BT Dark Green is my first Wordpress conversion. Originally created by Blogging Tips, this is a slick and professional looking widget-ready theme (for Layouts blogs) with mouseover effects for sidebar links and navigation tabs. You can see the BT Dark Green template for Blogger in action here.
This template is very easy to set up and configure to your tastes. Simply download the XML template, upload this as a complete file to your blog, and add links as required in the "Link List" widget (which is built into the template). A "Home" link is already set up to lead back to your blog's home page.
Once installed, most of the fonts and colors can be changed through the Fonts and Colors section of your blog's dashboard, so if the default color scheme is too dark for you, this can be adapted to your personal needs.
The sidebar links and tabbed navigation buttons feature a nice mouseover effect to complement the color scheme of the template, and sidebar headings all have the matching icons to complement the green highlighting.
In the demo, the header includes a custom logo to match the theme. You can download this and change the title to suit your own blog. If you prefer not to use this logo, the header will instead include your blog's name and description (or you could design your own header banner instead).
There is also a built-in blog search function, which uses the default Blogger search function to return entries from your archives.
You may also notice on the Home and Archives pages that a message appears above the posts ("Latest posts" on the home page, and "Archives for [day/month/year]" on archive pages.
How to install this template
- First you need to download the BT Dark Green template. This is an XML file contained in a Zip folder (which also includes instructions for use).
- Once downloaded, unzip the contents of the folder and save to a location on your hard drive.
- Log in to your Blogger dashboard and select the blog where you want to install this template.
- Go to Layout>Edit HTML and look for "Upload a new template from a file on your hard drive". Click on the "Browse" button, and locate the bt-dark-green.xml file on your hard drive. Then select "Upload".
- This will upload the complete template file to your blog.
Please note that you may be prompted to delete some existing widgets when uploading this new template. This happens when installing any third-party template. If you need to retain all of your existing widgets, you can either make copies of the content to save on your computer, or transfer widgets over using the method described on this page.
I hope you enjoy using the BT Dark Green template! This is my first ever Wordpress theme conversion, though in the next few weeks I hope to convert other Blogging Tips themes for use with Blogger blogs.
Please let me know what you think (and also if you experience any problems with this template) by leaving your comments below.
24 Comments:
Wow... nice template! You did a very good job, congrats!
^^ I'm pretty excited about the forum idea... *waits for it*... And of course the Competition! XD
:)
I had troubles lately with getting your templates uploaded into blogger, just figured it out.
Once files unzipped, I couldn't save the files, so then I just clicked on the file... and then "Send to" somewhere else to save it. I have this new template in my "practice html" blog.
My first comment with this new style..I Miss the Preview :(
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Slick! I like it.
@allison: You can ignore that if you plan to have at least have the "Home" link in the nav.
The rest of the links can be edited directly in your Page Elements > Link List widget.
p.s.- I already have this installed with the slick little fancy zoom image viewing script. I'm digging it.
Thanks again, Amanda.
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Here's a random question that is not very important, but I'll ask anyway. :)
I'm using the 'recent posts' script from Beautiful Beta in the sidebar. Anyone have tips on how to apply the roll-over CSS effect/style to the links in that widget?
Awesome template Amanda...thanks for coming up with another great template...looking forward to more...especially those with magazine style.
Like this blog. :)
Amanda, thanks to your resources and information I could modify my blogger the way I wanted. Thanks for sharing this WP and Blogger knowledge. Keep it Up!
Now I know that wordpress theme can be convert as a blogger, the theme is too dark. Hope see more converted wp theme.
I like this template! you did a great job on this.
thanks and hope to see more wordpress conversion templates.
Awesome template Amanda...thanks for coming up with another great template...looking forward to more...especially those with magazine style.
The three tabs do not even show. I hate to be like this but I only have to understand once. I love your templates and all you do here .I come on a daily basis.
If maybe you could just click,http://woodalley.blogspot.com to see what I mean about the tabs.
There are none Thanks, I love all the work you have done for all of us that appreciate your blog!
Another good one i will be using this one but id like to remove the search box. please tell me how thanxs x
You did a great job converting this template to blogger. I had to check twice to see that it wasn't a wordpress theme I was looking at.
I think you are one of the few designers who is really pushing the blogger platform and showing people what you can do with it.
Great theme indeed. Thanks
If you anyone is interested, I found an answer to the question I asked above.
Instead of using the Beautiful Beta widget to display recent posts in the sidebar, I'm using FeedBurner via the intructions found here:
http://smart-blogging.blogspot.com/2008/05/display-more-than-5-recent-posts-in.html
That way your your recent post links are styled just like a standard link list with the sexy roll-overs and such.
Hi, I love this template but I encountered some problems. The image on the left of the blog title didn't appear and the tab menu on top is also missing. Can you help me? Thanks!
i love this template bt had sme problem2..
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i love this template bt had sme problem2
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