Where is my template gone ?

You found a nice template for your blog on an website , is it the perfect match for your blog ? If you don`t take care one day you`l be amazed to see its screwed. Most of these templates are hosted by private and free web hosting services. If your blog traffic begins to raise at some point the server will fail to serve the images and your user will see only plain text. Imagine the shame and the kick back you would be faced with such situation. In this very next tutorial I`m explaining how to find suitable hosts for you blog template images and css style.

First of all we need to know where to find the links to our images inside the template., therefore we need to login to our blog admin panel and visit the template/edit html area. Most templates hide the images inside the CSS Tags so this will be the first place to look. If you cant find the CSS tags look for a similar line of code :

<link href="http://somehost.com/somefolder/templatename/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

This is your template css style, visit this url in your browser and copy the content of it to your html at the exact position where
<link href="http://somehost.com/somefolder/templatename/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> was.
Now you host your css within blogger one less thing to worry. Its time to take a closer look on css and find the images. Look for similar lines of code and execute the red links in your browser and save the images.

#outer-wrapper {
width:950px;
background: #ffffff url("http://h1.ripway.com/jashanhoney/12/background1.jpg") repeat-y right top;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
font: $bodyFont;
}

The ideal solution would be to host your images on a payed hosting, you would`t have to worry that they will be broken at some time until you pay the bills. If you have a hosted website upload your blog images via ftp inside a folder and replace the links inside the html code.

Otherwise we need to find a suitable image host and there are plenty out there good and bad ones. Try to search for free image hosting inside your favorite search engine picoodle.com
has been proven to be good for me but you need to experiment a bit and see what works the best for you. The worst thing you could do is to leave the css style and images hosted on some private server, sooner or later your blog will be screwed.

Tags: image hosting, blog tutorial, css style