Lady on the Side - 2 Column template with feature lady!

Here we have a delightful blogger template with a woman on the side. Literally! This has a main blog area and a somewhat recessed sidebar - a lovely change from the ordinary blogs that just line them both up together. I hope someone out there likes this....

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

Shopping in Paris - Chic Blogger Template

Alrighty here is a very very chic (and French) Blogger template! C'mon, I know you love French things! The pastries! The Shopping! The credit for the header image goes to DaPino Graphics (and is released under creative commons licence - read {here} for more info --- this means don't use this image for commercial purposes, people!). DaPino make some of the most awesome graphics I have seen.

The template has a changeable background colour (changeable from within the "Fonts & Colours" section so you can alter this however you like! I was thinking a bold red would look ace, but have a play with the colours yourself and see what you like.

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

Hope you like it! xx

Mint, Latte & Pink versions of "Oh!" She Said!

Alrighty alrighty!

I do love the last blogger template I made - "Oh!" she said and I have now made it in three different colour combinations: Mint, Latte & Pink!

I haven't made a live preview blog to view how these look, but you can see the previous {yellow} one here.

Enjoy!

Remember that if you want the date to show up as "Friday April 2, 2010", you'll have to go to to SETTINGS > FORMATTING under the menu tabs and then selecting the 'Date Header Format to be the same as below:

Pin Me Up - Pin up girl XML blogger template

This is kind of in the same vein as 'A Dream Girl for Dan' (because that template is one of my absolute favourites! It's simple, yet elegant and I hope ... if you like pin up girls... you like this one.

The background is changeable from within the colours and fonts area (although the middle "blog" box will remain white). xx

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

Quite Contrary (of the Mary Mary fame)

Happy new year to you all! Apologies for not posting a template sooner but I had a big, crazy, month full of birthdays, Christmas, new year and then more birthdays! It was kind of crazy!
Here is a template (sorry, I make no apologies about it being deliciously pink) with a background by Ava7Patterns. Also, it's made from transparent pngs - so if you happen to be using IE6 (less than 4% of you, you won't be able to use this one due to transparent pngs looking crappy on IE6, sorry).

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

Damask Dame - 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

Please back up your widget data before installing a template!

PS: the delightful background image is by Pixels & Ice Cream. *sigh* It's beautiful.

A Dream Girl for Dan - clean and classic pin up template

Here is an awesome template with a sexy pin up girl in the header area. It's clean and classic and subtle yet beautiful! I really love this template! I have added a little embellishment under the sidebar headers. Oh and as I have the main background white in the below test site [click for a live preview, it's sooo pretty!] you can change that background colour in the "Fonts & Colours" area. Enjoy xx

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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!

Ahoy Hair! - free XML Blogger template

If anyone wants to make me one of these ship headpieces, I would totally wear it! :-)

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

Also.... please note that I love making things customisable so I have made the 'inner' background and main background colour customisable. So basically you can easily alter the look of the blog. Check out some combos below:

Lemon, perhaps?

Or a delightful dark purple!?

To change these colours, all you have to do is go to the Fonts & Colours tab within Blogger and change them to whatever you want. REMEMBER that the stupid colour palette that Blogger provides aren't the only colours you can have!!

You can look up any HEX colour and imput the six digit code into the box and hit "return". A big 'ol list of hex colours can be found {here} or a good colour selector {here}

PS: massive thanks to the delightful pinkonhead.com for the wonderful woman/ship/head Photoshop brush! I love it!

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 Ladies - XML Blogger template

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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

Note that the background colour (blue in above test blog) is completely changeable from within the "Colours & Fonts" area of blogger. Hooray!

Date Night - free XML blogger design

Here's a cute design with the retro woman fixed into position (bottom left corner). If you have a super narrow screen resolution then it might look too squashed, but test it out for yourselves with the below testing blog...

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

Open All Day ... Open All Night - 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

ALSO - regarding the HEADER IMAGE:
NO, your blog title/description will NOT show up. This is because I have switched that option "off" so they will not display.


"WHY did you make this design like this?"
Two reasons really - one: you can edit this header image if you want - remove the "Open All Night, Open All Day" text and put your own thing in (you can use any graphics editor to put your own text onto this banner and there are waaaay more font choices than the silly old internet can handle. DaFont: droolworthy!) and two: I just thought it would be more interesting - and things are definitely better when they're more interesting ;-)

"I don't want to edit my own header image! Can you please let me know how to make my title & description come through from Blogger?"
No. There is no way that your blog title and description is going to come through (and actually "fit" in the correct bit), so bad luck.

