Simplex Newspro - Template for magazine

Here is the template Simplex Newspro . It's a Blogger version of Newspro template from Gabfirethemes . I think it's good for a news portal and magazine .




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Here is steps for installing this template .

1,Download template file .

2,Open it in a word editor like Notepad++

3,To change logo ,find this code
<div id="logo" style="padding: 30px 0pt 0px 10px;">   
                 <a title="Simplex Newspro" href="">Simplex Newspro</a>
             </div><!-- /logo -->
and change the text in bold to your site name of your logo . If you have a logo ,you can replace the text with this <img src="your logo url"/>

4,To add your social network accounts ,find this code :
<ul>
                     <li>
                         <a href="/feeds/posts/default/" class="gab_rss">RSS for Posts</a>                         
                     </li>
                     <li><a title="" rel="nofollow" href="/feeds/comments/default/" class="gab_rss">RSS for Comments</a></li>
                     <li><a title="" rel="nofollow" href="" class="gab_email">Subscribe by e-mail</a></li>       
                     <li><a title="" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy" class="gab_twitter">Follow on Twitter</a></li>       
                     <li><a title="" rel="nofollow" href="http://facebook.com/simplexdesignblog" class="gab_facebook">Connect on Facebook</a></li>   
                 </ul>
and add links to your twitter ,feedburner and facebook account .

5,Here is the code of main menu :
<div id="navcats">
             <ul>
                 <li class="first current-cat"><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li>
                 <li><a title="" href="/search/label/politic">Politic</a>
                     <ul class="children">
                         <li><a title="" href="/search/label/americas">Americas</a>
                             <ul class="children">
                                 <li><a title="" href="">Category</a></li>
                                 <li><a title="" href="">Category</a></li>
                                 <li><a title="" href="">Category</a></li>
                             </ul>
                         </li>
                         <li><a title="" href="/search/label/asia">Asia</a></li>
                         <li><a title="" href="/search/label/africa">Africa</a></li>
                         <li><a title="" href="/search/label/europe">Europe</a></li>
                         <li><a title="" href="/search/label/usa">USA</a></li>
                     </ul>                 
                 </li>                 
                 <li><a title="" href="/search/label/business">Business</a></li>
                 <li><a title="" href="/search/label/tech">Technology</a></li>                 
             </ul>
         </div>
        
modify this code with your categories and sub categories . Link to your category has structure : /search/label/your category

6,Find this code

label1 = "Analysis";
Title1 = "News Analysis";

label2 = "Americas";
Title2 = "Americas";

label3 = "Africa";
Title3 = "Africa";

label4 = "Asia";
Title4 = "Asia";

label5 = "Europe";
Title5 = "Europe";

label6 = "Usa";
Title6 = "USA";

label7 = "business";
Title7 = "BUSINESS";

label8 = "tech";
Title8 = "TECHNOLOGY";

label9 = "feature";
Title9 = "FEATURE";

label10 = "focus";
Title10 = "FOCUS";

and set value of labels from label1 to label10 to categories you want to show posts in home page . The position of each label is in picture bellow :

For example ,you want to show posts in category xyz in position of label 1,just change value of label1 from "analysis" to "xyz"

7,To add ad code into this template ,you can find in template these lines :

<!--place your ads here -->

<a href="http://simplexdesign.blogspot.com"><img src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7039/300x250ads.jpg"/></a>

<!--end of ads code -->

or
<!--place your ads here -->
                 <a href="http://simplexdesign.blogspot.com"><img src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9267/sdads468x60.png"/></a>
                 <!--end of ads code-->
and change them to your ad code . To avoid errors occuring when adding ad code to template ,you should encode your ad code at here before adding them to template

8,Save template and upload it to Blogger

9,Go to Page element ,you will see some widgets existed in footer . You can add content to these widgets : add links to feature link widget ,add text to about this site content ,add your Flickr id into Flickr stream widget content . You can also remove them if unecessary . This template has widget ready function ,so you can add your widgets in some positions .

10,Save changes .
That's all for this template . I hope you will see it helpful .