Blogger Template Info
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- Added: Feb 25th, 2008
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Ads Theme Template
If you’re looking for a new Blogger template, you came at the right time. Hands down, this is the best template we’ve converted here at eBlog Templates. It’s a wonderful web 2.0 popular blog layout with some great built in ad spots (hence the template name) and features.
It’s either a two or 3 column template (you can change it on the fly) so you get the best of both worlds. This Blogger template is what I call a “powerhouse” template since almost all the features you need are already built in. On top of that, it’s quite easy to setup and makes your blog look like a professional site without much effort.
I predict this template will be a top template on this site within a few months, if not weeks. With the amount of effort that went into converting this template and attention to details, I sure hope you appreciate this free amazing new xml Blogger/Blogspot template.
Features Include
- Two or Three right side columns which are easy to switch (default is three)
- Three great location ad spots (header banner 468 x 60, three 125 x 125 buttons in sidebar, and a 468 x 60 AdSense banner above the first post)
- Integrated Feedburner rss and subscribe via email sidebar module (also includes “add to favorites” Technorati link)
- Built-in live traffic feed widget from FEEDJIT
- Built-in MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog recent reader widgets
- Dynamic tabs easily created by editing the link list widget
- Search box without the need for a “go” button
- Recent posts and comments widgets
- Nicely designed individual blog post comments section
- Properly setup Blogger layout editor
You can see from this screenshot that the actual editor is nicely setup so you don’t need to scroll or try and figure out how to click on the “edit” widget links. Most templates that you download make it tough to edit — not this one!
This template does require some configuration in order to get it working as designed. Please follow the steps below if you’d like it to work properly. I also recommend backing up your existing template before changing just in case you run into any problems. You could also setup a new Blogger blog as a test area and try installing it there first.
Top Tabs Setup
When you first install this template the top tabs will not be visible which is normal. You’ll need to go into the Blogger page element layout editor and edit the “Top Tabs” widget. It’s a link list so just add whatever tabs you want. Don’t add a “Home” tab since it will automatically appear once you create and save the tab widget.
Header Ad Banner
The default banner is hardcoded into the template but will disappear when you add anything to this widget. It’s an HTML widget so you can put the banner ad code straight into this box. This widget can also be deleted if you don’t have a 468 x 60 and you’ll just be left with the black header. Here’s the default ad code if you want to use it as a model:
<a href="http://www.linkworth.com?a=10230" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.linkworth.com/adm/affiliate_manager/affiliate_banners/bann-36.gif" border="0" />
</a>
FeedBurner RSS and Email Links
To get this section working you’ll first need to have a FeedBurner account. If you don’t already have one, please read the “How to Setup FeedBurner on Blogger” article and then come back. Another option is to just delete this widget if you’re not interested in knowing your subscriber count or allowing your readers an easy way to subscribe.
Once you’ve got your FeedBurner account, you’ll need to edit this template code and replace a few parts. Search your template code for the following line <!-- Replace Your RSS, RSS Email Subscription, and Technorati --> and then look right below that for the rss feed link.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/<strong>YOUR-FEED-NAME-HERE</strong> . Replace the text in red with your FeedBurner name (i.e. eBlogTemplates is ours)
Next we’ll need to update the subscribe via email link with your feed id. You’ll need to make sure to enable subscribe via email within FeedBurner otherwise this part won’t work.
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=YOUR-FEED-ID-HERE&loc=en_US
After you’ve changed both of these areas save your template and check to see if it works. If you’re having trouble finding your feed name or id, please read our article above or see FeedBurner’s help section to locate it.
125 x 125 Ad Section
These are the three ads in the right sidebar which you need to edit the template code to change. Search the template code for <!– Replace with your 125 x 125 ads –> and then look right below that for the three lines of ad code which are:
<a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com/home.page?referrer=7116002"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/eblogtemplates/adstheme/banner-widgetbucks.gif" border="0px" /></a> <a href="http://www.linkworth.com/?a=10230"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/eblogtemplates/adstheme/banner-linkworth2.gif" border="0px" /></a> <a href="http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=2164"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/eblogtemplates/ads/text_link_ads_F_125x125.gif" border="0px" /></a>
If you’ve got ads to place in here, then just paste the code into the template. I recommend signing up for your own Text Link Ads account and using them. Each referral you convert, you get $20 (or $25 I forget). If you don’t have ads to use, you can either leave our default ads or delete this widget altogether.
