Blog Flak

I’ve put up a new tutorial that explains how to change the publishing mode on Blogger from either “classic” or “beta”. Apparently a lot of people are still having trouble installing free or customized web templates in Blogger because they don’t understand the differences between the two modes or how to switch back and forth. It seems like at least once a week I get a complaint that one of our Free Blogger Skins templates won’t work, when they’re actually trying to use it in the wrong mode and there’s nothing wrong with the template.

It’s too bad that Blogger didn’t see fit to clearly mark the template editor pages with a designation to tell you what mode you are in. Then to top it off they’ve “hidden” the link to switch the mode UNDERNEATH the editor at the very bottom of the page. If you try to install a new template that you’ve downloaded and you get errors that won’t allow the template to work, this is a must read! You can find the new tutorial here:

How to Switch Blogger Modes

Hopefully this will help clear up some of the confusion.

tags: Blogger, beta mode, classic mode, Blogspot, themes, skins, templates