Thursday, 8 July 2010

Simplex Timeline - template for tech blog


In this post , I want to show you my latest template named : Simplex Timeline . I think this template is the best for tech blog ,but you can use it in other niches (of course ^^ ) .



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Install instruction


1,Download template file .

2,Open template in any word editor you have ,the best is notepad++ ( MS Word is not recommended because it auto generate tags in template file after editing )

3,To change the logo ,find this code :
#head-content {
    background: transparent;
    background-image: url(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9598/simplextimeline.png);
    background-position: 0px 0px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    }
and change the link in bold to your logo URL.

4,  This is the code of Subscribe form :
<form onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=simplex', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow" method="post" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify">
                                     <input type="hidden" name="uri" value="simplex"/>
                                     <input type="hidden" value="en_US" name="loc"/>
                                     <p class="email-form">
                                          <input type="text" name="email" class="sub"/>
                                         <input type="image" alt="submit" class="subbutton" src="http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/3158/blankdb.gif"/>
                                     </p>
                                     <div style="clear: both;"><small>Privacy guaranteed. We'll never share your info.</small></div>
                                 </form>
change the text in bold to your feedburner account .

5, This is the code for social network :
<div class="sub-icons">
                                     <a href="/feeds/posts/default" title="Subscribe via RSS Feed"><img align="top" alt="Subscribe via RSS Feed" src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/950/rss2t.png" class="rss-sub"/></a>
                                     <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dinhquanghuy" title="Follow me on Twitter" rel="external" target="_blank"><img align="top" alt="Follow me on Twitter" src="http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8055/twitter2e.png" class="twitter-sub"/></a>
                                     <a href="http://www.facebook.com/contact.dinhquanghuy" rel="external" title="Connect with me on Facebook" target="_blank"><img align="top" alt="Connect with me on Facebook" src="http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3849/facebook2q.png" class="facebook-sub"/></a>
                                     <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dinhquanghuy" rel="external" title="Connect with me on LinkedIn" target="_blank"><img align="top" alt="Connect with me on LinkedIn" src="http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2030/linkedin2.png" class="linkedin-sub"/></a>
                                 </div>
again ,change the text in bold to your accounts ^^

6,This is the code for Flickr gallery :
<script type="text/javascript">
             $(document).ready(function(){
                  $('#flickrphoto').jflickrfeed({
                limit: 9,
                qstrings: {
                id: '37304598@N02'
                },
                itemTemplate: '&lt;a href=&quot;{{image_b}}&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;{{image_s}}&quot; alt=&quot;{{title}}&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'
                });   
                });
          </script>
change the value 37304598@N02 to your Flickr ID

7,Ok ,save template and upload to Blogger .

8,Go to Dashboard ,continue to Page element

9,To add advert in top ,click on edit button in topads widget and paste your ads code into widget content (Adsense code ,for example ) . Do the same for midads ,ads,ads3 and ads4 widgets .

10,To add item to menu ,click on edit button and add link to each category in your blog . Link to each category has structure : http://{blog url}/search/label/{category} . Do the same for category and blogroll .

11,to add video ,click on video widget and paste the embed code of your video ,size for video is 286x210

12,you can add anything you want in text widget .

Ok,Save changes and you are done .
if you want to show a post in slider ,just add a label 'feature' to your post .There are maximum 4 posts in content slider .
That's all for installing this template . I hope this template helpful to you .

58 comments:

  1. Oh, My God!!!!! Please help me ! I can't breath!!
    This is template is awesome!!! Really!!!!!
    The author is very geniusss.......

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  2. hello sir... ur template is awesome.. genius...!
    but could u help me how to add more text in feature slideshow... i mean, its about one pharagraph in feature slideshow. how can i change it in this template? thank you sir. ur help much appreciated. sorry for bad english... :-)

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  3. I posted your template in galleries New Free Blogger Template Everyday.

    i'll wait your next template

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  4. this is SEO frendly??
    your templates are amazing/ i'm using for my blog: http://guiutzu.blogspot.com Darkness Template, but i want to use this new template.

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  5. Really amazing template!
    Please share with us, submit your work into our blogger templates gallery...

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  6. If you want to check the other demo of this template, check this site:

    http://pinoynurseinfo.com

    I am following your template design and they are indeed great and genius!!! No other site can beat your wordpress like template!!!

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  7. Don't forget to label your article as 'feature' if you want it to be displayed as SlideShow :D ... Thanks! Your templates are great!

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  8. SlideShow not work with internet explorer 7 and 8 and 6

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  9. awesome! but i wonder how to insert link into the logo? i want my readers to click on the logo (nothing special,just like it like that). please do help. tq

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  10. hi ...........this template is awesome .....but one question .....i had just uploaded this template to my blog http://topblogger1.blogspot.com/......but how to edit slider in this template........plz reply as soon as possible

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  11. Hi, i'd liked this template so much. But, i see 1 problem:

    The search system doesn't work....

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  12. i can show just 5 post on homepage. how can i solve this?
    www.iscipersonel.com
    plz look at
    thanks

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  13. Heloo, how to setting SlideShow..?
    Good themplate.

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  14. Topads doesn't appear on firefox 3.6.7.
    No Big deal Actually, but it would be better for me and my ads publisher (Soon, I hope..) if this problem can be solved.
    and how can I solve the search system?

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  15. Hi Admin,

    very great template, how to edit slide features? mine not showing any posts even i posted label "Feature".

    please advice.