Recent Posts and Comments Widgets
This one is easy to setup since we’ve already written an entire article dedicated to this. Please see “How to Setup Recent Comments and Posts Widgets” to configure these two widgets.
Recent Readers Widget
You’ll need to have MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog accounts if you want to use this widget. The default widget will show the original author’s pictures so please either delete this widget or change the account ids to your own. Once you’ve setup these up, then edit the template code and search for <!-- Replace "2007112507294841" with your your mybloglog id --> and then replace the account numbers with yours.
Live Traffic Feed Widget
This is a really cool feature within this template and the best part is you don’t need to do anything to setup it up! There are some further options if you click on “options >>” on your actual blog page under the widget but that’s it.
You should now have the template all setup and ready to go. I hope you enjoy this beauty and please make sure to keep the footer links intact since numerous hours of my time and the original designer were put into making it. That’s all we ask for giving away this template! Enjoy!
Special thanks to Eric over at Blogging Secret for designing this wonderful template originally for WordPress.
Revision History
Update (3/3/08) - Per a couple requests and to make this template even more flexible, I’ve changed how underlined links are handled. You can now edit the underlined color via the Blogger “Fonts and Colors” section along with 10+ additional other color variables. Less work for you having to mess with the .css template code now.
Update (3/5/08) - Added in post author tags so you can toggle the “By Author Name” within the posts. Also compressed the css so the file is much slimmer and cleaner.
Update (3/14/08) - The individual posts Google AdSense code block was missing and has now been added to the template code.
Update (4/18/08) - Fixed layout screen so the two widgets aren’t overlapping.
Want to make your blog stand out from the crowd? I recommend giving your newly downloaded Blogger template a unique and personalized look. Read our Free Blogger Header Images article and find yourself a great custom header image!
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261 Responses to “Ads Theme”
4:11 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hey david, you rock! I love this template. I am using your polaroid theme but this one looks very very professional too. I might change my template again…hehhehe.. thanks for this.. do help me if have problems.. thanks..
4:31 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
wow, this one’s great! I’ll use it for a new blog I’m setting up. thanks.
4:50 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Glad you like it Lady. Please make sure to keep the footer credit links though. I noticed you removed them from your current WP-Polaroid template you downloaded from our site.
No links, no support. 
6:12 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hey david, i did not remove it.. wait ill check it..
you are right there’s no link pointing to you. sorry about that.. i must have unknowingly deleted the link when I deleted the chitika code.. can you provide me with the link so that i can place it the footer. You deserve the credit and i am ashamed of my innocent mistake..
6:20 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
i made a temporary link, but i will wait for the link code coming from you..
7:10 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@lady, thanks for the quick fix. You’d be amazed at how many people who download our templates remove the links with no respect for the effort it took in making the template free for them. I appreciate your honesty and adding the link back. That link is fine.
10:00 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
great post… i haven’t seen this template as a blogger template till now!
11:51 am on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks for your long post to promote my wordpress theme, I appreciate your hard work! Great description and explanation!
6:43 pm on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Androo, yes eBlog Templates is the first to have converted this template from WordPress. I’m sure you’ll start seeing it pop-up on other sites soon since we’ve released it for free here.
6:44 pm on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Eric, no problem. It’s a great WordPress template and I appreciate all your hard work in designing it! Now Blogger users can benefit from it too.
7:48 pm on February 25th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
you are right david.. i too made a template before, it was more of a modification basing from a premade template. i added my “modified by link” but then the user deleted all the links, including that of the original template maker.. .. some people do that.
you give the templates for free but they don’t give you credit. Same thing was experienced by jack of jackbook.
There’s karma and it will come to everyone!
7:17 am on February 26th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
great template with awesome features.
I would love a template with similar features that is suitable for a football blog as I have one.(my colours are red, black and white)
can the colours of this template be changed?
