Making Your Blog Template Look Right

Sometimes a blog page doesn't look right. You may have put three scripts into the HTML box on blogger, or onto your web page code.

One problem bloggers face when adding their blog to directories is that they get long lists of blog names. This is okay if the code is at the bottom of the page, but not if it is in the sidebar (the menu at the side of the page).

This problem can also mess up a page when using affiliate codes.

First - make sure your code is not wider than the column. If the widget or code will not appear at all, then you need to select the code for a smaller widget.

(A widget is the small picture that advertises. At the top of this blog - the 'vote for this blog' picture is a widget)

One way to fix this problem is to add the code

after the script. This will tell the HTML to leave two blank lines UNDER the first script. This way your widgets and affiliate codes will appear in a straight column with 2 blank spaces between.

If the

code does not work then try

which tells the HTML page to start a new paragraph.

Stay out of the 'edit template' feature if possible. Most of today's blogs work on 'blocks' that let you paste your scripts into these. If you do need to go into your edit template make sure you copy and paste the template in MS Wordpad before working on the template.