How to change your blogger template

Many of my friends have asked me how to change the blogger looks to a cool one like mine ;) . At first i told them, then more of my friends began to ask the same question. So decided to make a blog post on it so i don't have to tell again and again. There are other posts just thats tell how to do this. But mine is different. My blog explains the steps using both screen shots and video.

So lets begin:
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• First you will need to download the templates. There are many sites which offers cool templates to download. I have listed some at the bottom of this post. You have to download the templates with extension as .xml. Some site asks us to copy the xml codes and paste it in the edit html section. Its not always good and you may not get it right. After you have downloaded the files do the steps provided below
• Login to you blogger account via www.blogger.com.
• If you logged in correctly you'll taken to the blogger user control panel what is known as the Dashboard. All your blogs will be listed here.

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• From there click on Layout of the blog to which you want to add a new template. This will take you to the Page Elements section.

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• From here click on Edit HTML. Here you'll see an option to upload a theme from your hard disk. Do so and click upload.( Important: Click on Download Full Template so if you make a mistake. You can change it back as it was before. Its a backup actually )

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• Sometimes you will get a message saying widgets are about to be deleted. This is because previously you have created widgets and added some javascript codes,adsense codes and all that. Blogger is warning us that these are going to be deleted. So you will have to place the widgets and adsense codes again once you have changed the template.

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• Click CONFIRM & SAVE and your done.
• Now click View Blog ad you can see the changes.

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I would like to remind again that all your previous widgets, javascript codes and adsense codes will be replaced. You may have to enter it again.

You can download templates from these sites:
http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggertemplates.org/
http://blogspottemplates.blogspot.com/
http://www.finalsense.com/services/blog_templates/
http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/
http://www.blogcrowds.com/resources/blogger_template.php

You can google for blogger templates if you want more.

Here is the video on how to change the blog template:

Hope this helped. If so please do leave your comments.