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Selecting or Changing the Template for Your Site

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Last Updated: December 18, 2008 10:57 AM

Here's the Lowdown: From the Quick Blogcast Templates tab, you can select a specific design and color theme for your Quick Blog.

Quick Blogcast offers you a variety of professionally-produced templates to assist in designing your site. The template you select determines the layout of your blog page and includes default images and color schemes that establish the look and feel of your blog.

To Select or Change a Template for Your Blog

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Manage Account next to the account you want to modify.
  4. Select the Templates tab.
  5. In the Blog section, click Change Template to activate the Template Selector.

    NOTE: If you have not yet assigned a Blog Template, click the Dashboard tab, and then click Assign in the Quick Blogcast section. The Site Links page displays, where you can select the Quick Blogcast site you want to assign to your Dashboard. Click the Templates tab to return to the Templates page.

  6. In the Available Templates area, you can do one of the following, and then click a template thumbnail to select it:
    • Scroll through the templates available in the Category you previously selected during setup.
    • Click Filter and complete the following for a more advanced search:
      Category
      Select a category that best describes the type of site you want to build.
      Templates that work with
      Click the icon(s) that represent the product(s) for which you want to use the template, and then click Update. For example, if you want your Blog site to match your shopping cart, select both Site and Store so only templates that work with both display.

    NOTE: In the Available Templates area, change the color scheme of your template by clicking one of the color swatches next to the thumbnail of the template.

  7. Click OK.

You can further modify your template on the Customize Template page. For more information, see Using the Customize Template Page.

NOTE: You must publish your blog for the changes to take effect..