Archive for June, 2009

Showcase – Free Gallery Style Blogger Template (Updated)

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Now you can showcase your work with style using Blogger! Showcase is a very stylish template that features the great gallery style that everyone is looking for. If you need to post pictures, designs, inspirations or any kind os stuff, SHOWCASE is the way to go!

Features:

  • Gallery Style
  • Well designed graphics
  • Organized
  • Dark Gray / Yellow
  • Custom comments, Blockquotes and Lists
  • Automatic Thumbnail
  • Custom icons for each sidebar widget
  • Clickable Thumbnails

How to activate clickable thumbnails

Note: I have already uploaded the new version of this template, so please if you don’t want to make this tutorial, just download the original template again, it’s working!
Just go to your Dashboard > Edit HTML. Click Expand Widget Templates, replace this line:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1693834/javascript/summary-post.js

For this one:

http://bloggertuts.googlecode.com/files/summary-post.js

After doing that, look for this line:

<script type=’text/javascript’>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);</script>

And replace it for this one:

<script type=’text/javascript’>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;,&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;,&quot;<data:post.title/>&quot;);</script>

Save it and enjoy!

Credits: This fix was made possible by an awesome user of mine, Kelly Mesa from Kelly Studio.

Pixious – Free Premium Blogger Template

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

This is PIXIOUS. A very professional looking blogger template. It has many many premium features. You won’t believe what I am giving you guys for free hehe. Please take a look in every detail, It’s a really special template and I am proud of myself because I am seeing that I am getting better every new template I make, the main reason for that is the great feedback you guys give me. Please keep visiting, download, commenting and asking for anything you need!

Take a look at its Features:

  • 2 column
  • Clear post section, so your users will not get bored when you read big texts.
  • Well designed graphics
  • Custom comments block
  • “Read More” function installed and ready to be used!
  • A GREAT 3 column and widget ready footer for even more stuff!
  • Cool looking custom widget for twitter updates (Please ask me if you need help using it.)
  • Search and Subscribe widget to improve your users’ experience
  • “Share this post” widget installed (Using addthis button) in the post footer, that will get you thousands of clicks comming from social media
  • And much more! Check it out!

Tell me what you want!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Dantearaujo.net is still a new website, and as you know I am having a little trouble dealing with time. So I had this idea and I want you guys to help me, I will only make new templates based you my users needs. Yes, Now you tell me what you need and I will analise the replies everytime I make a new template.

Please use the comment section as this post as your channel to talk to me and tell me what you desire to have in my next template. Tell me the colors, the style, the features, everything!

I think this will help me optimizing my templates and it will save time for you because you won’t find useless templates here anymore. Only quality and useful templates. For this, your feedback is everything.

Please leave you comment below and Tell me what you want!

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If you are a twitter user please follow me at @dantearaujo for quick chatting, posts and mini updates for useful and cool links about blogger templates and general webdesiging stuff.

Dreamy – Free Blogger Template

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Dreamy is a simple, organized, eye-candy, blue, minimalistic blogger template. I am sure that most of people will like it. It has some nice features like Gallery style main page, which makes automatic summary of your posts, and automatic thumbnail of post images as well. This is a premium feature that I have developed using some css, I have never seen anyone using this feature before for blogger templates.

TO design this one i got inspired on a website that I always loved the design: www.vimeo.com

Features:

  • Gallery Style
  • Cool Navigation Bar
  • Organized
  • Blue
  • Custom comments, Blockquotes and Lists
  • Automatic Thumbnail
  • Clickable Thumbnails

How to activate clickable thumbnails

Note: I have already uploaded the new version of this template, so please if you don’t want to make this tutorial, just download the original template again, it’s working!
Just go to your Dashboard > Edit HTML. Click Expand Widget Templates, replace this line:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1693834/javascript/summary-post.js

For this one:

http://bloggertuts.googlecode.com/files/summary-post.js

After doing that, look for this line:

<script type=’text/javascript’>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);</script>

And replace it for this one:

<script type=’text/javascript’>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;,&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;,&quot;<data:post.title/>&quot;);</script>

Save it and enjoy!

Credits: This fix was made possible by an awesome user of mine, Kelly Mesa from Kelly Studio.