Blogger Formatting

I've created a look and feel for my website,  but my blog is hosted by blogger so I couldn't plug it into the same framework.  Hence the look and feel was different.  I don't want anything flashy, just a standard blog, so I've been attempting to wade into creating my own blogger template.  The online documentation on page elements and widget tags, are insufficient for actually creating your own template.  There is no documentation on the widget types, or the data items available in the templating language of your page.  I've searched the web and found a couple of blog postings of "how tos" on creating your own templates, they were all far from complete.

To attempt to solve this, I've started with a standard template and am making minimal transformations, and it has now ended up looking mostly like the rest of the blog.  But it was done via a lot of manual effort.  It would be nice if blogger had a standard templating language, that was I could share it between my blog and the rest of my website.  I will continue my research to see if I can find anything more.