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mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.  More eager then inspired I published today successively a DownRight Theme version 1, version 1.0 and version 1.1. I know I have at least frustrated one person extremely ... I am so sorry Unscathed. What I did: publishing this Theme with the Widgets NOT expanded .. permitting the Blogger Engine to use defaults (thus losing my code changes)! I'm an OAF! Said again: Confiteor Deo omnipotenti,I have corrected my errors ... confessed my sins :-( What more can I say: the Proof of the Pudding is in these WorkShop Pages! |
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Mea Culpa,
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Thnak you very much!
You are so kind ;)
Thur,
Thank you for the tips on this page. In my quest to write a fixed-size, three-column template for my travel blog I stumbled upon your suggestions and examples. I didn't really copy any of them, but they served as inspiration (especially your 'Sodomy non sapiens' ;-) and 'Rounders' wide templates).
I found that, when switching to a three-column template, going for fixed-size width is much harder than sticking with variable sizes (pixels vs percentages) and only because one has to come up with entirely new artwork that matches the new sizes. A lot of hours spent using Gimp today...
My template is based on TicTac Blue, but not much is left of the original by now. Check it out here if you're interested: http://travelrats.blogspot.com
Cheers,
Fritz, Seattle
You may have frustrated one, but you saved another! I'm eternally grateful! Thanks again. I'll have a surprise up for you in a little bit...
Okay... consider me confused. I've upgraded to the "new" blogger -- how do I use Downright? When I click the 'download' link to the left, I see a bunch of zeros?
culinarily curious,
1) Right-click on the download link (that is [download]) and choose 'Save Link As ...' (or 'Save Target As ...')
2) Save the file to your disk
3) Blogger > Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML > Upload a template from a file on your hard drive (so that's Browse and Upload)
4) Done
Thanks Thur. I'm really NOT a technological idiot. :)
I also don't seem destined to use this template. When I try to upload, I get a 404 error. When I open the saved file, copy and paste, I get the following:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The document type declaration for root element type "html" must end with '>'.
Any ideas?
I get the same error message as Culinarily Curious. Any suggestions.
Thanks
culinarily curious, Carol,
So what can I say?
Just tried/did it again:
- Saved the template (as an XML file) to my desktop
- Uploaded the file to a testblog
- Done, no errors (no 404), works as desired!
Carol suggested reading this link (3-column-template-for-blogger-beta)!
Thanks! (Please, use a real link instead of that long ugly line!)
You mentioned you opened the file and you copy and paste the code.
Do not open the file. An Upload will do!
(That's what I replied on 30/01/07 )
Culinarily Curious
Thats indeed a problem either with the template file or with the copy/pasting. Maybe thur has forgotten to close an xml element in the file he put up for download. You'll have to inspect the template "by hand" - open it notepad and make sure all open xml elements are also closed with a corresponding </...> tag.
good luck
Oh dear :-(
1) I have not forgotten to close a tag (as I just wrote: that template loads perfectly !!!)
2) do not open the xml-file in a text-editor (then again, NotePad will be harmless)!
When you upload the DownRight v1.2, and you recieve this 404 error ... try uploading another template (an official Blogger Template - Download Full Template and Upload again) and see if the error still occurs.
Thur, I posted my comment at the same time with yours so I hadn't seen you mention that it works fine for you if you download and then upload. Either "culinary curious" has copied/pasted incorrectly, or some characters get mangled and encoded the wrong way somewhere in the process, maybe because of the browser. I've seen stuff like that happen on blogger, but not with the main template editor.
For example, In the HTML/Javascript widget, if I try to add a javascript "for" loop whose upper limit is itself a variable (for example, I try to iterate through the elements of a page), all the code after that for is mangled and butchered and doesn't make sense. The same won't happen if I add that javascript code in the main template.
Fritz
Just wanted to touch base and let you all know that it must have been some kind of blogger stupidity. I waited thirty minutes and tried Thur's "upload" instructions again and it worked just fine. Go figure.
Thanks to all for your input!
Good. Thanks for sharing. Glad to hear it works fine.
(Those are not exactly my instructions, you know :-) )
Love this template, had no trouble getting it to work. Is there any way to narrow the center colmun and widen the sidebars without messing up the word wrap?
Yes, very easy:
the sidebars have a width = 200px
#rightbar_wrap, #leftbar_wrap {
width: 200px;
}
the mainbox has a margin-left and margin-right = 210px (room for the sidebars)
#main_wrap {
margin: 0px 210px;
}
So if you want the sidebars (say) 300px, simply change the figures to respectively 300px (#sidebar_wrap) and 310px (#main_wrap)
That's all.
First, I want to thank you Thur for your great templates and for taking the time in making them work in the new blogger version.
Second, just a little question. Is there any way to tinker with the colors or the html to make it look like the tb_b_20060107_black template?
Keeper,
Yes, tinkering can be done ... that's what the Variables are good for.
Dashboard > Template > Fonts and Colors
All included Variables are mentioned in DownRight Ready
Everything worked great uploading until the point I was asked to confirm deletion of all my HTML widget content... is that normal? Do I have to save that content and re-import into the new template once installed? Thanks, BTW Great Template!
