herald.

i am in love with widgets on blogs, which is why for my personal blog(s) i use wordpress. it's a real pain in the ass to code templates for it, but once you widgetize an area, you can just drag and drop things on it and call it a day. new blogger lets you do this too, but since coding templates for it is even more annoying than wordpress somehow, i just tried to figure out how many simple blogger hacks i could combine for this template. i wanted to have it mimic a widgetized template as much as i could, and i think the fact that it looks very traditional might appeal to those who aren't into the navi thing.

info
- non-navigational
- comments enabled (they will be inline, only visible on the post page, unless you choose pop-up or disable them altogether)
- blog post author comments are styled differently than regular comments
- recent posts will appear with leading rotating icons in the sidebar
- recent comments list, with links to the comment author's website or profile (whatever they provided when leaving it) as well as a link to the page the comment appears on
- tag list*
- post titles are permalinks
- will look and function identically in all major browsers (tested in ie8, mff, chrome, safari, and opera)
- will look fine in the most common screen resolutions
- code is commented pretty clearly (i think!) so you can easily find and change whatever you're looking for.

* to get the tags list to work for your blog, you have to find and replace a few things. scroll down to where you find src="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/05122933361560301346/blogs/3100999869432823489?alt=json-in-script&callback=listLabels, and replace the first long string of numbers with the numbers you find in the url of your profile page, and the second long string of numbers with the ones you find in the url of the edit template page.

preview error, as usual. permanent live preview is here, and the temp live on blogspot is here.

this skin is meant to be customized, so if you hate the colors or the image, change them! just remember to leave the credit to me on the skin somewhere. ♥