Blogger Templates : Visionary Reloaded

Ever since I had converted the Visionary template I was unhappy as it looked unfinished and had some bugs. Now for the second time I have looked trough the template code and made some improvements. First the tabbed menu supports now fully blogger widgets. Second I have added one more column to make it look better and I have cleaned up some mess in the css.

Preview the template here
Download the template here

To see template setup open read more

To change the navigation links and titles edit the template inside the edit html area of the administartion panel.

Find :

<!-- BEGIN TOP-NAV / FEEL FREE TO ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS PAGE -->

and change the links and titles for the top navigation on the next few lines.

Find :

<!-- BEGIN MAIN-NAV.PHP -->

and change the links and titles for the main navigation on the next few lines.

To edit the name of the tab navigation inside edit html mode find tab1 til tab4 and change to whatever you would like to name them

Blogger Template : Bookish

Here we go again with a brand new blogger template. This one is very simple and clean held perfectly for fast loading. It includes the brand new inline comment box code which you have to activate first (instructions here) and Ramani`s post summaries.

Preview the template here
Download the template here
For installation instruction open read more. There are only few things you have to customize. The first is the top navigation. Inside the edit html mode find "recent articles" and change to whatever you would like to link to
Next to recent articles is a "#" sign replace it with an web link you would like to link to. Do the same for about us and contact us.

To activate post summaries you have to visit settings open formatting and inside the formatting box (very much on the bottom) paste this code :

This is the summary
<span id="fullpost">
This is the rest of the post
</span>

Thats all folks :)

How to add a comment form beneath your blog posts

Blogger have developed an inline (embedded) comment form which can be enabled through Blogger in Draft. This is probably the most requested feature for Blogger, and I'm sure many of you will want to use this straight away!

To enable inline comments for your Blogger powered blog, you need to log into your dashboard through Blogger in Draft. Then go to Settings>Comments and scroll down the page to see the new "Comment form placement" setting:

Check the radio setting for "Embedded below post" which will enable the display of the comment form below your blog posts.



If you have customized your template, you will need to make a small change to your template code for this comment form to display. But don't worry, it's a very simple customization to make!



Simply go to Layout>Edit HTML in your blog's dashboard and check the "Expand widget templates" box.

Then search for this section of code:

<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a>

</b:if>
</p>

Replace this entire section of code with the following instead:

<p class='comment-footer'>

<b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'>
<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>

<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>

</p>

Then save your template.

Now when you view a post page in your blog, you should see the new comment form in place!



If you don't see your comment form, make sure you have changed this setting through Blogger in Draft and have added your code in the correct place in your template.



You can see this comment form in action beneath this post. Using this comment form allows readers to comment using their Google account, OpenID, Name/URL and all of the settings previously available when using a pop-up or full page comment form (depending on the settings you have chosen).



I am very happy to see that Blogger have listened to our requests and have added this great functionality to our blogs. There are also some other new features added to Blogger in Draft including an improved posting page and import/export features which you can read about in the Blogger in Draft blog.





Source : BloggerBuster.com

Tags: blogger comment box

Export Your Blogger Blogs or Merge Multiple Blogs into One

Blogger has added an Import / Export feature in Blogger that lets you backup your blogger blogs to the local hard drive as an XML file.

The XML file will have all the articles that you have written plus the reader comments. Now WordPress too has an Import Blogger feature but it ignores the comments so this latest Blogger feature will prove very useful.

To export your blogger blog, go to http://draft.blogger.com, login with your Google Account and use the Export link from the Settings | Basic tab. This would just save your blog to a text file, the blog would still remain on Blogger as it is. Full instructions here.

If you chose to import this XML file into a new (or existing) Blogger blog, the new posts remain unpublished by default though you can also republish them as soon as Blogger is done importing the file.

Type rest of the post here

Tags: export blogger blog, merge blog