An amateur blogger managed to design a blogger.com theme by reverse engineering a free website template and rewriting the HTML according to the 960 grid system. Basically, what this amateur did was to take blogger.com-specific code from the Minima template and merged it with the CSS elements of 960 grid system. After rearranging the page elements and tweaking CSS values, the original template turned into something truly unique, Allocentric Blogger.
The hardest part of the exercise is understanding the code that pulls content from blogger.com. For this, the online documentation was an indispensable resource. However, once the purpose of each block of code was identified, it was easy to move things around and work on the ultimate goal. And that goal is to produce a magazine-style or newspaper-style blogger.com template.
With a "usable" template, beta testing can now proceed in earnest. Content and HTML code can be observed as they work in unison to provide the reader the desired online experience. It will take a month or so of blogging, but this amateur blogger is well on his way to becoming a professional.
Hmm. The datestamp is missing and the details are skewed to the left.
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