March 2008

Green Bug Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Friday, March 28, 2008 0 comments

There's a dearth of green themes for blogger and thanks to akOOgle who converted this skin to blogger we have a beautiful wordpress theme called Green Bug created by Got Chance and Nitrogen Designs.

I'm a nature freak and if you are an eco blogger this template would suit your needs, this two column template has some artistic grass in the header and the navigational menu under it on a green bar. With a hover the tiny icons besides the menu links turn green as well.

The sidebar is on the left which I feel makes it easier to use rather than a right hand sidebar. Each link and label get a tiny little green bug on the left hand side besides it, that makes the templates eco friendly nature literally stand out.

If you move onto the main column the font is really precise with a nice big post title. A separator below the headline with the post time, label, author as well as the comments link all at the start of the post makes this template unique.

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iPhone Single Column Template

Posted by Clyde On Friday, March 28, 2008 0 comments

It's quite rare to find blogger templates with just one column, thanks to Jack Supit who converted this template that was originally designed for wordpress by Mauricio from Themey.

The blog has the shape of the iphone with a very beautiful header image and some neat navigational menu links under it. But that's where the beauty of this template ends, unless you are willing to customize it a little.

If you see the colour of the post titles is dull grey that kindof blends with the colour of the background of the template. Hence it becomes very difficult to read the titles as well as the dark pink colour links make it quite obnoxious.

There is a search bar in the footer that I suggest you convert into atleast a two column footer to make more use of the space, apart from the colour of the links and the headers this template is definetly a blog worthy single column template.

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Black and White Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Thursday, March 27, 2008 6 comments

An original blogger templated created by E.Khan-Edwardian who has focused on a clean simple adsense friendly template.

The Black and White Template is a simple wire frame kind of three column template. It has Black and white structure and the link colour is the normal hyper link blue that people are recommended to use for adsense to improve their CTR.

So basically the template blends the ads very wel with the hyperlink content, apart from that the template has a very neat feel to it with its precise black borders to seperate the different containers. The sidebar has a two and a single column section which makes it useful for various widgets and elements.

There is a cross column section in the footer that allows the addition of multiple widgets if you can create a table. Apart from that the footer is very simple, it could have been better if it was a three column footer.

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Blogging Pro Blogger Theme

Posted by Clyde On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4 comments

Another lovely Wordpress template designed by Design Disease the same guys who designed the Dilecto template which this blog uses, the Blogging Pro theme was then converted to blogger by eblogtemplates.

Now this template is quite a beautiful one especially with the little bit of customizations done. The main navigational menu is on the top left above the header while the right has a search bar with a nice little blurb that extends over the header section. Under the header is a place to have a leader board advertisement which is perfect placement for a neat advert in the blog template, although I am not sure about how well it will get clicks, on the left hand side are three neat buttons for your RSS feed and you can customize this to something else as well.

Your sidebar is broken up into two parts just under the cross column that contains your advertisement and rss, the sidebar also has a section where it becomes a single column, this template is very beautiful is it not and the footer is gorgeous as well.

To customize your advertisment code you will need to search for < div class=”Syndicate” > in edit html and then you will find the advertisment code there for the leaderboard ad. The timestamp fromat has to be “Tuesday, January 25,2008" and the feedlinks can be replace by searching for YOUR-FEED-NAME-HERE.

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iNewspaper Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Monday, March 24, 2008 1 comments

The Newspaper template was given to us by Chromatic Sites which builds wordpress themes, it was then converted to blogger by Gosu Blogger

This template is a minimal style three column template with a newspaper like layout, the navigational menu is above the header on the left hand side. On both sides of the header text in the center you have parts to put adsense advertisements, which is quite a different.

Under the navigational menu there is a cross column section that extends from the left to the right and contains the search bar and the users location.There sidebars are on either side of the main column and if you notice the entire template is basically white with black font except a few parts in the main column get a little bit of blue.

Since this template lacks images it will load super fast, although this template is simple it still has a very unique feel to it and is good for bloggers who have journalistic instincts.

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Leila Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Friday, March 21, 2008 2 comments

The Leila template was brought to blogger by fresh blogger templates and was originally created by Kapikua, he uses this template for his blog and it can be seen in the screen shot below.

