also easy to upload with several fun prints.
Have fun!
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Your readers can take a look at my blog for an example of her work. I’ve had it up for a couple months now!
Thanks for this post! I love change so I might have to think about using one of these templates.
I have one question:
You said I have to copy the HTML for the widgets. Does this mean to just go to layout and copy and paste each one to wordpad? What about link lists and others like that that won’t give you HTML to copy?
wow thanks for sharing!! i added a new template to my blog from Lena’s. i love it! thank you so much..
Thanks for this! I went ahead and updated my blog.
I’m currently rocking a template from The Cutest Blog on the Block. I love it!!
If using a template from cutest blog on the block and use blogger you can have the background move as well. You need to go to customize, pick new template and select the first template. It is the one that says Minima.
Thanks for the wonderful heads up!
These are great sites. Thanks for letting use know. I also love http://hipposcraps.blogspot.com/
I’ve found a bunch of free template designers. They are all links on the very bottom of my sidebar if anyone wants to check them out. hamboneatrain.blogspot.com
P.S. Oh and let me know if you know of any that I don’t have yet!
Thank you. I am always looking for more blog backgrounds (I get bored and have to rearrange mine). I actually tried my hand and designing my last one.
Hey, don’t forget me! :)
http://www.ShabbyBlogs.com
Great advice that got me started today. I tried Leelou blogs and it was very easy and looks great. Thanks for the pointer!
Templates are your biggest time saver and your easiest way to standardize. You already probably use templates and don’t even realize it. When I started my blogs I did a lot of search and research on this and collected a big list of good sites (more than 250 sites) that offer decent unique free blog templates. If you are interested take a look at the below link.
http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/06/250-sites-to-know-about-blog-templates.html
thanks for this am going to design my friends blog, been looking at different tuts.
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