I recently got this comment:
xxx-xxxxxxx.com offers professional web templates, flash templates, swish templates, dreamweaver templates and other web design products available for immediate download..........
Of course this is an advertisement for blog templates but it does go to show you that there are many different websites online where you can download free blog templates that you can use on your own blog.
I really don't have an opinion yet on which is the best third-party template website and what I think may be good templates - you may feel a different way. So the best advice that I can give is that if you see a template that you like and want to use it for yourself, then you should first check and see whether or not a link is provided to where you can download the template.
If you're just looking for other blog templates that you can use, just use one of the search engines to find different websites that have blog templates on them (and I can guarantee that there are a LOT of them out there)!
"Where Can I Find Different Blog Templates?"
If Your Template Is Not Being Accepted............
it probably means that there is some kind of missing or corrupted coding in the template.
With all of the different third-party blog templates that I have added to this blog, about half of them I have had to "tweak" in some way in order for them to be accepted. And in one case I found that even the tweaking will not work if the template doesn't provide for it!
Unfortunately if you have a specific blog template that you want to use for your blog and it is not being accepted by Blogger.com then you will have to go into the coding of the template to find the coding that is keeping it from being accepted!
*Please be sure to visit my BX Error Codes Blog to see the blog posts relating to bx error codes having to do with problems adding / uploading blog templates.
"Your HTML Can Not Be Accepted"
This simply means that the template that you are adding or editing has some missing or corrupt coding that Blogger.com can not accept!
Really the only solution is for you to go through the coding of your template and find out why it's not being accepted by Blogger.com!
If you are sure that it's not the template that is causing the problem then you can report the problem that you are having to Blogger.com. You can find the link to reporting your problem to Blogger.com by going to my BX Error Code Blog and clicking on the link that is provided on the right side of the blog.
"What Happens To My Posts If I Upload A New Blog Template?
Actually changing the template shouldn't have any effect on your blog posts - even those blog posts that are archived! Even if and when you change your blog's template all of your posts should still be there.
It's the other gadgets and other things that you have added to your blog that will have to be re-added if you change your template.
