Making a headers template for Google Blogger

Section headers can help make your Google Blogger posts (documents or articles) more readable and clear. This document shows how you can create section headers, and then use them in any document that you think requires them.

Although you need not use headers in every post, they can enhance any document in which you wish to highlight its organization. For example, in this document, I am using section headers to present two topics:

• Creating your headers template
• Using your template headers

Creating your headers template
You use this procedure to create a headers template similar to Figure 1.

Figure 1 - Example headers template

These are only example header styles; modify them as you wish. To create your headers template, do the following:

1. If you haven't yet created a blog (weblog) through Blogger, go to the Blogger Getting Started Guide.
2. Open Blogger, click Design, click New post, and then type Headers template in the Post title field.
3. Create your level-1 section header as follows:
1. Type your level-1 header in the default style (Normal), type some text for your new section immediately below its header, and then select (highlight for editing) the level-1 header text.
2. Using the icons in the Blogger formatting toolbar, set Font to Ariel, set Font size to Large, click Bold, and then set Text color to dark red as shown in Figure 2.

   

   Figure 2 - Formatting text in level-1 template header

4. Create your level-2 section header as follows:
1. Type your level-2 header, type " - " (space, dash symbol, space), type some text for your new section, and then select the level-2 header text and its dash symbol.
2. Set Font to Times, set Font size to Large, click Bold, and then set Text color to dark blue.
5. Create your level-3 section header as follows:
1. Type your level-3 header, type " - " (space, dash symbol, space), type some text for your new section, and then select the level-3 header text and its dash symbol.
2. Set Font to Times, set Font size to Normal, click Bold, and then set Text color to dark green.
6. Click Preview to verify that your headers appear correctly.
7. Click Save and then click Close.
8. Go to the Using your template headers section below.

Using your template headers
You never publish your headers template because you only copy its template headers and paste them into other documents that you do publish. To copy your template headers into a new document, do the following:

1. Open Blogger, click Design, click Posts, click Draft, and then click Headers template to open it
2. Select all three headers, press Ctrl+C to copy them, and then click Close.
3. Click New post, type a document name in the Post title field, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the template headers into your new document.
4. If you need headers while writing your document, copy each header, paste it where you need it, and then type over its header text. Start with at least two level-1 headers. Likewise, if you need any subheaders, use at least two level-2 subheaders under any level-1 header; and at least two level-3 subheaders under any level-2 subheader.
5. When you finish writing your document, remove the template headers.