Toughpress
Suggested by the Hive reader Maher, I have converted Toughpress theme to Blogger template. So check out this brown creative template and makes your ads look pretty cool today!
You can visit the demo or download Toughpress Blogger template (v1.13).
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Creative ads is indeed attractive!
This is the first time that I saw the specially designed ads, and it’s very beautiful and creative! If you applied Javascript on the ads, you would see the cool hover effect and I guarantee you would play with it for several minutes! I thought ads design is very important as it can attract the people to click on it, even advertise on your blog.
How do you think about this template? I do love to hear your comments and suggestions in every second, thanks!








Nice theme and clean code, i think i will use it in one of my blogs.
Hi Sam!
Thanks for your praises! We always try to make user-friendly stuff. ;)
Oh my God it is exactly the same of the original wp template i really can’t thank you enough for that. thanks so much, you gave me a big help.
WOOW I really like This temple, actually is one of the best I ever seen and I want to use it :D i have already downloaded, but please help me XD When I go to EDIT HTML and browse and that stuff IT says it cant be readed !!! what am I doing WRONG ??
THank you very much
mi msn is narkian_tor@hotmail.com
Hi Maher!
I’m glad that you loves this converted version, enjoy blogging! ;D
Hi Anonymous!
Thanks for your praises!
The problem you might face is the file format, it is a zip file.
After you downloaded the zip file, you have to unzip it and upload the Toughpress-Blogger-template.xml to Blogger, then you can see the Toughpress appeared on your blog!
Hope this helps and feel free to ask questions ;)
HEY THERE !!! THANKS A LOT ALV!!! I CHANGE THE TEMPLE OF MY BLOG :D MY NAME IS JORAN BY THA WAY HAHA. AND YEAH :D I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION BUT JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT MY BLOG LOOKS PRETTY AWESOME !!! IS JUST THAT THE SQUARES IN COLORS AT THE TOP DID NOT APPEAR !! AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBILITY TO CHANGE THAT IMAGE,,WELL THE NAME FOR EXAMPLE INSTEAD OF ADS HERE, PAGE ONE, TWO, TREE, ETC. :D THANKS AGAIN :D
Hi Joran Tor!
I’m glad that you loves Toughpress! Thanks for your words and good question.
I have visited your blog and realized that the fifth ads image is missing, the proper reason is that,
background: #25241E url((http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/alvaris924/Toughpress%20Project/ad5.gif);
you put “((” before the “http” as it should be only “(”
It’s possible to change the ads image to other image like you expressed, the only key is to design an image with the same size, which is 240×100 pixel and upload it to the server like Photobucket, link to your template and an awesome look is done!
I hope this helps and enjoy blogging! ;)
HI Alvaris,I tried using this beautiful template on my blog but the search box isn’t working,what do you suggest??
Hi EoS60!
I’m glad that you’re using this template!
I have updated the article with the tutorial to fix the problem, hope this helps and enjoy. ;)
Hi Alvaris,
I’m Back,been busy a bit.
Need some help:
the Social bookmarking links on the bottom part is very nice,what is the code to add them and where to add them?
I tried but it gives a error.
Thanks
Hi EoS60!
It’s glad to see you back, hope you have a relaxing day!
I saved the social bookmarking link code inside the text file and you can download it from the link below:
http://www.box.net/shared/vo8359i1uy
The position of the code is also mentioned in the text file.
Hope this helps and enjoy blogging ;)
Thank you so much Alvaris,I’m delighted to find helpful people like you on the web.
SHARING Connects PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
I’ll try it n let you know,
Thanks again
I tried it and works great dude.
You rock the Blogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankssssssssssss
Hi EoS60!
Thanks for your words!
I’m glad to see your blog now ROCKS :D
Hi Lisa!
Wow you have a highly customized blog and beautiful header images, nice to meet you ;)
I have checked your blog’s xml code and discovered that your ‘search button’ is still there, but perhaps overlap by the ‘Merry Christmas’ image.
For IE’s view, I have tested Toughpress template and it looks perfect in IE.
Your blog looks very nice with Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. People cannot view the blog normally in IE is generally because the IE does not support some extensions or codes you put into the blog, may be you can do some adjustments to fix both problems.
Hope this helps and enjoy blogging! :D
thanks so much for the awesome template! one question: which part of the code do I change to add a different header image behind the blog title text?
Thanks!
Hi Zak White!
Thanks for your words!