"What graphics program can I use to edit this image?"
I have Photoshop CS, but you can use any graphics program that allows you to open/edit a JPEG or GIF - which should be pretty much any graphics program.

"Ok, I made my own banner, now what?"
Now you'll have to upload it to some hosting on the internet. I host my files on photobucket.com (a free image hosting service) but there are more options out there.
Upload the file to the internet, then find the URL of the image.

Next, go to the "Layout" >> "Edit HTML" section of your blog.
You will need to replace the original header image - seen on this page - to be your own.

Scroll down until you find the following image path:
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa231/free_blogger/HeaderOpen.gif

hint: it's under this bit
/* ---( header and site name )--- */

.....and replace with the image path of your new title. Viola!

Martini Free Backgrounds (tiling)! 10 images - Zipped and ready to go!

Martini background image (in 10 colours) avaliable for free! You can use these images in your personal blogs, scrapbooking or any other personal/commercial work. The only rule is that if you do use them for commercial works, you have to show me.

(oh and the second and most important rule is that these images must, under NO circumstances be put up on another website for download. It's up to me when and IF I ever do that).

You can see the red image in use over at the "Retro Bar Fly" blog. Pretty swell.
I was going to say "chin chin", but that means "penis" in Japanese! So if you yell out "Chin Chin" in a bar and a table of Japanese businessmen wink at you - you'll know why!

• To download the images: click here (zip folder)
• Read image T&C: here

Retro Bar Fly (Plain Version) - Free XML blogger template

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

(created by me with the help of 60s Chic & Tack-O-Ding dingbat fonts!).

Oh La La - free XML blogger template - DIY Header Image

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

*** A few things ***

This blogger template is for those of you who are comfortable editing images and uploading them to the internet (and then replacing the image path). YOUR BLOG TITLE AND DESCRIPTION WILL NOT SHOW UP - this design is not interactive from your Blogger Dashboard.

The header image is a blank image that you may do what you wish to. I have included a jpg and the layered photoshop file (for those who have photoshop). Download the zipped up folder for all the files you'll need for the header. The font I have used in my own test site is called Grenouille.

Until you edit the image yourself, you'll have the same header as I do on the test site.

ALSO - regarding the HEADER IMAGE:

"WHY did you make this design like this?"
Two reasons really - one: you can edit this header image if you want - remove the "Oh La La" text and put your own thing in (you can use any graphics editor to put your own text onto this banner and there are waaaay more font choices than the silly old internet can handle. DaFont: droolworthy!) and two: I just thought it would be more interesting - and things are definitely better when they're more interesting ;-)

"I don't want to edit my own header image! Can you please let me know how to make my title & description come through from Blogger?"
No. It's highly doubtful that your blog title and description is going to come through (and actually "fit" in the correct bit), so bad luck.

"What graphics program can I use to edit this image?"
I have Photoshop CS, but you can use any graphics program that allows you to open/edit a JPEG or GIF - which should be pretty much any graphics program.

"Ok, I made my own banner, now what?"
I have included a PDF on how to replace the header image with your new one. All image files and PDF is enclosed within the downloadable zip folder.

Inside & Out - free blogger design XML! Hooray!

Slightly different from the classic template - I'm so pleased with how this one turned out. No doubt it will contain too much "knickers" for some... but oh well.

(click for a live preview)

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

I have also included all image files (including photoshop psd file with rasterized fonts), gif and jpg AND instruction manual PDF on how to replace the header image and ditch the plain text (boring! yawn) header. Wow, you're so lucky!

The Only One - Free blogger design XML

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

The sidebar alignment is weird in IE6 and before - so this is recommended for those of you with IE7 - and of COURSE it looks fantastico in FF, Opera & Safari :P - if you're using IE6 and before then I may have to seriously question your sanity!

Fancy Fashions - blogger design XML

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

The background colour is changeable from the "Edit Colours/Fonts" area - note the cute scissors border on the side widget thingy. So cute!

ps* the inner background purple colour is #A186BE - for all those of you who want widgets to blend in seamlessly.

Pink Silhouette and B&W Silhouette - free XML template

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Yes, the woman is static. She will stay in the bottom right corner forever *sigh* she's never going to meet her Prince Charming!

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

Prefer it in white?


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

Retro Typin' Gal - free blogger design XML

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

PS: Inner background grey hex colour is #FFFCA8 (you might need to know that incase you're going to put widgets in).