I have to say...

I managed to get my blog template to work in BloggerBeta! It took a few heart pounding, stressful hours but it worked! I mainly used this tutorial from Lamplight Designs (look through the information in the comments section if you run into a problem!) and this tutorial for modifying a template also proved helpful (thanks to Sue for the link!).

Sue also provided this link for adding Haloscan commenting but it looks a little over my head. I tried to stick with regular Blogger commenting but I recieved three spam comments in an hour so I had to add word verification. Sorry for that!

If you have questions about customizing your template try the links above--just remember to back up your old template, just in case!