Free Blogger Beta Template - New Blogger Template

IE 6 CSS Bugs

2007-02-10T06:26:00.000-08:00

Today I'm glad to say that all of my free templates are finally tweaked to deal with Internet Explorer (IE) Ver. 6 css bugs. I've just reckoned this problem when some of my friends recently told me that my templates were not rendered correctly on IE and after I investigated further, they are using IE v.6. After googling, I got the answer from this site , and made some adjustment to my css.

Well, I must apologize to those of you who have downloaded my previous template codes, coz I am not realize this IE6 bugs. Iam using IE 7. Now, all the templates are (hopefully) fixed.

Learning from this mistake, I have also tested my templates on various browsers and platforms. These are the list of platforms, browsers and results:

OS: Linux Fedora Core 4
Firefox 1.5.0 / 2.0.0 -rendered correctly
Konqueror 3.4.0-5 -rendered correctly
Mozilla 1.7.12 -rendered correctly
Opera 9.0 - error
OS: Machintos OSX 10.3
Camino 1.0 -rendered correctly
Explorer 5.2 -rendered correctly
Firefox 1.50 / 2.0.0 -rendered correctly
Mozilla 1.6 / 1.7.2 -rendered correctly
Netscape 7.2 -rendered correctly
Opera 8.5.0 / 9.0 -rendered correctly
Safari 1.2 / 1.3 -rendered correctly
OS: Machintos OSX 10.4
Camino 1.0 -rendered correctly
Explorer 5.2 -rendered correctly
Firefox 1.5 / 2.0 -rendered correctly
Mozilla 1.6 -rendered correctly
Mozilla 1.7.12 - error
Netscape 7.2 -rendered correctly
Opera 8.5.0 -rendered correctly
Opera 9.0 - error
Safari 2.0 -rendered correctly
OS: Windows 98
Explorer 4.0 - error
OS: Windows Vista
Explorer 7.0 - rendered correctly
Firefox 2.0 - rendered correctly
Opera 9.0 - rendered correctly
OS: Windows XP
Explorer 6.0 / 7.0 - rendered correctly
Firefox 1.5 - error
Firefox 2.0 - rendered correctly
Mozilla 1.6 - error
Mozilla 1.7.12 - rendered correctly
Netscape 6.2.3 - error
Netscape 7.2 - rendered correctly
Opera 8.5.0 - rendered correctly
Opera 9.0 - rendered correctly

Well acording to my list above, it can be seen that firefox 2.0 can rendered correctly the templates on almost all platforms, excluding Windows 98.

Free 3 Column Blogger Beta Template

2007-02-05T03:06:00.000-08:00

Check my free three-columns template for New Blogger (or Blogger Beta) ! I made this unusual template layout for CT-talk . It has 900px wide, and consist of 3 columns, including 2 other columns bellow the post area.

Remember, read this post before applying my template.

Right click and choose 'save target as' to download the template text file.

The photo image at the header is courtesy of mine, and you can use it freely as part of this template only.

How to apply my template

2007-02-03T03:32:00.000-08:00

Make sure that you now what you are doing.
If you are not sure, create a new blog under your account and please have an experiment beforehand, you can delete that blog later .
You must already have a new blogger account, or have migrated from old blogger to new one.
You must already downloaded the template text from this site
You have to download/back-up your existing layout beforehand, it will become important as it stores most of your previous collection of link, javascript etc

To apply the template, go to Template section - Edit HTML

You must ticked the Expand Widget Templates , click Browse, then point to the new template file (a txt or xml), then click Upload
If there is a warning about widgets to be deleted, just click Confirm & Save, do not worry, you can add widgets later on. As many as you want.

You are now officially use the template from retrospectext
To add widgets, now go to Page Elements tab
First, edit the Header. Click the edit text on the bottom-right corner of the widget
A new window will appear, now fill in your Blog Title and description, then click Save Changes.

Now, we add a new widget to the right-side column / menubar
Click Add a Page Element text right at the top of right side-bar / column
Choose the element that you want, let say, we choose the Link List
Fill in the Title, URL and Name of your first link, click add link, and repeat it until all your links are listed

You can order your link alphabetically, just choose the option from the drop down list
After finished it, click Save Changes
Keep on adding widgets to other layout part.
If the widget arrangement is a bit ackward, or strange, refresh your browser’s page.
If you want to move a widget, just drag n drop it by clicking the handle of the widget.
If you think it is enough, click save button on the top of the page.
Your result –maybe- will look like this. Remember, you can add or remove any widget that you want.
If there is a widget that you want to remove, just click edit at the widget box that you want to remove and then choose Remove page elements.
Remember, you have to put a link to my site at http://retrospectext.blogspot.com/ in your footer ;)

Thanks for using my template and Happy Blogging!

Free template - Sakura 02

2007-02-02T09:38:00.000-08:00

If you want to use this template, you must read this first.

This is another free blogger beta template/ new blogger template for you guys, - or should I say- ladies.
I warn you, that this template is very very very 'pinky' [^_^]'

Click this to visit demo site.
Right click this and choose save target as to download the template txt file.

Free Template - Sakura01

2007-01-31T08:31:00.000-08:00

Fiewh... finally I made my first 'free blogger beta template' for you all guys to download.

If you want to use this template, you must read this first.

Inspired by my first template created for Tari, I made another template using 'sakura' (still) as main themes. All of the artworks that are included in this template are mine. I created those background with Corel Draw, and you can use it for free as a part of this templates only, (including the css layout ofcourse). I host all the images in photobucket, so you dont need to download it. Remember that this template is only for new blogger template. I recommended this template for those of you who just started a brand new blog. But if you want to migrate from classic template, and decided to use this themes, dont forget to back up your previous HTML code. I can not assure you that all the CSS code from this template are perfect nor 100% correct. So far I've tested this template on IE 7 and Firefox 2, and no problem (yet) occured. I applied transparancy mode for the main layout, and it works on my IE 7 ( didnt appear in my Firefox).

Finaly, If you have question about this template, do not hesitate to leave me a comment. Cheers!

To visit demo site: click this
To download in text (txt) mode: click-this (right click and choose 'save target as')

Sakura Template

2007-01-23T21:47:00.000-08:00

This is my first attempt on making blogger's "new-template". Well, I wasn't really making it. I used "denim", which is a default new template, and just made a fiew change to get a new look and feel.

My friend Tari who actualy asked me to build a new template for her new blog by using a very nice blogsite which I found on the internet as "precedence" :) and so far I'm glad that it has the quality that I want.

The biggest challenge for me in making this template is, ofcourse, how to customize the template using blogger's new page element tags in order to compose the layout that I want. Thats why I start to make a simple layout first. :)

In a fiew days ahead maybe I will put a link for downloading this template.