Notepad Chaos
Notepad Chaos template for free download on Blogger Templates. This template is fully compatible with any shared web hosting.
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| Instructions: | Installation and settings |
| Submitter: | admin |
| Rating: |   (74 votes, average: 4.27 / 5) Loading ... |
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| Category: | 2 Columns, Elegant, Entertainment, Right Sidebar |
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| Added: | April 16th, 2009 |
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December 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am
To fix the Undefined Date function:
After login, go to Layout > Page Elements > edit Blog Posts > change time format to long date (e.g Wednesday, June 17, 2009). Remember, change time format NOT date format.
It would be the 3rd field.
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:58 am
Ok, I uploaded the template and it looks nice but there seem to be some problems…like my friends and links tab is barely visible and hence, not usable. What do I need to do?
January 9th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Hey Sharmistha! Mine is doing the same thing.
January 10th, 2010 at 2:52 am
i have the same problem with the friends link. also would love to add things to my sidebar and edit colors of my posts but the editing page in blogger is almost impossible to read. any suggestions or tips to make this template a little friendlier?
January 15th, 2010 at 4:26 am
To fix the “Friends and Links” tab, open up the xml in notepad, click on Edit, and “Find” the word “friend”. It should take you to the following place. Take away the 50% altogether, and switch the padding top to be 70 px like this:
#content .col02 .links {
background:url(http://www.templatesimages.com/images/NotepadChaos/txt-friends-links.gif) no-repeat 8px;
padding-top:70px;
That should do it!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Thanks Holly for the tip!
January 16th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Your welcome! One more thing to add though…
I just discovered that if you add a lot of “links”, the “Friends & Links” gif will appear to ‘move’. What’s happening is the “padding-top” isn’t large enough to accommodate a large link list, nor is it dynamic enough to automatically adjust as you add links to your site.
Easiest way to fix that is to follow the same directions above, but instead of making the padding-top be 70px, you’ll need to experiment by increasing this number and seeing what works for you. Click the preview button to check out your work and see if it formats correctly for you.
I had to actually increase mine to 225px. But it works great! I really love this template for it’s uniqueness.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:01 am
How do you make the drop-down post-it tabs actually take the reader somewhere (About, Archives)? I’ve found the place in the HTML where a URL seems to show where it’s supposed to go. (So sorry to ask a retarded question… Am very new to XML/HTML and blogging!) Do I just edit this to the URL I want it to be?
#about a:hover {
background:transparent url(http://www.templatesimages.com/images/NotepadChaos/menu.jpg) -107px 0px no-repeat;
}
#archives a:hover {
background:transparent url(http://www.templatesimages.com/images/NotepadChaos/menu.jpg) -214px 0px no-repeat;
January 28th, 2010 at 5:09 am
can anyone tell why Friends&Links does not work? I mean, I did all the job
mentioned above, but still not works..
love this template!!
Em
January 29th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I downloaded the template but have no idea how to get it onto the blog! Is there a tutorial somewhere? Thanks
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Hi Millie,
After you download and unzipped it you should find NotepadChaos.xml in it. Go to your blogger dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML and upload NotepadChaos.xml and the template will show up
February 8th, 2010 at 7:35 am
very nice
February 12th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Can you add photos or vids to this template? Thanx
February 13th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Yes, please could someone tell me how to change the post its in the right hand corner (home, about, archive) so that the correct links are there??
February 16th, 2010 at 3:14 am
how can we edit the about & archive links so that it would direct the user to the correct page and links?
February 16th, 2010 at 9:20 am
What do I do with this undefined tab on the left hand side of the template? It’s beautiful. and I still don’t know how to make the links actually link to something. I’m a day into this!
February 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Oh and how do you edit to change the fonts? Do I need to take a class?
February 16th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
how can we customize the category list?
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:56 am
blogster doesnt use the pages other than home…how do i do use them?
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 am
hi i am trying to unzip this file but i cant seem to find it i hav looked everywhere could u plz tell me how to unzip this file i would really appreciate it.
March 30th, 2010 at 1:45 am
All day long the screen is just showing up green with my text and photos, etc, but not with the rest of the template. All the nice things. Can you tell me what is happening?
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 am
Couldn’t get the date to work even though I followed the instructions above.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I’ve got the same problem at Nora Ibsen.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Hi Nicole, have you tried this yet?
After login, go to Layout > Page Elements > edit Blog Posts > change time format to long date (e.g Wednesday, June 17, 2009). Remember, change time format NOT date format.
It would be the 3rd field.
April 8th, 2010 at 1:15 am
I cannot get the usual Blogger stuff to be at the top, like the dashboard, when I use one of these templates… anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!
