Drupal: Customize blog post "submission" area?

Question

I created my own node-blog.tpl.php - I'm looking to modify this code:

<?php if ( $submitted ):?>
<span class="submitted"><?php echo $submitted;?></span>
<?php endif; ?>

I need to re-arrange the structure of the contents of the $submitted variable.

Answer 1

Investigate http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_node_submitted/6
You can retheme it in template.php or remove print $submitted and print manually username and created as you want...

Answer 2

There's also http://drupal.org/project/submitted_by