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I browsed through the templates hosted there, and they are all awesome!. Almost all of them are well polished and professional looking and a lot are as high quality as expensive commercial web templates.
While browsing though, this Dark Ritual template caught my attention. I thought it'll look great for my blog. So I downloaded it and hacked it here and there to make it fit for Blogger's Layout engine and the product is, you're looking at it now!! (^-^)
Below is the modified Dark Ritual template for use in Blogger. For the image files , you can search and get it from OpenDesigns.org
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:skin><![CDATA[
/*#############################################################
Name: Dark Ritual
Date: 2006-11-06
Description: Tribal-style three column layout.
Author: Viktor Persson
URL: http://templates.arcsin.se
Feel free to use and modify but please provide credits.
#############################################################*/
/*#############################################################
Changelog
Date: 2007-01-18
Hikaru Amano <http://kagesenshi.blogspot.com>
-> roughly modified template for use in new blogger's layout engine
#############################################################*/
/* standard elements */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/******************************************************/
.post-body pre {
font-size:small;
border: 2px dashed #cccccc;
background: #ffffff;
max-height:120px;
overflow:auto;
color: #000000;
padding: 2px;
}
textarea, input, select, option, button {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;
background-color : #F3F5F4;
color : #7B9685;
font-size : 10px;
border: 1px solid #B9CAC0;
}
/************************************************************/
a {color: #682;}
a img {border:0;}
a:hover {color: #9A6;}
body {
background: #333 url(img/bg.gif);
color: #333;
font: normal 62.5% "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;
margin: 3% 0;
}
p,ul {
padding-bottom: 1em;
}
ul {margin-left: 1.2em;}
li {list-style: none;}
.main li {list-style-image: url(img/li.gif);}
h1 {font-size: 1.2em;}
blockquote {
background: #FFF;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
border-top: 1px solid #EEE;
color: #333;
display: block;
font-size: 0.9em;
margin-bottom: 1.2em;
padding: 6px 12px;
}
blockquote p {padding: 3px 0;}
h1,h2,h3 {color: #994;}
/* misc */
.clearer {clear: both;}
.main_right .padded {padding: 6px 2px 6px 16px;}
.main .padded {padding: 7px 10px;}
.meta {font-size: 0.8em; color: #666;}
.left {float: left;}
.right {float: right;}
/* structure */
.container {
font-size: 1.2em;
background: url(img/bgcontainer.gif) repeat-y;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 840px;
border: 12px solid #222;
}
/* header */
.header {
float: left;
width: 640px;
background: url(img/header.jpg) no-repeat;
font: normal 2.4em Verdana,sans-serif;
height: 150px;
line-height: 100px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.header h1.title {
color:#000000;
}
.header h1 a {
text-decoration:none;
color:#000000;
}
.header .description {
font: normal small Verdana,sans-serif;
}
/* structure */
.top {
background: #222;
color: #DDD;
float: left;
font: normal 1.4em Verdana;
height: 50px;
text-align: center;
width: 639px;
}
.subnav {
float: left;
width: 160px;
color: #CCC;
}
.main {
float: left;
width: 480px;
}
.main .post-title {
font-size: large;
}
.main .date-header {
font-size:small;
}
.main img {
border:1px solid #000000;
padding: 5px;
}
.main .footnav img {
border:0;
padding:0;
}
.main_right {
float: right;
width: 200px;
color: #CCC;
}
/* sub-navigation */
.subnav h1 {
background: #222;
color: #FFE;
font: bold 1.1em Verdana,sans-serif;
line-height: 24px;
padding-left: 8px;
}
.subnav ul {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
.subnav li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #696755;
list-style: none;
}
.subnav li a {
background: #89866F;
color: #111;
display: block;
padding: 8px 0 8px 12px;
width: 148px;
text-decoration: none;
}
.subnav li a:hover {
background: #9C997C;
color: #000;
}
div.widget {
margin: 0 0 15px 0;
}
/* footer */
.footer {
background: url(img/bgfooter.gif) repeat-x;
color: #CCC;
font-size: 0.9em;
line-height: 39px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
.footer .left,.footer .right {padding: 0 16px;}
.footer a {color: #EEE;}
.footer a:hover {color: #FAFCB0;}
/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */
body#layout {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
body#layout #main_wrap {
width:380px;
}
body#layout #outer-wrapper {
width: 740px;
}
body#layout #header{
width:540px;
height:50px;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>
<body>
<div class='container' id='outer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='&laquo; Shadow Logs &raquo; (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>
<div class='main_right' id='sidebar_right'>
<b:section class='padded' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<!-- Right sidebar widgets here -->
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='subnav'>
<b:section id='subnav'>
<!-- Left sidebar widgets here -->
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='main' id='main_wrap'>
<b:section class='padded' id='main_section' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
<hr id='hrule1'/>
<b:section class='footnav' id='footer'>
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='clearer'><span/></div>
<div class='footer'>
<span class='left'> 2006 <a href='index.html'>Website.com</a>. Valid <a href='http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer'>CSS</a> & <a href='http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer'>XHTML</a></span>
<span class='right'>Template design by <a href='http://templates.arcsin.se'>Arcsin</a>. Hacked for use in Blogger by <a href='http://kagesenshi.blogspot.com'>KageSenshi</a> </span>
<div class='clearer'><span/></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>