Mostly Minimalist - Free 2 column blog template

This template is simply simple - very minimalist and nothing pretentious.  It includes a wide "main blog" column for your blog posts and a sidebar with light grey banners in the background.

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here
  

BONUS BLANK HEADERS:

I have also included some blank pre-made banners for this template which look quite nice too.  These are made using dingbat font "Adhesive Nr Seven" and can be found here. 

Here are the 6 headers I have made:

If you would like to use one of these header images instead of the boring old plain-text header that comes with the template you will have to follow these instructions:

1. Pick the header image you want to use.  There is a folder within the downloadable zip folder called "HeaderImages" - the blank header images can be found in here.
   
2. Edit the image to include your header/description.  You can use various graphics programs like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements etc, or you can use free online applications like Aviary (use Phoenix) or Editor by Pixlr. There may be more out there that I don't know about.
   
   
3. Upload your new header image into your blog:
   Go to the LAYOUT then PAGE ELEMENTS window and click on “EDIT” in the header area:
   
   
   
   
   A pop-up window will appear (see below)
   
   
   
   Browse for the header image file on your computer and make sure you select “Instead of title and description” is selected (also, do not select ‘shrink to fit’).
   Click SAVE.
   
   
4. Done!
   

Booon - cute 2 column template with BEES

Bees don't say "bzzzz" in Japan, they say "Boon", and it always makes me giggle.

This is a very old template, rejiggered to be ultra fresh and functional. Click the image below for a preview (YES, the fonts are all changeable from within the "Template Designer" tab).

Enjoy!

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Pink Frilly Knickers - 2 Column Template

So truth be told my knickers are not pink nor are they frilly.  And another truth be told, this template is only slightly frilly and doesn't at all resemble a pair of knickers.

If the title of this template gets your knickers in a knot then calm down, I promise there are no actual knickers in the template.

This template is brought to you by the word: knickers.

In all seriousness, it's simple but it's cute :D Click here to see the test site.

 

Click for a live preview

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Northern Jealousy - 2 Column Winter Template

First of all I would like to apologise for not posting a template for a while.  I am sorry but I have been so busy (yeah yeah, I know I always say that! It must be true!).

Before I get onto the template I would like to say that - YES! I am currently making a tutorial on how to change your blog fonts if they are pre-determined by your template.  It's quite a complex thing to explain (with loads of screen grabs) so I want to make sure I get it just right!

Here's a very winter-inspired template that I started making when it was over 35 degrees Celsius here (about 100F?) and I was quite jealous of all that snow the North was getting.  But now it's cooled down quite a bit and maybe I'm not so jealous after all?  Haha, whatever, here's the template:

PS: this template has fully changeable fonts, even the 'comments' link at the bottom of the post uses the same font as the sidebar title! Woo! Hoo!

(click above for a live preview)

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here
  

Positive, Negative - Cute Blogger template with RSS icon.

OK, here is something simple, sweet and cute. I have put a little RSS feed icon in the sidebar there which is my absolute favourite RSS icon ever! (credit: ComingUpForAir). I hope you like it!

(it looks better at full size, so click to see)

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Leafy Subject - pretty, leafy template!

Here is a design I have had in the wings for some time, never seeming to have the time to quite finish it off. It's fairly simple, clean and classic and has a repeating image of dangling leaves that goes across the top of the page. It's very pretty (perfectly suited to an enviro-blog too).

Don't forget to become a fan of yummylolly.com on Facebook too! Link is: here.

click above image for a live preview

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Temps Heureux - subtle, lovely (and don't tell anyone got the name from a teaspoon I bought in Japan)

Here is a template which is quite subtle yet lovely. I like the colours a lot (I thought about using pink text but decided on green for the headers - of course this is changeable from within the "Fonts & Colours" area so you can alter this to be whatever you want. I also think that orange would look lovely).

The frame/doodle in the header area is by the exceptionally talented Jen Furlotte at pixelsandicecream.com (possibly one of the best URLs ever!) and I full advise you to go and check out her extremely well priced graphic goodies! *sigh* I love people who share! Enjoy.

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
  
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Please back up your widget data before installing a template!

