Update : Imageshack error unregister domain - how to fix ?

Today ,not only in SimplexDesign blog and templates,the image of "IceFrog" with text like "Your country can only view this image by logging into ImageShack" or "Unregistered domain. Go to http://imageshack.us to register" appeared everywhere . This problem was happening to all images which were linked directly to ImageShack .




If you had uploaded an image to ImageShack and posted it on your website, blog, or any other applications then the ImageShack Icefrog picture would show up.
Codes provided by Image Shack are working such as the embed link to image. We can only see the images when we login imageshack.us .If not ,we can see the icefrog .All images are locked .

The solution here is very simple , you have to register your domain to imageshack.us by visiting this page and fill all the information needed: http://stream.imageshack.us/content.php?page=email&q=reg_domain

Note that this must be done by the site owner that is being affected in order for them to verify the ownership.
When you finish submiting your site ,just wait .They will aprove your site shortly and images will be displayed as before .
With the new policy ,I think imageshack.us is not a good choice for us from now . What happen if one day ,they lock all images and ask for money .

I will try another solution and provide you images to help you host them yourself as soon as possible .
If you can't wait , you can register an account in Imageshack.us ,and login . After that open template file (xml file) and search for "imageshack.us" , it will show you link of all images that hosted in Imageshack.us . Copy all these links to download manager program (such as Internet Download Manager ,Orbit,Flashget ...) and this program will download all images for you . This is the best way for you to get all images . Remember you can do this when you have an imageshack account and you loged in .

Update : How to move images in Simplex's templates from ImageShack to another host

Many of you complaint me for trouble with imageshack.us today . Early today ,all images which hosted in Imageshack.us has been changed to ugly Frogs .
I wrote a post on how to register your domain with imageshack .But this way ,you have to wait for them to approve your site .
In this post ,I will show you the way to download all images in a Simplex's template to your PC and then upload it to another host .

Here are steps

1,First ,go to imageshack.us and register an account if you don't have one .
If you have an account existed , please login to your account .

With the new Imageshack policy ,we can only see images and download them if we are registered members . So it's the reason why we need to login to our accounts in imageshack.us .

Keep the imageshack browser window open .Do not close it .

2,Open another browser tab. Go to Blogger Dashboard ->Design ->Edit HTML,checked in Expand widget templates .
Press Ctr+F for search function and type the term "imageshack.us" into searchbox ,then enter



It will show you all link of images which were hosted in imageshack.us like picture above .

3, Copy one image link ( in the bracket ) .

Open another browser tab and paste the link into address bar .
Click enter ,it will show you the image .Right click on image and choose " save picture as " . Save this image on your hard disk.



4,Find another hosting that support image , for example , in this post ,I use Imgplace.com ( this hosting is just an example and you can use another hosting providers,paid or free ,it's up to you ) . I open imgplace.com website in another tab of browser window , choose the file and click Upload


When finish uploading ,copy the direct link



5,Back to the browser tab which template file are opening . Paste the image's direct link we got from the hosting to template file .Like this (see the arrow,new link in Imgplace.com replaced old one in Imageshack.us )



When you finish this step ,you are succesfull in moving one image from Imageshack.us to Imgplace.com hosting .

6, Do the same with other images which were hosted in Imageshack.us

All steps can do very fast , you can move an image from Imageshack to another host in less than 30 seconds .Because each template has some images ,so it only take you less than 10 minutes for all images .
Save template file and shutdown browser window .

You just finish moving all images in a Simplex's template from Imageshack.us to another hosting .
I hope this post helpful .

SimplexBuzz - one more premium template

This is my latest template SimplexBuzz . This template has a eye-catching feature slider ,and I think it's good for travel/art/photography blog .

Live Demo | Download

Here are steps to install this template

1,Download template file

2,Open template file in any word editor you have .

3,To change the credit box at the end of each post

find this code

<div id="authorbox">

<h3>About Author</h3>

<img width="60" height="60" class="avatar avatar-60 photo" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvC1Sh98IFzf_nChwvXtQlP6uzP5zP4-LyBkpy5eXf6T8ymiIcMQu6Zk5QiGdUfdwA16MwdinnErjy67a0wIxj503-nGqGJ3LP9Um_v8HvFyiwOa5LKDPQU0s8V9zP3VUYvjAL-dy-jMtl/s220/normal_HNH_9244-sapa0207.jpg" alt=""/>

<div class="authortext">

<h4>

<a href="">Nhamnganhanh</a>

</h4>

<p>This is template SimplexBuzz .

