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This article explains how to remove the semi-transparent image that is shown at the back of the Travel theme (template) provided by Blogger. I like Blogger's Travel template (now called a theme) - it's clean, and lets me control lots of things.  But I don't like the semi-transparent image that you can see underneath parts of blog-header, navigation bar and perhaps the post header and body. By itself, this image looks like this (I suspect it's supposed to be represented a scrunched-up piece of travel diary paper of similar): Underneath one of my blog's header it's like this - see the lightly shaded area to the left of the red arrow: Do you see the grey shading? You can possibly ignore it - until you do something like show an ad-unit with a genuine white background in that really shows up the difference. Then it just looks scruffy. I'm sure that with some major template changes, it could be eliminated altogether - but luckily there's an easier way w...

This article explains the difference between themes and templates in Blogger, Google's blogging tool. What is (was) a Blogger template How a blog that is made with Blogger is shown to a visitor is controlled by four sets of information: The posts which the blogger writes (ie the content) A user-editable "configuration file" which records the overall formatting options which the file designer and then the blogger have chosen Another configuration file, called the post-template , which records choices that the blogger has made under Layout > Blog posts (edit), but cannot be edited elsewhere.    Blogger's own software, which puts the other things together with some internal rules to make "web pages".   Bloggers cannot control the rules in this at all. Originally, the first "configuration file" was called a template .   In fact, officially it was called a design-template , to distinguish it from the post-template.   However because most peopl...

This article explains why mobile mattes for some blogs (but not all), what tools Blogger has provided to help with this, and how to set up a mobile theme (aka template) for your blog.  It also links to Google's mobile testing tool, which shows you how your blog looks on a mobile device. By default, when someone uses a smartphone, tablet or other mobile device to look at your blog, they see the "full site" just like they would if they were using a PC.   The pages aren't set up to work well on their small screen, but they have access to all the features and gadgets you've installed. In some cases, this is fine.  For example, when I first wrote this article, I looked at the statistics for this site  and hardly any of the visitors were mobile.   However now, a couple of years later things have changed and I've implemented a mobile theme for this blog. But for other blogs, especially ones that have maps and other location-information or which people read on the...