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I’m not sure if you mean that you want to write a blog but don’t want the templates that come provided with places like Blogger… or if you mean you would like to use the content from another blog – not written by you – on your web site.
If it is the former, what you do is: create an account on Blogger. Go ahead an pick a template. It isn’t going to matter. Follow the directions onscreen until you get to where you can start dinking with the blog’s settings. Click on “Template.” Now, here’s the tricky bit: you’re going to be looking at a screen full of code. Read through it until you see a tag that says . Start selecting the code, and keep highlighting it until you see a tag that reads . Don’t close your browser window, though! Now, copy what you’ve highlighted and go to your web page editor, like Notepad or Dreamweaver or whatever. Open up a sample page from your already-created web site and save it as blog.html or whatever. Now, wherever you want the blog content to appear, paste the code you’ve copied into your web page code. Now, read through the code, and, if you find anything that references a sidebar, delete it. Save your file and preview it in your browser. You’re going to see a bunch of strange code in your file. That’s normal since it isn’t uploaded to your site yet. Go through the code one more time, checking for code references to things you don’t want. Now, highlight all your code in your web page file, and then go back to your Blogger template. Select ALL the code there, and paste in your new code. Save your settings, but don’t republish yet. Now, go set your FTP settings, your archive settings, etc. Once you’re finished with all of that, go make a test post. Publish it. Then, view your blog. It should look like your web page. If anything looks screwy, go mess around with the code in the template section until it looks right. And, I can’t stress this enough: make sure all your settings in Blogger are correct. It can mess stuff up in a big way.
If you meant that you wanted someone else’s blog content for your site, you need to set up an RSS feed to post to your site. There are lots of tutorials on the ‘Net to do that, and several free services as well, that are simply “cut-and-paste” code.