You can actually change the header image by finding the code below and replace the ‘YOUR-LINK-HERE’ with your own image link.:
.top {
height:126px;
margin:auto;
background:url(YOUR-LINK-HERE);
}
Hope this helps and enjoy blogging! ;)
At last I finished it,Now my blog looks great with your template thank you so much,
http://www.symbianstories.com/2008/12/welcome.html
Hello, thank you for the wonderful blog, i am using this, but unable to change the font colors( of the posts). Can you please assist me here.
Hi Anshu!
Thanks for your words and praises, we really appreciated it as a push to be better!
We are sorry that our template does not currently support the font-color changing feature, but we would be happy to place in this feature on coming schedule.
Hope this helps and enjoy blogging! ;)
Hi Ravindra!
Wow you customized the template so much and really professional, it’s not a Toughpress anymore but Symbian Stories. ;)
Thanks for your credit, it’s my pleasure to aid you for great achievement, enjoy blogging ya! :D
Hi Maboroshine!
Thanks for your comment and report!
I have visited your blog and seems the first 3 ads are very beautiful and displayed properly. The comment square is also showing on the right place, a cool anime blog! ;)
As for the Javascript code, I believed that unless you have a same design with the original ads image, the code would only works properly with the original ads image.
Hope this helps and enjoy blogging ya! :)
Hi Alvaris,
I really like the design of your template. I made a few minor modifications, but there are still a few things I can’t get to work correctly.
The RSS feed for my comments and posts, on my sidebar, don’t seem to be updating. Do I have to redirect them through a proxy site like feedburner?
I would also like to add a links section on the side bar like the one you have on your demo. If you could send me the code I would much appreciate it. Here’s my blog:
http://artisteyeview.blogspot.com/
Hi Alvaris, it’s me again.
I was wondering if there was also a way to show a timestamp and date on the posts. Thanks for your time :]
Hi czy!
Nice to meet you, it’s nice to hear about your need.
The RSS feed for comments and posts need time to update, so please don’t worry about that.
For the Link section in the demo, I’m actually use the Link Gadget, it can be found through the ‘Add a Gadget’ option.
It’s possible to have timestamp and date show on the posts, please leave your email here and I would send you the tutorial. :)
you can reach me at subzeroinferno@gmail.com
I added the links and also confirmed the rss feeds. Thank you so much for your help :D
Hi Czy!
I have sent the tutorial through your email, hope that helps. :)
Thanks so much. I got the tutorial, and my blog looks really nice now :]
Thanks again for everything.
Hey que tal
Gracias Por los tips, por fin encontre un template bueno y con tus consejos he logrado acomodar mi pagina,,
visitame pronto !!!
I did it … Thanx :)
but got two problem now, hope you will solve for me
(1) I don’t see comment box on my all post, how do i add it to all my post including old posts.
(2) how do i add this share link to footer on all posts old and new
http://www.addthis.com/web-button-select
please let me know which code and where to add
and yeah thanx again for eveything, keep up the good work
Hi … I am back here
I played around and I fixed both of problems which I mention before here.
But now I am not getting DATE & TIME stamp on my all posts, How do I get this?
I wand DATE & TIME stamp on my all of posts including NEW & OLD posts.
Hope to here from you soon, Waiting for your reply …
And ThanX in advance :-)
Hi Ankur,
Thanks for your creative request, nice to meet you!
You need some extra code to get the date and time show on every post, please leave your email here and I would send you the tutorial, thanks!
Hey..glad to hear from you,
You can send me here, info@ankurpatel.me
ThanX :)
Alvaris I’m still waiting for your e-mail, hope you didn’t forgot
info@ankurpatel.me
ThanX
hi alvaris it´s me again.
well my blog works well now, i had to remove the java script for ads because cause some glitches in firefox. (works good but the glitches are anoying)
i have a ahrd time changing the width of side bar… really i want to expanda a little,,like 250-285,
also to get the most of the space in the left ( that 30 pixels) so i want to put at the extreme of the left the post box. and changing the width from 753 to an 700.
can you help me?
i truly needed this for put a tabbed sidebar
Alvaris,
Please send to me the code for date and time. I had a blog reader complaining about it on my blog.