April 8th, 2010 at 1:57 am
Hey Kat,
This template was converted from wordpress to blogger. I am afraid you have to go to blogger dashboard to add or edit posts. Sorry about that.
Cheres,
Swank
April 8th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Sorry, I am html/xml dumb, but does that mean I can’t use one of these templates if I want all of that stuff at the top?
April 8th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Yep thats right Kat, actually the top stuff is just a quick navigation link to add new posts, it just takes a few more seconds to get to the blogger dashboard by the url
April 20th, 2010 at 1:39 am
i cant seem to be able to downlaod the templatee, got any tips?
April 21st, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Hi got it downloaded, but cant log in to fix any of it. Theres no login tab?? How do I fix that?
April 21st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Hi Krys,
Are you referring to logging in to blogger dashboard? You need to access blogger site to do that.
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 am
I figured out how to get the Home/About/Archive links at the top of the page to work if anyone still hasn’t gotten their question answered:
Search through the HTML code until you find the following. Then insert the page addresses into the fields as I’ve indicated below with the words ADDRESS TO YOUR PAGE HERE. That’s it.
Home
About
Archives
Thank you everyone for all your help with this layout!! Hopefully this helps someone in return.
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:55 am
oops the code disappeared. (newbie mistake, ey?)
/*Home
About
Archives
*/
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:55 am
darn it. forget it. I tried.
April 24th, 2010 at 1:38 am
Back to the “Friends and Links” part. I followed the directions stated above to align the header and the list but now I have way too much blank space between this item and the one above (I believe it is the categories section). I have no clue about HTML but have been following the directions given this far just fine. Thanks for the help.
May 9th, 2010 at 3:41 am
How do we get the About and Archives links to work?
May 15th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
where’s the code? n wt r the steps?
May 16th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Thanks guys for the help regarding the undefined date and home/about/archive links. Mine’s working fine now
I have one more issue, I want to add a socialfeed under EACH post.
If I add the scripts using blogger basic HTML/Javascript widget, I can only place the widget under ALL post in the page. Can anyone help?
May 20th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
hi swank, i tried pasting the codes but nothing showed up. please advise, thanks!
btw, great skin!!
May 20th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
hi swank, i tried with ‘coffee desk’ template and same thing happened, as in there seems to be some error. when i preview after pasting the codes, it showed a blank page.
please help, thanks!
May 20th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Hi Missy,
CoffeeDesk template is currently not available due to it not working on the latest browsers.
As for Notepad Chaos template. After you downloaded it you need to unzip it then you will find NotepadChaos.xml inside it. You need to upload this file by going to your blogger dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML and upload from there then save. It should work.
Cheers,
Swank
May 20th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
hi swank, thanks for the prompt response.
yes i did unzip and got the codes. after pasting it into blogger, it does not work in the preview. i’ve changed the blog skin many times, but not sure why this does not work.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Hi Missy,
Did you upload the whole file by the text box field uploader or did you open and copy paste the codes into the code box?
May 20th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
i cannot open the xml doc in browser, hence opened in wordpad and copied the codes into blogger.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
there is no uploader option, i go ‘Template’, under ‘Edit HTML’ and paste the codes.
is there another way to update the codes?
May 20th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Hmm strange, Under Edit HTML page you dont see a text url box that ask you to browse for your file at all?
May 20th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
no. there are only ‘Save template changes’, ‘Preview’ and ‘Clear Edits’
May 21st, 2010 at 12:18 am
hi swank, i got it! it’s the settings problem.
thanks for your help!
May 21st, 2010 at 12:41 am
Oh, mind letting us know what settings problem it was? Thanks!
May 21st, 2010 at 1:57 am
i switched to the classic style, hence the uploader and other new features were not present.
May 21st, 2010 at 2:18 am
Oh no wonder, haha ok problem resolved.
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:25 am
well, after a lot of searching the comments I have figured out how to fix the friends link thing and also the undefined tab…however there is nothing in the comments teaching how to get the tabs of home/about/archives to function appropriately…please help!
May 29th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
If I add any jump break to any post the read more option is not showing up in the main page. Can anyone please help me how to solve this problem?
May 30th, 2010 at 6:20 am
How do you change the “undefined” tabs at the sides of each post? Or is it possible to remove them in blogger?
May 30th, 2010 at 6:21 am
After downloading and attempting to unzip, Winzip gives me the following error:
Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid file archive. If you downloaded this file, try downloading it again.
I’ve attempted this about 5 times…suggestions?
May 30th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Nutmeg, I tried downloading it and unzipping it, it works for me. Perhaps your winzip is corrupted? Or you can try winrar or 7zip.
May 30th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Jessyca,
After login, go to Layout > Page Elements > edit Blog Posts > change time format to long date (e.g Wednesday, June 17, 2009). Remember, change time format NOT date format.
