Here Kitty Kitty - free XML blogspot design
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Here's a blogger design that's 850 pixels wide and has 3 columns. The background colour is customisable from the Template > Edit Colours & Fonts area. The "inner background" will stay white.


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

The cat images are clip art that are in the public domain. Cute cute cute! Enjoy....

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Heart to Heart - free blogger template (xml)
Monday, 25 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
Of course this is a re-doing of this template. There was a bit of middle-bit heart overload so I shaved some of the middle hearts off (ouch, shaving a heart!) but it looks a little neater.

For those of you who want to make it a little more personal, why not ditch the boring plain text header and edit the image to show your own header? Assuming you know how to do that kinda thing of course.

To hide the text only Blog Header & Description just enter:

display: none;

under
#header .description {
and
#header h1 {
(in the box of code)

And then edit the image and you instantly have something pretty darn cool and different.

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Petite Stars - free Blogger design XML
Saturday, 23 February 2008
The background in the header is a tiled pattern so I can't supply you with a blank header image for this one (but I intend on making it my future plan). Stay tuned for more designs soon - I plan to take into consideration all the ideas that my readers gave me a few posts ago.
In the mean time, here is a dark template with a star pattern in the header and footer.


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  • Download the XML template: here (zip)
  • View a live preview: here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Party at my house! - DIY XML blogger template
Thursday, 21 February 2008

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This Blogger/Blogspot design is called "Party at my house!" and it's available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

*** A few things ***
This blogger template is for those of you who are comfortable editing images and uploading them to the internet (and then replacing the image path). YOUR BLOG TITLE AND DESCRIPTION WILL NOT SHOW UP - this design is not interactive from your Blogger Dashboard.

The header image is a blank banner that you may do what you wish to:
Here is the image (see it's blank and ready for you):

click the image to view full size
and then right click and "Save Image As....."
(or download the zip file, it's in there too!)
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:

"So, how is this different from your other designs?"
It's not, really. I have just included the "blank" header image so you may edit it to include your blog title/description or any images you want. You don't have to edit any other images or change where they are hosted... just the header. If you do nothing and install it as presented in the zip file, it will look exactly the same as this page with "Blog Title Here" in the header image.

"WHY did you make this design like this?"
Two reasons really - one: I know that a lot of people want to customise their design a lot more (you can use any graphics editor to put your own text onto this banner and there are waaaay more font choices than the silly old internet can handle. DaFont: droolworthy!) and two: I just thought it would be more interesting - and things are definitely better when they're more interesting ;-)

"I don't want to edit my own header image! Can you please let me know how to make my title & description come through from Blogger?"
No. There is no way that your blog title and description is going to come through and actually "fit" well in the banner bit, so bad luck.

"What graphics program can I use to edit this image?"
I have Photoshop CS, but you can use any graphics program that allows you to open/edit a JPEG or GIF - which should be pretty much any graphics program. I have also included the (layered) photoshop file for those of the Photoshop persuasion.

"Ok, I made my own banner, now what?"
Now you'll have to upload it to some hosting on the internet. I host my files on photobucket.com (a free image hosting service) but there are more options out there.
Upload the file to the internet, then find the URL of the image.

Next, go to the "Layouts" >> "Edit HTML" section of your blog.
You will need to replace the original header image - seen on this page - to be your own.

Scroll down until you find the following image path:
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa231/free_blogger/HeaderTest.gif

hint: it's under this bit
/* ---( header and site name )--- */


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Replace the original image path with the newly created header image path that you've just uploaded to your own hosting. Make sure not to remove the brackets. Preview to check it's all ok and then save. Viola!

OK OK OK, gimme the template:
  • Download the XML template: here (zip)
  • View a live preview: here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Posted by Sharnee at 01:27 | 5 comments
The Only One - Free blogger design XML
Monday, 18 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
The sidebar alignment is weird in IE6 and before - so this is recommended for those of you with IE7 - and of COURSE it looks fantastico in FF, Opera & Safari :P - if you're using IE6 and before then I may have to seriously question your sanity!

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Heartz - free XML blogger template
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Hi, here is heartz vII (a redoing of this template). The background colour is changeable - I chose pink for this example but it's up to you and what you fancy.


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Fancy Fashions - blogger design XML

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
The background colour is changeable from the "Edit Colours/Fonts" area - note the cute scissors border on the side widget thingy. So cute!

ps* the inner background purple colour is #A186BE - for all those of you who want widgets to blend in seamlessly.

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Pink Silhouette and B&W Silhouette - free XML template
Saturday, 16 February 2008

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Yes, the woman is static. She will stay in the bottom right corner forever *sigh* she's never going to meet her Prince Charming!
  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

Prefer it in white?


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Retro Typin' Gal - free blogger design XML
Friday, 15 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
PS: Inner background grey hex colour is #FFFCA8 (you might need to know that incase you're going to put widgets in).

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I dreamed I was... - free blogger design (XML)
As I have just discovered, if you drink a hot cocoa and look at this design a lot, you may go into some kind of delicious sugar coma like I am right now. *sigh* I just love sweeties so much.


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
PS: Inner background grey hex colour is #CCCCCC (you might need to know that incase you're going to put widgets in).

