My Blog Gets a Makeover with a Premium Blogger Template

You may notice that my blog has had a makeover. It is looking a bit sexier... A bit more professional... Not quite as boring. I've just installed a premium blogger template and it has made a huge difference.

I was having a bit of a dilemma as I set this blog up back in 2005, before I knew anything about WordPress. I much prefer WordPress to Blogger - more flexibity, so many great themes and plugins and it is so search engine friendly.

Whenever I set up a new blog these days I always use WordPress, without a doubt. However, I decided to keep this blog as a blogger blog because I get a decent amount of daily traffic to the individual blog posts and I didn't want to risk losing that (changing to WordPress would have changed all the URLs aka permalinks).

If you haven't been on my PIPS blog before you can click here to see a screenshot of what it looked like before I changed it.

I had a hunt on the internet for something similar to WordPress Revolution themes - something a bit wider and more professional looking. I came across eBlog Templates who have a section selling premium blogger templates and found a WordPress Church theme that had been converted to Blogger.

$20 and about two hours later I had everything setup! I've not perfected everything yet, but I think it is a great improvement on the previous look. The template was easy to setup, no techie stuff required and they had step by step videos explaining how to do it.

So if you are looking for a premium blogger template I'd highly recommend eBlog Templates. The only downside is that you can't use them if you are FTP publishing to your website (since the FTP publishing doesn't support Blogger Layouts).