It would be the 3rd field.
June 14th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I downloaded it but I can’t get it to work! It says :”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.”
Please advise!! =S
June 14th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Forget that last post, I worked it. Another question: How do I manage the About/Archives buttons at the top? I tried following Rebecca’s instructions but still can’t get it to work. In fact, it messed the whole thing up! Pls help. =/
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
About/Archives/Search box Does Not Work.
Please help!! Any advice is appreciated.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:38 am
Is there any way to change the button on top to say something other than “archives” ??
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Hi Ezmirelda,
For yours, go to your blogger Dashboard -> Design tab -> Edit HTML and do a CTRL + F search for
about
and there you can find the place to replace the URL to the page you want.
Yes Jessica, do the above I mentioned and you can change the URL, but to change the words you need to create the word image in photoshop as this is in an image form.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 pm
how would I get that image (the “archives” button) into photo shop to change it? A screen shot?
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:46 am
disregard above — I was able to edit it in photoshop with some work — how do I get the new menu image into the template now though?
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Hi Jessica,
You would need to upload it to a free image hosting website, google one for it but most image hosting websites will delete the image once every few months so you would need to reupload again. All default template images however are stored on our servers for lifetime.
After you have uploaded the image, copy the URL of the image and go to your blogger dashboard -> Design -> Edit HTML and do a CTRL + F search for archives word and there you will see the image URL of the current one, change that to your new image URL and your set to go.
June 30th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Hi
Thank you for such a beautiful theme. I downloaded it yesterday and have fixed the date problem and problem with the friends/links section being cut off (based on your advice in these comments), thank you!
I can’t get the recent posts section to work though – have made a couple of posts and it’s still empty – please could you give me some advice on how to fix it?
Thanks!
June 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Hi Shell,
Have you tried replacing the recent post with a gadget on Design tab?
June 30th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Hi Admin
Thanks for your reply.
In the Design tab – there’s a box which says “recent news” – but when i open it, it opens a window called “Configure HTML/JavaScript” and unlike the other gadgets or sections in the layout, it does not have an option to remove it.
So I’m not sure how to get that to work to show the recent posts or even how to replace it (because i’m not sure how to remove it).
June 30th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Hmm, it should work actually because it worked on the demo. Can you post your website URL under the website field when you reply in the comments, dont put it in the comments cos the reply wont get approved.
I will take a look.
June 30th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Hi admin
I had set my blog settings so that only people i invite can view my blog…i went to change it to public, so that you could have a look and then all the recent posts showed, when i changed it back to private it stopped working.
Any advice on how i can get it to work when only invited readers can view my blog?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:18 am
I am still having problems fixing the about/archives links. can someone post the part of the code that i need to put my link into? i’ve experimented with putting it in, but it keeps adding an extra link instead of just utilizing the one that already exists
July 27th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I manage to solve the friends & links problem though it took a lot of time to fix it…Could somebody answered the archive button issue? How can we create a page link to blogger archive ?? How can it connect with “Blog Archive” default in blogger?
My “Recent Post” and “categories” is also not working..nobody answered for this question so far too..anybody can help???
August 4th, 2010 at 3:58 am
i cant make the about and archive links work. everytime i change it, the links dissapear.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
does anybody can help me here?? I really want to use this beautiful template! But why NOBODY really answered our questions???? And Dear Gucci, how do u make your “Recent Post” links work??? Can you share?
September 13th, 2010 at 3:13 am
Love the design. I am wondering, is there a way to change the font of the title on the top to a picture? (A text picture or unique font, or a ideally-sized icon is what I’m talking about, not something that will blow the layout apart.)
September 17th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
hi admin!
i downloaded your awesome template for our school assignment to make it pwn and pwn good. i have a question about your friends and links section though. how exactly does it work? i mean, what do i do to it? how do i add the friends and links? i hope you reply soon.
thanks.
September 18th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Hi Castitaslilium,
Try going to your Gadgets area and edit the gadget to add links of your friends.
October 23rd, 2010 at 1:01 am
Brill it looks!
November 1st, 2010 at 2:56 am
I have read all the great advice. Tried most of it, but still can’t get the home, archives, about tabs to work. Help please!!
November 10th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Hello,
I’m having trouble adding this template to my blog. How do I go about doing that? i clicked on installation/Settings and it doesn’t provide instructions.
Thanks!
November 28th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hi,
When I link the About Me section to my blogger profile it says it’s not available. I have given complete access to it in my settings and I can access the profile via the link if I paste it into my browser, but not via the about me tab. I even tried pasting it in the home page tab and the same thing happens.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong??