7:25 pm on February 27th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Faizan, you can change all the colors but you’ll need to edit the .css in the code directly. I’ve only setup the template to change font size and color for the header title and descriptions from within Blogger.
10:43 am on February 28th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi David
Firstly, many thanks for sharing this wonderful template of yours.
Could you assist me - I have downloaded yr template, but when I ‘preview’ it, it reads:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The document type declaration for root element type “html” must end with ‘>’.
Can I know how to fix it?
Thanks.
2:49 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks for this nice template
SMSreports
5:51 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
nice theme..
can you convert this wordpress theme
5:53 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
can u convert this wordpress theme to blogger
5:56 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
sorry heres the site
http://justintadlock.com/options/
6:59 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi John,
Fixed the error. A lil blur. Lol. Thanks for the template
7:55 am on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@John, good suggestion…that WordPress theme looks great. Please make the suggestion on the following article “what blogger template should I make next” contest for a chance to win a free template link!
7:05 pm on February 29th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks man for this awesome template…really great site..
10:18 pm on March 1st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
The Tabs button was advertised as a tab widget that saved people from having to reload. That’s why I downloaded and installed it. Now here you say it’s just a link list. That’s really disappointing. Is there anyway to alt the html so the tabs feature IS Actually a tab feature?
4:11 am on March 2nd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hello David,
I added this template to my blog at http://www.freeappleipodtouch.com
but Google Adsense is not showing in between my posts. Because of this I’m losing a lot of money. Please help me fix this issue. How do I add Google Adsense in between the posts? ( I selected the option in the settings but the Ads are not showing) Please help. Thanks!
- Jake
8:42 am on March 2nd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
old hack, unfortunately it’s not an easy modification. Most header tabs are designed to take someone to another page. How would it work if your tab was a link to another site?
8:47 pm on March 2nd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi there, I used this for my own blog at vietblogviet.blogspot.com. I guess this original theme is designed by Blog Oh Blog for WP them converted to blogger with more features, i love it. Please tell me how to make the post title to blue color and hyperlinks in posts to blue colors too. Thanks
3:02 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Excellent template. I’ve been through about 4 different template designs (not Blogger’s) in the past few weeks, this one is a keeper. Love how I’m able to use the Page Elements the way they’re supposed to be used; most 3rd party templates turn things upside down…
One thing. The “top tabs” aren’t locked into the search banner. If the page is resized horizontally they float off the header or through it. For awhile I thought I had messed up the coding while I was tweaking things, but I checked the demo link here and it does the same thing. Any thoughts?
3:04 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Update: This only happens in IE.
Ah well, who cares about IE anyway!
3:49 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi David
Could you advise on how do we edit the Archives that allow users to select the month, rather than open all at once?
Thanks.
6:45 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Tinh, yes you can change the colors but you’ll need to edit the .css code within the template code. If you aren’t familiar with .css then I recommend finding a tutorial online and go from there. Good luck!
6:49 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@QuaChee, if you edit the archive widget within blogger, you should be able to change the layout there.
6:50 am on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@pyrexia, thanks for the heads up. Some people still do use IE (they haven’t seen the light yet..hehe) so it’s good to know about the top tab bug.
1:33 pm on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Well Well guys
… yeap I openned my eyes and so the “Recent Comments” underline on my template and not in the http://vietblogviet.blogspot.com/ from Tinh
Well Well guy
Did I miss some tricks ?
I prefer not to see this underlines … some solutions around ?
Thanks for your adviese David.
SMSreports
6:03 pm on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I had to steal the tabs widget from the demo’s source and replace the one built in with the demo’s before I could modify it so that “Home” didn’t direct ppl to ‘blogger’.
is there any tutorial you could advise me towards. I’m sure it’s just a simple directive. How does the demos tabs work? its in the demo’s template but not in the downloadable template.
6:20 pm on March 3rd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@old hack, the demo template is the exact same as the downloadable version. The home tab is just a hardcoded li element with an a href=”/” (which is your root). I’m not sure why yours sends people to the blogger homepage. hmmm
12:49 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hey dave..
i got a problem with the links having underlines. coz even photos within a post has an underline if its got a link.
tried to locate it in the code but i couldnt find it..
any advise?
