Are you fed up with your blog’s template hosted on Blogger? But you are afraid that you will loss your widgets or even worse mess up all the settings of your blog. Don’t worry, this tutorial is for you. It will guide you step by step, how to change your blog’s template safely.

In fact changing your blog’s template on Blogger is very easy, all you have to do is to make sure you follow these 7 steps:

Step #1. Log in to your Blogger account. This will take you to Dashboard.

Step #2. Click “Layout” link of the blog for which you want to change the template. This will take you to the page shown below.

Step #3. Next click on the “Edit” link on the widgets and back up their contents in note pad. This step is very important because during the changing of template process these widgets will be lost. So it is a good practice to save them at this stage.

Step #4. Click on the “Edit HTML” link in the top menu, Blogger will take you to the screen shown below.

Step #5. Now is the time to download the existing template. This will make restoring the existing template easier, in case some thing went wrong during changing the template. Click "Download Template" and follow the instructions to save a copy of the template.

Step #6. Click browse and select the template from your PC which you want to upload and click “Upload”. In case a message is displayed asking you to confirm to remove any widget, select “Remove”. After uploading the template click “Save”.

Step #7. Add widgets which you have saved in notepad file one by one and start using your newly uploaded template.