There Are 5 Main Parts of a Blogger Templates.This is the basic description about these parts.
1. XML Language declarations
2. HEAD, TITLE and the META TAGS
3.Variable Definitions
4. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) section
5.Body
Below descricptions are Examples Of Parts Of the Template
XML Language declarations
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.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>
HEAD, TITLE and the META TAGS
<head>
<title>Latest Tips for Bloggers|Blogger Tips And Tricks</title>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>
<meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
<meta content='Latest Tips for Bloggers for easy blogging and Making Money.blogger,blogspot tips and tricks.A dummies guide,templates,layouts,widgets, JavaScript,HTML codes,SEO,Google AdSense,gadgets,How to monetize Blogger or blogspot blogs.' name='description'/>
<meta content='blogger tricks,blogspot tweaks,how to blog,blogger tips,blogging tricks,widgets,links,google,adsense,latest,Page Rank,free blog,Yahoo,MSN,FeedBurner,Comments,new bloggers,sitemaps,make money,online,Blogging tips,Sitemaps,Meta Tag,YouTube Tweaks' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Lasantha' name='author'/>
<meta content='all,follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='General' name='Rating'/>
<meta content='never' name='Expires'/>
<meta content='english' name='Language'/>
<meta content='Global' name='Distribution'/>
<meta content='INDEX,FOLLOW' name='Robots'/>
<meta content='4 Days' name='Revisit-after'/>
<meta content='lasanthaset4@gmail.com' name='Email'/>
<meta content='Karunarathna' name='Publisher'/>
<meta content='Keerthi' name='Copyright'/>
<META content='04a82ed1e8901452' name='y_key'></META>
<meta content='9BC9210680' name='blogcatalog'/>
<meta content='uhl6s4fkZiCGiK8tOzdJdlKTP7V4anqblyHBjk8PA0g=' name='verify-v1'/>
Variable Definitions
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Minima Ochre
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 26 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */
/* Variable definitions
====================
<Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color"
type="color" default="#dd9" value="#CAF99B">
<Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color"
type="color" default="#333" value="#333333">
<Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color"
type="color" default="#684" value="#0066CC">
<Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color"
type="color" default="#874" value="#000000">
.............................
CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) section
/* 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
-----------------------------------------------
*/
...............
/* Footer
----------------------------------------------- */
#footer {
width:950px;
clear:both;
margin:0 auto;
padding-top:15px;
line-height: 1.6em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.1em;
text-align: center;
}
/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */
body#layout #header {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>
Body
<body>
<div id='outer-wrapper'><div id='wrap2'>
<!-- skip links for text browsers -->
<span id='skiplinks' style='display:none;'>
<a href='#main'>skip to main </a> |
<a href='#sidebar'>skip to sidebar</a>
</span>
<div id='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='4' showaddelement='yes'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='Blogger Tips And Tricks (Header)' type='Header'/>
<b:widget id='HTML17' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML19' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id='content-wrapper'>
<div class='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar1' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML6' locked='false' title='Subscribe to Blogger Tips' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='LinkList2' locked='false' title='Blogger Tips - General' type='LinkList'/>
<b:widget id='HTML7' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Blog Directries' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML5' locked='false' title='Social Bookmarks' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML11' locked='false' title='Useful Free Services' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='Link' type='LinkList'/>
</b:section>
<p><a href='http://bloggertipandtrick.blogspot.com/'>Blogger Tips and Trick</a> for <a href='http://bloggertipandtrick.blogspot.com/'>Bloggers</a></p></div>
<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML14' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML20' locked='false' title='Search Blogger Tips And Tricks' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
<b:widget id='LinkList3' locked='false' title='Blogger Tips - Useful Articles' type='LinkList'/>
<b:widget id='LinkList4' locked='false' title='Blogger Tips - Change Appearance' type='LinkList'/>
<b:widget id='LinkList5' locked='false' title='Blogger Tips -Gadget,Widget,Elements,Tools' type='LinkList'/>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='HTML13' locked='false' title='Privacy Policy' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div class='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar2' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='HTML2' locked='false' title='Get Email Updates' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/>
<b:widget id='HTML3' locked='false' title='Get Latest Updates' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML10' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
<b:widget id='HTML8' locked='false' title='Link to This Site' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML9' locked='false' title='Support me !!!' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Followers1' locked='false' title='Followers' type='Followers'/>
<b:widget id='HTML4' locked='false' title='Flag Counter' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML15' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height-->
<div class='clear'> </div>
</div> <!-- end content-wrapper -->
<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'>
<b:widget id='HTML21' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='HTML12' locked='false' title='Feed Directories' type='HTML'/>
</b:section>
</div>
</div></div> <!-- end outer-wrapper -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8271964-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
</body>
</html>
its very confused....can i get the template
Thanks, i have convert my first blogger template from wordpress using this structure.