(click "BACK" button to get back to this page). However, the post is becoming very long, and the Dots template posted there has no Header. So here is a new post about another New Blogger template.
is an example of Dots 3 column template for New Blogger that has a Header. It was modified mostly by Charlemagne Stavanger of
, but with some input from me. With Stavanger's permission, I put the template below for your convenience. The template has been modified to have 2 additional "Add a Page Element" - one for the Header, and one for the main column. With that modification, I have managed to put an AdSense link unit just below the title in the above blog, and a disclaimer plus a sitesearch box above the main column.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Dots
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 24 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
Modified By
Designer: Charlemagne Stavanger
URL: http://www.blogcrowds.com/
Support: http://www.blogcrowds.com/
----------------------------------------------- */
/* Variable definitions
====================
<Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color" type="color"
default="#333" value="#333333">
<Variable name="pagetitle" description="Blog Title Color" type="color"
default="#353" value="#335533">
<Variable name="blogDescriptionColor" description="Blog Description Color"
type="color" default="#996" value="#999966">
<Variable name="posttitle" description="Post Title Color" type="color"
default="#996" value="#999966">
<Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color" type="color"
default="#488" value="#448888">
<Variable name="vlinkcolor" description="Visited Link Color" type="color"
default="#885" value="#888855">
<Variable name="dateheadercolor" description="Date Header Color"
type="color" default="#663" value="#666633">
<Variable name="sidebartitle" description="Sidebar Title Color" type="color"
default="#663" value="#666633">
<Variable name="borderColor" description="Border Color"
type="color" default="#9b9" value="#99bb99">
<Variable name="bodyfont" description="Text Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif" value="normal normal 100% Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif">
<Variable name="pagetitlefont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 250% Georgia,Serif" value="normal normal 250% Georgia,Serif">
<Variable name="blogDescriptionFont" description="Blog Description Font"
type="font"
default="normal normal 100% Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif" value="normal normal 100% Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif">
<Variable name="dateHeaderFont" description="Date Header Font"
type="font" default="normal normal 95% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 95% Georgia, Serif">
<Variable name="headerfont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% Georgia,Serif" value="normal normal 100% Georgia,Serif">
*/
body {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background:#fff url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_dots.gif");
background-position: 50% 31px;
text-align:center;
font:x-small Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$textcolor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}
/* Page Structure
----------------------------------------------- */
#outer-wrapper {
width:890px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
font:$bodyfont;
}
#header-wrapper {
width:890px;
height:50px;
margin-bottom:20px;
background: #fff url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_dots2.gif");
}
#header{padding:0 20px 2px;background: #fff
url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_dots2.gif") -5px 0px;}
#main-wrapper {
width:450px;
float:left;
margin:0 10px;
padding:0 0 20px;
font-size:85%;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in
IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE
sidebar float */
}
#main {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_dots2.gif") -100px
-100px;
padding:20px 10px 15px;
}
.sidebar-wrapper {
width:200px;
float:left;
font-size:85%;
padding-bottom:20px;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in
IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE
sidebar float */
}
.sidebar {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_dots2.gif") -50px
10px;
padding:40px 10px 15px;
width:200px;
width/* */:/**/180px;
width: /**/180px;
}
/* Title & Description
----------------------------------------------- */
.Header h1 {
margin:0 0 .5em;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: $pagetitlefont;
color: $pagetitle;
}
.Header h1 a {
color:$pagetitle;
text-decoration:none;
}
.Header .description {
margin:0 0 1.75em;
color: $blogDescriptionColor;
font: $blogDescriptionFont;
}
/* Links
----------------------------------------------- */
a:link {
color:$linkcolor;
}
a:visited {
color:$vlinkcolor;
}
a:hover {
color:$vlinkcolor;
}
a img {
border-width:0;
}
/* Posts