1:02 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Rey, just looked at your blog and there don’t seem to be any photos (that I could find) with underlines. Both your Maroon5 photos look fine. Am I missing something?
1:06 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi David, actually I really love this theme no matter where it is from but I would like some tricks to make title of the post and hyperlink underline to be unique such as blue color, not the same with the text to make users not confused of my posts. Thanks
1:12 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Rey,
I had the same problem, was driving me nuts. Look for the line ‘border-bottom: #222 solid 1px;’ comment it out or just delete it (don’t forget to backup your template). It’s in 7 different locations in the head element:
.blog-pager a
.feed-links a
.entrytitle h2 a
.entrytitle h2 a:hover
.post a, .commentlist a, .navigation a
.comments a {
.comment-footer a {
2:30 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@DAVE
sorry mate. i may have deleted the fotos right before u checked it.. my bad. sorry for that..
@PYREXIA
yer a champ man!.. thanx for the tip.. cheers.
3:50 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
No prob, hth.
4:34 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Rey and Pyrexia, thanks for your feedback. I’ve updated the template code so it doesn’t include those border-bottom tags anymore. On top of that, I added 10 or so new color variables you can adjust via the Blogger “Fonts and Colors” setting tab. You’ll of course have to download it again if you wish to get the updates.
4:34 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
i think i did a pretty good modification of this template..
chek out me page guys:
http://www.headspinz.com
5:28 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi David,
Why are my “Recent Comments” underline ?
Thanks !
SMSreports
5:44 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Rey, looks great, nice blend, easy on the eyes. Having Ramiele grace your blog doesn’t hurt one bit. However, I have a feeling you might regret removing those cool tabs…I did.
@David, of course today there are “10 or so new color variables you can adjust via the Blogger “Fonts and Colors” setting tab”. I spent most my day yesterday figuring out the color scheme and which element did what. But, I do know the code much better, and what does what, so I won’t complain.
Love the comments setup here (hint hint)
Any comments on my newly redesigned blog? Ignore the obnoxious orange, it can’t be helped (team color). I can take criticism, so have at it.
http://bloggerny.blogspot.com
5:56 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@pyrexia/rey- Sorry guys, I guess that’s what happens when you’re an early adopter. Happened with me when I purchased the iPhone before the $200 price cut (in the US).
Both your customizations look great! Rey, I really like your color scheme and header image. Pyrexia, I’d like yours better if it was a SF Giants blog instead of the NY Mets. lol It’s good to see lots of different spin offs of this template.
fyi, we’re going to be launching a new section here at some point called something like “What have you done with your template”. It’s going to be a place where Bloggers like you can submit your customized templates and get featured on our site. Should be pretty cool.
6:04 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@DAVE
youre the man!..hehehe
@PYREXIA:
yea man.. huge mistake taking out those tabs.. so gotta put them back in.. *siff… looks much better this time though..
BUT FINALLY!! I FINISHED MY LAYOUT!!!.. WOOOT..HEHE.
CHECK IT OUT:
http://www.headspinz.com
6:17 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Sounds good Dave, I’d love to see what else is being done to this template, seems like we’ve only scratched the surface…
@Rey, congrats! Feels good doesn’t it…until you say to yourself, “You know, what if I did this…”
7:56 am on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Dave
… i just repeat my question
Why by me are my “Recent Comments” underline ?
Thanks !
SMSreports
2:26 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hello
i have a problem. In my site i have a lot of authors and in this template the authors’ name in every post don’t exist. why?
2:45 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@nick In the ‘Main’ section look for the following, it will be directly before .
Change to:
at |
Experiment (and save regularly) a little, its not hard to figure out where things are.
@SMSReports, read comment #37.
2:47 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Woops! Try this…
@nick In the ‘Main’ section look for the following, it will be directly before
.Change
to:at |Experiment (and save regularly) a little, its not hard to figure out where things are.
2:53 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Last try:
@nick In the ‘Main’ section look for the following, it will be directly before ‹div class=’post-header-line-1′/›.
