Introduction

You can define the look-and-feel of your blog by choosing a theme or by customizing the blog using the Templating System.

A theme is a pre-fabricated Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for what is known in the blog system as the style template. The blog system includes a number of themes from which you can choose any time to easily change the look of your blog. Every theme includes a number of components. A component is a pre-formatted element that is a specific part of a layout that can be put in the header, footer, or sidebar of a blog.

A template defines the different parts of a blog's layout by using variables and a scripting language. Templates can have different purposes, general or specific. For example, the base template defines the overall page layout for the blog whereas the article template defines a specific aspect of the blog, the article.

This document provides an authoritative reference for CSS styles and for the Templating System. The information is provided in three parts: CSS styles, templates, and the scripting language. Variables are addressed under their respective templates.