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For most of us ordinary denizens tweaking a blog can be painstakingly tedious. It will require countless browsing time and reading of message boards. Clicking link after link.

Sometimes you find what you’re looking for and sometimes these links can lead you to pornographic sites and viruses you don’t wanna deal with (it also will require countless of internet time in just finding the “cure”).

So, you have a blog and you’re stuck with generic templates. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a unique background? Wouldn’t it be nice to change the look of your blog at will?

After countless minutes of internet time, here are some of the few tricks I've encountered:

Blogger

This is pretty easy. Since acquiring Blogger, Google have constantly upgraded and provided updates for us not so tech-savvy (HTML codes are gibberish for me) people.

1. Makes sure you have a picture ready and save it at a free picture hosting site such as (imageshack, photobucket etc).

2. Open your blog and on the Dashboard click Layout>Edit HTML. Go to the code that says:

body {
background-image: url(http://img......jpg);

3. Insert your picture URL from the picture host and click preview. Do not save changes yet for it may not work the first time and you have to do it again. Just click “Clear Edits” to discard whatever changes you made and start again.

Blogdrive

It’s pretty much the same thing with Blogdrive. Go to your “Layout & Design” tab. On the lower part of the page click on “Main Template Edit”. Now if you’re not sure about this, copy and save the your existing Template code into a notepad for future reference in case you’ve deleted and saved something from within your main template.
Just paste the original code again into the main template.

Look for the code that looks like this:

body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: url("http://img...gif") repeat-y;

Change the http://img...gif using the URL from the free picture host. And viola! You have a unique background you can call your own.

Tweaking the HTML code of your blog is not easy. It requires patience and diligence and always, always save a back up file in case everything goes crazy, if all else fail, there's always "Pick a New Template".