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Oh, oh.  Now I find that my template has been changed too.  My daughter alerted me & I checked it on another computer.  There is now a background photo on my blog that I did not choose.  It's some kind of road with a bus on it.  Sigh.  I don't know if I did this or if there is a problem with the code I installed.  Before anyone uses the site I linked to, they might want to look for a different tutorial on this.  Either I did it wrong or the code is defective.  Who knows what else it might have done?  Sigh.

I did back up my template before doing all this, so I will probably go back to it to see if I can get back the template I'd chosen about a week ago.  I will  need to find a different way to make the changes to increase SEO.  If anyone has a good tutorial for this I'd appreciate it. 

I'm sorry if anyone got problems from the tute I linked to.  I do hope you backed up your template.  I now see why that's so important.

Thanks, Simple Saver, for letting me know it's not a problem with Blogger.  I seem to have some bad code.

Maggie

http://www.SquarePennies.blogspot.com

Wait, wait… don't panic! 

I don't know about the other things, but that picture was there all along.  I can see it on my work computer (big screen) but on my laptop it just looks like a blue background (small screen). 

Maggie said:

SS, does it look like a road? 

Maggie

Yes, bright blue sky and then a dirt road at the very bottom.  Like I say, I only say it when I had a big monitor.  I think it is part of the template design.

Maggie said:

So weird.  I never put that road there!  I'll have to keep working on it to see if I can fix it.  I wouldn't mind the road so much, but I still  can't move things around on the side bar.  That's aggravating, &  I wonder what else is damaged.  Thanks so much for looking at it again!

Maggie

Maggie, if you haven't done a lot of customizing you can try choosing a new theme.  You will lose any html changes (so if you set things up to show only on specific pages or switched the blog/post titles, for instance, you will have to start over) but it might be worth a shot.  Just download the HTML before you do it so you can put things back if you want to.

I have a few code-related changes i want to make on my site… have been stalling because I don't want to have any headaches.  Let me just say, the ability to load saved html templates has saved me many times!!!!

Okay, this is very interesting.  If you started over with the template and it still won't let you move things then the problem definately isn't the code you entered earlier (yeah)! 

Here are a couple questions/steps (follow in order presented):

1.) Have you tried using a different browser (for instance, Firefox instead of Internet Explorer)?  I have heard Google Chrome is especially bad … go figure!

2.) Are you feeling daring enough to get back into the HTML?  If so, then go to your code and expand the widgets.  Search for the title of one of your widgets (such as 'About Me' or 'Total Pageviews').  Now, within that widget's code, look for the following: " locked='false' ".  If it is there, never mind… if it is not, see if " locked='true' " is there and if so, change it to " locked='false' ."  If this is the case you will need to make this change in the next widget down, too, and then go back to the design view and try to flip their positions.  If the code is already at false than… NEVER MIND!

3.) Check out the Blogger help forums… you can see if anyone else has had this problem or pose a new question.  it could be a Blogger error though I have not heard anyone else talk about it.  http://www.google.com/support/…..#038;hl=en

Keep me posted! 

Maggie, don't let it bum you out.  Messing with the code can be stressful, but as you get more familiar with things it will get easier.  In the end, it is very rewarding to be able to make your site look customized. 

Start looking at your site's HTML and you will start to be able to make more sense out of how it is made up.  For instance, each widget's code will be contained within the <widget>…. </widget> tags.  Anything between those tags deals ONLY for that particular widget.  Also, you may notice on my site that I have a lot of widgets without names (like the "Advertise here" graphics) because I don't want a title to appear above them.  However, if I want to work on their HTML I will addign a temporary title as it makes it much easier to find them in the code.  For instance, I may name it TEMPWIDGET and then I can go to the HTML and search for TEMPWIDGET and immediately find the code.  I make my changes and then go back and remove the title. 

If you look at my site there is a lot of customization.  Some is easy and some is hard.  The hardest thing I did was diding the harder into two boxes – sorry, I don't think I could help you with that as it still confuses me!  The rest of the custom stuff was pretty easy, though.  it just takes time and patience.  Anyone here will be happy to help if we can, I am sure. 

FamilyMoneyValues said:

I was searching the forums on 'get comments' and came across this thread.  I too am using Blogger – at least for now.

Welcome to the "Blogger group!" 

Pat and FamilyMoneyValues – Great to have you in the Blogger group! I also use Blogger. Just make sure that you back up your blog often in case google decides to take down your blog. You don't want to lose the content! Let me know if you need any help doing that. 

sounds good. Let me know if any questions come up. Make sure to also switch around the way that your post titles are showing up in search engines. Remember that you want your article title first, then blog name.