I never really liked the revised "Template designer" from blogger. In our good old days when blogger was still young, we used to make the blog templates the old way: by getting our hands dirty with codes and all. But back then, it was easy for us to remove the Blogger Navbar...that annoying thing that announces to the world that you are running your blog on blogger.com without spending a dime.So, that is why I created this Navbar-less template. I tried many ways to remove it, but the Nav-bar just kept on coming. Finally, Madtoe's technique worked. You can download this basic template from here: 2shared.com. You can preview the design here. Some more tweaking of the template is required as of now. I will make the changes at a later date. Be warned thatsome of the features of the Template Designer doesn't work with this template.
When you upload the template, blogger will ask whether you want to delete widgets like attribution, etc. Click delete widgets.