Theme Selection for Blogger Blog and Its Customization

As in the previous article, we create a blog on blogger. In this article, we will build our blog.

• Table of content.
• Create a post

Select a theme (selecting theme, downloading, uploading, and customization)

Let's begin.

Step 1. Create a post

Creating a post is important to see what a theme looks like. So before moving toward theme selection and customization, I will suggest you upload your first blog post. No need to worry if you don't have already written an article. you can copy and paste any of your Medium stories that are relevant to your blog topic.

For an instant, I have uploaded my previous article on my newly created blog.

Follow these steps one by one.

1.1 Posting

Go to your site > click on the "new post button > paste your article on the body section> cut the heading from the article and paste it into the heading section> copy-paste an image at the top of the post or you can select from your computer by "select a photo option" in the toolbar.

1.2 Post setting

Make sure you have done an important set of your post before posting.

Click on image ad alt text and photo credit> reset inside post heading as per requirement > select all text and justify by clicking on the option in the toolbar.

Then go to the sidebar and click label> add the label as per your article topic ( such as my article is regarding blogging so I added a label "blogging" >select a location in the down section> set date. That's done

As we don't have another post link yet, so we will leave the permalinks option empty. We will add new links to this section when we will upload more content.

You are done, now, click on publish a post.

To see your post and what it's like: go to "view a blog below on the left side of your pc"> and click on it. Your blog will appear in front of you. Now it appears as by default select them.

2. How to select a theme?

You have three options for the selected themes.

• 2.1. Theme Selection
• 2.1.1. By default available themes
• 2.1.2. Downloading from other sites
• 2.1.3/ Creating your own theme ( we will not work on this option).

2.1.1. By default available theme

can explore the theme option available on your site dashboard. You can simply go to theme> click on it> scroll through theme templates> click on your favorite theme> preview it and apply.

To see again what your blog looks like. Go to view the blog.

Widget setting by default them.

For the widget, set go to the layout option. Widget means the features that you want to keep on your blog and the feature that you don't want to keep. In other languages, you say it's like a plug-in on WordPress. Such as social widgets. YouTube widget. I don't want to keep YouTube's widget so I will remove it from the layout option.

2.2 Downloading theme from other sources

The default available themes on blogger do not have many features and they are not perfect for Adsense approval. If you want to create your blog with monetization you can choose an available theme in blogger. But defined you are here in this blogging course because you want to earn by blogging. So, we will select professional themes from another source.

For this purpose what do you need to do?

Go to gooyaabi theme > select responsive theme> choose your favorite theme (I will suggest you choose a responsive theme, it will help in monetization) > download it to your pc.

Now the next step is how to upload this to your blogger site.

The first method for Chromebook: The process is simple. Go to downloaded file> open XML file> open it> select all text >come to blogger side> go to theme option> click on the small button on the side of customization> select edit HTML > and paste your selected theme code here.

The second method for laptop: open the downloaded file> place the XML file in a separate folder>come to the blogger site>click on the small side button>click restore> click upload > and upload the XML file> and save.

Widget setting: The widget setting process is the same as described in the previous section.

Closing

Here we are done with theme customization. Make sure that you customised the theme as per your requirement. Remove unnecessary widgets and add your own. Here we only have one labeling, as we will keep adding new topics we will keep adding labeling. Such as can post new on money-making, which I will label as money-making. You can add as many labels as you want. Don't add too many labels. Just keep the blog relevant. Five labels are enough. Make sure you ON the tags option in the widgets set. Labels and tags are topics that we talk about.

In the next article, I will let you know about five important pages (privacy policy, disclaimers, contact, about, and terms and condition). These pages are important for google absence approval. These pages contain very long content. It's not possible to write by yourself. So I will let you how can create these pages without hiring any person or writing by yourself. We will not write these pages, we will create them.