Syntax highlighting of blogger entries

When I was first introduced to blogging, I came across hundreds of blogs and after getting motivation from them I started my own blog. But after all this time, the only thing that worried me was that my blog doesn't look as cool and trendy( in looks ) as many other blogs out there. I finally found the answers...

• Themes and Layouts.
• Third party Scripts.
  

Themes and Layouts

Blogger allows you to customize the theme and layout of your blog using a plan ( almost ) html based template. I always wondered, it'd take me light years to come up with my own template. But luckily I don't have to put myself to such a torment after all; I found that there're thousands of templates that are available out there waiting for me to discover. I found this site very useful, it has really cool themes categorized into several categories. Now, I have limitless number of templates to choose from depending on my mood...

Third party Scripts

Since I can edit the template XML to my wish, I also started searching for code syntax highlighter to decorate my code snippets in my blog entries. I used to miss them alot as they certainly make a difference in presenting the code snippets. There's however, an open source solution available, to help us out here. Follow the guidelines in this blog and you'll have your personal code highlighter in no time.

These tools definitely going to help me continue blogging with more ease and elegance.