How to install XML templates...
Thursday, 19 July 2007
Here are the instructions for installing "new", "widget-friendly" or "XML" (blogtemplate.xml for example) blogger templates.

Here's what you have to do:


Log into your Blogger account and click on "Layout"

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

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At the top of this page it says "Backup/Restore Template" and advises you to download your current template (good idea, incase things go weird).

The next step is to upload the suckmylolly.com template you like by "browsing" your computer for the .xml file that you downloaded and clicking on "upload".

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DO NOT TOUCH THE BIG BOX OF "CODE" under this.
You MUST upload the .XML file from your computer - trying to upload anything else will not work!!


Done! View your blog to see the changes! Easy peasy!

Please note that I test every single blogger template before making them avaliable and I KNOW THEY WORK.

The biggest issue you'll probably have is not reading these instructions properly - please check this twice before contacting me.


STILL HAVING PROBLEMS?

  • Please read my FAQs which can be found >>> here.

  • I provide my blogger templates to the public in zipped folders. This means that the template is enclosed within a folder - along with all the images and the terms & conditions for using my template.

    If you try and upload this .zip folder then YOU WILL GET AN ERROR MESSAGE (ie: "Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly...."). You have to unzip this folder and inside you will find the .xml template file. THIS is the file you need to upload.

    Uploading the .xml file will NOT CAUSE ANY ERRORS.

    Good luck!


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Posted by Sharnee at 09:09 | 25 comments
About me...
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Hi! I hope you like my blogger templates.

My name is Sharnee and I started suckmylolly.com as a creative outlet. If I didn't design blogger templates for the public then I would probably be changing my own design every other day!

And besides... it's much more fun to share! (I believe that wholeheartedly). As you may have noticed, all my designs are released under Creative Commons 3.0 - worldwide - so that means that you can use them for whatever purpose you want and I don't mind one bit! I even don't mind if they're used for commercial purposes (just make sure you show me - because the ego is a beautiful thing). I also appreciate keeping the link back to me because it gets more people aware of my templates - the less generic in this world the better!

I never honestly thought that so many people would like my templates (and that really does fill me up with warm fuzzies). I like aesthetically pleasing things and I don't think a blog should be neglected - even if it may be perused by people in Google Reader.

There are also a lot of blog design templates out there that are made by... well I don't know who. Robots? I can promise that I make each and every one of these templates individually and it's not just a matter of slapping one new pic on a template and giving it a new name. Each one of my designs is made up of about 5 images that all piece together.

Anyway, that's all boring stuff.

I like:
  • cats
  • candy (strangely enough I don't enjoy the taste of sugary-candy but I LOVE the way it looks) - I do love chocolate though!
  • birthday cakes from 1950s - 1980s
  • retro images of motels
  • boys
  • toast
  • Swimmer goods (Japanese)
  • icanhascheezburger.com
  • Christmas pudding
  • confusing myself with the notion of time travel
If you like my designs and want to donate via paypal (all monies will be used for website hosting and other costs) then please do so by clicking here:




Thank you! Rest assured that I have about a million blogger designs in my head - so far about 100 have managed to escape.

Thanks for supporting me!

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Posted by Sharnee at 06:47 | 3 comments
How to install "classic" templates:
Tuesday, 3 July 2007

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PLEASE BE AWARE: that classic blogger designs are not compatible with "drag & drop" style widgets. If you want to add things to the side bar then you're going to have to edit the design yourself. You CAN add widgets but you will have to copy and paste the html/javascript code that is provided from wherever you got the widget from into the area of the code where you want the widget to be?
Don't know much about web design/html then I'd recommend that you use XML designs instead.

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Here are the instructions for installing "old" or "classic" blogger templates.
Most of my older designs are this format - when you downloaded the template you'll find a .txt file of the code you need to use.

Here's what you've gotta do:


Log into your Blogger account and click on "Settings"


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


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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"


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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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]

NOTE: If you want to save a copy of this text before you replace it, feel free to do so here.


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.

The biggest issue you'll probably have is not reading these instructions properly - please check this twice before contacting me. All the templates DO work, as I check them pretty thoroughly.

fyi: suckmylolly.com is "classic" blogger, not an XML design :)

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Posted by Sharnee at 06:21 | 10 comments