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POSTER ADS

Most of the Artistic Poster was used widely in France. Germany, Switzerland.

BUILD A RAFT

Whittle while you work

• Chop 12 eight-foot logs for your raft's deck, and six retaining logs for the frame. Carved a length-wise groove halfway through each retaining log, leaving a foot uncarved at each end. This will hold the deck in place.
• Place three retaining logs groove-side up; one for each end of the raft and one for the middle. Lay the deck logs across the grooves, working from the sides in to the middle. Your deck logs will vary a bit in thickness, so alternate sizes side by side to maintain an even balance. Save your smallest log to slip into the final slot at the raft's center to ensure a virginally tight fit and a stable deck.
• Once the deck is laid, set three retaining logs on top, grooves down. Using rope or twisted bak-or intestines of disemboweled cohorts-lash the pairs of retaining logs as tightly as possible. You can also tie deck logs together for stability. Just be sure to keep all knots on the top of your raft, so you can tighten them.
• slide your raft into the water, making sure not to catch fragile lashings on any sharf edges. Lash an X out of one-foot-long branches and wedge it in the ends of your deck-this will brace your rudder(use a sturdy three-foot-long sick with two smaller pieces of wood bound alongside one end). Just test your vessel in shallow water first, or your going to have a very unhappy three-hour tour.

TIPS TO CREATE (3) THREE COLUMN ROUNDERS TEMPLATE

Note:

Some sites offer free three-column templates for download. If you are starting a new blog, you may look up these sites and use their templates. However, if you have an existing blog and merely want to expand the template to include another column, our guides would be helpful. What we do is to take the standard Blogger templates and show you how to add a new sidebar. This approach gives you total control over the changes, and if you have bookmarked this page, you can revisit it in future should you want to reverse the changes. It is also a safer method, since there could be a few out there who may introduce malicious scripts or blog virus into their customized templates without you knowing.

This is a SHARED tips only.

• Briefly, the reason why templates like Rounders, Scribe, No. 897, etc. are special is because of the background images. To see what these images are, right click on any part of your Blog and view the picture. In the case of Rounders for example, if you right click on the Header to view the background image, you will see the corners_cap_top.gif or corners_cap_bot.gif which account for the rounded corners. These corners have a fixed width of 740px. They were uploaded onto the blogblog.com server and linked to your Blog.
• If you want to expand your Blog to 3 columns, these images will have to be changed and uploaded onto an image server. Otherwise, you will not have the rounded corners or may see that the background images do not fit into a wider layout.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we have created new rounded corner images and uploaded them onto a free image server for you. You can follow the instructions here and include a third column on the left.

Before you begin to do anything, remember to backup your template. Go to Template -> Edit HTML. Click the “Download Full Template” link to save a copy of your template.

Rounders Template

Scroll to the part where you see this:-

#outer-wrapper {

width:740px;

margin:0 auto;

text-align:left;

font: $bodyFont;

}

#main-wrap1 {

width:485px;

float:left;

background:$mainBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_main_bot.gif") no-repeat left bottom;

margin:15px 0 0;

padding:0 0 10px;

color:$mainTextColor;

font-size:97%;

line-height:1.5em;

word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */

overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE

sidebar float */

}

#main-wrap2 {

float:left;

width:100%;

background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_main_top.gif") no-repeat left top;

padding:10px 0 0;

}

#main {background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/rails_main.gif") repeat-y;

padding:0;

}

#sidebar-wrap {

width:240px;

float:right;

margin:15px 0 0;

font-size:97%;

line-height:1.5em;

word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */

overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE

sidebar float */

}

The template defines 3 wrappers, namely:-

1. #outer-wrapper – referring to the entire blog

2. #main-wrap – referring to the main Blog Posts

3. #sidebar-wrap – referring to the right sidebar.

What we want to do is to include a left sidebar and name it newsidebar. The above code will therefore be changed to this (note the portions in red).