Pinky Pants - XML template

I liked the layout of Black & White Elegance that I've made a pinky one....

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(also, there are google ads in the preview site -- there are, of course, none in the downloadable template.... unlike some sites out there that put their ads in your templates! Shame on them!)

Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Black n White Elegance - 3 column blogger template

OK, so the small preview image below looks kind of lame, but if you click on it to preview the site, you'll see that it looks a lot better full size. Also, how awesome do the adsense ads look in there? (I hate it when they never really look quite right!).

click for a larger preview
(go on, it looks heaps better bigger!)



Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

And by the way Version II .... - free blogger design

Soooo.... one of my most popular templates was {And by the way....} so I decided to update it a little! I love the quote so much and think it's perfect for blogging so here's volume II:

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

PLEASE NOTE: That your blog header title/description will NOT SHOW UP! I have created the design this way so that the Sylvia Plath quote is visible and your blog title is hidden. I have included the Photoshop layered file in the zip folder and blank jpg and blank gif... so if you want to change it yourself... you easily can (assuming of course you have some kind of image editing software)!

More colours coming soon.... I might do a green one and a pink one (assuming I have time).
Let me know if you have any questions

Pony Gazette - Free XML Blogger template

I love a good pixelated pony (ok, technically speaking it's not really pixelated but is stitched) but I still like it! The pretty stitching creates a frame around the main blog area that's quite striking! I really like this one and hope you do to!

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

RazzleDazzle - free blogger XML template

Hmmm, I love a pretty pattern and here is another gorgeous one from Pixels & Ice Cream (visit the site here). I love this template and hope you do too!

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

I think that the navbar colour of "tan" looks awesome with this template (just like I have in the test blog). To change it just go to LAYOUT >> PAGE ELEMENTS and edit the navbar. I'm soooo sick of seeing that blue navbar! You can change the colour, people!

Paper Dolls - free xml templates! Two options! Woo!

Here are two pretty paper doll templates (dolls are sans heads I'm afraid). I like them and I had trouble deciding which one to put up, so we have them both.
The #2 template includes the Photoshop - .psd - layered document so you can change the words in the speech bubbles. If you have any questions about this, let me know.

PAPER DOLLS #1:

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here
  

PAPER DOLLS #2:

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

As noted above, I have included the Photoshop doc for those who wish to alter the speech bubbles. If you install the template as is, then they will be saying "Hi!" and "Why, hello!", just like in the test blog above. Confused? Let me know.

Retro Telephone - Free XML blogger template

Here's something stripey and telephoney. I like both! It's quite cute and retro.

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The design works with "new" blogger - ie: it's an XML template. Please ensure that you backup your widget data, as installing a new template will wipe/erase your current widget content. The telephone photograph is by Alexander O'Neill on flickr.com.

• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Pink Calm - free XML blogger design

SOME NEWS: Apologies for not being around lately. I am moving home at the end of next week and this means that I will be without internet for about a week or two (arrr!).

And....

2 buns + 1 oven = ?

Yes, ok, I have another admission to make! I am having twins! I'm halfway through (and it's extremely scary to think I will have two babies by January 2009) but it's also thrilling! I found out yesterday that they are twin boys (not identical). So this basically means that I'll be making blogger templates for a while to come as I juggle two babies.

Anyway, enough about me. Here's another template:

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• To download the xml template: click here(zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Pretty Grey - free XML template

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Classic Grey - free XML template

I cannot for the life of me recall where I learnt to put this search bar in - I apologise for not being able to tell you -- this is one design I have had sitting around for the last 6 months. I finally got around to finishing it. I like it a lot - I think it's very classy without looking like any of my other templates. It may look odd with no description, but maybe that's just what I think.

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Pink Scrolly - free XML blogger template

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

Blossoms - free XML blogger template

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

I had a request a little while ago asking for something with some pink blossoms on it and found this gorgeous public domain image of these pink flowers. I hope you enjoy...

Book Smarts - Free XML Blogger Template

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• To download the xml template: click here (zip folder)
• Preview the site here
• Need help installing this? Click here

The extremely cute header image is in the public domain! I love it! xx