Change ‹data:post.timestamp/› to:
‹data:top.authorLabel/› ‹data:post.author/› at ‹data:post.timestamp/› |
6:03 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
thank you very much
and a last one. Can i edit my post without go to the Dashboard?
In the other template version it has a tool next to the post.
thanks
10:28 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
i have made template from here..its very nice..thanks much…
10:44 pm on March 4th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@ pyrexia
ok thanks, i didn’t understand that it was the same topic
SMSreports
12:23 am on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Nick, what’s your blogger url? I can take a look for you. The tool icon wasn’t added to this template so that’s probably why you don’t see it. For most, it’s more of an annoyance that anything so I just removed it.
6:30 am on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I’ve been looking for a professional template for over 3 months and this is the first one I not only like but am satisfied with. I will attempt to use it and hopefully it will work well, unlike the hundreds I have tried before. I will let you know. Thank you so much!
NIGERIAN CURIOSITY
IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER WHEN I ONLY HAD ONE…
8:24 am on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
questions
how do i show the post by
how do i show the day
and the last one
how do i delete the time
8:41 pm on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I just used this template for my blog and I love it. It’s so clean and well organized. Hope you don’t mind that I changed the font family to Georgia to match the look of my old blog. One problem: when I create a new post, it only lists the time stamp, not the date. Could you tell me how to fix that?
9:19 pm on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hi! got lots of prob in converting my template to this beautiful one you have here. i already did a revert into classic template…then copy and paste the xml codes…but an error still occurs sying its not well parsed and not well-formed. SOS please. good thing i already copied the html codes of my widgets before i lost them.
your help is greatly appreciated sir!
10:30 pm on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Jason, you are free to modify the template as you like.
Regarding the date stamp, you need to go into your page element editor and edit the “blog posts” element. There you can select the date/timestamp format you want.
10:31 pm on March 5th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@brix, I’m not sure what it could be. You should setup a new blog within blogger and try testing it there first. Each troubleshooting case is unique so I can’t keep up with everyone!
6:43 am on March 6th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks for the quick response, David. I did go to the blog post element and the time date is checked. It’s still not displaying it though. Is there a way for me to edit the html directly?
You can see it here:
http://doodlewhore.blogspot.com/
1:15 pm on March 6th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I thought I would finally come by and let you know how much I love this template. I’ve been able to set ads in it and am playing around in the HTML to become familiar with it. I posted a request a few days ago but decided to change the name and URL of my blog so you probably could not find it. I figured it out.
The problem: I could not upload the template. It would not parse. Not being a techie, I did not know how to unzip the file. I use to have this winzip on my computer but don’t anymore. My son is a web developer and use to take care of these things. But I have to now.
Answer: I found the unzip feature integrated in Windows on my computer. Thank God! After I learned to do that it loaded easily! I like messing around with HTML so that part is okay by me.
I have 2 things that are a problem:
1. I tried to replace the 125 x 125 ads with my own in the lay-out editor because one ad from Amazon would not parse in the edit HTML
So I placed them in the Lay-out editor instead (add a page element)but they won’t show up.
Another ad from Amazon fit in the header banner just fine from the Lay-out editor. No problem. Looks nice. Got any ideas how to fix this?
2. How do I put the date header and published by information in the posts. Only comments and time show up.
Hope this isn’t too long a comment.
Thank you so much for the templates. They are great! Hope the unzip information helps someone. I found the answer through a search.
4:03 pm on March 6th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Vanessa, glad you like the template and learned a few new things in the process. Some ads don’t always work with Blogger because of the way they are coded. You can usually get them to work if you change the invalid characters to ascii but usually that’s too technical for most casual Bloggers to fix. What’s the exact error message you’re getting?
Regarding the date stamp and published by info — first off, did you recently download this template? If you downloaded it after 3/5/08 then you’re ok. If you downloaded it before then, the “published by” info wasn’t included in the template and if you want that feature you’ll have to download it again (sorry). The date feature is in both versions and in order to add it, you need to go into your page element editor and edit the “blog posts” element. There you can select the date/timestamp format, etc.
