Editing a Blogger Template

Nexus Zero

When I try and replace an XML Blogger template with my own, largely HTML-based template, I get the error message

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

Which is really helpful. Have I woken up in bizarro world where IMG tags are officially outdated? I'm not being a stick-in-the-mud (or perhaps I am), I just don't see why or how I'm being forced to sod around with complicated CSS when an IMG tag is so much simpler. Does anyone have any experience with these new Blogger templates and know what I have to do to make it display a basic layout?

SeñorAmor

XML is strict. You must have proper tags, including matching end tags, in the proper nested order.

For elements that have no end tag (like <img>), you must end the tag with a " />" (space, forward slash, greater than sign).

A proper image tag looks something like

[img]http://yoursite.com/path/to/image[/img]

Nexus Zero

Ah that explains something else that's been puzzling me, too. Thanks muchly, that worked perfectly :^: