Pick Your Template

iTheme with CSS Dock Menu (WordPress Theme for New Blogger)

2007-08-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

iTheme originally design by nDesign studio
Adopted to new-blogger by arephyz
CSS Dock Menu by nDesign

Also available with CSS Dock Menu is 3 column version called i3theme designed by MangoOrange

Its available for download now.
iThemewithCSSDockMenu.xml
DemoBlog and Instructions
iThemewithCSSDockMenu.xml
DemoBlog and Instructions
Don't forget to leave some comments :)

Neo wears Denim

2007-07-23T10:56:00.000-07:00

Originally posted by Mosilager.

Neo wears Denim

I have mixed Neo, Denim and K2 templates for the new Blogger to come up with some kind of Frankenstein template that I call Neo wears Denim. For those who haven't heard about Neo, it is a template designed by Ramani of Hackosphere to speed up blogsites. Normally when you click on a post / archive page / what have you on a blog, the entire blog reloads. Ramani changed this so that when you click on a post title only the post reloads, thus speeding up the blog considerably.

He designed a great looking template, and I have taken the liberty of redoing my favourite template to incorporate the speed advantages of Neo.

Here is a screenshot:

Here's how to get my version of the template:
1. There are 2 versions of the template, one with the sidebar on the left, the second with the sidebar on the right (Click on each for working demo).
2. The "Neo wears denim" template with left sidebar is available here for download.
3. The "Neo wears denim" template with right sidebar is available here for download.
3. Before changing your blog template, please read the instructions posted by Ramani otherwise you may lose all your customised stuff like widgets and so on.
4. Please remember to backup your original template just in case things go wrong. Happy skinning. Let me know if something doesn't work right and I can try to fix it.

Neo - The lightning fast template for new Blogger

2007-07-07T19:35:00.000-07:00

From: Hakosphere

Neo template is not just some CSS magic. It is an ultra-fast template with which one can navigate through your blog very quickly. As a result, your visitors would enjoy their stay in your blog. It employs the cutting edge technology called AJAX (in particular JSON) and makes best use of the advanced features of new Blogger such as Label feeds and Per-post comment feeds. And it's free too! To summarize it's features:

1. A visitor can navigate through your blog much faster because the entire page (all the sidebar stuff) won't be reloaded while viewing every post. When he selects a post from the list of recent posts (or posts under a particular label), the selected post and its comments are displayed instantly. When he selects a label, the list of posts under that label are loaded asynchronously too.

2. Newer comments are shown before older ones instead of the usual oldest to newest order. Also, comments are divided into pages with 10 comments in each page. Both these features make a big difference if your blog gets many comments.

3. Rounded corner boxes and pleasant colors add to the visual impact.

But, it does have some limitations. It doesn't go well with blogs that use Adsense because it results in fewer page impressions. Please go through the Neo FAQ to understand other limitations and some requirements for Neo to work properly.

I am using a modified version of Neo in this blog. Check out the demo blog to get a feel of how Neo would work with your posts. To this basic template, you can add header image, change colors/fonts using the new Blogger's WYSIWYG interface etc. Various blogs using Neo are showcased in this page. You can see how people have customized the look and feel of Neo.

Neo template is available free of cost. More details in this post. Neo awaits you!

Installing Neo template in your blog

Related posts:

List of the add-ons available for Neo

Free Ready-to-Use Three-Column Rounder Templates (4-total)

2007-07-05T09:55:00.000-07:00

Below are four three-column Rounder templates for your free use. Please download first, then upload it to your test blog. Please respect the credit line at the bottom of the template by not removing it. This way, more and more people would know how to get it for free.

For instructions on how to upload, download a template and other related activities, please see this post "How to modify a template."

Rounder #1:
http://hoctroarticles.googlepages.com/3col-rounder1.xml

Rounder #2:
http://hoctroarticles.googlepages.com/3col-rounder2.xml

Rounder #3:
http://hoctroarticles.googlepages.com/3col-rounder3.xml

Rounder #4:
http://hoctroarticles.googlepages.com/3col-rounder4.xml

See one of the template live from here:

http://hoctro-rounders-templates.blogspot.com/

Of course, to change text size, color, etc. use the same Blogger facility. For example, the font size grows larger on this test blog:

The only setback with this set of templates is that the design layout (while you working on adding widgets) does not synchronized with the homepage layout, but offsets to the bottom right corner. Hopefully I'll able to fix this at a later time.

Have a wonderful day,

Hoctro