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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12 Responses
  1. ipiet says:

    :D i do it, why you gimme point zero for template support :P haha just kidding, they always send me email, and I send new fixed xml within a day

    • admin says:

      Hi Ipiet, to ensure that my visitors get necessary support, by default, I’ll tick “no” for template support unless the designer/converter write to me to ensure that support will be given. Thanks for letting me know that you actually give such a good support. I’ve just changed the item to “yes” for all your converted templates :)

      Arthur

  2. please help me with my blogger template/layout
    i dont know the steps to put the lovely template in this page
    to my blog…..please help me with the steps….

    • admin says:

      Please refer to the “Read Me” file that shows the instruction of uploading the template.

      Arthur

      • Sandy says:

        Where is the “Read Me” file? I am extremely new to this.

        Just downloaded few nice design from your site but don’t know how to upload onto my blogspot.

        Also, are your designs compatible to WordPress?

        Cheers,
        Sandy

        • admin says:

          Nice to meet you, thanks for your kind comments!

          Sure, you have to unzip the file and access into your blog’s ‘Layout> Edit HTML’ section, click the ‘Upload’ button to upload the file with .xml extension to the Blogger.

          Hope my explanation helps, please leave comment for further question! ;)

          P.S. Designs in this site does not compatible to Wordpress, but they are available in other site like http://www.themespreview.com . :)

          Alvaris Falcon

  3. roscha says:

    Well done Bro… Never seen such pretty awesome templates like yours. Thanks for your contribution. Every blogger should know you more. Bravo!!

  4. Bram says:

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. Thank you for writing this article that I have enjoyed reading.
    Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Regard

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