Color Paper
Suggested by Daniel Mora in Template Suggestion #1, Color Paper Blogger template is an extremely artistic yet professional template. Discover Color Paper today and it’s time to make a change for your artistic satisfaction!
Template name: Color Paper
Template Author: FTL/DreamTemplate.com
Template Converter: Falcon Hive
Compatible BSP: Blogger
Possible Browser: Firefox RC3+, Opera 9.6+ , Google Chrome 0.3.154.9+
Feature Included:
- Extremely artistic and professional design
- Customizable header
- Featured Content section
- Navigation Bar
- Welcome Message
- RSS Subscribe
You can Observe the Demo of Color Paper Blogger template or download Color Paper Blogger template
Layout view
Set up the Header Navigation Bar
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Edit HTML’ tab, press [CTRL+F3] to find the code below and change the yellow-highlighted code to your link.
<li><a href=’#’ title=’#'>Edit</a></li>
Set up the Footer Navigation Bar
There’s got a navigation bar on the footer, you can customize it with your own preferred link. To get this done, go to ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Edit HTML’ tab, press [CTRL+F3] to find the code below and change the yellow-highlighted code to your link.
<li><a href=’#’ title=’#'>Edit</a></li>
Set up the Blog Title
You can definitely change the blog title to your own preferred title. To achieve this, access into ‘layout’ and under the ‘Edit HTML’ tab, press [CTRL+F3] to find the highlighted text below and replace them with your own blog title.
<h1>Color Paper</h1>
Set up the About Message
You can change the “About me. Edit this……” to your own needed message. Access into ‘layout’ and under the ‘Edit HTML’ tab, find the text below and change them with your own preferred text.
Set up the Date
You need to setup the Timestamp setting to make the date displayed properly on the page. To get this completed, access into ‘Settings’ and under the ‘Formatting’ tab, change the ‘Timestamp Format’ to this format: ‘Tuesday, December 23, 2008′, ‘Save Settings’ and you can see the date displayed perfectly on the page!
How to hide article’s content on the main page
As this template got ‘Read More’ function, you probably want to hide some text from being displayed on the main page. In fact, you just need some extremely easy step to achieve this. Simply copy the highlighted code below, then access into ‘Settings’ and under the ‘Formatting’ tab, paste the code into the ‘Post Template’.
<span class=”fullpost”></span>
On the next time you write an article, you just need to add this line of code to hide the text. For example,
<span class=”fullpost”>Here are the texts you want to hide</span>
Set up the ‘Featured Content’
You can see there’s got a wide space on the top of the post section, which you can only access into the space through the ‘Layout’ or ‘quickedit’ button.
To setup the featured content, simply copy the code below, then access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’, clicks on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘featured content’, paste and edit the code with the corresponding item.
<h3><a href=’ORIGINAL-POST-LINK-HERE’ title=’POST-TITLE’>POST TITLE</a></h3>
<p>Hi, please place your part of post content here.</p>
<div class=”post-meta”>
<a class=”btn btn-teal” href=’ORIGINAL-POST-LINK-HERE’>Read More</a>
</div>
Set up the theme color
As this template is named as ‘Color Paper’, it actually got color-switching feature, which you can switch the color of some part such as ‘Read More’ to Orange, Teal, Pink, Purple, and Green color.
To succeed this, access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Edit HTML’ tab, check the ‘Expand Widget Templates’ then press [CTRL+F3] to find the highlighted code below and replace with any of the color described above.
<a class=’btn btn-teal’ expr:href=’data:post.url’>Read More</a>
<span class=’teal’>1</span> Comment<b:else/>
<span class=’teal’><data:post.numComments/></span> <data:commentLabelPlural/>
<span class=’teal weight-bold verdana block large’>
We care about Author
Color Paper template (Blogger) comes under a Creative Common License. This means it is free to use on your blog as long as the credit link in the footer is kept intact. FTL/DreamTemplate.com has really put so much effort on designing this template, so if possible you can pay a visit to the site and leave a thankful comment!
Next template from Suggestion post, coming!
Color Paper is undeniably the most beautiful and professional template I have converted ever. Although it actually got more function in Wordpress such as color switch, I have opened up its all possibility in Blogger form with my maximum skill.
While the Color Paper is published, another suggested Wordpress theme is under conversion. We would continue to make our best to develop the better Blogger template, and hope to hear more from you, thanks!
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Ok, I got it to upload, now it says “undefined” where the date should be. What’s up with that?
Hi Alvaris.
The template is sweet and great. But i have a problem.
İ tried date format. But it said ‘Undefined’
Help me!
So cool
I just seted up this template! Many Thanks!
How do I remove the wrench and screwdriver image from the blog title section with the color tabs?
http://swedelady.blogspot.com/
Thank you!
