This theme features an easy to edit navigation bar in the heading, 3 full columns, a built in RSS Feed and full support for drag and drop sidebar widgets to add content.
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Click Desert Sunrise 3 Column Blogger XML Template 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, widget contents, etc. before deleting the old skin because they will be replaced by the new code. After installation just copy and paste your customizations back in from your original code.
Backing Up And Installing
Backing Up Your Old Template Data
Installing Your New XML Template
In some cases the template editor will ask to confirm the deletion of some of the widgets / page element sections. This will happen when you have widgets installed that are not included in this theme. This theme includes a bare minimum of widget elements. You should make backup copies of the contents of those widgets before deleting or you will lose the data! Once the theme is installed, you can reinstall your widget elements and complete the customization.
Your blogs title will automatically replace the title you see in the header. The description or tagline will display in the header panel, 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!
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RSS Feed (xml)
i'm using a bunch of your templates. they are soooo good! and i'm so thankful for your gift with webdesign. the templates you give us to use make a huge difference in how others view our blogs.
ReplyDelete(i forget which part to take out to show the navigation bar. they always look better without the navigation frame, but i keep half a dozen blogs so i look for the dashboard in it a lot.)
Thank you Anni! Your comment is much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteTo remove the nav bar on xml templates, I have a write up about that here:
Remove The Nav Bar
I took your desert sunrise skin and altered it a bit. This is my first attempt at doing anything like this so having your design was great.
ReplyDeleteI am having a problem with the navigation tabs. I want one to link to my email address, but it keeps inserting my blog address before the email address.
Your help would be sooo appreciated!
Blue Momma, I looked at your email link and you have to put the mailto: in front of the link. The url would be
ReplyDeletemailto:bluemomma2u@gmail.com
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I found a similar layout at www.myyakup.blogspot.com with someone else's name in the Credit line (at the bottom).
ReplyDeleteAllan, thanks for the heads up. You're absolutely right. It's nice to know that people like it enough to "steal" the credits though. LOL I went over and left them a comment.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful skin! The fluid width 3 column one was something I really really wanted. Thanks so much for freely sharing something so perfect! I've made some small changes to my taste.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of seeing something similar in lighter colors (anything but pink) in the future?
Needed a bit of help and forgot to ask before. I want the post tags to show up as in this blog : http://www.rplayground.com/ (scroll down, left column under the heading R Tags)
ReplyDeleteAny ideas? Is it possible?
callmeabookworm [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks in advance.
abookworm - What you're asking about is called a tag cloud and it's not a feature that's a part of Blogger. There are several different listings for sites that show you how to put them on your blog using their software. Do a Google search for tag cloud. =)
ReplyDeleteso that's what they're called! Thanks for letting me know :-)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have the body and sidebars start a few lines lower.
ReplyDeleteIs there a way I can do that? I'm working with the desert sunrise skin which I've changed the colors on. I think most everything else is pretty much the same.
I've passed your site on to several of my friends. You are making me look smart! Thanks!
Thanks. Your suggestion worked perfectly, except I have somehow got my right column starting waaaaay down the page and can't figure out what I did.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the font goes, I'm wanting to use some type of script front, something a little unusual. Any suggestions?
This is the code I think is wrong, but I don't know what I did
ReplyDelete#sidewrapper-right {
width:22%;
margin:0;
font:150% angelina, Sans-serif;
padding:10px 12px 20px 0;
float:right;
word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;
Here's your error in the sidewrapper-left section:
ReplyDelete#sidewrapper-left {
width:22%;
float:left;
margin:14px 0 0 14px;
That second 14px (in bold) is supposed to be 0. That should fix it. =)
The brightness of all my text blog experiments variations with this template... why?
ReplyDeleteLOL, Derek I have no idea what it is you're asking. The brightness of what? There's nothing in the blogs code that can change the brightness of your PC screen.
ReplyDeleteIf you havea problem, please leave a link so I can at least SEE whats going on.
Hehe, is a browser problem. I used Camino with my Mac and the brightness of the text change with every refresh...
ReplyDeleteOther problem: how i can make invisible the blog name in the header?
thanks in advance ;)
I'm trying to change the backgroung colour, and the text colour, and it doesn't work. I've tried to change it in the html code and save it. And it doesn't make any difference.
ReplyDeleteCould you help me
Thanks!
Hi----:
ReplyDeleteI love this theme and would like to use it for my father-in-laws small bar and grill, with some tweaks.
I'm trying to take out the tree and sunset photo and add food pics, like the burgers i have on their now. But i dont want 3 burger pics just one. Is there a way to make the pics smaller in size, so as not to take up the whole header? And the restaurants name somewhere at the top?
URL:
http://eatatwoodys.blogspot.com/
I've been playing around with the code and am really just stumbling about, i know very little about html. But would love a few pointers.
Hi...how do I add another link to my blog?
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, this is a fantastic template! The only problem is, I have no idea how to make the navigation links at the top actually go somewhere. I know how to add weblinks into the html, but I don't know what weblinks to add, if you know what I mean. I basically want to have the navigation links at the top lead to some things that blogger already has, like About Me, List, and Links. And also some things that would be sections on their own. How do I do this?
ReplyDeleteThanks again.
thanks u so much
ReplyDeletei rewarded u also via ads ;) he he
I have been using your Desert Sunrise template for several months and really love it. But very recently vertical and horizontal lines have appeared in the header where the sunrise appears. How do I get ride of these lines? I notice they have appeared on your website too.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing any new templates in the future.
