Looking for a cool Design Change for your blog sidebar's Headlines instead of that dull plain text headlines? Today we will learn an interesting way of customizing the sidebar Headline Backgrounds in BlogSpot templates. You have seen Photoshop Graphic designs in Ribbon, Canopy or Curtain Style but the problem with them is that you need to have good designing skills to in order to create them further they also slow down the load time of your webpage. Therefore we are bringing forward the simplest solution by designing Ribbon style backgrounds with the help of pure CSS3 rules without using a single image! The method described below can be used to create ribbon backgrounds in any platform, may it be wordpress or Blogger. All you need to do is add up some CSS styles. We are sure this will add an extra ordinary look and feel to your online diaries! The Demo can be seen live on our blog sidebar. Its time to get into your blogger factory and be creative. Lets get started!
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</head>Step 4. Just above the </head> tag, copy and paste the following style:
<data:post.body/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>Step 7. Finally, click on the Save template button to save the changes.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<ul class='timeline'><li class='event'><input checked='checked' name='tl-group' type='radio'/><label/>
<b:if cond='data:post.thumbnailUrl'><img class='thumb' expr:alt='data:post.title' expr:src='data:post.thumbnailUrl'/></b:if><div class='thumb'><b:if cond='data:post.dateHeader'><span><data:post.dateHeader/></span></b:if></div>
<div class='content-perspective'><div class='post-content'><div class='blog-post-body'><h3><b:if cond='data:post.link'><a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a><b:else/><b:if cond='data:post.url'><b:if cond='data:blog.url != data:post.url'><a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a><b:else/><data:post.title/></b:if><b:else/><data:post.title/></b:if></b:if></h3><p><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'><data:post.snippet/></b:if></b:if></p></div></div></div></li></ul></b:if></b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><data:post.body/></b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'><data:post.body/></b:if>
<div class='post-footer'>Step 3. Just below it, paste this code:
<div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD' expr:href='data:blog.canonicalUrl'/>Step 4. Click on the Save template button to save the changes... and that's it. Now we should be able to enjoy the Google Plus comments in our Blogspot blogs.
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>Note:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.1.0.js"></script>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[
$(document).ready(function() {
var width = 200;
var height = 170;
var placeholder = 'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4NakAPu4YPl7EQYL0d5w2_B2iSriQJ-hFhBtyLafKjTDC8bwwEjyQdjo3fXVBEKASaeO2AmYARiPjvdnAVmAbkmKoNlGX9PLl57cklw59riHG77Q9Wv5ALtqkBVxoia1KGnEEEF477U/s1600/no-thumb.png';
var margins = "0px 0px 10px 10px";
var fitThumb = 1;
var titleTopPadding = 5;
var titleBottomPadding = 8;
var titleLeftRightPadding = 5;
var titlePadding = titleTopPadding + 'px ' + titleLeftRightPadding + 'px ' + titleBottomPadding + 'px ' + titleLeftRightPadding + 'px';
$('.post-body').each(function(n, wrapper) {
var wrapper = $(wrapper);
var image = $(wrapper).find('img').first();
var link = wrapper.parent().find('h3 a');
var linkURL = link.attr('href');
var linkTitle = link.text();
$(link).remove();
wrapper.empty();
if (image.attr('src')) {
var thumbHeight = image.attr('height');
var thumbWidth = image.attr('width');
var thumbParent = $(image).parent();
wrapper.append(thumbParent);
if (fitThumb) {
image.attr({
src: image.attr('src').replace(/s\B\d{3,4}/, 's' + width + '-c')
});
image.attr('width', width).attr('height', height);
} else {
image.attr({
src: image.attr('src').replace(/s\B\d{3,4}/, 's' + width)
});
image.attr('width', width);
var changeHeight = (thumbHeight / thumbWidth * width).toFixed(0);
image.attr('height', changeHeight);
}
} else {
var image = $('<img>').attr('src', placeholder).attr('height', height).attr('width', width);
var thumbParent = $('<a>').append(image).appendTo(wrapper);
}
thumbParent.attr('href', linkURL).css('clear', 'none').css('margin-left', '0').css('margin-right', '0').addClass('postThumbnail');
var thumbTitle = $('<div>').prepend(linkTitle).css('padding', titlePadding).css('opacity', '0.9').css('filter', 'alpha(opacity=0.9)').css('width', width).appendTo(thumbParent);
var ptitleHeight = thumbTitle.height();
var summary = parseInt(ptitleHeight) + parseInt(titleTopPadding) + parseInt(titleBottomPadding);
thumbTitle.css('margin-top', '-' + summary + 'px');
wrapper.css('float', 'left').css('height', height).css('width', width).css('margin', margins).css('overflow', 'hidden');
});
$('#blog-pager').css('clear', 'both');
});
function hideLightbox() {
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var i = 0; i < images.length;++i) {
images[i].onmouseover = function() {
var html = this.parentNode.innerHTML;
this.parentNode.innerHTML = html;
this.onmouseover = null;
};
}
}
if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener('load', hideLightbox, undefined);
} else {
window.attachEvent('onload', hideLightbox);
}
//]]>
</script>
<style>
.post {
border-bottom: 0 dotted #E6E6E6;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
}
h2,.post-footer {
display: none;
}
a.postThumbnail div {
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: capitalize;
background: rgb(125,126,125);
/* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(125,126,125,1) 0%, rgba(14,14,14,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(125,126,125,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(14,14,14,1)));
/* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(125,126,125,1) 0%,rgba(14,14,14,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(125,126,125,1) 0%,rgba(14,14,14,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(125,126,125,1) 0%,rgba(14,14,14,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(125,126,125,1) 0%,rgba(14,14,14,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='
#7d7e7d', endColorstr='#0e0e0e',GradientType=0 );
}
a.postThumbnail:hover div {
display: block;
}
.post-body img {
background-color: transparent;
border: 1px solid transparent;
padding: 0px;
-webkit-border-radius: 12px;
-moz-border-radius: 12px;
border-radius: 12px;
opacity: 1;
transition: opacity .25s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: opacity .25s ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: opacity .25s ease-in-out;
}
.post-body img:hover {
-ms-filter: "
progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=70)"
;
filter: alpha(opacity=70);
-moz-opacity: 0.7;
-khtml-opacity: 0.7;
opacity: 0.7;
}
</style>
</b:if>
