| Demo | View Demo |
| Download | Aldric Template (Download) |
| Template Author | BTemplatesZone |
| Description | Aldric is a two column, green colored, premium quality blogger template from BTemplatesZone. Excellent layout for Personal, Tech or Business blogs. The download extract also includes Logo PSD file. However, to edit the logo you need Photoshop CS3 or above. Template feature includes –
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| Help and Instructions | Template Settings (See Below) |
| License | Aldric template is released under Creative Commons. You need to keep footer links intact. |
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How to use Aldric Blogger Template
Download the Aldric Blogger Template (Zip format) and extract the contents to a location on your computer. The extracted content will have following folder structure -
Aldric_Template_With_Slider.xml– Template installation file (With Featured Content Slider)Aldric_Template_Without_Slider.xml– Template installation file (Without Featured Content Slider)Read_Me.txtlogo.psd
Once extracted, upload the template (.xml file) using the instruction found here.
Template Configuration
Configure Aldric blogger template as per instruction provided below –
Configure Meta Tags
You need to configure Meta Tags (Site Description and Keywords) for Home Page. Instructions for meta tags configuration is available here.
Configure Favicon Image
Favicon Image configuration is optional. However, if you wish to configure, use the instruction provided here.
Upload Your Header Logo
Aldric Blogger Template also comes with logo.psd file. You can customize the logo using Photoshop and upload the file using instruction provided here.
The image size of logo must be in following dimensions: Width = 222px and Height = 108px
Configure Secondary Navigation Menu
The secondary navigation menu is available at the top as shown in the below image. Menu contains links to Post RSS, Comment RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Contact Me items.
Post RSS and Comment RSS links are already configured. To configure remaining links, follow below instruction –
Goto Template > Edit Html and search for following lines of code –
<li><a href='Your Facebook URL'>Facebook</a></li> <li><a href='Your Twitter URL'>Twitter</a></li> <li><a href='Your Google Plus URL'>Google Plus</a></li> <li><a href='mailto:[email protected]'>Contact Me</a></li>
- Replace the text Your Facebook URL with your own Facebook URL
- Replace the text Your Twitter URL with your own Twitter URL
- Replace the text Your Google Plus URL with your own Google Plus URL
- Replace the text mailto:[email protected] with your own Email Id
Configure Primary Navigation Menu
Aldric template comes with simple css based navigation menu. Instructions to configure Primary Navigation Menu is provided here.
Social Media Follow Links
For social media follow links we recommend using AddThis.com service. They are quite reliable and extremely easy to configure based on your requirements.
You can add social media links using HTML/Javascript page elements. Instructions to include AddThis.com social media follow links is provided here.
Configure Featured Content Slider
For featured content slider you need to configure Image URL and Target URL.
Image URL: Represents the URL of Image which will be used for featured content slider. For Aldric template, you need to configure 4 Image URLs.
Target URL: When user clicks on Slider image, this URL (Target URL) will be displayed. For Aldric template, you need to configure 4 Target URLs.
To configure Image URL and Target URL, goto Template > Edit Html and search for below lines of code
<a href='SLIDE-1-URL-HERE'><img class='slideimg' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vn9_cskdCco/UHk9uHwa0uI/AAAAAAAAAU4/TfqNBhbEfRM/s1600/adric_slider_1.jpg' title=''/></a> <a href='SLIDE-2-URL-HERE'><img class='slideimg' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W0EHCjPJuHk/UHlJRxMXtcI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/pYYutFbzDwo/s1600/adric_slider_1.jpg' title=''/></a> <a href='SLIDE-3-URL-HERE'><img class='slideimg' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xni6aoCjFis/UHlJUaF8riI/AAAAAAAAAVo/Usho17v2nzk/s1600/adric_slider_4.jpg' title=''/></a> <a href='SLIDE-4-URL-HERE'><img class='slideimg' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-99ld4cjsTQ4/UHlJVd1UpXI/AAAAAAAAAVw/iwTndd1gHIY/s1600/adric_slider_5.jpg' title=''/></a>
- Replace the text SLIDE-1-URL-HERE with your own Target URL.
- Now, look for attribute src=’path to an image’. Replace path to an image with your own Image URL.
Repeat above two steps for remaining 3 sliders as well.
The image size of Featured Content Slider must be in following dimensions: Width = 615px and Height = 300px