December 23rd, 2010 at 7:24 am
Hey there
Thanks to your advice, I managed to get the ‘Friends and Links’ section and the date working. However, I still can’t figure out how to link the ‘About’ and ‘Archives’ tabs.
I’ve read through all the comments, but I can’t find the url to replace in the code. There’s one url there that I can find, but it’s a .jpg and replacing it does nothing. Please help?
January 4th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
THE using the admirable precision within your writing. Thanks
January 8th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
The word “friend” under Friends and Links is spelled wrong. Can that be fixed? Also, how do I add a link there? When I go to the design area, there is no gadget to edit to add a link. When I added a new link gadget hoping it would connect, it shows with a note of (misc debris) next to it.
January 9th, 2011 at 4:38 am
Finally I understand,,, to edit templates, we have to know html…. thank
January 15th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Thank you for the template, I really love it now! The explanation given to others does help me to understand the downloading steps for your template code! Cool!
This is Awesome!
January 15th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
But one thing, the pages divider… how could i make it link to the month’s written? Do I need to link/edit it via html code as well? Please advice, appreciate that!
January 15th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Oh, Cool!!!!!
Thanks to : admin Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:56 am
To fix the Undefined Date function:
January 18th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
hi, i uber like this template, how do i download this… sorry, i’m new to blogging. thanks much!
January 18th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Hi Elise,
There is a download button that is red in color on this page right at the top below the template image. Do you see it?
January 25th, 2011 at 2:08 am
Admin,
Ive read through the comments again and again trying to fix the links to “home/about/archives”. I cant figure it out. Can you please show me EXACTLY what to change in the HTML?
thanks
January 29th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Gees this form changes my text in to real html. I’ll try it again, but I have to change some of the code now. Let’s see if this will work.
To change the tabs:
Go to “edit html” > press ctrl+F and search for ‘about’. You need the second one you find. You’ll find some code that says
HomeAbout
Archives
Where it says a href=’/’ rel=”nofollow” you can put in your link, between the ‘ and the /’.
It will look something like this:
AboutAnd then just save.
The home-tab already is linked to you homepage though.
February 18th, 2011 at 2:08 am
If anyone else is wondering how to change the “undefined” to show the date, this is how it worked for me in Blogger:
Settings > Formatting > Timestamp format > Monday, January 1, 2011
February 20th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Hi, I am still figuring out on how to set Archive link to blogger.
What link should I set to that button?
Pls advise thanks a lot.
June 3rd, 2011 at 3:09 pm
hi there! how do you make the share buttons (with +1) appear? i’ve already ticked the ‘share’ box but they still don’t appear on my site. appreciate any tip/s you can give! Thanks!
June 20th, 2011 at 10:01 am
how to unzip it?
or could you give me the HTML? TNX!
because I’m just new to it,we’re just ask by our teacher to make our own blog..
August 14th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
I am unable to log it in with html. I have tried unzipping the folder as well as saving with ‘all files’ and the message always returns with:
“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.”
So, I like the template and would like to use it. If possible, I would appreciate addition info on how to proceed. Thank you.
October 4th, 2011 at 4:48 am
I read through all of the comments (that took me a while) but still was not able to solve my problem so can anyone help me out with this?
Where on the HTML code do I go in order to change the “About” tab link to a specific URL that I want to set?
Also under the “Friends & Links” section… where on the HTML code do I go and add links, buttons, sites, etc. Where and what do I type in? I would like to post buttons to sites such as the twitter button and other site buttons. I would greatly appreciate the help.
Wonderful blog design by the way. I love it. Everything seems to work properly with the exception of what I just mentioned above so please help me out! Thanks
November 18th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I’m agitated all these article directories. It sure would be nice to have every article directory that instantly accepts articles.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
This is my Excerpt
November 19th, 2011 at 1:36 am
Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I’ve truly enjoyed surfing around your blog posts. In any case I will be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again very soon!
November 20th, 2011 at 7:37 am
Wow, incredible weblog format! How lengthy have you ever been blogging for? you make running a blog look easy. The entire glance of your site is fantastic, as neatly as the content!
February 14th, 2012 at 7:10 am
LOVEEEEEEE it!
February 17th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Lortu ezin dut nahikoa blog hau. Sentitzen dut, ez i komentatu til orain, baina im lazy. Just nahi, azkenean, esan eskerrik asko.
March 24th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Ok…I’ve spent the best part of the night trying to figure out how to make the ‘about’ button under the search box work. I’m just exhausted and giving up. Guessing that perhaps I’m just not computer savvy enough to read and implement. I’m still going to give this template a run as I find it to be a really cool looking one. I’ll just have to see what I can learn from this point forward! Thanks for the cool looking template….bugs and all!
Jimi