Small Template Designer Tweaks Two More Variants and Bug Fixes

Last week we updated the Blogger Template Designer with two new variants for Simple, some minor tweaks, and bug fixes. Here’s what you can expect:

Simple gains two more variants, one that’s, well, bookish, with serif text and an image background,
and another with a full-width background image behind the header and tab regions. Try them out, let us know how they work for you.






Links from the background image picker directly to iStockphoto so you can browse an artist’s
entire portfolio and see if they have other images you’d like to purchase and use.

• Bug fixes with in the template designer, including showing the correct background color in the background image picker, showing fonts better in IE, and behavior improvements on the “Templates” tab.
• Bug fixes in the templates, such as showing deleted comments in italics, fixing the readability of the Search Box gadget’s results, and repositioning Simple’s tab bar to fit better when using a custom header image.
• A number of stability improvements to our Internet Explorer compatibility code, which should prevent missing embedded videos, cut off backgrounds, and other odd behaviors when rounded corners and drop shadows are rendered in IE.

While the template designer and new templates are still on Blogger in Draft we’re able to change them more easily, so if you find something that isn’t looking right on your blog let us know so we can fix it sooner rather than later. Just leave a note in the comments.