[Pro] Blogger template problem

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Trying to make a Blogger template for my daughter. At the top is a piece of art (jpg), under it is the blogger title, posts, profile, and archive all created with the blogger actions. When previewed on Blogger, the only thing displayed is the jpg. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

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Do you have the “Classic Templates” checked? I got your e-mail. If you have that checked, uncheck it. I’ve seen this to be the reason why a few blogger templates did not work.

If not what’s the address, so we can see what’s going on.

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Thanks for the response, Dan.
Where do I find “Classic Templates?” And here 's the address:
willstampforwine.blogspot.com.
Mike
On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Dan J wrote:

Do you have the “Classic Templates” checked? I got your e-mail. If
you have that checked, uncheck it. I’ve seen this to be the reason
why a few blogger templates did not work.

If not what’s the address, so we can see what’s going on.

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When you paste “the code” into the “Edit HTML” area, there should be a checkbox near the entry box.

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Sorry, not on my browsers. Safarai or Firefox. I’m on Mac Leopard. I
even looked for the checkbox on a PC. I can’t find it.
On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dan J wrote:

When you paste “the code” into the “Edit HTML” area, there should be
a checkbox near the entry box.

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This is taken from an old post:

You need to make sure you are using the latest template “type”. To do
this go to your customize section and click on Custom Design, on this
mage there is a n Upgrade Your Template button. Click this and select
one of the templates. This will force your blog into using the most
recent template type. You can then go to Edit HTML and paste in your
template from Freeway.

Make sure you don’t click the Revert to Classic Template link because
you will have to go through the above steps again.

Hope it helps.

Joe

On 4 Mar 2009, at 20:11, Michael Curry wrote:

Sorry, not on my browsers. Safarai or Firefox. I’m on Mac Leopard. I
even looked for the checkbox on a PC. I can’t find it.
On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dan J wrote:

When you paste “the code” into the “Edit HTML” area, there should
be a checkbox near the entry box.

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I got this solution from the blogger help group:

Solution for blogger XML error messages after upload new templates:
Hi everyone, I found another solution for bloggers who upload those
wonderful new xml templates but always get random error messages from
Google like “BX-bliced” or like: “error 12xllldj”, and any other error
codes.
I know, I know, there is nothing more frustrating than finding “that”
damn cool template for your loved blog but at the attempt to upload it
to your HTML editor in Blogger, you get error messages that don’t tell
you what to do to fix them.
This solution applies to basically all xml templates that fail to
upload successfully to blogger/Blogspot 2.0 (the “new blogger”) and
give you error messages like this:

This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image.
The original image is sized 722x500 and is 69KB.

What to do:

  1. Download the template you want to upload (usually XML)
  2. Get the xml opened in a text file or in any of your editors.
  3. “Ctrl + F” (make sure the xml is open and in the active window) and
    in the search box type “Widget”
  4. In every widget line it will display something like this : widget
    blablabla “blablabla1”, replace that number for a any other one.
    Example, if the widget says 1, erases it and place number 2 instead.
    So you will have something like this now: Widget blablabla:
    “blablabla2”.
  5. Do this to all widgets you find in you xml code. That may take a
    few minutes of your time if you really want THAT template working next
    time you upload it to your HTML editor in blogger.
  6. SAVE it
  7. Go to Blogger/edit Layout/HTML
  8. Upload your saved xml
  9. Save it.
  10. Done!
  11. Enjoy it.
    I have done this with a couple of XMl and all of them displayed
    different error messages but after changing the widget numbers in the
    xml, they all upload ok and are ready to be boosted. I am not quite
    sure of what is causing the problem, as the lazy Google teams
    responsible for Blogger haven’t taken their fat asses from their chair
    to solve this very annoying issue (or haven’t come any closer to the
    office chairs to do so…). You can tell by the horrible templates they
    offer users, just to start with.
    Hope this helps you to succeed and load that pretty template you have
    found around.
    Cheers from New Zealand
    Czarlzk

What I did was this: I made sure I was working on the new template version. The from Freewar I placed the code “copied to clipboard” in a text editor. Then I changed all instances of widget “blablablabla1” to “blablablabla44”. The 44 was just a random number I picked. Then I copied the whole code, went to blogger edit html, and pasted it into the field. Amazingly it worked!!! I hope this helps someone.

There’s got to be an easier way.

On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Joe Billings wrote:

This is taken from an old post:

You need to make sure you are using the latest template “type”. To do

this go to your customize section and click on Custom Design, on this

mage there is a n Upgrade Your Template button. Click this and select

one of the templates. This will force your blog into using the most

recent template type. You can then go to Edit HTML and paste in your

template from Freeway.

Make sure you don’t click the Revert to Classic Template link because

you will have to go through the above steps again.

Hope it helps.

Joe

On 4 Mar 2009, at 20:11, Michael Curry wrote:

Sorry, not on my browsers. Safarai or Firefox. I’m on Mac Leopard. I even looked for the checkbox on a PC. I can’t find it.

On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dan J wrote:

When you paste “the code” into the “Edit HTML” area, there should be a checkbox near the entry box.

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Thanks to Dan J and Joe Billings for helping solve this problem. I apologize for my poor spelling and extra long posts (I responded from email instead of logging on to this forum. Dan and Joe contributed BIG puzzle pieces to lead me to the solution.

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Glad it worked out, it was an either or situation.

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