11:31 pm on March 6th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thank you all, thanks friends, thanks all to virtual friends.. and a very Billion Thanks to you New Friends for giving this template free in this internet.
Gush i almost stuck with 3 column template.. and at last i visit this link.. and you are giving me a lot lot of idea how to customize my blog…
Thanks soooo Much..
2:19 pm on March 7th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Help! I get the following error message after uploading the XML and confirming the widget deletion:
“We are sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.
When reporting this error to Blogger Support or on the Blogger Help Group, please:
* Describe what you were doing when you got this error.
* Provide the following error code and additional information.
bX-4smx9i”
Any idea why this might be happening?
2:40 pm on March 7th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Okay, so now I’ve opened the XML document and copied and pasted it into the Blogger html area and now I’m getting this message when trying to preview:
“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 document type declaration for root element type “html” must end with ‘>’.”
Grrr. It looks like such a great layout and I’m dying to use it
2:57 pm on March 7th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Okay third and last comment. You can delete the last two. I am officially a retard. The problem seemed to be that I had some left-over widgets from a previous template hanging around. Once I deleted them the XML uploaded just fine and it’s looking fantastic!
Thanks for all your hard work creating this template
3:20 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I’ve got the template working fine, great work. Just a question: I want to upload my own header image. Can you tell me what dimensions (in pixels) the image should be? Thanks.
3:25 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
PS I want to include a mailto contact tab but Blogger won’t allow the mailto html in the links page element. Anyone know a workaround for this?
4:37 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Sam, not sure. You’ll just have to try different size headers and see which one works best. Regarding the mailto, you could probably hardcode in a tab. Just search the tab code for “Home” and then create a duplicate one for mailto. Good luck!
7:26 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
David,
I cant get my javascript widgets to display my “shopping ads” links, and “text-link-ads” javascript. Can you help?
9:32 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Sam S: I believe the default size in the template is 902px x 100px. I increased the height of that setting to 250px accommodate the header image I’m using (in the #header element). The width is a tougher proposition, aesthetically speaking (assuming you’re leaving the width(s) of everything else the same).
9:34 am on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Type correction: default header image setting is 920px x 100px.
5:07 pm on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Mister Jester, what type of error are you getting?
6:53 pm on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
David,
No error anymore, it was blogger’s fault. I understand some of the javascript might not function. No biggie. I have spent quite a bit of time modding the template to my needs.
http://www.dealmoneyblog.com (click my name above)
You can see how I used this template to my advantage.
7:14 pm on March 8th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Great template, but I am also having problems with the 125×125 ads section:
It keeps telling me to add a semi-colon after all the free-standing letters in my URLs and once I do that, it returns some cryptic error about how delineator {1} is expected to point to a border or some-such nonsense…
I am going to just delete the widget and do the whole thing in an HTML box, but I noticed other comments regarding this and thought I would mention it.
Thanks again for all the work you’ve done on this great template!
6:02 am on March 9th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Nice looking blog Mister Jester. Great use of the sidebar and custom header image.
7:10 am on March 9th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks David, great work converting the template. One of the easier transitions for blogger users.
8:06 am on March 10th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I want to put in the Add This bookmark so it appears in each post. Where should I place the code?
9:51 pm on March 10th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thank you very much for template. I am using my web site
11:40 pm on March 10th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hey man, I am sorry to bother you again (by the way, I believe I was having issues changing the ads because I was not using XML code for it, so for the other commenters who were also having issues, see if your ad-provider has XML coding for your ads - otherwise, simply delete the widget and replace it with an HTML widget with three 125×125 ads - it works fine).
Where is the title.data to change the title font!? I am a neophyte at CSS and I cannot follow what is going on. I tried adding an entry font variable and it appears in the menu, but it does not change on the page. I tried adding it to the CSS, but it did not change. There is no Blogger variable ($blogentrytitle) and I did not find the $BlogBody element. I found the title.data call, but not the defining entry…
???
I would like to change the title fonts to be congruent with the rest of the fonts on the pages. Thanks!
6:59 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@ManoDogs, The title should be changeable within the blogger “fonts and colors” section assuming you downloaded the template within the last couple of weeks. Prior to that this template didn’t have that feature setup and you had to muck with the css to get it to work.
