If you are hunting for a customizable and professional looking XML template for your Blogger blog, your search probably ends here.
Antonio Lupetti, who knows the ins and outs of Blogger templates more than anyone of us, maintains his blog on blogspot.com that is awesome both in terms of content and web design.
Today Antonio released the full source code of his Blogger template to public for free with absolutely no strings attached.
The template design supports easy integration of third-party ads (both AdSense and custom 125×125 banners), Twitter, Job board, Flickr pictures, delicious bookmarks, and you may also embed RSS feeds via the FeedBurner service.
The only downside is that this Blogger Template code is available in XML format so it may not be useful for old Blogspot users who haven’t migrated from the Classic HTML template yet (like my old tech blog).
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/free-blogger-template-professional-beautiful/4773/
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Reader Comments
Seems to be magazine Style template. Good one Antonio.
Written by About Online Tips on 10.04.08
Looks very good, but he’s violating against Google’s TOS. He’s removed Blogspot’s toolbar :( So I wouldn’t recommend anyone to use this template.
Written by Marco on 10.04.08
The Template Really Contains a Lot of bugs… plus the template actually hasn’t been released …only the Source Code of his Blog Page had been put it the Download
Written by Debajyoti Das on 10.04.08
Can it be used in Wordpress hosting?
Written by Tweakwindows on 10.05.08
Hello Amit, thanks for the mention!
@Marco: You can remove blogger bar on a custom domain.
@Debajyoti: what kind of bugs do you have found? I release HTML source code instead XML code because it’s more simple to modify and customize using a software such as Dreamweaver. If you copy the full HTML code (not XML) on Blogger it works without problems. Do you have tried?
@Tweakwindows: No! It works only on Blogger.
Written by Antonio Lupetti on 10.05.08
I’ve messed with Blogger templates on and off, and lately have seen some impressive ones, including Antonio’s. But the TOS issue is only one reason to be careful. The other is Google’s never-ending surprise changes to how Blogger works under the hood, especially in connection with AdSense. They’re having an issue right now involving URL channels, for instance. If you’re serious about having your own template (or Antonio’s), getting your own domain is the best way to go.
Written by Aoi on 10.05.08
Recently I viewed this post in Hindi, using the language tool in header and now I can’t stop laughing after reading the complete changed sense of hindi translation by Google.
Written by Jitendra on 10.06.08
sometimes translation in google is inaccurate. but you can suggest for a translation instead of laughing at it.
Written by charles on 10.06.08
if paging and a comment form is added to it … it will look amazing… thanks for sharing amit…
Written by Pushpinder on 10.06.08
Sir, Few days ago I submit your story in indianpad site. But today 1 users comment . Please solve this problem.
Comment bellow :
“how to convert html to xml its in html format and I got error when try to upload it”
Written by Goutami on 10.07.08
This template is soo bad..
ya it may be nice to look.. But very hard on to edit and customize..
Firstly its not Blogger friendly that’s u can no longer use Page Elements on this.. except only at one small place..
Also the HTML is so tiresome to edit..
And if u thinking of adding a few stuff then it surely becomes a huge headache..
I spent hours editing this on this one. But finally ended up having a page full of bugs…
But still if u wanna creak onto that HTML.. and fight with useless errors that arise then Go on with this…
Written by shashank on 10.12.08