How to change the theme of your Blogspot blog

If you do a quick search on blogging tips and tricks, you end up noticing that the vast majority of the advices you get are more or less related to Wordpress. But what if you Blogspot user? What if you need to “fine tune” your blog? Wordpress may be more popular nowadays, but Blogspot does have its advantages: it's free and easy to edit and manage.

I remember those times (around 2013) when the internet was full of tutorials and websites dedicated to Blogspot platform. The platform itself was invaded with “dormant” blogs which served only as an illustrative example for certain tutorials. Nowadays, they seem to be buried down by Google, while Wordpress-focused tips are on the wave.

After such long inactivity on my blog, right now I am practically relearning everything related to blogging. And, for some reasons, I have recently decided to create a new blog – one focused on beauty and health called Ro Beauty Journey. It's a brand new blog as we speak, and it's hosted on the Blogspot platform.

So how about taking this opportunity and start learning together how to manage a Blogspot/Blogger blog?

After this short introduction, let's go straight to the subject! So I have created the blog, chose the theme of the blog and then posted the first blog post. Then, after publishing it, I'm no longer convinced that this is the most inspired theme for my blog.

So now, the blog looks like in the image below. This theme is from the Dynamic type.

Pretty nice and neat indeed, but too "serious". Not exactly the type of theme that you would expect to see on a beauty blog, isn't it? So let's try to improve it!

So, in order to change the theme of your Blogspot/Blogger blog, you have to log into your account, then select your blog from the list in the top-left corner. Then click on Theme button as shown below.

 

Then scroll down till you find the Simple category of themes and click to preview one of them. It's always much better to use a Simple theme because it's easier to manage and personalize especially if you are interested in playing with the HTML codes sometime in the future.

Now you can see, in this preview, how your blog would look if you'd use this theme. Well, for now, it looks fine, much better than the previous theme. So you click the orange button saying that you want to Apply this theme in your blog.

Next, you get prompted by a message about your gadgets. More exactly, if you change the theme, some of them may become visible. But since this blog is brand new this aspect is not exactly one of your concerns. Just click on the button stating that you understand and let's move on.

Then, for a few seconds, you should see a message confirming that the theme was applied to your blog. It appears in the top part of the page and can be easily overlooked if you don't pay attention. 

And, that's it! Now you can type in your blog's address in your browser and you can see it "live" with a brand new theme.

Is this good enough? Well, it is for now. In my opinion, this theme is much better suited for a beauty blog, it's much lighter and the colours are more gentle. But, of course, beauty of a beauty blog is the eye of the beholder... And luckily, some details can be modified. But that's another story...

Final notes, just in case: This article was created on a Dell laptop running a preinstalled Ubuntu OS. The screenshots were done by using the innate Screenshot app and they were edited using the screenshot.net free online tool.