Monday, March 4, 2013

How to get your Minima blogger template back

I have had several people email me and ask how to get their minima template back so they can use my backgrounds. A lot of other backgound sites use this template as well. so here we go! 1-you want to log into your blog. 2-Go to template 3-back up your blog. The button for this can be found in the right hand corner. 4-You now need to click on the edit HTML button. 5-High light all the text in the HTML box. you can do this by right clicking in the box and selecting " select all". then hit your delete button. 6-Now copy and paste this code in the HTML box.

          <data:blog.pageTitle/>                                                     */ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ body {   background:$bgcolor;   margin:0;   color:$textcolor;   font:x-small Georgia Serif;   font-size/* */:/**/small;   font-size: /**/small;   text-align: center;   } a:link {   color:$linkcolor;   text-decoration:none;   } a:visited {   color:$visitedlinkcolor;   text-decoration:none;   } a:hover {   color:$titlecolor;   text-decoration:underline; } a img {   border-width:0;   } /* Header -----------------------------------------------  */ #header-wrapper {   width:660px;   margin:0 auto 10px;   border:1px solid $bordercolor;   } #header-inner {   background-position: center;   margin-left: auto;   margin-right: auto; } #header {    margin: 5px;   border: 1px solid $bordercolor;   text-align: center;   color:$pagetitlecolor; } #header h1 {   margin:5px 5px 0;   padding:15px 20px .25em;   line-height:1.2em;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.2em;   font: $pagetitlefont; } #header a {   color:$pagetitlecolor;   text-decoration:none;   } #header a:hover {   color:$pagetitlecolor;   } #header .description {   margin:0 5px 5px;   padding:0 20px 15px;   max-width:700px;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.2em;   line-height: 1.4em;   font: $descriptionfont;   color: $descriptioncolor;  } #header img {   margin-$startSide: auto;   margin-$endSide: auto; } /* Outer-Wrapper ----------------------------------------------- */ #outer-wrapper {   width: 660px;   margin:0 auto;   padding:10px;   text-align:$startSide;   font: $bodyfont;   } #main-wrapper {   width: 410px;   float: $startSide;   word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */   overflow: hidden;     /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */   } #sidebar-wrapper {   width: 220px;   float: $endSide;   word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */   overflow: hidden;      /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */ } /* Headings ----------------------------------------------- */ h2 {   margin:1.5em 0 .75em;   font:$headerfont;   line-height: 1.4em;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.2em;   color:$sidebarcolor; } /* Posts -----------------------------------------------  */ h2.date-header {   margin:1.5em 0 .5em;   } .post {   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;   padding-bottom:1.5em;   } .post h3 {   margin:.25em 0 0;   padding:0 0 4px;   font-size:140%;   font-weight:normal;   line-height:1.4em;   color:$titlecolor; } .post h3 a, .post h3 a:visited, .post h3 strong {   display:block;   text-decoration:none;   color:$titlecolor;   font-weight:normal; } .post h3 strong, .post h3 a:hover {   color:$textcolor; } .post-body {   margin:0 0 .75em;   line-height:1.6em; } .post-body blockquote {   line-height:1.3em;  } .post-footer {   margin: .75em 0;   color:$sidebarcolor;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.1em;   font: $postfooterfont;   line-height: 1.4em; } .comment-link {   margin-$startSide:.6em; } .post img, table.tr-caption-container {   padding:4px;   border:1px solid $bordercolor; } .tr-caption-container img {   border: none;   padding: 0; } .post blockquote {   margin:1em 20px; } .post blockquote p {   margin:.75em 0; } /* Comments ----------------------------------------------- */ #comments h4 {   margin:1em 0;   font-weight: bold;   line-height: 1.4em;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.2em;   color: $sidebarcolor;   } #comments-block {   margin:1em 0 1.5em;   line-height:1.6em;   } #comments-block .comment-author {   margin:.5em 0;   } #comments-block .comment-body {   margin:.25em 0 0;   } #comments-block .comment-footer {   margin:-.25em 0 2em;   line-height: 1.4em;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.1em;   } #comments-block .comment-body p {   margin:0 0 .75em;   } .deleted-comment {   font-style:italic;   color:gray;   } #blog-pager-newer-link {   float: $startSide;  } #blog-pager-older-link {   float: $endSide;  } #blog-pager {    text-align: center;  } .feed-links {   clear: both;   line-height: 2.5em; } /* Sidebar Content ----------------------------------------------- */ .sidebar {    color: $sidebartextcolor;   line-height: 1.5em;  } .sidebar ul {   list-style:none;   margin:0 0 0;   padding:0 0 0; } .sidebar li {   margin:0;   padding-top:0;   padding-$endSide:0;   padding-bottom:.25em;   padding-$startSide:15px;   text-indent:-15px;   line-height:1.5em;   } .sidebar .widget, .main .widget {    border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;   margin:0 0 1.5em;   padding:0 0 1.5em;  } .main .Blog {    border-bottom-width: 0; } /* Profile  ----------------------------------------------- */ .profile-img {    float: $startSide;   margin-top: 0;   margin-$endSide: 5px;   margin-bottom: 5px;   margin-$startSide: 0;   padding: 4px;   border: 1px solid $bordercolor; } .profile-data {   margin:0;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.1em;   font: $postfooterfont;   color: $sidebarcolor;   font-weight: bold;   line-height: 1.6em; } .profile-datablock {    margin:.5em 0 .5em; } .profile-textblock {    margin: 0.5em 0;   line-height: 1.6em; } .profile-link {    font: $postfooterfont;   text-transform: uppercase;   letter-spacing: .1em; } /* Footer ----------------------------------------------- */ #footer {   width:660px;   clear:both;   margin:0 auto;   padding-top:15px;   line-height: 1.6em;   text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing:.1em;   text-align: center; } ]]>      

           
         
   
     
             
     
             
                 
 
   
     
                

7-Now save the template 8- make sure to hit save widgets, and your done!


 I hope this helps and you can understand it.