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Customizing my Blog

By Sridhar V on 11 Comments / 2979 views

Hi Rodinhood Friends,

I’m a new blogger trying to learn the process of building my own blog.

I tried using the templates provided by Blogger, however it doesn’t appear professional and lacks features like menus on top of the page. When I asked a few people about this they said WordPress offers such options. However, I’m not keen on redoing my blog on WordPress….its a tedious process.

How can I make proper organized menus in such a way that articles get organized in those menus ?

The templates on blogger are not offering menus, but I found that other blogs on blogger have menus. How can I get this format ? Initially I want to use free options… later if I’m approved for google ad sense I may think about using a paid template.

Please guide me on this.

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  1. I understand this is not the ideal forum for blogs, but I had tried in google, blogger, etc and couldnt get a solution. Please help me.

  2. Would you mind telling what your blog is and what is the aim of your blog?

    If you are blogging for marketing of your website, I’d highly recommend using Tumblr. It has got aesthetic designs, you’ll just love it.

    If you wish to create a niche blog, a blog with which you earn money, I’d have to say you must use self hosted blogs. It just gives more freedom and control over things. Use WordPress for self hosted one.

    Blogspot in my opinion is not at all good looking and professional. The only advantage it provides is it lets you run adsense pretty easily, which anyway isn’t a difficult task if you ask me.

    Whatever you do, if you are serious about blogging, do think about getting your own domain.

    If you could provide me a link to your blog or tell what is it about, I might be able to give you a better answer.

    P.S. If you want to stick with a desing, blogger does allow you to make your own themes if you know HTML and CSS.

  3. Hi Shobhit,
    Thanks for you response and suggestions.
    To answer your first question, my blog is a fan’s page and currently running as a personal blog. I write for other blogs/sites where I place links so that my fans can come to this page. In short I’m not a professional blogger, just a beginner. If everything goes well I want to add some commercial elements such as google ads as well as products that might interest visitors.

    The blog is about self improvement, personal finance, success stories, and any topic that adds value to a visitor or improves his/her life.

    Link: https://sekharc.blogspot.com

  4. There are two great options:

    1. Posterous : amazing designs available, with analytics, etc. Very good interface – I really loved to see the service, but found that they were very bad in getting my queries sorted (read customer satisfaction), also I regularly saw issues with posts not appearing on the page, etc. therefore I had to abandon them. A lot many people use posterous and are happy.

    2. Tumblr is a great alternative. Great designs, easy customization. etc. However their comments system is not their own – you have to add disqus. Also there is no analytics – you have to go  about setting up a google analytics integration.

  5. Try to focus on one thing only. Either try to use google ads or start selling your product or work as an affiliate for flipkart/amazon or some e-store in your niche.

    If you decide not to choose ads (they are great for initial traction only), I see no reason why you should not choose Tumblr’s platform. It has many more beautiful free designs than blogger and if you know html css js, you could insert yours as well.

    If you wish to stick to blogspot and want to change the design you could either go to hire someone to do it or if you wish to do it yourself, learn some css html and on your blog’s dashboard under settings -> Template click on customize or change HTML, whatever you prefer.

    P.S. As I see, you use Images and Videos a lot, I’d still say switch to Tumblr and get your domain ASAP!

  6. Oh I almost forgot, the virality which you can achieve using tumblr is much much higher as compared to any other platform.

  7. If you want to make it big, choose wordpress. Because, blogger sucks and someday you will have to shift to wordpress.

    Get a domain and hosting, and there you go. Blogger comes with limited options.

  8. Hi Narendra,
    I understand your point, and some day I’ll have to shift to WP. As of now I can only use free features and plan to stick to blogger. Once I see more traffic, and better response I will invest in hosting on WP. However, wordpress does not offer the option to put ads if its a free blog….so there is a catch on WP too. So WP is no better, they too charge for simple stuff.
    Investing for this blog is a future plan which I have to consider once I have a large base to cater to.

  9. If thats the case, blogger is good 🙂

  10. check out https://rodinhood.com

    its entrirely built on wordpress

    first get a free account and then migrate to wordpress.org 

    here is the final point – be ready to spend 100 (yes ONE HUNDRED) hours on any blog platform to really ‘get it’.

  11. Thanks Alok. I’ll surely keep the option of moving to WP in mind.

    I am trying to learn and get used to the platform.

    Thanks to all for your valuable suggestions.

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