Hi Thur,
I left you this question on some other post, but I don't know where, so I apologize for asking again.
I want to use the sidebar boxes with the breaks between them, that you showed us how to make a while ago. But I want to use this new DownRight Theme version template.
(I'm rebuilding my present template that started from one of yours...into the Beta format.
Can you tell me how to add the code?
Thank you for the wonderfully cool templates!
long island dad,
Save the Widgets !!!
bonnie,
I screwed up some things lately (to eager to publish) so I will look at your question thoroughly ... when I have another minute. I will be back on this one. That's a promise!
Thanks. I´ll put a link on my blog for my readers come look the new templates!!! they´re nice!!!:$
Hi Thur! while I'm waiting on you expertise, I've been playing with the widget thing.
I've found that I can turn each piece of code (that would wind up being a separate box) with the beginning and ending sidebar-box code....into a widget!
The profile box I had to hack. In the widgets they don't allow you to add HTML to it, so I used the regular hack that I had in the original template along with its opening and closing.
But I haven't figured out how to get rid of the original sidebar long boxes.
LOL...I'm just playing till you have time!
Eureka! I got it Thur!
I gave each widget its own section and unique id number. It works!
I'll check back to see if you have a more programmer worthy solution.
Bonnie's Playground
Thur,
I am using the DownRight template with my old widgets in place. All is well, except I am getting a huge empty space after the first post, before the comments and links line. It doesn't matter what page I am on, or what the first post is, the space is there. Would you have any clue as to what is causing this?
I spent a long time looking for a new template, and I love the DownRight. Thanks
i seriously love your 3 column templates and was happy to see DownRight v1.2 work with Blogger 2.0 however I am having trouble with blog posts BLEEDING into each other. if the image and text are exactly the right size, the posts below begins in the middle of the post above.
is it SUPPOSED to work like this? or is there a line missing in the code?
Never mind. I found my error. I had duplicated part of the code when adding my widgets to your template. Thanks and again, great template!
Jenni,
I see! Have you uploaded the template v1.2 with the main code EXPANDED.
For I see there is a
</div style="clear: both;"></div>
at the end of each post, causing that gap in the first post.
I deliberately commented that one OUT, because that line of code bites the fluid design!
jgodsey,
No, I suppose it is NOT supposed to work like this.
Then again: I cannot see what you mean by bleeding into each other!
What browser are you using?
Is this same bleeding happening in this WorkShop too?
Thur,
The changeover went without a hitch! DownRight v1.2 is up and live on my blog!
Bonnie Writes
Bibliophile Bullpen is my blog and it seems that the previous blog will begin in at the END of the text div> regardless of where the bottom edge of the images are.
so i have to constantly go back and shrink images until they extend no lower than the previous text else, the previous posts date header the tuesday jan 30th is the worse case where i had to do this.
I use firefox.
thanks for any advice, but i prefer the posts to be singular units and not run into each other. I made NO corrections to YOUR code - even though i am desperate to customize it. I wish that more active links had individual color variables. But that's gonna take me a long time to figure out.
im really curios to something.... im not sure if you can help me or not... i am wondering if there is any way to add a background pic to the blog.. and how I would go about it. thank you
Hi Dolly,
To add a background image, add the code to the 'body' code which in the DownRight template is right under the variables.
The code would look like this:
background: url('link to picture');
You can view the source code for my blog which uses the downRight v1.2 New Blogger template.
Hello Thur,
Firstly, congrats on making a neat, clean and easy-on-the-eye template.
I am new to blogging and XML. I tried using your template. I want to add google adsense code at the beginning and the end of the post, but its just not working.
I tried the following -
1> Edited the blog widget to make it allow adding page element.
2> Expanded template widgets, and
(a) tried adding after div class='post-header-line-1
(b) data:blog.pageType == "item"
(c) data:post.body
None of it worked.
Is there some way to make it work? Any pointers you can give is much appreciated.
Thanks.
- New2Blogger
i have gotten a lot of compliments on the new blog design, but i am still having issues with the posts bleeding into each other. (like feb 10th) anyone have any advice where to look for the problem? Bibliophile Bullpen
thur?
any ideas on this image problem?
example post from my blog it just doesn't look right.
Hi jgodsey,
Yes!
To start: because I wanted this to be a fluid design I had to comment out <!-- <div style='clear: both;'/> clear for photos floats --> ... it does what it says and is (as a consequence) causing your image-not-clearing problem!
There is a way out:
find
<p><data:post.body/></p>
and replace that with
<table><tr><td>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</td></tr></table>
thus embedding the post.body in an (old fashioned) html-table.
Works: your example page!
Err ... I made you a new v1.3 DownRight template. You can download is here!
Please upload this v1.3 in your dashboard and see if it works. It should! (And trying is harmless, right?)
Wooow ... I do hope this works for you! (Please let me know the results - and you may e-mail me for further questions.)
Kind regards,
Thur
I am using yur template on my blog now, but there is nothing for the left column represented in the "page elements" tool. In other words, how do I get multiple page elements on the left column, as the right colum has? THANKS
Mission,
WHAT template are you using?
The DownRight v1.4 has a left column with a widget section! Add Page Element works as it should.
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