Believe it or not, there are many excellent Blogger templates available for you on the web, but not every template is the right piece for your Blogger blog. In this post, I would share my experiences to help you choose the most suitable Blogger template.
#1: Purpose
You create a blog with certain purpose, at least something special that makes you want to choose unique or better Blogger template. Whether your purpose is just to create a diary blog or a make money blog, the purpose should serve as the ultimate criteria to choose the most suitable Blogger template for your blog.
For example, if you want to start a blog talking about your natural life, you can choose simple yet beautiful Blogger template like Simple Style or Green Light. If you are a template designer who wants to showcase your portfolio on the blog, you can choose Zinmag Remedy template with Image Glider feature installed.
In short words, your purpose decides your general selection of the Blogger template.
#2: Expectation
You have started a blog, what do you want from it? Expectation is the factor for you to examine the detail of the Blogger template that suits your needs. If you expect to earn revenue from your blog, you need to find a Blogger template with some well-optimized ads space like the famous 125×125 ads slot on the sidebar. If you expect reader to know your twit in Twitter, you can choose the Zinmag Primus template with Twitter Update feature.
I personally recommend that you choose the template based on ‘what you need in recent’ but not ‘what you want in very far future’. If you are an experienced blogger, you can also backup your template then remove some existed feature to make your template clean and without any ‘awaiting order’ feature. This would make the search engine like Google easier to index your site, at least focus more on what you want it to focus.
#3: Functionality
Blogger template can either be a hope or a nightmare for your blog. As there’s different maker and converter with different experience work on different Blogger template, functionality has became another essential factor for bloggers to choose their most suitable Blogger template. You have to be careful, as you might get loved in a beautiful Blogger template with bad functionality that even image alignment cannot works well in the post.
The good news is that you don’t need to test everything to make sure your favorite template functions well, BloggerStyles did it for you. In BloggerStyles, we test every listed Blogger template with set and always-updated criteria, just to show you the functionality of the template. You can even visit our demo blog to discover the real face of appointed Blogger template, and we believe that our work can shorten your process to choose the most suitable Blogger template for your blog.
#4: Template Support
Template support is more like an add-on bonus for the Blogger template. With author’s support, the process of fixing the issue is as easy as ‘I come, I ask, I got helped’.
As most Blogger template is free for the blogger, the author would more likely to spend their time on other works like design or conversion. This phenomenon is totally different with the BloggerStyles, which we work our best to support and fix the issue of our own Blogger template in scheduled time.
That’s all for my point, and I hope this can save your time and energy to choose the most suitable Blogger template for your blog. There’s another way to shorten your process of recognizing Blogger template, which is to subscribe our free RSS to keep you updated with our latest post talking about Blogger template, thanks!
Alvaris Falcon is the founder of the Falcon Ministry, and currently produce unique Blogger template for user-friendly Blogger platform. He blogs mainly at Falcon Hive and BloggerStyles, and you can track his recent move at twitter.com/FalconHive.
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