My blog site is: http://discovering-asia.blogspot.com
Dawn - I don't see any lines on your site or or anywhere else. It sounds to me like you're having trouble with your PC. The template is fine.
ReplyDeletese7en, this is weird as I can still see them. It's only on the sunrise colour on the template and remains on this part of the template. I also see it in the exact same place on other blog sites with the same template and if I view the template from a different PC. I have downloaded the template again and replaced it but it still remains. If you can't see it then it's hard for you to help. I may have to change to another template.Thanks for your help anyway.
ReplyDeleteThank you for buty skin
ReplyDeletehey se7en your template is very cool. i'm using the template but i couldn't get the dates on my posts.. and there are no lines to separate the posts.. but everything else is great. can you let me know what's wrong? thanks alot
ReplyDeleteHi Se7en,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you so much for all the wonderful templates. This one, for now, is our favourite.
I would like to replace the tree photo with one of my dogs, and am hoping if you could tell me which part of the template I should edit, and what dimensions would be best?
Thank you so much in advance, and thanks again for your templates.
so cool.. :thumbsup:
ReplyDeleteThank you for the excellent template Se7en. I was wondering how to get the links and photos section in the code as is seen on the thumbnail of the skin?
ReplyDeleteThanks
i'm using one of your templates. it is very good. i changed some picture layout to meet my blog theme. thank you for the templates. you really help a newbie like me. =)
ReplyDeleteCan You Visit My bLOG ????? Can you comment about my blog especialy about my layout,design and others??? I am use your xml skins... your xml skin is very nice.. Thanks....
ReplyDeleteCan someone please help me to understand how I can get the link options at the top of this skin to work? I am using this on a new blogger page and everything else is working great, but I don't know what to do with the "About Me," and "another link" options...? I am very new to blogger and don't know what I should do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThis skin rocks!
ReplyDeleteHowever I have hit a problem installing it. I am trying to put the widgets in the outer wrappers and it works for the left wrapper. Unfortunately, when I want to place widgets on the right wrapper, it encounters an error. Below is the html code:
(div id='sidewrapper-right')
(b:section class='sidebar-right' id='sidebar-right' preferred='yes'/)
(b:widget id='LinkList2' locked='false' title='Linkage' type='LinkList'/)
(b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='Friends' type='LinkList'/)
(/b:section)
(/div)(!-- end sidebar-right --)
The error I get is "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 element type "div" must be terminated by the matching end-tag" Bare in mind that I used your original code and just added in the widgets. Change the () to <>.
Very nice XML templates! I found here some of the best skins I've ever seen, thank you for sharing them!
ReplyDeletedude
ReplyDeletethe desert sunrise skin is really cool.
but one thing
i am not able to edit the "About me" and the 2 "another link" options and its not working..
pls check that
thanks a lot
Hi, first I want to say your skins are very well made.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you can set page links to link to multiple pages/post, say as with a press room page to show multiple past posts such as two or three news articles at the same time.
Can I just put a link1, link2 into:
...href='link1', href='link2'>Link Name...
or is this not possible?
My other question is how can I set the margin widths of the blog post and sidebars?
Thanks a lot.
-Kyle Gay
tanx for the skin.. im using it,and realy like it
ReplyDeletethank alot
ReplyDeleteI want to change my blog from 2 column into 3 column and finnaly found this great template. I will soon use this.
ReplyDeletethank alot
How do you edit the about me and another link section to put in actual links? I see others ask the same. Anyone else can help?
ReplyDeleteOMG, im such a geek! For the ppl like me who wanted to know how to edit the about me and the another link section at the top the info was right there all along.
ReplyDelete1) Scroll to the bottom of the codes
2) Scroll a little bit back up till you see this:
!-- add or modify your links below using the examples, replace the # with your actual link -->
3)As the instructions said copy the link and paste it where the number sign is and waahla
and to think i know nothing about codes. :)
i use it..thx
ReplyDeleteHI, I'm using the Desert sunrise, and i would like to use the link, so that by clicking it, the contents will show on the same page, just that the contents in the "main post" section changes.
ReplyDeleteI do not want to link it to another off site link.
please advise how can this be done?
Hi, I have a problem with the 4 tabs Home, About me, Another link & Another link at the top of the template. How can I modify them? Make them work I mean :) Thanks in advance :)
ReplyDeleteThis template doesn't show the Blogger Navbar at the top which is visible in the normal blogger templates. Is there a way that the Navbar would become visible in this skin? Would be grateful for any help. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAnd if we remove the 5 lines of code mentioned in this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.blogflak.com/remove-the-nav-bar-blogger-xml/
then the Nav bar does appear, but then the template becomes distorted, as the middle portion of the header image is pushed downward, and there is some over-lapping.
Is there any way to keep the Nav bar without distorting the template?
http://notmystuff.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI have Posted ur template over their,but suddenly their come lots of problems like change of Links colors to Blue from White,not able to see Widgets like Page Rank,Clock.
Thank you sooooo much!!! I have been looking high and low. I'm glad I found yours. Not only they are lovely but they really work.
ReplyDeleteThanks again.
http://notmystuff.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteplz reply me with u r Email id.
actually i have place u r template at http://notmystuff.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeletei want to restrict to view only 5-6 posts on everypage instead of 20 so can u help me out.