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Space - free blogger design (XML)

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Wink Wink Nudge Nudge XML - free blogger design
Thursday, 14 February 2008
I've had a few people ask for this, so here it is:


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

    Of course, the link colours can be altered to suit.
PS: voting is still open for any kind of template yr busting to see. Click here for the post and leave a comment!

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What kind of template do you want?????
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Hi there....
I have a feeling I am going to be inundated with requests but I thought I would open up the gates for what you guys want.

If you like one of my old designs (scroll down this page and look at the classic templates) and REALLY truely want it in XML then please let me know which one it is!

If you think you have a good idea for a design (for XML) let me know!  It can be a theme, based on something you like, a colour - anything!  I WILL NOT (and never will) slap some pic of a celebrity or manga cartoon on a blogger template.... so don't even ask.

A few things....
  • this does NOT mean I'm doing custom requests.  Please do not assume this means I will make something personalized for you.  Do not email me.  Please leave a comment here (on this post) with any requests you may have.  I can't wait to see!
  • Of course any templates that come out of this will be free!!
  • if a certain theme, old layout etc is popular then I will re-make it to the best of my ability!
  • I can't guarantee to have this done immediately as I'm SUPER SUPER busy at the moment (to say the least) so it may take me some time - but I will be as accommodating as possible.
  • I'm not an XML star (infact, I know next to nothing) so I can't do too much magic.
So... leave a comment if there's something you want and we'll see what's popular!!

xx Sharnee

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Hot Hands - Free XML Blogger template
Sunday, 10 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
As with the previous design, Zen, the colours are customisable. Have fun with it!

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Zen - free 3 Column XML template

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
Please note that the design can be altered from the "Edit Colors and Fonts" tab - not only can you change the main background colour, but also the "inner" background. Go crazy!
For example:

black & white:



or something more, ahem, colourful:


(the side bar backgrounds won't change to keep a little consistency with the header image - which is by Vlad Studio by the way. Beautiful!


Did you know that you are not limited to the colour choice that you are greeted with when you go to the "Edit Colours & Fonts" window. It's something that slightly annoys me, but it's a minor issue really. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of colours you can chose from.

Want to know how to do it? Just visit a hex colour page like this one or this one < that's better - and select your colour (it will look something like #FFFFFF - which is white). Then copy this code into the hex colour code box and viola - you have a colour not on automatic offer.


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Be careful not to enter two "#" characters or it won't work. Happy colouring!

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I interrupt normal programming...
Saturday, 9 February 2008
...to say that there is some work being done on suckmylolly.com - please excuse any weirdness that you may experience over the next 2 days or so. It'll be up, bigger and better than ever - very soon. Templates can still be downloaded :)

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High School Sweeties - Free XML blogger template
Friday, 8 February 2008
Here is a free blogspot design that I've had on the back burner for a few weeks - the design had kind of stalled for lack of inspiration but I love the way it's turned out! Hope you like it too.


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
PS: the "inner" background green colour is #99CC99 - for those of you who want to use AdSense and have it blend seamlessly into the background. Also, if you want to add a widget in the bottom of the blog, I have adjusted the padding that a 468x60 adsense banner will be aligned in the center (otherwise it would cut into the sidebar bit). This will also work with a photograph or plain text - whatever kind of widgets you're into.

Observe:

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I would not recommend any footer stuff that's wider than 470 pixels (hey, it's the footer anyway, who looks down there?) but as you can see, the adsense fits in well at the base (and sidebar, of course!).

PPS: I will do different colour versions of this soon! Stay tuned!

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Sleepy Flower Faeries - Free 3 column XML blogger template
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Lucky! Two designs today! Here's a simple yet sweet xml blogger template. Oh yeah... and it looks great as a 3 column one! Hoorah!


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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Sexy Woman - free blogger design XML

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Old Time Collars - Free Blogger XML template
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
I think pictures of old fashion can be really amusing, so saying that, here's a design that's quite funky and uses some old pics of collar styles. Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's very "me" (meaning you'd be hard-pressed to find a template like this one). Perhaps I should do more "classic-ish" templates, but that's not the way my mind works most of the time.



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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here

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Old School - free XML blogger template
Sunday, 3 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
The image is in the public domain and is from historypicks.com - I just cannot stress enough how much I appreciate sites/people who share without restrictions. Thank you, a thousand times, thank you.

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Dandelion - free XML blogger template
Saturday, 2 February 2008

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
The image is (c) VladStudio and you can see more of his images here (they're TOTALLY awesome) - if you're after some cool desktops for your computer I would recommend his site!

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3 column blog design! Ferris Wheel - free XML blogger template

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YES! This has 3 columns!
  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
The image is by Martin Walls and you can see more of his images here (they're awesome). I just adore people who share their things!!

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Roman Bath - free XML blogger template
Friday, 1 February 2008
This design is a lot more "simple" than what I usually do - but there's something about it that I really like. I hope someone else likes it too!

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  • To download the xml template: click here (zip)
  • Preview the site here
  • Need help installing this? Click here
PS: I have added a widget under the header of the preview site - this makes it appear that there is more white space than there actually is (under the blue header image) if you have no widget. Make sense? No, I didn't think so.

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