Templates Anyone?

This is the nth time I've changed the Layout design of my two blog. I wasn't happy with the one I picked the last time. I couldn't change its colors and fonts. It's a free template I downloaded from the web. That's not the only thing that got me frustrated though. The fact that my Internet connection was failing didn't help matters. Even if my connection is DSL it still acted like its prepaid meaning that connection was slow or none at all. Everything got messed up while I was trying to tweak my widgets. It was only today that I got to finalize it. I decided to stick with whatever templates blogger had to offer at least I didn't have to worry about the widgets I may have added. I'm not computer savvy that's why I can't customize the templates the way I'd want to. I tried once to study the HTML coding but after the first few lines it got a little blurry for me. I see other blogs and it fascinates me that they have beautiful designs sometimes I get how they do it but for the most part I just wonder.