This template has a well designed structure, apart from being a three column template. One of the most evident features of this template is the the comment, label and social bookmarking area which comes in a nice black rounded section.

The navigational menu is situated on top of the header image on the left hand side, while a search bar is donned on the top right hand side of the sidebar. The colour scheme of this template is quite beautiful and in the wordpress version the sidebar has two columns as well as a single column section, I am not too sure if the blogger version has the same.

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The Second Thing Blogger Skin

Posted by Clyde On Friday, March 21, 2008 2 comments

The Second Thing, was created for blogger by Kevin, who is a professional web designer!

This is a gorgeous curvy two column blogger template that is quite simple once again, but the the colours used make it extremely elegant.

There is a flowery pattern at the back of the header and it extends behind the top sides of the sidebar and main column. The template has no additional features apart from the colours and the looks theres nothing to it. Even the bottom is rounded of the main column. If you like it you can download it from below.

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Dream Light Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Friday, March 21, 2008 2 comments

The dream light template was created by Se7en and the beautiful image in the header was created by Elisabeth Perotin.

The Dream Light skin is a relatively simple two column blogger template except for the fact that the template have a gorgeous header that gives it a very musical feel.

Take a look at the psychedelic music for a demonstration of this template. It really suits a musical or dance theme, it has a very hippy silohuette dancing in the moon light.

Apart from that the blog only comes with an rss feature built in, it will require you to manually add all the other features that most blogs have nowdays. Although if you appreciate the finer arts of life you may like this template.

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Standard Issue Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Monday, March 17, 2008 1 comments

The Standard Issue template was designed for Wordpress by Node Thirty Three and Free CSS Templates and was converted to blogger by Template Godown.

I think this two column template is what I would like to use for a photo blog, its simplistic nature makes it excellent to showcase content and photographs without any distractions.

The template is based on white with touches of lime green and navy blue borders, just above the header and before the footer stars. The navigational menu is on the top right hand side over the sidebar which are a couple of links that have a lime green underline when a mouse hovers, its quite a nice color.

Just below that is a nice flushed search widget at the top of the sidebar, then you can have your link lists or widgets there as well.

If you take a look at the footer, once again its a three column footer. These footers are quite nice as they can hold a lot of page elements and I see a trend of people using them or creating blogs with a three column footer.

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The Identity Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Sunday, March 16, 2008 11 comments

The Identity template was created for blogger for Wordpress by Blogohblog and converted to blogger by Akoogle.

The Identity blogger template is a three column template that has a different design, comprising of black and white as its main colours. What makes this template different is the white from the main column that hovers over the black sidebar giving it a separate box to place your widgets.

The navigational menu is under the header on the left hand side the tabs are attached to the main column and turn white when selected with black text. The search bar is located over the white space hovering over the sidebar. Below the white space the column breaks into two sidebars that you can use for your links lists blogroll or skyscraper advertisements.

The template has some luscious curves at the corners everywhere and looks very beautiful with minimal use of colour, the template makes use of two java script widgets that need to be present before or after installation.

Here are some of the codes you may require:

Horizontal Top Menu

Search Box

Subscribe Widget

In the above widget you need to replace your RSS feedburner link with the one mentioned above. You would also need to configure your blog post as shown in the image below, basically you need to unselect the first check box - date header.

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Super Custom Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Saturday, March 15, 2008 8 comments

Another template designed for blogger by a very well know person who has been providing wonderful hacks for blogger, Amanda.

This template is very elegant, sleek and modern. It has no images to ensure a super fast load, it has a technicolour approach with red, black and grey giving it a very artistic feel to it.

The overall design and placement of buttons advertisements spots and the look of the post date make this one of the most unique templates every designed for blogger. The top of this template is black, below that is red with a navigational menu, under that is your post area on the left, the first sidebar houses two ad spots, under that is a box for your widgets or text, above the ads are three very well made icons for your home about and contact.

On the extreme right is a thinner sidebar where you can put whatever you feel like, that's not where it ends. If you take a look at the footer below you have three nice fat columns to use. This template can really hold a lot of stuff in it and I'm glad its an original and not a converted templates, thanks to Amanda, you rock!