</p>

</div>

</div>

Change the text in bold to what you want (you can write some description about you and your blog ...)

4, To add your feedburner account to email subscription form

find this code
<form onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=simplex', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow" method="post" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify">
                                  <fieldset>
                                     <input type="hidden" name="uri" value="simplex"/>
                                     <input type="hidden" value="en_US" name="loc"/>
                                     <input type="text" name="email" class="sub"/>
                                     <button type="submit">Submit</button>
                                 </fieldset>
                             </form>
change the text in bold 'simplex' to your feed burner account .

5,To add your social network accounts

find this code
<ul class="social">
                                 <li><a class="twitter" href="http://twitter.com/dinhquanghuy">Twitter</a></li>
                                 <li><a class="facebook" href="http://facebook.com/simplexdesignblog">Facebook</a></li>
                                 <li><a class="flickr" href="http://flickr.com/photos/">Flickr</a></li>
                                 <li class="rss"><a class="rss" href="/feeds/posts/default">RSS</a></li>
                             </ul>
change the links (marked in bold) to your social network accounts.

6,After that ,upload template to Blogger .

7,To add your logo

click on logo widget

then add your logo into widget content as I did in picture below

Click Save

8,To add items to top menu navigation

click edit link in category widget

then add link to your category into widget content like this

Link to category in blogspot has structure : http://yourblogspot.blogspot.com/search/label/your category

9,To add content to feature slider

Click on edit link in 'feature content slider' widget
Then add the name category which you want to show recent posts in feature content slider in widget content
for example ,I want to show recent posts under 'travel' category into feature content slider ,I click edit link in 'feature content slider' widget

then fill the widget content with name of category 'travel'

Save changes . From now ,4 latest posts in category 'travel' will be showed in feature slider

10,To show post in feature content section below slider

click on edit link in feature content widget

add name of category you want to show into widget content

Then save changes . Recent posts in this category will be showed in feature content section .

11,In this template , when you enter a single post ,the first image in this post will be showed as background in header automatically .
But when you enter a page ,there's no image displayed in header .
To add image in the header of pages

click on edit link in 'background for page' widget

and add the image into widget content .

From now ,the image you added will be showed as header's background each time you enter a page .

12,To add the text in alert box

click on edit link in 'alert' widget

and enter the text you want to show .

You can use HTML tags to make text in alert box display as you want .

13,To add your ad,click on edit link in banner widget

and add your ad code into widget content .


14, That's all for default widgets .You can add more widget or remove existed as you want .

Save all changes ,and you are done .I hope you all like this template and keep supporting me .
Feel free to use my template but please keep the credit at footer .Thanks in advance .

Simplex Blognews - latest version - easy to install

Many people comment in my blog for reporting errors when installing and using template Simplex Blognews . Thanks you all for this . Without your error reporting and support ,I can't continue this work .
In this post ,I want to introduce to you latest version of Blognews template which is easier to use and fixed some bugs .


Download Simplex Blognews with Disqus comment system | Download Simplex Blognews with Blogger comment system

How to install this template

1,Download this template from one of two links above .If you want to use Disqus ,choose template file included Disqus and if you don't ,choose the file with Blogger default comment system

2,Open template file in any word editor you have such as notepad ++

3,Here is code of main menu bar in template file :
    <ul>
                 <li>
                     <a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com'>Home</a>
                 </li>
                 <li>
                     <a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/world'>World News</a>
                     <ul class='children'>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                     </ul>
                 </li>

                 <li><a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/travel'>Travel</a></li>
                 <li><a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/sports'>Sports</a></li>

                 <li><a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/finance'>Finance</a>
                     <ul class='children'>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                         <li><a href='#'>Category</a></li>
                     </ul>
                 </li>
                
                 <li><a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment'>Entertainment</a></li>
                 <li><a href='http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/search/label/business'>Business</a></li>                    
             </ul>
       

