To celebrate the new beginning of this blog, I am donating a $300 highly professional MBT Church Theme for free! I have spent 2 weeks of ha...
To celebrate the new beginning of this blog, I am donating a $300 highly professional MBT Church Theme for free! I have spent 2 weeks of hard labour into turning the Wordpress Church Theme by Brian Gardner into an extremely beautiful and highly customized ”MBT Church Theme”.
This template is different and unparallel in every aspect as compared to any other Blogger template found in the blogosphere. Its not just a Wordpress template converted to blogger but it is a precious blog template which is highly Stylized, Customized and Optimized by default!
See it for yourselves,
This is how the Church Theme originally looked when converted to blogger.
Amazed to see the difference, aren’t you? Lets look at some important features that makes MBT Church Theme the only template with “extensive customization”.
Features related to Customization
Some Important features and built-in widgets are highlighted in the image below,
- Blogger Navigation Bar invisible by Default (1)
- Coloured title (2)
- Curtain Style Header (3)
- RSS Feed Widget/Subscription Email Form Widget, with a customized email form and button (4) (Not Built-in)
- Built-in Pop up image effect (5)
- Built-in Fading image effect (6)
- Beautiful Social Bookmarking Icons (7)
- Related Post Widget (8)
- Adsense adds appear in sub-pages only for fast Page-load-time (9)
- Built-in Comment counter! (10)
- Author comments appear in different style (11)
- Different Sidebar Web Bullet (12)
- Page Navigation! (13)
- Highly stylized Three Column Footer Widget – The most important edition to the template (14)
- Blinking Back To Top Link (15)
- 3D style Sidebar Top Area (16)
- 3D style Sub Navigation Bar (16)
- Built-in Read More or Continue Reading Link visible on homepage
Layout Screen Shot
Here is a screenshot of the layout, where you can see extra “add a gadget” widgets above header, post-body and footer.
Optimization Guide
MBT Church Theme is a well scripted and optimized BlogSpot template. I have done whatever I could to let search engines better crawl your blog content and let your blog rank higher in search results.
By default I have added some very important meta tags under the <head> tag. Meta tags help search engines to better know what your blog is all about. These meta tags need some edition. To edit them follow the steps below,
Go To Layout > Edit HTML
And search for <head> (Press Ctrl + F to use a search box for finding <head>)
You will find 4 important meta tags under the <head> tag as shown in the image below,
You just need to edit the Meta tags as guided in the bolded text below.
Update:- I have observed that for some unknown reasons the meta tags get automatically deleted. If you see no metas in your buster theme than simple copy paste the code below just under <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<link href='mailto:Your Email Address Goes Here' rev='made'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Add your blog description here. Maximum Characters (including spaces) should be 120' name='Description'/></b:if>
<meta content='Add your keywords here, Maximum Characters (including spaces) should be 200' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Write your name here' name='Author'/>
A meta Description can be a simple sentence that defines the overall topic of your blog.
A meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important terms on your page
I am giving a dummy example below for my blog to help you get an idea
<link href='mailto:mustafa.xyz@hotmail.com' rev='made'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content=’Get dozens of tricks related to blogger hosted blogs with free download of highly professional blogger templates' name='Description'/></b:if>
<meta content='Blogger widgets,templates, download, free, seo tips, blogspot tricks' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai' name='Author'/>
Avoid duplicate meta keywords/ repetitive keywords. For instance, for meta keywords I have written 'Blogger widgets,templates, download, free, seo tips, blogspot tricks ‘
and not ‘Blogger widgets, Blogger templates, download Blogger templates, free Blogger templates, Blogger seo tips, Blogger tricks’
You can observe that the word Blogger is used 6 times and templates 3 times. Please avoid repetition of a single keyword. You don’t need to worry about the arrangement of your keywords because search engines are clever enough to create good combination of words by themselves out of the keywords you have provided.
Customization Guide
To customize the Navigation Menu, do the following,
To edit the Main navigation menu, follow the steps below,
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Go to Layout > Edit HTML
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Search for <div id='NavbarMenu'> using the browser search box (Tip:- Press Ctrl + F )
-
Just below <div id='NavbarMenu'> you will see a long chain of code as shown below,
<div id='NavbarMenuleft'>
<ul id='nav'>
<li><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sitemap</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #3</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #4</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #5</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>About Me</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Contact Me</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
Edit the bolded text in the code above with your own Page links and Page Titles. Replace the hash sign (#) with your Page URLs/Links and bolded black text with your Page Titles
If you don’t want sub pages then simply delete this part of the code
<ul>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #1</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #2</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #3</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #4</a></li>
<li><a href='#'>Sub Page #5</a></li>
</ul>
To edit the Sub navigation menu, follow the steps below,
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Go to Layout > Edit HTML
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Search for <div id='subnavbar'> using the browser search box (Tip:- Press Ctrl + F )
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Just below <div id='subnavbar'> you will see a long chain of code as shown below,
<ul id='subnav'>
<li>
<a href='http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/08/releasing-amazing-mbt-church-theme.html'>Download This Theme</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href='http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/08/releasing-amazing-mbt-church-theme.html'>My Blogger Tricks</a>
<ul>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #3</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #3</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href='http://www.mybloggertricks.com'>Template Gallery</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='http://www.mybloggertricks.com'>Blogger Tricks</a>
</li>
</ul>
Again replace the hash sign (#) with your Page Links and Bolded Green Text with your Page Titles. Also Replace http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/08/releasing-amazing-mbt-church-theme.html and http://www.mybloggertricks.com with your own Page Links
If you don’t want sub pages delete this part of the code,
<ul>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #1</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Sub Page #3</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href='#'>Sub Page #3</a>
</li>
</ul>
To Add the Subscription Form Read this Post –>
To Learn How To Add Image Opacity and Pop Up Effect Read this post –>
Image Opacity and Pop Up Effect
To Add The Page Navigation Widget Read this Post –>
Stylized Page Navigation Widget
That’s All!
Enjoy The free $300 Worth Template :)
If you are facing problem uploading the template into your blogger or you are totally unfamiliar on how to replace your current template with a new one then read the Customization Guide For Buster Themes
I hope you will like this template but I can not take a sigh of relief unless you guys let me know how do you find it. If anything is unclear, feel free to ask in the comment box below.
I am soon going to release some more great Magazine style templates, so make sure you have subscribed in order to be updated about the next highly stylized freeware BlogSpot template. Don’t miss the release post!
Note:-
I have the ability to even change the design made by Brian Gardner and take away all the credits as many people have done already but I didn’t do that just because I respect the efforts put into this template by the original author. I simply added further beauty to the design and deserve the credits for this beauty alone. I expect from my readers to kindly appreciate our efforts by leaving the credits unchanged at the footer. Stealing away or removing the credits is the greatest harm one can do to someone’s hard work!
This template can surely be distributed by third parties by linking the credits to my homepage.
This template is free of cost and any sale of it is strongly forbidden.
Regards,
MOHD__
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