The Minimalist Minima Photoblog Template.

The Minima Template or Layout is used whenever you want to customize your blog any which way you want. There are no graphics used in the template as are used in the Rounders template. The Rounders and other templates with graphics are more difficult to customize as the images have to be resized to the new dimension.


Here I have attempted to simplify the Minima template further by making it a single-column template. This will enable bloggers to upload large photos or wide videos in their blog without worrying about the sidebar falling down!




This template is useful to bloggers who wish to show off their content without any distracting sidebars. The first step was to increase the width of the template :


This was done by simply getting rid of the sidebar code in the Template Code box :

  <div id='sidebar-wrapper'>
        <b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
</b:section>
      </div>

Then I increased the width of the main-wrapper in this code in the Template Code box :

#main-wrapper {
width: 660px;
....
}

This is the column containing the posts. If you want you can increase the width further depending on your monitor resolution. (Start button on Windows Taskbar---->Control Panel------>Display Properties----->Settings tab----->Lower left Screen Resolution in pixels).


Since the outer-wrapper contains the main-wrapper you have to increase width of former by same amount :

#outer-wrapper {
width: 660px;
...
}



The next step was to put in widgets in the footer. I have made three columns in the footer and you can add your widgets there. See picture below :





To outline the main column I have used a yellow color. If you wish to change the color you can change it in this code :

#main-wrapper {
width: 660px;
......
background:#ffff00 !important;
}

Change 'ffff00' to the hex number of the color you want and save template.


You can download the template here. Right click the link and choose "Save Link as" and save the XML template file to your desktop. Then upload template to blog.

This is a Layout template and cannot be used if you have a Classic template blog unless you upgrade blog to Layouts.