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Soo Simple Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Thursday, March 13, 2008 5 comments

The Soo Simple template has been ported to blogger by Gosu Blogger and created for wordpress by YGO, like the name suggests its soo simple.

This template features a red header image with a design, a footer that has the same red design as the sidebar headers have in the screen shot above.

The Soo Simple blogger template is a three column template that has a minimalistic design. There is nothing fancy apart from a couple of borders. It has made use of red, black, white and grey for the template skin while the post title has a light blue color.

With such a simple design this template and the lack of images makes this a fast loading blogger template and it does look very neat. Blogger templates make it soo simple to download the latest templates, just click on the link below!

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The Ocean Dancer

Posted by Clyde On Thursday, March 13, 2008 4 comments

The Ocean Dancer is an original blogger template, unlike most of the templates that are ripped off from wordpress. So we have to thank the creator Tukang for providing us a template built for Blogspot.

Firstly its rare that a blogger builds a template from scratch for blogspot users. When a template is built for blogspot theres one thing different from a wordpress template. It keeps in mind the needs of a blogspot user perhaps.

If you see the main size column of this template is 474px, this means you can easily fit a 468px advertisement in this template. The top of the sidebar has one big box that can fit three 125 * 125 advertisements side by side.

So this is a good template for someone who is looking to monetize their content, lets take a look at some of the basic features. The navigational menu links are on top of the header, I actually prefer them below the header, but they have a nice alternating color scheme.

The header image has a nice rounded shape with a search bar located under it on the right hand side. The template uses blue and white, while the sidebar and a few places get a bit of black. The font color on the main page is grey, so is the date and time stamp, which is quite tiny.

So if you like the ocean dancer you can go ahead and download it, happy dancing!

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Blogger Template for Photo Bloggers

Posted by Clyde On Thursday, March 13, 2008 14 comments

Here's a simple elegant Photo blogger template created by Brian Gardner and ported to blogger by Blog and Web.

The template is simple which of course is necessary if you want your photography to be the center of attraction, its advisable not to have a flashy template. This is a one column blogger template with the navigational menu links in a neat thin strip just under the header.

The main colour of this template is white with a tinge of blue and grey.The main column of this template is reasonably big allowing you to showcase a decent sized picture. The best part is the footer of this template is divided into three columns where you can add your profile, link list or any other widget from your page elements etc.

If you are a photographer with hardly any time to spare or just someone who wants a neat clean look it would be advisable to use this template, considering you would not need a sidebar to add any clutter to the blog.

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Summer Fruit Blogger Theme

Posted by Clyde On Thursday, March 13, 2008 0 comments

The Summer Fruit theme was originally created for wordpress by Carl Mason, its was christened the Red and White theme for blogger by Jack book who ported it.

Jacky gave it its name cause of the colour, but I feel this template should have had its blogger name because of its unique comment form. Take a look at the way the comments are displayed below. Each one of them in these little blurbs make it quite beautiful.

SummerFruit Blogger Theme Comments Section

The pre dominant colour scheme is red, white and black. Its a two column template that has the search bar in header on the left. There is a red strip under the black header that has the navigational menu buttons on the left hand side.

It will also incorporate a nice looking date icon, the RSS feed I feel occupies a little too much space. This template is quite pleasant to look at and will be extra beneficial for a blog that receives a lot of comments.

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Mush Blue Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 0 comments

The Mush blue template was originally created for blogger by Mukka Mu, it was then ported to blogger by Jacky Supit.

As you can see the Mush Blue Blogger template is a two column blue and black blogger template that looks very modern and technicolour.

The header has a very interesting image that sort of looks like a bike engine, it also has drops of blue in it. The font colour matches the theme very well and so does the RSS button which boasts of an electric blue colour. Even the date looks kind of digital, has a sleek icon and the search bar is beautifully embedded in the sidebar.

This template also has a unique feature where the colour of the left hand side background is black while the right has a gradient of blue. This makes the blog extremely different and bold. Its a good template for a new age blog or a radical blog as well.

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Slined Mod 2.0 Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3 comments

One of the best four column blogger templates that was built for wordpress by Dandyna and is now available for blogger thanks to Jack Book who ported it.