It is very important to have this code implemented on my blog as soon as possible.
investmaniacos@gmail.com
http://investmaniacos.blogspot.com
Thanks,
Tiago
hi alvaris, well its me again and again xD ,, maboroshine. wow, you are working ahrd on your last templates :D, I am very tempted yto change tempalte, but i have to much work (like two moths) in my current one :D
well i need your help in this one cause it will be a must have and will be a great idea to implement in your next ones templates.
i ahve implemented this tab sidebar with exit in my blog (currently i have disabled it)
you can watch how i make it here,,,http://bloggerstop.net/2008/12/how-to-create-multi-tab-widget-in.html,,,,,
but in order to put the labels in that tab sidebar i need to know the code to put it between:
div class=”Pad”
LABELS code? /div
also the recent post widget of yours for that expecific thoughpress blog
Alvaris thanx for your help, I received your mail and updated.
http://www.ankurpatel.me
But it does not sawing Time … it just saws Day Date Year & If I change it saws Day Date Year but not Time
how do I can saw everything …
Thanx again :)
Hi Alvaris,
Sorry for bother you again, but I am writing to you because I really want to add on my blog the DATE and TIME on each post.
Could you please send the html code or the tutorial to solve ths problem?
Thanks,
Tiago
http://investmaniacos.blogspot.com
Hi Ankur,
Thanks for your report! Please confirm that you configure the Timestamp format but not Date Header format, hope to hear more from you!
Hi Investmaniacos,
Thanks for your request! I have just sent the tutorial to your email, hope that helps and enjoy customizing!
Alvaris, ThanX for your reply.
I guess I got your point.
Besides that your creating wonderful work … I like your latest creativity “Seabreeze”
ThanX again for your effort :)
hello alvaris,
please send me the tutorial for adding a timestamp to this template.
I would really appreciate it.
rocnaija@yahoo.com
many thanks
hi alvaris,
please i need the tutorial for updating the time stamp in each post.
pls help
email is rocnaija (at) yahoo.com
thanks
Hi, I’m using this blog template and I have the same problem as the others – hopefully, you can also send me the tutorial on how to put the date and time stamps. My email is wafflesnshakes at yahoo dot com. Thanks!
Your templates are good. Keep it up!
Great job!
One small question.
I can´t seem to find out how to hide the title. I have a new header, but don´t want the title to show. I tried but I can´t seem to find where to hide it.
Txs a lot
VC
Nice theme i also create blogger templates just a suggestion that you could restore the look of the layout view by using CSS code such as
body#layout #outer-wrapper{width:800px;}
and so on also you could hide the credit links by adding class=’hide’ then writing CSS rules such as
body#layout .hide{display:none;}
that way it only affects the layout view and not the actual view of the site because blogger adds id=’layout’ to the body tag but strips it out when the template is viewed ;-) i always use that on my free templates over at http://templates.lawnydesigns.com download one and you will know what i mean
Hi..
Anyone knows how to change the background colour in the actual text posting area?
Thanks
ble
I’m failing to load this template. I get a response saying the file is invalid. Please help!
Thanks for your report! Sure, I feel a need to confirm to you that you’re uploading the .xml file to your precious blog but not others, thank you! ;)
I dont understand ur reply?
Please clarify
Thx
Wait – I get it…I was trying to upload it to my blog. I might be doff here. I click download, and save, it saves on my computer. then I browse (from my blog) and then the pop up message says the file is invalid.
Pls help
B(l)ond gal
:-)
Hi Alvaris Falcon
Could you advise me on how to change the background colour in the actual text posting area for this toughpress blog template?
Thanks in advance
ble
Hi Alvaris, hope everything is going well at your side :)
I am back with one more request for you, hope you won’t get bothered ;)
How do I can change my favicon icon for blogger? I am using this toughpress template with my personal domain name.
And how do I set default for opening link in new tab for all my blog post?
Hope to hear from you soon with solution, if in case you need my e-mail info@ankurpatel.me
ThanX in Advance :)
~ Ankur
[...] ToughPress – very modern and attractive [...]
Hi there.
Im using this fabolous template for my blog, but i cant insert the javascript. Blogger gives me an error every time i try.
I tried using the script on the original WP Toughpress template and didnt worked neither.
I tried using just the ads code/css and the javascript on a DreamWeaver page, and it worked perfectly, but i cant make it work on blogger.
Any clue on why is that? Many thanks.
Sorry i meant “I tried using the script OF the original WP Toughpress template and didnt worked neither”.
lol thanks
Amazing templates guys, good work.
I don´t even know what I have to do to have my blog this way, but I just Know I want to have it like that.
Thank you guys for your work
hye alvaris..
i have some problem with this twmplate..
my ads on the top doesnt bouncing..
what can i do to fix it.??
i hope u can help..
thnx..
this toughpress is so beautiful..
ur awesome alvaris..
It’s templets too cool bcz it’s colour combination are awesome. it’s help full to webdesigner’ i’m also webdesigner. thanx for it post.
It’s a cool template 4 me. thank for sharing.
How do you add/change links to ads??