Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Save your templates

Speaking of Alex and his vanishing templates, there is a simple solution.

Whether you use Blogger or some other tool like pMachine or Movable Type, you simply *must* save a copy of your template on your own computer.

Alex suffered a crash of his site and Blogger lost his template, forcing him to use one of their prepared versions.

Unfortunately, he wasn't using Blogrolling or some other outside linking server. That means he lost his entire blogroll as well.

4 comments:

Trinity said...

I don't understand blogrolling Bill. It's too complex :(

Billy Dennis said...

Actually, that's a very good suggestion.

I might take it a step further and create a whole new blog -- with the same settings, etc. -- that uses the seperate test template. It could remain a closed blog that no one could visit without a password.

Trinity said...

what are you two talking about. Some secret language?

clarrie said...

I understand them. I was thinking of having test-blog, too. I do like to tinker with my templates now and again. I also back up my template and my content once a month. I am such a good gurl.