This template looks extremely futuristic and would probably suite an electronic music or game blog the best. Of course don't leave it up to my judgement if you like this template you can go ahead and download it.

It has a big space for the header image or blog title with a neat set of links that form the navigational menu above it. There is one sidebar on the left and two on the right hand side.

The template has the colour black as its primary color while it has neon strips running on top of the headers of the sidebars and navigational menu. Its a lovely template for a blogger who has a lot of content to showcase, if you like you can go ahead and download it!

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The Four Column 02 Template

Posted by Clyde On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 0 comments

Am glad to have another good four column template on the blog, searching for them is rather difficult but Gosu Blogger just gave us a new one.

The O2 2.0 is originally a three column blogger template but now we have an additional column added to it on the left hand side.

The rest of this template remains the same except the fact that the post date has been removed by Gosu because of an error in the template but that doesn't stop it from being a gorgeous template.

There is just one little issue with the template, in Opera the extreme right hand sidebar header sticks out of the body, it does not look like an error actually it kind of looks quite neat, like an additional feature.

The dominant colours of this template are white and blue, and has a lot of sections even when it was in the three column version. Now you have another full section to add more functions to your blog.

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Aspire Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Monday, March 10, 2008 40 comments

If you are writing about scriptures and lost documents here comes a special blogger template for you from Gosu Blogger. It was originally created by Info Creek for wordpress and then ported to blogger.

The Aspire blogger template is s beautiful template with tiny designs in embedded into the multi column parchment design. As you can see the template now, all the columns are made out of parchment. There are neat embroidery like designs in various places that gives it a very nice aesthetic feeling.

The Aspire template is a three column template with both the additional sidebars on the right hand side. Its color combination is brown, dark brown and black. The links just above the main blog column are hardly noticeable, it would be advisable to change them to a lighter color.

All in all this template has a very unique outlook and I just love the post date icons, look at the design above the date its beautiful. Even the comments notification has a nice little enclosure for it that I like.

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Typo XP 2.1 Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Wednesday, March 05, 2008 0 comments

This is the best blogger template on this blog for many reasons that I will disclose as I describe it. First let me thank the creator who seems to be getting pissed of cause people seem to be stealing his template and not linking back.

Looks like an ordinary blogger blog? But you are not going to believe the immense features that this template packs. Lets finish off with the usual stuff first and then lets get into what makes this template unique!

The header has a nice translucent feel to it and there are navigational menu buttons to the left hand side of it. Now if you want a header image you can do it directly from your page elements.

Some of the killer features are that, the sidebar is broken up into four different parts. The top sidebar and the bottom sidebar while in between the two you have the bar divided into left and right. This will really help in getting a lot of content there but not the best feature. Every widget of the sidebar has an icon for it which is uber cool.

This template comes with expandable posts, so you can give the home page a more professional look.

Instructions To Use the Expandable Post Feature:

You will need to use the code to activate this feature on a particular post.

Your post will look like this:

Here is the beginning of your post. (This will appear on the homepage) And here is the rest of it.

When a reader visits your blog, this post will appear like this:
Here is the beginning of my post. Read more…

When they click the Read More they will go to the page with the full post.

Thats just another great feature some more are the Author Comment Highlight, Recent Posts Widget, Recent Comments Widget and the Search Widget which are provided below.

The recent post widget is a hack from beautiful beta so its a little different as it displays post headline, date, author and one line from the post.

Typo XP 2.1 Search Widget:

Typo XP 2.1 Recent Comments Widget:

Typo XP 2.1 Recent Posts Widget:

Do not forget to replace your blog name in the above scripts. You can also see a live demo of the template here.

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Ads Theme Blogger Skin

Posted by Clyde On Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12 comments

Just as the name suggest this template helps you incorporate advertisements easily on your blog, it was created by Blogging Secrets and then ported by eblogtemplates to blogger.

So whats great about this theme? You will probably notice the sharp design and as the name of this template suggests this template puts the spot light on the advertisements it contains. This template allows you to have a 468*60 advertisement straight up in the header.

