So I found this uber-cool new layout for my blog (not that I don’t love the brown, but I want something a little jazzier), but encountered technical difficulties yesterday when going to upload it. Apparently, because the set isn’t from Blogger it wants to delete all my widgets, including my followers.
Ack!
Does anyone know if I can put that back in once it’s been deleted? I hate HTML- it makes me want to hurt small children and fuzzy animals when I have to deal with code. I just don’t want to delete everything on the left sidebar if it would permanently disappear into the ether. But I really want my purty new background.
Anyone out there know the answer? A quick fix?
Unfortunately I think the answer is it depends on the template code you want to install. I wrote my own template at one point and was unable to use some of the Google widgets because they rely on a certain structure being in the template.
I strongly suggest you save all your blog before doing anything! From within blogger there's a button to export your blog as a .xml file.
Woohoo!
I happened upon The Cutest Blog on the Block and they have nifty backgrounds and don't threaten to delete gadgets. Ohdalolly!
Yeah, it's the little things that make me happy. 🙂
Cutest blog is amazing. I just recently discovered the site too after months of trying to figure out those stupid external templates.
Love the new background!
P.S. If you switch to the default template in blogger, then whatever the background behind the text in the cutest blog one is will show up instead of the scribe brown background. Just in case you were wondering about that.