** Suckmylolly.com: Free Blogger Templates and Designs **

How to install my designs....
Friday, 6 July 2007

Hi,
Thanks for taking an interest in my designs! Below you'll find a step by step guide to installing these designs (these are instructions for "classic" templates).

How on earth do I install these designs?
Well now... it's not tricky.

If you are using NEW BLOGGER Here's what you've gotta do:

STEP 1: =======
Log into your Blogger account and click on "Settings"

STEP 2: =======
Select the "Template" tab and then from the Template page, please click on the "Edit HTML" submenu.

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STEP 3: =======
At the bottom of the "Edit HTML" page (under the text box which is full of code), you will see a link: "Revert to Classic Template"

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A pop up window will open which says: "If you revert to your Classic Template, you will still be able to recover your current design. Click OK to revert".

CLICK "OK"

STEP 4: =======
A page will then load (after you've clicked OK) which is another text box full of code.
Please select all this text [either with your mouse or click CONTROL+A]

DELETE ALL THIS TEXT

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STEP 5: =======
Open the .txt file which has the code for your new Blogger design.
Select ALL this text [either with your mouse or click CONTROL+A]
Copy this text [either using mouse, menu bar or CONTROL+C]

STEP 6: =======
Paste this text into the now empty text box [either by using menu or CONTROL+V]

If you want to PREVIEW the design before you commit the changes, click PREVIEW.
It will probably open a new window so you can check it.

When you are ready to save it, go back to the previous window (where you just pasted the code) and click SAVE!

DO NOT PANIC if things get weird because it's very easy to chose a generic design and start again from scratch.
How can I add my own links to the side of the design?
Simple. From your Dashboard click on the "Template" area of your blog (the place where you first posted the code). You will then see a lot of html code. Scroll down the code until you see this (or something that looks very similar):

with something like this (if you wanted to link to Google for instance):

Ta-da! Done!

You can also add more links by copying the line of text again (and posting it directly under the previous line) and ends with and you can have as many links as you like. If you're not sure, you should copy all the code into a text document incase you bugger things up completely. Or... just use preview and preview before you save.
You can also put a link to your Flickr photos, MySpace, Facebook, Technorati... pretty much anything.

Where are the images for the blogs hosted?
They are hosted on a photobucket.com account (which may not last forever) so if you want to get your own photobucket account and replace the images, please do so. Email me if you need to know more. I'll include a tutorial soon.

Any useful links for me, please?
Why yes!
Squidfingers - have an awesome amount of background image patterns
Kaliber - also have good backgrounds (ooh, pixel backgrounds)
stock.xchng - great photos, most are royalty free
Awesome blog hints - a great place for extra info.
What's this Dingbat thing your're always on about?
dingbat fonts - my faves are pretty much all at this site.
You can try building a great website design all types of graphics software and designs you install from the net. But you'll be better off having your ecommerce web hosting company build and design it professionally. The dotster company will help you build it but inmotion hosting will create the whole site for you! You'll be able to get cheap hosting from inmotion also. With a flat rate to anyone in the U.S. anytime, get a verizon wireless phone package.

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9 Comments:

At 19 July 2007 16:33, fanshu said...: hi. but after i revert to classic template, all my stuff in layout like chat box links will gone, how can i fix that?
At 20 July 2007 05:58, Suck My Lolly said...: Hi,

When you change the design you have to put in your links, chat box etc again (they are not kept when you switch designs).

When you joined/got the chat box, they should supply you with some HTML information to put into your blog? You will need to get this info. I can help you put your old information into your new Blog design if you need help.

email: freebloggerdesigns@gmail.com
At 20 July 2007 06:11, fanshu said...: hi.. after i done i go back to customize design, it said upgrade your template. after i click it then the template will gone back to defaut one. and after i revert to classic template, the template come out, but no more changing the layout.
At 30 August 2007 06:30, Suck My Lolly said...: I'm sorry, I didn't see this second message of yours before now.

If anyone has any issues installing my designs, please email me and I will be more than willing to help you: freebloggerdesigns@gmail.com

or.... leave a comment here!

xx
At 04 September 2007 21:29, Dana said...: hey, I installed one of your templates..i opened the folder and I can't seem to find the code anywhere! HELP (seriously I LOOOVE your designs!)
At 22 September 2007 20:47, niessuh said...: your designs are quite good.. but i would appreciate it more if you got some beta templates.. classic template is hard to customize unlike the beta that we can manage it tru drag and drop.

www.niessuh.com
At 22 September 2007 21:13, Suck My Lolly said...: niessuh: I see where you're coming from, but I just don't think that much of new "drag and drop" blogger. It takes the fun out of it. Widgets annoy me...... sorry.
At 20 November 2007 06:36, Suriyanor said...: hi..i am currently using ur perfumes are the feelings of flowers...the caption is displayed on the top of the page.but how do i get to display my blog title instead of the caption?tq.
At 20 November 2007 07:10, Suck My Lolly said...: Suriyanor: that's an image header... I'm afraid that's the way I've designed it. You'll have to edit the image yourself (easiest way)

the image URL is:
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa231/free_blogger/headerflowery.gif
(but then you'll have to upload it to an image host and change the image path in the design).

I made it that way because people often have bizarrely long blog titles and it doesn't always work.

My email is: freebloggerdesigns@gmail.com