
Imagine this. You’re working hard on your blog design, making changes on the sidebar, adding images to your footer. Ahh you know, I’ll change that text into another colour and font. Maybe I’ll change the margin to the image, shift it further to the right.
You’re hard at work, making all these changes, unaware that you’ve actually deleted some lines in your code. You click on the Save button. When you refreshed your blog, OMGWTFBBQ and all that, it’s wonky. The changes you wanted aren’t there! Why is the sidebar shoved all the way to the bottom of the page? Where’s the text? Why is the header not showing? OMG I BROKE MY BLOG!
The problem is, you’re not the only one seeing all these changes. Assuming that it’ll take you at least several hours to find and troubleshoot the problems, all your readers and visitors who access your blog will see the unsightly changes too. It might be a while before things go back to normal. If this happens during the week and you simply do not have the time to fix it till the weekend, it will be days of wonky and messy layout.
Yikes.
So the question is: How do you make changes to your blog design without doing it on your actual blog?
I’m sure every blogger has his/her way of going about this issue. Today, I’m going to share mine with you.
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