RSS FeedMoonShadow Blogger XML Theme
Free BETA / NEW Blogger / Blogspot skin / theme / template! Click on the image to open a new window for a larger view. This template is fixed width and will fit on an 800x600 screen and wider. Includes RSS Feed in sidebar.
This theme will work ONLY on new or "beta" Blogger and includes full support for sidebar widgets, labels, etc. It will NOT work on "classic" Blogger.
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Click here to download the code. Only 12KB!!!
The images are already hosted via Photobucket, no need to download those separately!
IMPORTANT!
Make sure you backup or save your existing customizations like links and sidebar addons, hit counters, etc. before deleting because they will be replaced by the new code. After installation just copy and paste your customizations back in.
Backing Up And Installing
Backing Up Your Old Template Data
Installing Your New XML Template
Your blogs title will automatically replace the title you see in the header. The "description" will display at the top below the title, edit it in your blogs "Settings" area
If you have any questions or problems please ask in the comments, don't email me directly! I will offer limited tech support thru the comments only!
For easy to follow technical help and tutorials on blogging, please visit Blog Flak.Com
This theme will work ONLY on new or "beta" Blogger and includes full support for sidebar widgets, labels, etc. It will NOT work on "classic" Blogger.
Click for Larger Image
Click here to download the code. Only 12KB!!!
The images are already hosted via Photobucket, no need to download those separately!
IMPORTANT!
Make sure you backup or save your existing customizations like links and sidebar addons, hit counters, etc. before deleting because they will be replaced by the new code. After installation just copy and paste your customizations back in.
Backing Up And Installing
Backing Up Your Old Template Data
Installing Your New XML Template
Your blogs title will automatically replace the title you see in the header. The "description" will display at the top below the title, edit it in your blogs "Settings" area
If you have any questions or problems please ask in the comments, don't email me directly! I will offer limited tech support thru the comments only!
For easy to follow technical help and tutorials on blogging, please visit Blog Flak.Com
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23 Comments:
This didn't work. Yes, I deleted everything. Yes, I pasted everything. Twice. Help?
Ben, you have to make sure that you're in "new" Blogger mode with the "upgraded" template features turned on under the "customize design" tab in your control panel. Then you have to click on Edit HTML for the template editor.
You know you're in the right place if the top line of the code includes: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?
That's where you paste the entire code contents into. This template does work fine, other people are using it and it has been fully tested in all browsers except for Safari.
I hope that helps!
Think I am being a bit "dim" here, but I've just changed my wifes blog to this skin, which I have to admit looks bloody excellent - kudos on the design.
Anyways, her blog: http://jo-rant.blogspot.com/
For some reason, in Firefox, the BlogDescription part at the top is aligned to the left-side of the image. It looks fine in Internet Explorer, just off in Firefox.
If need be, I can send you a screenshot :)
Dan: Sorry about that, it's a a display bug in Firefox that I neglected to fix. To repair it just copy/paste this code into the top of the template in the header styles section to replace the .description
.descriptionwrapper {
margin:-15px 0 0;
padding:0 100px 30px 100px;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
line-height: 1.4em;
text-align:center;
font: $descriptionfont;
color: #ccc;
}
I've already made the patch in the downloadable .zip file so if you have trouble, please download again.
Thanks!
Excellent stuff se7en, that fixed it :)
Thanks a lot!
Thanks so much, this skin works perfectly. =)
This template is awesome..thank you. Just one question, if you don't mind. Do I leave the "RSS feed link" on the blog? Not sure what this does? I clicked on Atom feed(xml)link and alot of writing comes up..is this okay? or have I done something wrong? Thanks!!
The RSS button allows people to easily subscribe to your blog with a news feed reader that will automatically notify them when you've updated with a new post. Here's a link on RSS at Wikipedia for more info.
And no, you didn't do anything wrong. =)
hi, I totally love this skin/template!
I'd like to make one or two adjustments to the footer, though, and was hoping you could help:
1. as it's set up right now, the text box doesn't seem to be aligned/padded properly [see bottom of my page here to see what I mean]; how do I align it with everything else on the body?
2. I was wondering if, instead of having the text box appear within the "body", it would be possible to have it instead appear below the bottom of the sidebar/body, within its own little rounded box?
Thanx for your help,
~willow~
march 31, 2007
This template layout wasn't designed for putting a widget into the footer area. Typically footers go all the way across the bottom and as you can see the layout is divided into two sections all the way down, with a sidebar and the main column. If you can write the code correctly you can manually put extra content below the footer division by editing the template itself.
hi again!
thanx for your prompt reply!
I am HTML/XML/whatever-challenged, so we'll see if I figure out how to hack your template further...
... in the meantime, here's my quick-fix: added a new text page element in the body itself, so that the text is constrained to the lighter-colored part of the page. That's good enough for me :-)
hope that helps anyone out there who wanted something at the bottom of the page :-)
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
This is the error message I received when trying to upload this template. I am such a newbie, but trying. Can you help?
I am using a Mac if that makes any difference.
This looks great on my blog, but doesn't have a link at the bottom to take you to the older post..Can you tell me what to do to add that
I loaded this on my blog and it is beautiful! Thank you for putting it together!
I used this one on my Harry Potter blog and it is perfect!
i love this skin.. i'm using it.. the thing is my "navbar" is missing.. how do i rectify this? thanks..
wawa - The nav bar is removed intentionally because it just looks better without it. If you're having trouble logging in your control panel is always ay www.blogger.com or you can click on the Blogger buton in the lower sidebar.
If you want the nav bar back, just delete this section in the CSS of the Edit HTML page:
#navbar-iframe { /* this section hides the nav bar */
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
I just found your site, and I'm not what I'd call advanced in HTML, so this was really easy to use. Your skins are better than the ones they offer when you first sign up for your account. This is the one I picked. I really like it. Looks nice.
wow perfect
Hi se7en, I really love your work and fell in love with this template and converted to it this weekend. The problem I have is with Haloscan. It looks fine on the main page of the blog, when no Comment box appears. But when you open up a link in its own page, the comment box shows but the other links connected to Haloscan don't show up. I can see them when I do a Select All, which highlights the page in a different color, and then the links show up. I understand that you didn't enable this template to allow for other widgets in the body, but it seems that since some of Haloscan's comment form shows, the other Haloscan links would too. I don't really get it. Here's what it is now:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/SmoothStone/missinglinks.jpg
Here's what shows when I Highlight the page with a Select All. I was only able to snapshot a small region, but other links below the form also are not appearing:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/SmoothStone/highlightedlinks.jpg
Thank you again for your suplative talent, work and support.
Smooth - Add this css code to the style sheet section of the template to fix that:
.post-comment-link a {
color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
}
That should fix it for you.
Wow, se&en, thank you very much. I tried it and your fix worked for the links above the Haloscan form, but not for the links below the Haloscan form. I have linked to a snapshot:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/SmoothStone/highlightedlinksbelow.jpg
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your help.
Every thing works great but I have a question. How do I make the font of the title of my blog larger?
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