Are you one of the thousands of Blogger users who wakes up one morning only to find that your blog is missing all of it’s images? Yes, it’s a common problem especially these days when anyone and everyone is designing and distributing free Blogger templates. Don’t get me wrong, open source templates are a great thing but it definitely affects the quality of templates floating around the internet.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Conclusion

It would be nice if the template designer or the site you download the template from actually tells you what kind of image hosting they’re using. I don’t think that crosses their mind though and they’re just happy you downloaded the template and aren’t thinking about your long-term happiness.

So when downloading a new template, make sure to look at the template code to see where these images are hosted, how popular the template is, and if it’s worth sweating it out before spending a ton of time setting everything up. Different sites can offer the same free template but host the images on totally different servers. It’s all one big crap shoot and you don’t find out if you won or lost usually until the end of the month.

If you love the template and must have it on your blog, I’d recommend downloading it from eBlog Templates or hosting the images using your own image hosting site. The last thing you want is to find that come the end of the month, your blog is without any images.

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