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

(click for a live preview)
  • 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.

Labels: , , , , , ,

or
Posted by Sharnee at 02:09 | 0 comments
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"

Photobucket


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

Photobucket


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".

Photobucket

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!


Labels: , , ,

or
Posted by Sharnee at 09:09 | 25 comments
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.


    (click for a larger view)


    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"


    (click for a larger view)

    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



    (click for a larger view)
    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.

Labels:

or
Posted by Sharnee at 03:40 | 9 comments