7:30 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Jason, take a look at this post in our forum.
8:22 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hey David,
Have to say this is the first template that has ever worked for me and I tried close to a dozen last year. Gave up test sites because of it. I’d rather be blogging and writing and other stuff.
I commented a few days ago about the section of code for the author and date etc. I could not think about downloading the updated template again.
A whole block of code was missing from the template that is standard in new blogger. The code starts here
It ends just above back links.
So I got the code from another template and added it to the template code. I’m going to keep working on it until I get it all right.
Now I have two date stamps but I have the posted by. I decided to add a date calendar widget to the template until I can figure it out.
It doesn’t work to go to add page element and check the information for author, pencil edit, etc. Nothing happens.
Any ideas…
8:28 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I’m sorry I forgot it was code I was copying and pasting in, and it didn’t show up in my last comment.
The block of code that was missing from your template begins with–
div class=’post-header-line-1′/
It ends just above–
backlinks
I’m not a code person so it is taking me awhile to figure this all out.
Any ideas…
8:54 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Thanks, David! The Blog Title itself works fine in the Fonts & Colors section, but the entry titles (the title of each, individual post) is what I want to change and I can’t seem to find where to change that.
If it makes it any easier, I just want to change them all to show up as Georgia (which is what I have the Blog Title set to). Thanks again!
11:04 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@Vanessa, sorry it’s caused you some trouble but at least the template is working as a whole. I’d recommend downloading the template again but you don’t have to use it. Just open it up and compare the two sections from your old and new one. Then copy over the code that’s missing. Hopefully that will make things easier for you.
11:10 pm on March 11th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@ManoDogs, the entry titles is called “Entry Title Color” in the fonts and colors section. So you can change the color of it. You can’t as you obviously discovered, change the font from there. You’ll need to edit your .css code in the template and look for “.entrytitle h2″. Add a new line called “font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;” and change the family to “Georgia” (don’t forget the ; at the end). That should do it.
9:23 am on March 12th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hi david
tried that. but the best i could get is a flat listing of all the months ive posted. ie. since month 1.
just afraid when it goes very long next time…
5:47 pm on March 13th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
david…
the templates is axcellent
thanks
6:09 pm on March 13th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hai rey…
i already saw your site.. that’s cool man..
how do you do that?
honestly.. i don’t know much how to edit this templates.. but i want to learn more..
if you donot mind can you send me the code of your site? or teach me ? thanks
2:32 am on March 14th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hi david…
1. i have question to you..
in layout >> page elemant in my blog templates. i do not see Archives, Recent Comments and live Trafic feed element.
but its appear when i type my blog addrees in windows.
2. if i add new element to the templates, the bottom element (i mean “adsense” element) is missing. is it not enough space or what?
and also part of footer is missing too..
can you help me..? please
thanks
2:46 pm on March 14th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
@90 (David):
That did it! Thanks a million!
Sorry - I have been including the URL of my regular blog in the form. I am using this template on a blog that I do not want listed/promoted/marketed as an individual blog; I am using it as a CMS for text pieces and integrating it into my website. The URL I am using this template on is at:
http://rpg.theweirding.net/
Thanks again!
4:12 am on March 16th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
heya dave..
im one of the first to experiment with the codes before the updated one so basically i got the original.
but anyway. i just found out that i cant edit my archive. like i cant do a drop down, hierarchy, nor add my calendar archieve tweak..
any advice on this mate?..
cheers.
6:00 pm on March 16th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hi david..
thanks..
6:10 pm on March 16th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hai
can i use this templates to my other address blog site?
thanks..
1:23 am on March 17th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hai David thank for your template, but I have a problem with main post background colour. the view is different between internet explorer 6 browser , internet explorer 7 and mozila firefox. if we use internet explorer 6 browser main post background colour is black, if we use mozila firefox the main post background colour is seem with page wrap background colour, and than if we use internet explorer 7 the view is normal (no problem) and it’s the best view for me.
do you know what is the problem? pleas tell me.
thank you for your assist before.
