Medieval, parchment, and scroll blogger templates seem to be very popular these days so we’ve taken the liberty to find another great one called Aspire. This three-column Blogger template comes dressed up with all the goodies a knight of the round table would want for his blog. You get a search box, recent posts and comments widgets, a custom built date stamp for each post, and more.
In order to get the recent posts and recent comments widgets working, you’ll need to read “How to setup your recent posts and comments” post.
Not to worry, all the images are hosted via our Pro Photobucket account so you won’t experience the “End of the month blogger blues” which happens to thousands of Google Blogspot Bloggers every month.
The dynamic date on each post is handled by a custom written javascript function which is embedded into the template as well. Most other templates you download link to an external .js file so at any point the date might stop working on your blog.
If you like this template you might also enjoy the Parchment Blogger template as well.
Thanks to Info Creek for designing this great theme and also porting it over to the new xml Blogger template for you Blogspot users!
4/13/08 – Fixed individual post date so it is center aligned in the date box. Also added new demo site, fixed the layout blogger screen, and added several cool widgets.
5/17/08 – Fixed the “next” and “previous” posts buttons at the bottom of the page. If you downloaded this template prior to this date you can easily fix it yourself. Just search your template code for “.navigation” and then remove the “position:absolute;” entry. Thanks to Allen for finding the bug.
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hey all thanks to yous posts.mine date esction is working buthow to make recent posts and recent comments section working.they are not showing……..??
Can someone please tell me how I can get the calendar widget of the Aspire template for blogger???
Thanks.
Please see post #91 and let me know if this is correct….please š
This is user frndly blog.greattttttttt
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!
Aspire is great. It would be nice if you could provide some information in the readme to tell users how to change or turn-off the bullets in the link lists and archive. If the entries get very long they look really tacky with the * embedded in the text.
Hi, I love the layout, but I’ve tried uploading the file and copy & pasting, and with both I get error messages on Blogger. When uploading the xml file, I get this error: Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
What am I doing wrong?
Love the template. But I can’t figure out how to get the date in the box. Tried some of the things above, but nothing seemed to work. Any ideas? Thanks!
PLEASE, SOMEONE PLEASE HELP. Stuck and can’t proceed until I get help.
Aspire template is awesome but date is being stubborn.
My settings are:
(date header) āSep 13, 2008ā³
(timestamp format) āSaturday, September 13, 2008
Isnāt this correct?
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP! thanks
Love the look and feel of this template. Was extremely tempted to use it but because of the way it reads the DATE, it does not put a TIME on the posts. Sorry, have to pass. I want the time AND the date on my posts.
VERY HAPPY! I just reinstalled the template and the date works perfectly! However, I no longer have the horizontal links at the top (header? nav?). I do not “do code” very well. This template is the best ever and is worth these little things to fuss over. Please help asap so I can “keep on going.” Thanks so very, very, very much.
Hi there, Can i post the template in my new post as one of the best blogger templates of 2008. I will put a backlink from my blog as well
Hi david..
thanks for the great template..
anyhow.. how can i change the font size for (About Me, Categories,Site sponsor and son on )?
How to i make it smaller.
Is it i have change at this section?
.content h1 {font: 18px “Trebuchet MS”; color:#602600; letter-spacing:-1px; padding-top:10px;}
.content h2 {font:bold 18px “Trebuchet MS”; color:#602600; padding:10px 0px 2px 20px;}
.content h3 {font:bold 16px “Trebuchet MS”; color:#602600; padding:10px 0px 2px 20px;}
.content h4 {font:bold 14px “Trebuchet MS”; color:#602600; padding:7px 0px 2px 15px;}
.content h5 {font:bold 10px “Trebuchet MS”; color:#602600; padding:5px 0px 2px 10px;}
.content h6 {font:bold 8px Verdana; color:#602600; padding:5px 0px 2px 0px;}
.content h2.pagetitle {position:absolute; top:0px; right:30px; padding:0px; font-size:13px;}
I would like also to change font size for the comment. which i think the font is verdana
I am having trouble with the Date appearing in the posts, and have tried all above mentioned fixes. I’m not sure I am missing something or what. Can someone help me?
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Hello!ASPIRE is a very good template!
but I have a question about TOP MENU. How can I add a EMAIL LINK in my TOP MENU? Can somebody help me?
thx… blogger…
this is my site..
http://songvanias.blogspot.com
Hello,
This template is absolutely beautiful, but everytime I download it, I get an error message saying:
“Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.”
I have absolutely no idea what I am doing wrong, so if someone could PLEASE help me, I would really appreciate it. I already read everyone elses comments, and I noticed that some other people had the same problem….but I didn’t read any solutions.
Thanks so much!
I want used your template!!! thanks…beauty themes…
Anwar
If I download this do the blog sponsors stay on or can I get rid of them and add my own?
Great template!
great template!! its jus wat i was lookin for.. have a prob tho..
i tried copying the images onto photobucket so tht the links don get broken if u change the location of d images… but i have a prob with one particular image.. sidebarbottom.jpg it ends up becoming smaller than the top and looks bad.. pls help.. my blog:
aravenshagsaman.blogspot.com
this is wat it looks like when i use photobucket:
http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo235/avinash88/aspire%20img/error.jpg
Hi,
This is really a Nice Template. I am using this template on my blog @ http://directlinksheaven.blogspot.com , which provides download links to latest movies and games.
