How to create your own blog design with thumblogger.
Creating your own blog design is a bit difficult at thumblogger, this is because the blog template is separated in different logical sections. Until now! Now you can export a complete blog design and change it with your favorite tools. And when you are ready you just import the blog design and you are ready.

I'm scared
Changing a template is a big thing, when you do something wrong it might have big consequences. But don't be scared, thumblogger offers you the ability to backup your current template. Go to the 'Blog design backups' tab and click the 'Backup current blog design' button, now enter a name for the backup, for example 'my backup'. 'My backup' should now be displayed in the list. When you messed up your template you can go back and restore the backup by clicking the 'Restore this blog design backup' link. Easy!

Let's export your current template
Login to thumblogger and go to the 'Looks' section, now 'HTML templates' tab and click the 'Export template' link. A new page appears, the complete template is in the big field. Copy and paste it to your favorite editor and start changing it. You can get a sneak preview on how your template is doing by just opening it in your browser. It will display some tags ([TAG]), but you will get the overall idea.
Please pay attention that you don't remove the comments that start with '<!-- id:', they are important when you import the template in thumblogger.

Excited? Let's import the template
Go to the 'Looks' section, 'HTML templates' tab and click the 'Import template' link. Now just copy your changed template in the big field and press the Import button. Your template is now imported if you don't receive any errors.

What about those [TAG] tags?
Tags are little words surrounded by hooks [ and ]. They will be replaced with something usefull when your blog appears in your browser. The following tags are available. Box template:
[BOX_TITLE], replaced by the title/name of a box.
[BOX_BODY], replace by the content of a box.
Post template:
[POST_PHOTO], replaced by html tags for displaying the preview image.
[POST_MESSAGE], replaced by log entry text.
[POST_LINK], replaced by the link to the gallery/site.
[POST_CAT], replaced by the category of the log entry.
[POST_DATE], replaced by the date of the log item.
[POST_VOTE], replaced by the html tags for the vote part.