New Blogger Layouts Feature not compatible with FTP publishing

Background:
We needed a new blog publishing account at work for our Ruby on Rails Blog

We chose Google Blogger which in the past (whilst in Beta) has worked superbly for me.

Problem:
Customizing the layout in the new post-beta Blogger has a whole new tag library (eg. stuff like b:skin, b:section, b:widget etc. etc. instead of the old beta style: $BlogPageTitle$, $BlogMetaData$, $BlogItemTitle$ etc.)

Unfortunately, any layouts developed using this new tag library will not work if you want to use FTP/SFTP publishing because the Blogger application does not support these Templating layout tags for FTP/SFTP (Yet?).

This turned out to be a big waste of time in my case as we had a test blog set up to publish to blogspot which I used for template development (using the new templating tags) and when I tried to copy that template HTML over to our 'real' (Self-hosted, FTP-published) blog, the template tags failed to render.



Solution:
If you have set up the blog as hosted on blogspot.com and want to convert it to FTP publishing, you need to:
- Go to Template Tab > Edit HTML Screen
- Click the 'Revert to Classic Template' link
- Go to Settings Tab > Publishing Screen
- Click on the 'FTP' or 'SFTP' link and configure accordingly

Other Web Resources dealing with this Issue:
How can I use the new Blogger Layouts features?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=44474&useful=0&show_useful=1

Blogger Beta: Classic or Beta template?
http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2006/12/blogger-beta-classic-or-beta-template.html