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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Menubar On Blogger Template

Tutorial


Not so long ago, I received an email from a new found friend on CARI Forum. On CARI she's affectionately known as "Baby Nurin". She had a little problem with her menubar and requested to create a new menubar for her blog at Sebuah Kehidupan.

I guess she's a BlogMaster to several blogs, but on this particular blog Sebuah Kehidupan. she tells her readers about her daily perfect and beautiful life. A typical ups and downs of a married Malay lady's life in Johore. There was a short post in particular that struck me deep into my heart. She was telling about the current economic crisis and how it affected her life when her Hubby got fired!

Enough of that. Back to the main subject. Before I proceed any further, let me explain what is a menubar? Menubar or navigation (bar, button - take your pick) usually located below the header on most blogs. It is where you listed certain links for easier navigation purposes. As you can see on this blog I've listed only four items (links) on the right side of the menubar. They're;

'Home' - default URL for this blog,

'Flag-ship' - my main blog, My Journey To Recovery

'Profile' - default profile on Blogger and

'eMail Me' - as the words imply, click on the link if you wanna get in touch with me.

Well, for Baby Nurin before asking for my help, she had tried her best to create a menubar on her own, but the end-result was not up to her expectation as you can see on the image shown below;

Not so beautiful menubar
Click image to enlarge


When I had a looked on her blog's template, I noticed that her string of codes had not enough command to create a perfect beautiful menubar. So with her permission, I decided to do a little bit of experiments on her blog's template. After tweaking here and there I finally was able to create a menubar that passed her spec(ification).Positive comments can also provide valuable feedback and what is sometimes more important, encouragement to let you know that your efforts are appreciated and worthwhile.
Thank you Baby for your kind words.


For those who are reading this tutorial, please bear in mind that not all Blogger's templates are compatible to the string of codes that I'm about to show you in a minute. Certain alterations has to be made for it to work correctly. One more thing, I shall not be held responsible for whatever reasons if the codes used causes explosions on your lappy or desktop. And neither do I be held responsible for any hissing sound or smoke emanated from your beloved PC, hehehe! Do so at your own risk, **wink**

Before we do any major hacking, please backup your template and download the image below and host it on your favourite hosting site like PhotoBucket and the like. Keep the image's url in a safe place 'coz we gonna need it later.

Shiny black menubar
Click image to enlarge


Done that? Alright, here's goes;
  1. Login to your account with Blogger

  2. From your Dashboard click on to your Layout

  3. Then click on Edit HTML tab

  4. This gonna be the first part

  5. (Without clicking 'Expand Widget Templates') Find the following Code ]]></b:skin>

  6. Copy and paste the following string of codes before ]]></b:skin>

  7. #menubar {
    background: #000000 url('Complete image URL');
    width: 950px;
    height: 30px;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    margin: 0px auto 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }

    .menubarleft {
    width: 450px;
    float: left;
    font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: right;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 6px 0px 0px 10px;
    }

    .menubarleft li {
    display: inline;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    }

    .menubarleft ul {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    }

    .menubarleft ul li a {
    font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
    text-decoration: uppercase;
    }


    And we come to the second part. Now you can click 'Expand Widget Templates'. I know you've been wanting to do that all along. Now is your chance. Go ahead, click it, hehehe!

  8. Done it? Now please find the following string of codes;

  9. <div class='descriptionwrapper'>
    <p class='description'><span><data:description/></span></p>
    </div>
    </b:includable>
    </b:widget>
    </b:section>
    </div>


  10. Copy and paste the following string of codes below the above codes;

  11. <div id='menubar'>
    <div class='menubarleft'>
    <ul>
    <li class='selected'><a href='http://norlieza82.blogspot.com'>HOME</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://norlieza82.fotopages.com'>MY FOTOPAGES</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://www.friendster.com/norlieza82l'>MY FRIENDSTER</a></li>
    </ul>


  12. That's it. Preview your blog and if you're satisfied with your works, save your template. And don't forget to give yourself a pat for a job well done.

Below is the image after it was done correctly.

New beautiful perfect menubar for Baby Nurin
Click image to enlarge


Well, that's it for today. I hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as I do helping Baby Nurin creating a new menubar for her blog.

*A candle loses nothing by sharing its flame.






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23 Responses to "Menubar On Blogger Template"

Anonymous said...

slm....
kali nie Arahman7 plak yang buat kiter terkembang kempis... he3..

Cuma.. nak tya ttg complete img URL yang di merahkan tur..

maksudnyer kiter perlu buat backround utk menubar dulu then save kat photobucket la? nak buat backround menubar tur secara manual ( guna photoshop dsb )?

kalau salah guna kod pun akan ader kemudaratan kepada pc jugak ker?

ArahMan7 said...

Hehehe! Biasala. Org berbudi kita berbahasa.

A'aa. Upload imej menubar yg kat atas tu dan hostkan kat mana image hosting pilihan Lieza. Tp pastikan panjangnya sama dgn ukuran blog Lieza.

Imej menubar yg kat atas tu tak perlu Lieza alter apa2 lg kerana imej tulah yg ArahMan7 guna utk blog Lieza.

Utk soklan yg last - Takde la. Sj ArahMan7 nak sakat, hehehe!

Anonymous said...

mcm mn nak kira ukuran ( pjg menubar ) dgn blog kiter tur???

Anonymous said...

Biasanya ArahMan7 akan merujuk kpd panjangnya header blog kita. So, Lieza tengok dlm mode 'Edit HTML' panjangnya header blog kita. Macam Lieza punya header, panjangnya 950px. Tengok kat, * Outer-Wrapper


Sebenarnya, menubar Lieza tu ArahMan7 bagi dua - 450px sj. Kalo nak tulis yg disebelah kanan, Lieza kena tambah kod utk yg disebelah kanan.

Lieza boleh godek sendiri dgn merujuk kpd 'menubarleft' yg sedia ada sebagai rujukkan.

Semuga berjaya.

~ ArahMan7

Anonymous said...

kiter kene blajar html kod dgn arahman7 nie.. sbb mmg tak tau aper pon ttg html kod nie

ahat said...

hi..sy tgh mencari tutorial pasal menu bar ni..mcm mana kalau nk guna menu bar color lain?yg u ajar tu untuk hitam kan..boleh edit kat code kat atas tu ke?

Anonymous said...

I keep getting this message. Don't know what to do.

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.

http://leeaverday.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

i can't do mine :(
i failed .. please help me..
email me : theladyamor@hotmail.com

ArahMan7 said...

Hola 360-BOOTH,

I'm using an image (for the menubar) on this post. Here's another post which is quite easy to follow.

Read, Adding Menubar Without Using Image.

For an example, view My Little Mermaid for a beautiful Menubar.

Hope you're able to create a Menubar for your blog.

See you around.

~ ArahMan7

Seo experts said...

thanks for sharing the coading of blogger menu bar, i implement it future

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