Customizing the blog

Ok I read on the forums that it seems that the main blog page cannot be customized outside the template without some major .xml coding.
However is there a way to get the formatting and colors to remain constat each time I click "New Entry" or is it going to load up the default template everytime?
Most of the other restrictions in iWeb it seems you can work around with, but these issues with the blog and not being able to change things are really killer. The blog part of the page is probably one of the most important for most people's sites.

However is there a way to get the formatting and
colors to remain constat each time I click "New
Entry" or is it going to load up the default template
everytime?
There really isn't a good way to do this. If it were any other template page, you could make your changes and then keep this page "invisible" to your viewers by unchecking the "include in navigation menu" box. Then you could just duplicate the page with all your custom changes in order to produce a new page with this custom "template". however with a blog entry, there really is no way to not show the blog entry once published. Unless of course you create another Blog and keep this "invisible" and then customize a blog entry template. Then you could just copy and paste it to a blog entry on the displayed blog. Confusing, isn't it?
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