Centering Sidebar Titles in Blogger

After making the switch back to Blogger as my host (even though they still haven’t fixed the blog search!), I used the same template that I had used before. It’s the Grey Blogger Theme from lawnydesigns.com . I didn’t like the default color, so I had changed that some time back.

Once I was moved back in, I decided that I didn’t like that the titles for the widgets in the sidebar were all left justified. I wanted them all to be centered, as I thought that would be a cleaner look.

I went to Edit HTML in the Layout section and looked through the code and found that the side bar widgets could be surrounded with a div expression:

The picture shows how it looked in my case. All I did was look for “sidebar” in the code. Your template may have a different design, but I think it could be made to work just the same.

Update:

I’ve switched to one of the new Template Designer templates that Blogger came out with on 3/11. I don’t know at this time whether I’ll keep it or not. (03/15/10)

Update 2:

I’ve switched back to my web hosting account and WordPress.  What I mentioned above still works for Blogger templates, though. (03/17/10)