My Problogger Template
Noticed my new template? I got tired of my previous template, I need a clean template. By the way, this is a Problogger template and you can download it here. I’m still figuring out what should I customize from this template. Overall, I really love this template.
Features of Problogger template:
* Dynamic header tab creation
* Prime location AdSense header ad space
* Multiple rss feed subscription options ready to go (Blogger rss, Technorati, and Feedburner)
* Custom individual post date display
* Addthis bookmark and sharing individual post widget
* FEEDJIT live traffic feed widget
* Custom comments image display
* Three column footer with your recent posts, recent comments, and recommended money maker links
* Amazon deal of the day dynamic widget
* Clean and organized template layout editor screen
The image below is my previous template, I hope you agree with me that the current template I’m using is far better than the previous one.
The only thing I don’t like is the amazon widget but I can use the space for other ads widget. To those who are interested with this template, make sure that you read the information carefully from the link above. Also, make sure that you change all necessary codes especially the ad codes.
Categories: Blogging Tags: blogspot, problogger, template
Photobucket, Bandwidth Exceeded
This entry is not intended to humiliate the author of this template. I really love this template and didn’t want to replace it. The purpose of this entry is to share my experience and learn from it.
Two days ago, when I opened my site, I saw the image below… lots of photobucket errors. It seems that all bloggers who use this template had this kind of error. At first, I thought that my blog had been hacked. How come if I didn’t use my photobucket account in this blog?
The problem was… all the images with the free template were replaced by “bandwidth exceeded – Photobucket – Please upgrade your account.”
What I did to resolved the problem was to download all the image files and save it another file host.
- Login to your blogspot account, go to layout, edit HTML
- Click Ctrl F. Since the problem is from photobucket, type the word photobucket.
- The word photobucket from your edit template page will be highlighted.
- Copy the complete url of all links that has the word photobucket one by one.
- Download them and save it to your blogspot or any filehost that you prefer.
- Then, replaced all the photobucket link in your template, make sure that you’ve replaced the correct photobucket link to the new link to avoid further problems.
Voila! My site is normal again.
Customized Blogger Template
The screenshot below was my old template I’ve used for 2 almost two months. I am attracted to sunset that’s why I use it as my header image now. Got to make this post to remind me of my old template design. 2 nights ago, I want a new lighter look and feel to my blog… I was thinking of a template that I can easily customized depends on the season and my mood.
I’ve searched for free template design and I’ve found the screenshot below from dzelque Blogger Templates. I really like it… what happened to the lighter look and feel? 
Here it is now. It’s a lot different… I’ve widened the body, transferred the sidebar from left to right side, widened the sidebar, customized colors, sunset on my header. I still have many customization to do… for now, I leave it the way it is. I hope you like it, its not that professional but I’m proud that I’ve customized it myself. It’s a good start already. 
UPDATE 12/28/07:
The template still loads slow because of the images and widgets. I don’t know if it was a bug but I can’t update technorati since I’ve used the template. I’ve settle for the default template and made some modification.. its easier to debug default codes.
My Template Went Wild
Yesterday was not my ordinary day of blogging. I got shocked yesterday morning finding my blog items in different places splattered all around. The colors were gone same as the design. I checked my html, it looked fine until I’ve discovered it was linked to a css file that was uploaded somewhere else. I went to the site where I’ve downloaded it, it was gone. I’ve checked it tonight, its online again. I dont know if his site was under maintenance yesterday or something to that effect. I got sad, really sad because that template reflects my extreme personality. I really love that template. It took me whole day figuring it out if there was a way to restore it and ended up looking for another free template. It took me my whole day yesterday optimizing my new page layout. Now, I’ve decided to use a default template and edit the html eventually.
Its not stealing if you had your backup provided that you maintain the “credit link” (link to the template designer’s site) as respect to their intellectual property. Our blog’s contents reflects our personality same with our template that matches our contents.
If you had downloaded a free template, do check your html if you have something like this.
link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://idwebtemplate.com/blogger/grunge update/style.css” type=”text/css” /
If you do, download it and upload it to another file host as your back up. Do this also to the images. Don’t forget to take note of the exact links.