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  16. @King_K : 'feature' not 'Feature' my friend ,try it one more time ^^

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  17. yes, you are right, "feature" NOT Feature". its amazing.

    can you please let me know following?
    1:- how to adjust post image size?
    2:- why search is not working properly?

    thank you in advance.

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  18. slide show not working on internet explorer.
    Firefox and chrome working fine

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  19. subscribe by e male not working even i changed code to my feed burner ID.

    please advice.

    http://hollycelbz.blogspot.com

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  20. Hello admin, pls help me more post in homepage, i just have 4 post in homepage, i dont know why, i from vietnam Pls help me :D
    My yahoo: pine_vicky7

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  21. Hello,


    Slide show doen't work in IE8 anys uggestions??

    Yout help is appreaciated.

    thanks in advance

    Josh

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  22. Hi, any solution for the IE/slideshow problem?

    It's the only reason that I'm not using this amazing template.

    Congrats!

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  23. In my computer with IE8 works fine! In others computers with the another IE8 doesn't work!

    Somebary knows why this happend?

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  24. Hi! I use your template for tech blog. I have a question. How can I add one more sidebar on the right? What's the html code and where I put it?
    My blog is http://mpalakia.blogspot.com/

    e-mail: eimaimesa@gmail.com

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  25. blogfoundation you have to put the word feature as a label in your article

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  26. in the point number 4.
    could I just delete the value="simplex" replace it wih my feedburner account
    or i just need to replace the "simplex"

    Sorry if my question seems ridiculous, I'm totally newbie

    Thx before

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  27. Thanks! This blog is a marvel.
    I'm from Brazil.

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  28. Hi Admin,

    can you please check why subscription box (frame and button) not showing anymore?

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  29. hello once again i am here with few problems...i tried to add page navigation for this template in my blog. but it did not show the page navigation. and another problem template enews doesn't support social share buttons such as facebook share, twitter, etc..how to correct it? please give me solution. thank you.

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  30. Hi All.
    I have problems on this piece of IE, please help me to not display error on IE, or help me remove it.

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  31. @Nailart : which template are you using now ? I see the blog in your profile is not SimplexTimeline ^^

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  32. bpatagosbet.blogspot.com
    i don't know why the slider doesn't work.i change the id and i put photos at flickr.i did the change to the javascript but doesn't work.what can i do?the template is great!

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  33. @Kotsila : add a label 'feature' for the post you want to show in slider and it will show up .

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  34. Hi
    I love the template.
    Just a question, is it possible to make the image header clickable?

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  35. I'm not sure if it's my blogger being messed up (i think it is), but when I add video, it breaks the frontpage and tries to display the post like a normal post and not a Read more box.

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  36. sorry, I changed my name. I've added my blog in my profile. I tried it on two different blogspot's and I get the same issue. On the blog, it is actually two posts, but it looks like one post and the titles aren't there.

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  37. Some configuration of the theme is wrong. The home page is showing only 3 posts! In settings, I pointed to appear 12 posts. But it does not work!

    Does anyone know what's going on? The page weight does not exceed 750kb.

    Please, the theme is perfect! Do not want to give it up!

    Help me!

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  38. i use your template to patagosbet.com.thank you very very much.Is an amazing template!

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  39. Thank you. It worked perfectly.

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  40. anyone know how I can deactivate or delete slideshow?
    eimaimesa@gmail.com

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  41. I got a solution with videos post... what I did is.. I replaced my previous post with the content of youtube video and.. viola!... everything when true after that... something weird ... I hope that I'll not have that problem again.

    Good luck!

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  42. chào a Huy ko biết blogger co thủ thuật nào để tạo khung đăng ký thành viên ko ah? a có thể làm một thủ thuật về cái này ko?
    ak! e thấy hình như có mấy trang dùng tem của a mà họ gói phần css lại up lên một host rùi dẫn link thì phải? a co thể làm luôn một thủ thuật như vậy ko? thanks

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  44. hi
    why the slider on my blog always displaying "no image" image??

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  45. @BioNaturally : you have to change feed mode to full feed .
    Go to dashboard -> Setting ->Site feed and change feed mode to Full instead of Short

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  46. nhamngahan..
    i need your help.

    1. i want to know if its possible do increase the amount of word on the slideshow.

    2. when you fill up your first page with articles, and you click, older posts, its very desorganized.

    3.if i want to put a header that takes up the whole head space, what size in pixels should it be?

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  47. hi admin,
    thanks for this great template,
    but i have a problem.
    On the home page two posts are not minimized with read more buttons.

    you can see yourself

    realmadridzone.blogspot.com

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  48. @Blogger donot include inverted commas in your
    title , change it if you have and it will be fine .

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  49. Hi Admin ,
    What changes should I make to include the
    slideshow in all of my pages . Currently the
    slideshow is working only on the home page?

    Thanks for the template , it is really awsome
    and perfect for a tech blog .
    My blog is

    BestFromGoogle.blogspot.com

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  50. No good. I keep getting messages that it's not able to parse because not all XML elements are closed. I don't have hours to go through the code to find the elements that aren't closed.

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  51. I need help Slider dosent work

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  52. This template is working beautifully for me for my pregnancy stories blog! I uploaded the images and script to my own host, and the slider works great!

    Is there a way to increase the word count in the slideshow? I read thru the HTML, but I must be missing it?

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  53. Never mind - I found it!

    Thanks so much for a great template!

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