Monday, August 3, 2009

Create Three Column Footer in Blogger

Footer yup! Some of the Blogger templates don't come with a built-in footer so here is how you can add it yourself.
Create Three Column Footer in Blogger
You can have a look at the demo of how it looks before trying it out yourself.

You can also download this free premium looking template from chethstudios.
Chethstudios Life - A Free Classy Blogger Template

As usual login into your Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and check the "Expand Widget Templates" option.

Important Step: Now as a precautionary measure please download your template so that you have an emergency backup if in case you create any errors :)

Firstly Locate </b:skin> and paste the following CSS before </b:skin>


#footer-column-container {
clear:both;
}

.footer-column {
padding: 10px;
}


Locate this code in your blogger template.
<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
</div>


Now replace
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
replace the whole line code by the codes below



<div id='footer-column-container'>

<div id='footer2' style='width: 30%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;'>

<b:section class='footer-column' id='col1' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'/>
</div>

<div id='footer3' style='width: 40%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;'>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='col2' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'/>
</div>

<div id='footer4' style='width: 30%; float: right; margin:0; text-align: left;'>

<b:section class='footer-column' id='col3' preferred='yes' style='float:right;'/>
</div>

<div style='clear:both;'/>

<div id='footer-bottom' style='text-align: center; padding: 10px; text-transform: lowercase;'>

<b:section class='footer' id='col-bottom' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='Text2' locked='false' title='' type='Text'/>
</b:section>

</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>

</div>


You can make the footer more pretty if you have some knowledge of CSS and coding.


That's all, now preview your template and save if you have no errors. Thanks for reading how to Create Three Column Footer in Blogger. Do feel free to ask me if you have any questions. You can also get a free subscription to Chethstudios updates. We will be back with more useful content. Get latest hacks and updates on your email

8 comments:

  1. Again a very nice/useful tutorial! what I really like is the way it has been explained..in a very clear step by step method! :)

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  3. Yet another tutorial that has helped me a lot.
    Now that I am learning quite a few things from your blog and implementing at my blog, I think the right thing to do would be to mention your name under the credits section.

    Thanks again



    GBU
    Arti

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  4. @Arti Honrao

    Glad it was helpful :)
    I had created this tutorial for my free template customisation. Btw no credits needed :)

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  5. This worked great, thanks a lot!

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  6. Hi~~ I've successfully created three footer column gadgets but would like a single [default] gadget ABOVE them within the footer area. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thank you,

    Grace Peterson
    grace@gracepete.com
    www.gracepete.com

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  7. @Grace Peterson

    You will have to define a new section in HTML mode in your footer. <b:section and <b:widget

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  8. you are the best! Really THANK YOU!

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