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Recently, I stumbled upon a new template hidden deep in the recesses of the Blogger template gallery called Essential . Sneaking a new template into the gallery without an announcement is NOT cool Blogger Team! At first glance, Essential looks strikingly similar to Contempo , but, under the hood, they are slightly different. Informal testing using Google's Page Speed Insights utility showed about a 2% improvement in speed for Essential vs. Contempo . Some gadgets like the Report Abuse gadget have been moved out of the sidebar with Essential .

A while back, I created a gadget to convert Contempo into a Two-Column Layout . At one point, I had managed to do most of the heavy lifting using complicated CSS, but, ultimately, the CSS proved to be a bit flaky and would sometimes fail in some horribly noticeable way. One of the underlying issues was that every once in a while, an errant bold tag would show up among the post snippets and break the normal flow of the page. This errant bold tag was not noticeable in plain vanilla Contempo , but, would rear its ugly head when custom CSS was applied to post snippets that attempted to implement multiple-column layouts in Contempo using floats or other positioning techniques.