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Thursday, April 22, 2010

SimplexTube - my new template for video blog

There's a newer version for SimplexTube ,faster and support more video hosting service .Check it out here

Update : If slider can't work ,you can download fixed version with download link provided in this post or  see here for solution if don't want to re-install this template 


In comments in my blog,some of them asked me for a video template like BloggerTube . But I want to try a new way ,unlike BloggerTube . So here is my new template named SimplexTube . It's a template for personal blog , support video and video thumbnail ,not a video gallery .
You can see the screenshot here







Live Demo | Download


How to install this template ?
1,Download template . Because I uploaded all images to ImageShack and scripts to Google code ,so I don't included them in template package . ImageShack and Google code are unlimited bandwidth services at this time .
2,Open template file (xml file ) in any word editor you have . Find this code
<div style="float: right; width: 120px;" id="menutop">
under this ,you will see a code as bellow :
<div style="float: left; margin-right: 6px;">
                         <a target="_blank" title="Follow me on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy">
                             <img src="http://r.fm/r/corners/twitter.png"/>
                         </a>
                     </div>
                     
                     <div style="float: left; margin-right: 6px;">
                         <a title="Digg me" target="_blank" href="">
                             <img src="http://r.fm/r/corners/digg.png"/>
                         </a>
                     </div>
                     
                     <div style="float: left; margin-right: 6px;">
                         <a href="your link here" rel='external dofollow' target='_blank'>
                             <img src="http://r.fm/r/corners/su.png"/>
                         </a>
                     </div>                    
                    
change the text which I marked red to your social network account ( Twitter ,Digg,Stumble ...)
After change ,save template .
3,Upload template to Blogger .
4,Go to Dashboard -> Layout ->  Page Elements .
you will see this screen

5, To Change the logo ,click on Edit and change the add the url of logo as structure bellow
<img src="your logo url"/>
6,To add categories to menu ,click on menu widget and add link to each category in widget content .
7,Page widget will show pages in your site automatically ,so you don't need to work with it .
8,To add adverts ,click on Ads widget and paste your ads script (Adsense or your own ads ) in widget content .
9,There's a category widget on the right sidebar ,click on edit and add link to your categories like what we do with menu widget .
10,In other place where appear "add a widget" ,you can add any widget you like .
How to use
This template has two sections ,Video and Blog . Video for showing videos ,and Blog for showing normal post ( like template SimplexPortfolio of mine )
1,To create a video post ( mean a post with video and text description for that video ) ,post with structure bellow :
your-youtube-video-url-endofvid
[starttext]
text description goes here
[endtext]
And label the post  'video'
For example ,I want to create a video post with youtube video at this address : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wfYPXAjl8 ,here is what I do :
Go to Dashboard - > Posting ->New Post
and enter post content like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wfYPXAjl8endofvid
[starttext]
Textdescription .....blah blah blah ...
[endtext]
add the label 'video' in Labels field .
Click Publish Post . Ok ,we finish posting a new video to blog . You can see this post in homepage.
2,To post a normal article ,go to Posting ->New Post and write your content as normal . But remember to add label 'blog' at Labels field . This label will mark post as normal blog post and it will show your post in Blog Post style ( Not Video Post style ).
3,To show your post in slideshow at the top of homepage,add one more label 'feature' to the post .


That's the install instruction and how to use this template . At this time ,Simplextube template support only Youtube video ,so I will try to expand the range of supporting video service . I hope you like this template ,and remember to give me feedbacks .

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