12:01 pm on March 17th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi,
First of all, your template looks great.I want to use it for my site.I want to the left side bar to be of width 525. and increase overall template width to account for that. I tried doing that , but when it increses the width of the left section, the layout is skewed, right column shift downwards…and big black strip occures in left hand side…
Let me know how to adjust width of the template and left side column…
Thanks,
Addy
4:43 pm on March 17th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Addy, you’d have to also decrease the size of the right column to compensate for the 525 left side. You just need to keep tweaking it until it works.
7:37 pm on March 17th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
dear mr david…
in my templates, blog roll and recent readers element are lap join one to another.
could you help me…
11:46 pm on March 17th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
YOU ARE GREAT MAN.
You made my site look very good.
I Love it.
-Sara
12:23 am on March 18th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
hi
i got problem after uploading XMl file i cant see full layout. it is displaying only half layout why?
please tell me tha problem where and also how to do also please fast
From,
Sandra
12:43 am on March 18th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
template a real good but why margin text is not in justify ?
6:29 am on March 18th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hey David,
Thanks for quick reply. I’ll keep tweaking till I find a wide format.
Thanks,
Addy
5:48 am on March 19th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hello,
I’d liek to say that your website is the best I ahve ever seen. I am from Russia and despite I am not very good in english language I understand all because you always explain in very beautiful way.
Ok now is my question. Please help me. How I can add my own categories in categories section ( for example, money (8), travel (7) etc…) I don’ know how to do it…
7:31 am on March 19th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi, the template really good, thanks.
8:56 am on March 19th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi Roman, the categories are the same as labels so each new label you create will essentially be a new category.
5:01 am on March 20th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Great template! I’m a few days into it after having downloaded it. For some reason, the date-stamp is not showing up above the posts. I checked the Blogger settings, and it is checked properly to show as day/date format — but it doesn’t appear! (I also don’t see that showing in the demo site that links off this page.) Will you please assist?
11:56 pm on March 20th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
GBlogger- You need to change it in your page elements layout screen. Click on the “edit” link for the blog posts widget. There you can choose which date/time format you want for each post.
3:48 am on March 21st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
David, thanks for following up — and sorry that I wasn’t clear. I saw your reply to a previous comment to try the Edit on the Blog Posts widget. I tried that, and the pop-up window shows that the date/time are checked with a particular format. But it doesn’t show up….. Thanks again for any help!
12:48 pm on March 21st, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I am using it too.
7:34 pm on March 22nd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
I would like to know if there is any way to create or modify the body widget so that the entire post isn’t posted at once. If there was a way to edit it so that it can post a specific number of lines before ending with a link that says “Read More.”
Thanks!
9:05 pm on March 22nd, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
akonuche, Yes you can do that. It’s a blogger hack and you should read our article, How To Add The Blogger “Read More” Expandable Posts Link
12:25 pm on March 24th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Really nice template! But I would like it even more if you would replace those 3 small 125*125 adds buttons by two larger 250*250 buttons.
1:47 pm on March 24th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Hi David,
Let me say first, the Ad Themes Template is a really great product addition to Blogger resources. I’ve tried a lot of templates before this but none was as easy to understand the code as this one or fun to work with. They are also so very adjustable and professional looking.
It was really frustrating at first, especially the thought of having to download an update. I just couldn’t
As I learn the code and where things are its not frustrating to work with. The code is in simple enough language. I’m getting it.
Your instructions and interaction with the comments section has really helped me find the solutions for some of the problems just through comments and answers, so thanks a bunch!
I have a question. I would like to incorporate the three 125px ads again but don’t know how to make them work three across as they were originally. Can you help?
How did you make them position three across? I tried the absmiddle but I must be missing something they kept topping each other anyway. I want to use the add a page element this time instead of the HTML editor.
Thanks to all who made these Templates available to blogger blogs.
5:40 pm on March 24th, 2008 (subscribed to comments)
Vanessa, if you’ve removed the default ads I recommend either setting up a new test blog, downloading the template again, and then loading it up. You can then reverse engineer it by viewing the source code or just copying the ad code block from the template code itself. You can also just view the ads theme demo link above and view the source if you just need the html part. Good luck!