Change the text in bold to your category link . Follow this structure :
 <li><a href='category link '>category name</a></li>

4,If you download Simplex blognews comes with Disqus comment system ,to activate Disqus comment system ,find this code :

 <b:includable id='comments' var='post'>
                             <div id='disqus_thread'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
    /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
    var disqus_shortname = &#39;simplexblognews&#39;; // required: replace example with your forum shortname

    // The following are highly recommended additional parameters. Remove the slashes in front to use.
    // var disqus_identifier = &#39;unique_dynamic_id_1234&#39;;
    // var disqus_url = &#39;http://example.com/permalink-to-page.html&#39;;

    /* * * DON&#39;T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
    (function() {
        var dsq = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;); dsq.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;; dsq.async = true;
        dsq.src = &#39;http://&#39; + disqus_shortname + &#39;.disqus.com/embed.js&#39;;
        (document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;head&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;body&#39;)[0]).appendChild(dsq);
    })();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href='http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript'>comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>

                         </b:includable>

and this code :

<script type='text/javascript'>

/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */

var disqus_shortname = &#39;simplexblognews&#39;; // required: replace example with your forum shortname

/* * * DON&#39;T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */

(function () {

var s = document.createElement(&#39;script&#39;); s.async = true;

s.type = &#39;text/javascript&#39;;

s.src = &#39;http://&#39; + disqus_shortname + &#39;.disqus.com/count.js&#39;;

(document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;HEAD&#39;)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(&#39;BODY&#39;)[0]).appendChild(s);

}());

</script>

Change the text 'Simplexblognews' in bold to your Disqus shortname .
If you don't plan to use Disqus ,skip this step .

5,Save template and upload it to Blogger .

6,In Blogger Dashboard ,go to Page elements . In this page ,you will see many widgets .

7,To add your social network account



click on 'edit' link in Stay Connected widget



and add link to your social network accounts .


8,To add your logo ,click on 'edit' link in logo widget


and add link to your logo into widget content



9,'top ads','below feature ads' ,'primary top col ads','sidebarads','secondary ads right' ,and 'footerads' are widgets for advertising . You can click on 'edit' link of these widgets and add the ad code into widget content . Like this





10,To show posts under a category in the slider:

click on 'edit' link in 'feature content slider' widget


add the title you want to show into widget title ,and add the name of category into widget content .



In these pictures above ,I want to show posts in 'feature' category into slider ,so I add category name 'feature' into widget content and add the title 'feature' into widget title .

11,Do the same with other widgets . Click on 'edit' link in a widget ,add a category name into widget content and add the title you want to show in widget title . Recent posts in this category will be shown in where the widget you choose is .

For example ,I want to show posts under category 'Asia' in the position of widget 'below featured left'

First ,I click on 'edit' link in 'below featured left'



a dialog appeared .



then ,I add the category name 'asia' into widget content ,and add the title I want to show 'Asia' into widget title .

After that ,click Save .

If the category 'asia' existed in my blog ,and there is at least one post under category 'asia' ,it will be displayed in the position of 'below featured left'



12,To add images into Flickr widget
click edit link on flickr widget



and add your FlickR id into widget content



13,To add video to Daily video section
Click on Daily Vid widget



then add video embed code into widget content



14,To add a forum to blog,create a new page ,name it 'forum' and paste the forum embeded code into page content (in Edit HTML mode)



then go to Dashboard -> Go to Design -> Edit HTML ,search for the text 'http://simplexblognews.blogspot.com/p/forum.html'



and replace it with link to 'forum' page you've just created .There are 4 places need to change in total . After that ,save the changes .

15,If you want to increase/decrease the number of post in each category in homepage ,you can find go to Blogger Dashboard -> Design tab -> Edit HTML ,and then checked on Expand Widget templates . Find this code :

numposts = 4;

numposts1 = 1;

numposts2 = 9;

numposts3 = 4;

numposts4 = 4;

numposts5 = 2;

numposts6 = 1;

numposts7 = 10;

numposts8 = 7;

Try to increase each value to get the number of post you want .

Save template when you finish editing . You can drag and drop widgets ,change widget positions ,add or remove widgets ...

That's all for this template . With this version , you don't need to worry much about the code as old Blognews versions .
I hope you like it