Friday, 12 November 2010

Simplex Focus - Template for politic website

I want to introduce my latest template to you all : SimplexFocus .It's a clean and clear template ,and I think it's good for a site that focus on a specific topic such as politic ,finance ...


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Install Instruction

1,Download this template

2,Open it in any Word editor program you have .

3,To change logo of site ,find this code :
<div id="website-name">
                 <a rel="home" title="Home" href="http://simplexfocus.blogspot.com">
                     <span class="china">Simplex</span>Focus
                 </a>

             </div>   
and change it to yours banner or site name
if you are using a logo ,replace the text in bold by this code
                 <a rel="home" title="Home" href="yoursite url">
                     <img src="logo url"/>
                 </a>

4,To add ad code in top banner ,find this code
<div class="ad-468x60 ad">
                <!---your ad here-->
             </div>
and replace the text in bold to your ad code   .Ad code in size 468x60
To add ad code in right sidebar ,find this code
<div class="ad-336x280 ad">
                                <!--- your ad here-->
                             </div>
and replace the text in bold to your ad code . Ad size 300x250
If you add Adsense to your site ,but the ad doesn't show ,you can see this post

5,To add your social network account to blog ,find this code :
<div class="widget1" id="subscribe-follow">
                                 <div class="h4">Like, Follow, and Subscribe</div>
                                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Fan us on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/simplexdesignblog" class="fan-on-facebook"></a>           
                                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Follow us on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy" class="follow-on-twitter"></a>           
                                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Subscribe to e-mail updates" href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=simplex&amp;loc=en_US" class="subscribe-by-email"></a>
                                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Subscribe to our RSS feed" href="/feeds/posts/defautl" class="subscribe-by-rss"></a>
                                 <div class="clear"></div>           
                             </div>   
and replace the link marked in bold to your social accounts .

Do the same with this code :
<div class="widget1" id="site-sns">
                 <a title="SimplexDesign on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/simplexdesignblog" class="sns-facebook">
                      <span class="icon sns-facebook"></span> SimplexDesign on Facebook <span class="raquo">»</span>
                 </a>

                 <a title="SimplexDesign on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy" class="sns-twitter">
                     <span class="icon sns-twitter"></span> SimplexDesign on Twitter <span class="raquo">»</span>
                 </a>

                 <a title="SimplexDesign Google Friend Connect" href="http://simplexfocus.blogspot.com/p/friend-connect.html" class="sns-gfc">
                     <span class="icon sns-gfc"></span> Google Friend Connect <span class="raquo">»</span>
                 </a>

                 <div class="clear"></div>
             </div>

and this code
<div id="mini-subscribe-follow">
                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Fan us on Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/simplexdesignblog" class="fan-on-facebook"></a>           
                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Follow us on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy" class="follow-on-twitter"></a>           
                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Subscribe to e-mail updates" href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=simplex&amp;loc=en_US" class="subscribe-by-email"></a>
                 <a rel="nofollow" title="Subscribe to our RSS feed" href="http://simplexfocus.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" class="subscribe-by-rss"></a>
                 <div class="clear"></div>
             </div>

6,To add link to category bar at the bottom ,find this code :

<div id="popular-tags">
                     <span class="nav-title">Category : </span>
                     <a href="">lifestyle</a>
                     <a href="">faces</a>
                     <a href="">interests</a>
                     <a href="">youth</a>
                     <a href="">money</a>
                     <a href="">news</a>
                     <a href="">work</a>

                 </div>       
and change link to your categories . Your category link has structure : http://your blog.blogspot.com/search/label/category name

7, This template use Google Search engine instead of Blogger default search engine .
 
To create a Search for your site ,you can follow these steps :

7a , Create a page on your blog ,name it Search result

7b , Go to Google Adsense ,Click on Adsense for search .
Follow steps like images bellow

click on next


this step will set the range for your search

click on next


click on next


choose Open results within my own site
 and enter url of search result page you create in step 7a in Enter URL where search results will be displayed textbox

7c,The last step in Adsense for Search ,you see a button for submit and get ad code ,click on it . There are two blocks of code for you .

The code for search box and code for search result .

7d,Open template file and find this code :
<form action="http://simplexfocus.blogspot.com/p/search-result.html" id="cse-search-box">                                  
                                     <div>
                                         <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-5647776272363922:dsem4bd7gjy" />
                                         <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
                                         <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
                                         <input type="text" name="q" size="30" class="search-field" />                                          
                                         <input type="submit" value="search" name="sa" class="search-button" />                                         
                                     </div>
                                 </form>
                                 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&amp;lang=en"></script>
                            
replace this code with the code of searchbox you get from Google adsense

7e, Go to your blog , and choose edit pages for opening your search result page you created in step 7a .
Switch to Edit HTML mode
Paste the code of search result into page content .
Save your page .
At this time ,you finish creating search engine for your site .

8,Save template you are editing in word editor ,and upload it to Blogger .

That's all for this template .

I hope you like it
Remember to follow all my instructions and go through steps slowly .Feel free to leave me comments .

18 comments:

  1. this what i want and wit it from you i test it in my blog for 1 week and i will come back too comment

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  2. love all ur template..
    really great.
    thanks..

    have one question..
    can we all comluv to blogger default comment? can u do it?

    what is torrent? how to use it?

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  3. Hello friend. See how interesting this template is made. Can you do kind of like?

    http://www.hiphopdx.com/

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  4. Is there any way to remove the comment count number from the post windows?

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  5. 3rd column disappeared in both my blog and your demo

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  6. not working on IE.
    3rd column disappeared. check on yours demo.

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  7. Hi, the template is excellent i used it in http://photos.geeteshjain.com


    However, the related posts data and share this article data is not getting populated

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  8. @Geetesh Jain : I have some posts on how to add related posts and adding social bookmark buttons to a blog .You can search these posts and apply to this template .

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  9. Many people have called "excellent" for this template, but I still want to say "Well done, it is a Excellent template".
    I have an idea, can you insert a space for adsense code between post recently posts widget on this template? I think it will increase the CTR .. lol .. Please consider ..
    Thanks for the template anyway...

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  10. ignore my comments, that wouldn't comply with adsense policies...
    :(

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  11. hi,

    how can i edit the number of the feature posts make it 8 posts instead of the defult 9 posts?? please help.

    http://akukauselamanya.blogspot.com/

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  12. Hi ¡

    I´m using this beatiful template since 3 month and i have 2 question for you about the template:

    1: Is It posible put a fix image or a Skyscraper in the index and in all pages in the margins ( at the left and at the rigth of the post miniatures)?

    2: Is posible that when a post haven´t any image can we associate the same image for all the post that haven´t image in order to show this same image in the post miniatures of the main and the pages?

    Sorry for my bad English

    My rewards¡

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  13. is there a way to change the color of the pink bar up top?

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  14. hi.. i downloaded this template and the related posts and sharing buttons are not showed. please help me.. :(

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  15. i downloaded this template and the related posts and sharing buttons are not showed. please help me!!!

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