There is accommodation for three 125*125 ads in the sidebar as well as your usual skyscraper ads can be placed in the lower columns of the sidebar. An ad sense advertisement has also been placed on top of the blog posts which most templates allow you to, I suggest you place your ads in the post instead, they convert better there.

Apart from that this template features a navigational menu and a search bar in the same strip under the header. The search function does not have a go button as well which makes it look crisper. Above the three ad boxes in the sidebar you have the subscribe to links for your RSS feed and to subscribe your newsletter. It also has an add to technorati favorites button making your job easier.

Some other features to be noted are the built-in live traffic feed widget from Feedjit, a recent visitors widget for MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog users as well as a recent posts and comments widget in the sidebar.

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The Ambiru Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1 comments

The Ambiru single column template debuts our single column section on Blogger Templates. Yes its wonderful to have all four sections up in little more than a months time since we started this directory of blogger skins.

The Ambiru Blogger template was originally created by Gecko & Fly and then tweaked by Blog Crowds.

The specialty of this template is that its a single column template and its extremely narrow. This template has a long header which has a green image with strips on it that reminds you of the matrix binary code or a wooden finish.

There is a narrow black strip under the header image that contains the main navigational menu of the blog with a nice strong white font. Since the column is narrow there is a limitation to the amount of words you can fit into this navigational strip.

The footer is divided into two columns where you can have your profile or your link lists or any other page elements that you would like to have.

This template is good for a blog that will show case art or photography or anyone with some really great unique content, with nothing else at the sides to distract your viewers only tour content will get their attention.

If you think your content is good enough to handle this blog, then go ahead and try the the Ambiru blogger skin.

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Polaroid Blogger Template

Posted by Clyde On Monday, March 03, 2008 16 comments

This template was originally created by Adii for wordpress. Take a look at this one its quite unique and modern with a range of features that will thrill you.

The Polaroid wordpress template has been ported to blogger by eblogtemplates. Now take a look at the screen shot of the header area of the skin. The top right has the feed and comments rss subscription links, do not forget to put in your own feed URL here from the page elements menu. The header is absolutely unique with the ability of having an image in the center integrated in a Polaroid frame with two text boxes on either side of it.

You can probably have one box to describe your site and the other could be the about me. The blog has three colors so it doesn't look too glittery, a nice grey strip runs just below the header that has all the links required to browse through the main categories or pages of your site. These links can be changed to suit your requirements from the Edit Html section in your blogger dashboard. Search for these links and replace the # with the links you would like. You can also change the text like About Me etc.

<a
href='/'>HOME</a></li><li><a
href='#'>ABOUT ME</a></li><li><a
href='#'>ANOTHER PAGE</a></li>

The top of the right hand side bar has three 125*125 boxes which are perfect to host your advertisements or recommended money makers.

One very noticeable feature is the main column and the sidebars are equally proportionate, hence there is a lot of space in the sidebars. Under the three ad units your sidebar divides into two, where you can have either your link lists, recent comments and recent articles that come built in with this template. For the blog archives to display properly you will need to change the Archive Style from your page elements to Flat list as shown in the image below.

Just above the footer, you have your recent visitors list, that is already incorporated in the sidebar., where you can insert your Mybloglog code or your Blog catalog widget Below that is a flickr stream that is another beautiful feature of the Polaroid Blogger template.

The flickr photo stream code is shown below in the screenshot and the code is provided as well. I do hope you enjoy another beautiful template brought to you by blogger templates!

<a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213697421/'><img
alt='different paths' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2213697421_6be21edcfa_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213697413/'><img
alt='college campus lawn' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2213697413_c30648a36a_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213697411/'><img
alt='wires in front of sky' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2213697411_96525d4022_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213632473/'><img
alt='aerial perspective' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2213632473_8cf8af1c7f_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213632465/'><img
alt='clouds' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/2213632465_5ce3aa4813_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2213632461/'><img
alt='clouds over the highway' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/2213632461_96a8be9c06_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2214395424/'><img
alt='The Poultney Inn' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2214395424_b9f11a18c0_s.jpg'/></a><a
href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/alankin/2214395422/'><img
alt='apartment for rent' src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2133/2214395422_1aa98af39f_s.jpg'/></a>

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