I can’t seem to get it to work :/
the text of my blog posts goes off to the left of the left hand paper column, i.e. past the date tabs and out into the background.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Amazing template, congrats :)
Hi, from Portugal.
I have the same problem of June, Sara and WM.
In Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 the layout works fine, but in Internet Explorer 6 the right column is pushed down to the bottom of the page.
How can I solve this issue?
Anyone…?
Thanks in advance.
Wow! not only are your templates beautiful, your level of service (especially for a FREE template) is amazing. Thank you so much for answering people’s questions here so that other people can figure out how to fix problems just by reading your replies!
I had a problem with everything lining up correctly which was easily fixed by your posted suggestion of re-uploading everything on photobucket at the 1-megabite size and the undefined date was fixed easily too.(like many people here I was changing the date stamp not the time stamp, duh!)
Anyway, thanks again your hard work is deeply appreciated!
cheers.
Falcon,
I LOVE this template! I’m working on starting a family guide blog for our area and wanted to use the featured content space for photos. My only issue is that I am unable to get rid of the text there. How can I do that?
http://scvfamilyguide.blogspot.com/
Thank You!
Maggie
Carlos Rodrigues; can you mail me on ademuslu.net
for ie 6 fix problem
Hi!
how fix the date problem? i’ve changed the format for date and nothing.
Hi,
Great template, after a year and a half, this is the first time my wife has let me consider changing from standard blogger template.
I have three questions/problems.
First – if you go my test blog redchairs.blogspot.com you’ll see two different test posts involving a photo. Whenever a photo’s has the float setting rather than the align setting I get the error that you can see. Any ideas on how to fix this in the template?
Secondly – When ever I display more than 40 posts at one time, the post background only repeats for the first 40. Ideas?
Finally – I can’t get the color tabs to work. If they don’t work that’s fine, but I’d love to get them working if I can.
Thanks!
Swede Lady,
Just sign out of blogger.com and then visit your blog. It only shows up because you’re signed in.
It’s a quick edit link.
Two more questions:
I’ve added a blog list and I want to be able to format the different text parts. Do you know where I can do that? (Blog Title, Description, Last Updated)
Also the right column divider doesn’t show after a text or html widget. Any ideas?
btw the blog is redchairs.blogspot.com
HEY ! why doesnt the “READ MORE” option work for older posts.. It just works for new posts.
Hi! First off thank you so much for such an awesome template. It’s gorgeous! I was wondering if there’s ANY possible way to remove the featured content block altogether. I will really appreciate your response. Thanks again!
Eh? I cant embed youtube videos. The ones I had are all gone!
okay, this is definitely good.
I’m going to use it for my blog, thanks for bloggerizing this awesome theme.
Hi! thanks for the template. I just have some questions.
I’ve tried to get the “read more” thing working, but ’til now haven’t been able… Could you please tell how to do it? (I even tried with the instructions in he blogger help)
And, can you please send me the tutorial/codes to get labels in each post?
Thanks.
I can’t get the date right. I’ve already changed the format to that said above, but it doesn’t work. What can I do?!
Thanks for your report!
Can I confirm to you that you are changing the ‘Timestamp format’ but not ‘Dateheader format’? Thank you! ;)
Hi Alvaris,
Thank you so much for your great template & instructions. Could you please send me the tutorial for how I can add labels, and also instructions on how to change the font for the post titles? Also, is there any 3-column version of this template?
Thank you,
Melissa
Hi there,
Would you please tell me how to change the size of an individual post’s title? I currently leave the “title” field blank when writing a new post (because it’s so big) and it is messing up my RSS feed. Thank you!
Hi :)
This template is fantastic, but i still have problems with the date :(
Can you help me?! Thank You :)
Thanks for your kind words! You can follow the ‘Set up the Date’ section in the post to set up the date properly, please noted that you are changing the ‘Timestamp’ but not ‘Dateheader’.
Hope this helps! ;)
2 things I need help with:
-How do you change the Featured Post area to a photo? When I go to Layout>Page Elements and click on Edit nothing happens.
-In the instructions above I could not see the code for hiding part of the post and using the Read More button. Can anyone give me instructions for that?
Thank you so much!
Thanks for your comment!
Did you mean to add a photo into featured post area? You can probably follow the ‘Set up the Featured Content’ section and add the code below into the HTML/JavaScript gadget:
< !img src='IMAGE-LINK-HERE'/>
(Please ignore the ‘!’ sign while adding the code)
Sure, I have updated the post to explain more about configuring ‘Read More’ feature. ;)
Hope this helps, enjoy customizing!
one other quick thing, how can i see tags at the end of each post?
Incredible template. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, this is a nice template. But Im really new to xml code. I have problem to customize it. Can you email me a detail tutorial on how to customize each section especially for the different tabs?
I tried ctrl f3 and is not working =(
thanks for your help.