Thanks for the Template.
Hi and thanks for this nice template.I started to use its 3 columns blogger version.And my problem is the very first top post is not clickable.When i post a new one and it becomes second post then its ok.I saw that someone mentioned the same issue as a problem but could not see the solution.Thanks for any help in advance.
Hi! how can i install this template in my blog?
im a noob……
Hi David,
Thanks for the Great Template š . But since I have started using it, it failed me to show the post date š . My blog is at http://directlinksheaven.blogspot.com . So could you please review it and let me know the error please ? That is much appreciatable.
Also I have uploaded my Aspire template to http://www.mediafire.com/?zdwzwylygqo . Please see it and correct it and send me to my mail at ghananisnow@yahoo.com .
hey David thnkoO for such a nice piece of ART!!!
Pranav20 and I are both having the same problem, the date is not showing up on the top left corner of the new posts. Everything else is wonderful and it’s by far the best blog format I’ve seen so I’m very reluctant to switch, but that big empty box is distracting and really destroys the flow of the blog.
Please let me know if there is an anticipated fix, or how the problem can be resolved.
Thanks.
In first, sorry for my bad english…
I have download Aspire , but when I want to open the XML page, Explorer said:
The server did not understand the request, or the request was invalid. Erreur de traitement de la ressource http://www.w3.o…
I fall in love with this them, I want it ;p
I have find a solution ;p
*now searching for change coulour of font*
*reading last comments*
…other question now ^^
How can I do some pages, appears as “home”, “about” or “contact” in the exemple image?
thanks for your answers.
@jahyra
you have to edit link bar from page elements part.eg:for manin page add your mani page url and give name as main page.or for contact,write your contact adress as url give name as contact
I love this template. I have tried everything, but the date does not appear. My template also looks different from the template most of you have. I can’t find in it any place where to put the codes for date.
I’d very very thankful for advice.
ah ok! thanks sishyphos !! <3
Still hoping for a fix for the missing date on the posts.
Any ideas/fixes/suggestions??
Nice template.
Thanks
Thanks for the creator of this template. I’m using this template and my friends said its nice. I have the same problem with the date before but now the date is showing up. I tried to change the setting of the date in my blog, that is setting > formatting and it works. (Sorry for my bad English).
really great template! luv it!
but my ‘post comment’ button doesn’t work…
in other words.. no1 can post any comments..
can any1 help me with tat please? thx
To make the date on your posts work:
– Go to your Bloggerās āSettingsā tab
– Click on āFormattingā
– Change the āTimestamp Formatā (the 4th one from the top) to this format => āWednesday, February, 2008ā³.
– Make sure you change the āTimestamp Formatā and NOT the āDate Header Formatā
You may check out my site using this template at May Bukas Pa On Primetime Bida
Prolog error: Please extract file and upload xml file only to blogger template
Nice template, I would like to help you guys iron out the following issues and can be available to modify code and test it out. I am somewhat code savvy, though not in touch with web programming.
Assistance needed:
1) Upload to blogger gave me an error saying type=HTML not allowed. So I had to drop several widgets from the code – EasyChari, Ads and FeedJit
2) Fonts and Colors – Tried clicking on this tab under layout, it is empty and I am unable to make any change
3) Recent Posts and Recent Comments – empty, cannot edit anything within since nothing is shown – dont know if this is related to the above issues
Thanks in advance.
Nice blog.I found here gorgeous Blogger templates.Its very useful.Thanks for your templates
Tried more than four different ways of installing this. Blogger won’t take this. It says it’s badly formatted. Copy and pasted the thing (with difficulty) in pieces. It doesn’t show up.
Rosepetalkitten,
There are three versions of this blog code lying around on this site, if Im not mistaken. First, find the two that are for blogger and not the one for wordpress. Then, open the zip files, there should be one with “a text user instructions file and an XML” and another with “only the XML”. Use the instructions from the text file and the XML from the other zip file and thigns should work. Note, my other comment above where I could not get certain parts to work without removing some of the widgets. Otherwise my blog is working just fine. Check it out at sternmystic.blogspot
Thanks to whoever created this. I only wish you could spend somemore time to iron out a few remaining bugs and add enhancements to allow some popular features.
regards, tanticvanity.
xml doesn’t open, i can’t use this template…what to do???
It’s telling me that it cannot save the template due to an error.
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
The new widget id “EasyChair” is invalid for type: HTML
Ok, maybe I’m just not as smart as I would like to think. There is not a single blog on here that I can get to download. They all tell me the XML page cannot be displayed.
What am I doing wrong?
@themailmann, rename the “EasyChair” widget to “HTML33” and it should fix it.
i like aspire templates. but how can i download it to my blog? im new. thanks
my blog: hometowncafe108.blogspot.com
my email: hometowncafe@yahoo.com
It was almost a month I do to find how to post comments from this aspire template. Finally, I could make it! I can make my date show up exactly like what it supposed to be, and people can post their comments again!!! If you like to know more, please feel free to go to the link below :
Ups. Sorry. Here is the links :
http://lexonos.blogspot.com/2009/03/post-comments.html