----------------------------------------------- */
h2.date-header {
margin:0 0 .75em;
padding-bottom:.35em;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.3em;
color: $dateheadercolor;
font: $dateHeaderFont;
}
.post {
margin:0 0 2.5em;
}
.post h3 {
margin:.25em 0;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: $headerfont;
font-size: 130%;
font-weight: bold;
color:$posttitle;
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bg_post_title.gif")
no-repeat 0 .25em;
padding:0 0 1px 45px;
}
.post h3 a {
text-decoration:none;
color: $posttitle;
}
.post h3 a:hover {
color: $textcolor;
}
.post p {
margin:0 0 .75em;
line-height:1.6em;
}
.post-footer {
margin:0;
}
.uncustomized-post-template .post-footer {
text-align: right;
}
.uncustomized-post-template .post-author,
.uncustomized-post-template .post-timestamp {
display: block;
float: left;
margin-right: 4px;
text-align: left;
}
.post-author, .post-timestamp {
color:$posttitle;
}
a.comment-link {
/* IE5.0/Win doesn't apply padding to inline elements,
so we hide these two declarations from it */
background/*
*/:/**/url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/icon_comment.gif") no-repeat 0 .25em;
padding-left:15px;
}
html>body a.comment-link {
/* Respecified, for IE5/Mac's benefit */
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/icon_comment.gif")
no-repeat 0 .25em;
padding-left:15px;
}
.post img {
margin:0 0 5px 0;
padding:4px;
border:1px solid $borderColor;
}
.feed-links {
clear: both;
line-height: 2.5em;
}
#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: left;
}
#blog-pager-older-link {
float: right;
}
#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}
/* Comments
----------------------------------------------- */
#comments {
margin:0;
}
#comments h4 {
margin:0 0 10px;
border-top:1px dotted $borderColor;
padding-top:.5em;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: bold 110% Georgia,Serif;
color:#333;
}
#comments-block {
line-height:1.6em;
}
.comment-author {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/icon_comment.gif")
no-repeat 2px .35em;
margin:.5em 0 0;
padding:0 0 0 20px;
font-weight:bold;
}
.comment-body {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 20px;
}
.comment-body p {
margin:0 0 .5em;
}
.comment-footer {
margin:0 0 .5em;
padding:0 0 .75em 20px;
color:#996;
}
.comment-footer a:link {
color:#996;
}
.deleted-comment {
font-style:italic;
color:gray;
}
/* More Sidebar Content
----------------------------------------------- */
.sidebar h2 {
margin:2em 0 .75em;
padding-bottom:.35em;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
line-height: 1.4em;
font-size: 95%;
font: $headerfont;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.3em;
color:$sidebartitle;
}
.sidebar p {
margin:0 0 .75em;
line-height:1.6em;
}
.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:.5em 0;
padding:0 0px;
}
.sidebar .widget {
margin: .5em 0 1em;
padding: 0 0px;
line-height: 1.5em;
}
.main .widget {
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
.sidebar ul li {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/dots/bullet.gif") no-repeat
3px .45em;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 5px 15px;
}
.sidebar p {
margin:0 0 .6em;
}
/* Profile
----------------------------------------------- */
.profile-datablock {
margin: 0 0 1em;
}
.profile-img {
float: left;
margin: 0 8px 5px 0;
border: 4px solid #cc9;
}
.profile-data {
margin: 0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}
.profile-textblock {
clear: left;
margin-left: 0;
}
/* Footer
----------------------------------------------- */
#footer {
clear:both;
padding:15px 0 0;
}
#footer p {
margin:0;
}
/* Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */
body#layout #sidebar, body#layout #main,
body#layout #main-wrapper,
body#layout #outer-wrapper,
body#layout #sidebar-wrapper {
padding: 0;
}
body#layout #sidebar, body#layout #sidebar-wrapper {
padding: 0;
width: 240px;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>
<body>
<div id='outer-wrapper'><div id='wrap2'>
<!-- skip links for text browsers -->
<span id='skiplinks' style='display:none;'>
<a href='#main'>skip to main </a> |
<a href='#sidebar'>skip to sidebar</a>
</span>
<div id='content-wrapper'>
<div class='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' preferred='yes' showaddelement='yes'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='false' title='Alternative Medicine Articles (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar1' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='yes'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='Link' type='LinkList'/>
</b:section>
<p>Modified By <a href='http://www.blogcrowds.com/'>Blogcrowds</a></p>
</div>
<!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same
height-->
<div class='clear'> </div>
</div> <!-- end content-wrapper -->
<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
</div>
</div></div> <!-- end outer-wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
