Modified from original Milano, Clean Milano Blogger template has remained same layout and major useful feature, while removing all the time-costing JavaScripts. You can now have professional and faster Milano template for your business blog!
Template name: Milano
Template Author: Jinsona Design
Template Converter: Falcon Hive
Compatible BSP: Blogger
Best Viewed Browser: IE 8, Firefox RC3, Opera 9.6, Google Chrome 0.3.154.9, Safari 4 Public Beta
Feature Included:
- Unique and professional layout design
- Welcome Message section
- Featured Content section
- Top navigation menu
- Second navigation menu
- Featured Video section
- 300×250 Ads gadget
- 125×125 Ads gadget
- 2 sidebar section
- Fully widgetized
You can observe the demo and download the Clean Milano Blogger template.
Setup the title logo
Open the ‘logo’ file with image editing software like Photoshop, then edit the text with your own preferred title and save it as ‘logo1.png’. Access into image hosting site like Photobucket and upload your ‘logo1.png’ picture, then access into blog’s layout and under the ‘Edit HTML’ mode, press [CTRL+F3] to find the ‘IMAGE-LINK-HERE/logo1.png’ and replace the ‘IMAGE-LINK-HERE’ with your hosted image link.
Set up the Top Navigation Menu
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’ section, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Top Navigation Menu’ and configure the Link Gadget setup.
Set up the Featured Content Scroller
Milano has a featured content scroller at the right of the Welcome Message section, which you can access into the space through the ‘Page Element’ section. Simply copy the code below, then access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Featured Content Scroller’, paste and edit the code with the corresponding item.
<a href=’POST-LINK-HERE’>
<img src=’IMAGE-LINK-HERE’/>
</a>
If you want to have more than 1 Featured Content slide, you can copy, paste and edit the code above again in the same HTML/ JavaScript gadget.
Set up the Second Navigation Menu
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’ section, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Second Navigation Menu’ and configure the Link Gadget setup.
Set up the ‘Read More’ feature
As this template has ‘Read More’ feature installed, you can probably hide some text from being displayed on the main page. Here are steps to set up this feature:
1. Simply copy the code below, then access into ‘Settings’ and under the ‘Formatting’ tab, paste the code into the ‘Post Template’.
<span class=”fullpost”></span>
2. ‘Save Settings’ to save the settings above.
On the next time you create a post, you can see codes above appear in your ‘Edit HTML’ mode beside the ‘Compose’ mode. You can just place the text between the <span class=”fullpost”> and </span> to hide the text. For example,
<span class=”fullpost”>Here are the texts you want to hide</span>
Set up the Featured Video section
To set up the Video section, you can put favorite Youtube video inside the section by just few simple steps. You can just copy the video’s embed code link, then access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’ tab, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Featured Video’, paste the code then ‘Save’ to show the video!
Your Youtube video’s embed code link is located below the profile of the video uploader, and you can adjust the (embed)’s width and height inside the code to fix the section size. The recommended width and height for the video is 310 and 255.
Set up the 300×250 Ads
Milano template got an ads space under the top featured content section, and you can setup the ads space with Google Adsense Ad Unit 300×250 Ads. To achieve this, simply access into ‘Layout’ and under the ‘Page Element’ tab, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Ads 1’, copy and paste your Adsense or ads code then ‘Save’ to show the ads.
Set up the 125×125 Ads
You can change the 125×125 ads image to your own ads image. To achieve this, simply copy the code below and access into ‘Layout’ and under ‘Page Element’ tab, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘125×125 Ads’, paste and edit the code with corresponding item:
<a href=’YOUR-TARGETED-LINK’><img src=’YOUR-IMAGE-LINK’ alt=’YOUR-IMAGE-TITLE’/></a>
We care about Author
Milano comes under a Creative Common License. This means it is free to use on your blog, and you must to keep the footer link intact, also as a respect to the designer and converter. With all the sincerity, we need your respect to continue our free Blogger template production, thank you.
Jinsona Design has really put so much effort on designing this template, so if possible you can pay a visit to the site and leave a thankful comment!
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