Time to Change the Blog

A great post at Thirty Stories Up called '7 Mistakes for Your First Week Blogging.' Too bad I didn't read it in my first week of blogging. Or even the first six months! Oh well, better late than never, and Kurt's advice fits in nicely with a lot of the stuff Darren blogs about at ProBlogger. Plus a lot of it is just common sense -- which can easily go out the window when you just want to getstartedanddosomethingNOW!!!

I'm starting off by changing the template. I've been trying to decide whether I'd stick with Blogger, or switch to WordPress, and for now, I've decided to keep using Blogger. But the Blogger template has got to go. Even though I've modded it a bit, it's still not what I want.

Of course it would be too easy to just find some ready-made alternative. I don't know if there are a lot of Blogger-specific templates out there -- I found a few -- but even if they are, I doubt they're going to be what I want. So I'm checking out a bunch of free blog templates, and I'm going to have a go at creating my own template. How hard could it be? Heh.

I found some great free blog templates at Open Source Web Design. With a little luck, I'll be able to combine enough elements from various designs to get something close to what I want.

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