#outer-wrapper {

width:995px;

margin:0 auto;

text-align:left;

font: $bodyFont;}

#main-wrap1 {

width:485px;

float:left;

background:$mainBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_main_bot.gif") no-repeat left bottom;

margin:15px 0 0 15px;

padding:0 0 10px;

color:$mainTextColor;

font-size:97%;

line-height:1.5em;

word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */

overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE

sidebar float */

}

#main-wrap2 {

float:left;

width:100%;

background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_main_top.gif") no-repeat left top;

padding:10px 0 0;}

#main {background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/rails_main.gif") repeat-y;

padding:0;

}

#sidebar-wrap {

width:240px;

float:right;

margin:15px 0 0;

font-size:97%;

line-height:1.5em;

word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */

overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE

sidebar float */

}

#newsidebar-wrap {

width:240px;

float:left;

margin:15px 0 0;

font-size:97%;

line-height:1.5em;

word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */

overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE

sidebar float */

}

#newsidebar-wrap1 {

background:$mainBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_side_top.gif") no-repeat left top;

margin:0 0 15px;

padding:10px 0 0;

color: $mainTextColor;

}

#newsidebar-wrap2 {

background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_side_bot.gif") no-repeat left bottom;

padding: 10px 0 8px;

}

#newsidebar h2 {

color: $postTitleColor;

border-bottom: 1px dotted $postTitleColor;

}

Let us now deal with the Header and the Footer. As mentioned, we had created new images for the rounded corners of the Header and Footer based on this new width of 995px.

Scroll to these 2 headings:-

/* Blog Header

/* Footer

Change the top corners:-http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_cap_top.gif

To this:- http://www.blogpulp.com/imagehost/images/1008314701.gif

Also, change the bottom corners:-http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/corners_cap_bot.gif

To this:- http://www.blogpulp.com/imagehost/images/196653871.gif

We shall also change the layout editor to cater to the new sidebar. Scroll to where you see this:-

/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */

body#layout #main-wrap1,

body#layout #sidebar-wrap,

body#layout #header-wrapper {

margin-top: 0;

}

body#layout #header,

body#layout #header-wrapper,

body#layout #outer-wrapper {

margin-left:0,

margin-right: 0;

padding: 0;

}

body#layout #outer-wrapper {

width: 730px;

} body#layout #footer-wrap1 {

padding-top: 0;}

Update: Replace all of the above with this:-

/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */

body#layout #outer-wrapper,

body#layout #header-wrapper,

body#layout #footer-wrap1 {

width: 750px;

}

body#layout #main-wrap1,

body#layout .main .widget,

body#layout .main .Blog{

width: 400px;

}

body#layout #newsidebar-wrap {

width: 150px;

margin-top: 5px;

}

body#layout #sidebar-wrap {

width: 150px;

margin-left: 25px;}

After that, scroll to somewhere near the bottom of the script where you see this.

Add the portion in red above the div id='main-wrap1'. The segment should look something like this:-

You may click “Preview” to see the new layout, and if you are happy with what you see, click “Save Template”. If you don't want the profile on the left, you can remove that page element after that. You have now three columns in your layout!

Align Header Title and Description

Update: We have a more detailed guide on alignment of the Header Title, Description and background image. In the article, you would learn how to move these to the center, or towards the left or right of the Header. In the Rounders template, you would notice that the Header title and description are aligned to the left. If you want that to be in the center of the page, insert the text-alignment code (shown in red).

#header { text-align: center;

Align Post Footer elements to Left

We noticed that the Post Footer elements e.g., Posted by, timestamp, comments, backlink icons, are aligned to the right in the Rounders template. If you want to align these elements to the left, change the text-alignment code (shown in red).

.uncustomized-post-template .post-footer {

text-align: left;

}

Note: The Rounders template we are working on is the present version available on Blogger. If you are using the old Blogger templates, or any other template, the style names may be different. For example, #header-wrapper may be called #head-wrap. If you are unsure, you may source the net for a guide specifically for your type of template. Otherwise, you may want to understand the way we change this template and adapt it to yours. As long as you backup your current template, and Preview the changes made, it should be alright for you to try some changes.

If you wish to TRY this? just be sure to download the full original template, before doing this.