This is a very simple plugin for all WordPress blogs! Unlike the traditional Javascript snowflake , all you need to do is:

1. Download the Let It Snow plugin.
2. Upload the let-it-snow folder and its contents to your blog’s plugin folder (wp-content/plugins).
3. Activate this plugin and you’re done!

If you encounter any problems, click here for support.

If you are using Blogger (blogspot) classic template, perhaps you would like to read this for adding Javascript snowflake to your blog.

Let your blog snows, spread the Christmas feel and have a great holiday season. ^^

Guess what? Some kind souls out there have made such simple and clean interface into a blog theme which you can use for your blogs! If you are a fan of 2 columns, white and clean layout, this is a theme that you will definitely suit your taste.

Take a look at this Google Chrome Wordpress theme. Isn’t it just nice and neat?

Common Features

• 2 columns fixed width
• Widgets ready
• Gravatar ready
• Works on Wordpress v2.5 and above
• Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and of course Chrome
• XHTML & CSS Validated

Download Google Chrome for Wordpress.

Not a WordPress user? No worries, Google Chrome is also available in Blogger / blogspot blogs!! It’s pretty much the same like the WordPress version. This is a Blogger template which is available for XML new blogger layout.

Download Google Chrome for Blogger.

Have fun with the Google Chrome theme. All credits go to the original authors.

What is Word Press’d and how does it look like?

Directly quoted from B2L:

Word Press’d aims to give Wordpress users around the world the chance to make their blog look similar to the highly anticipated Wordpress Admin Theme release with version 2.5.

The theme tries to incorporate the best parts of the Admin theme while at the same time add customisability, compatibility and suitable to serve as a blog template while at the same time be visually attractive and have a light quick loading framework.

I really appreciate this theme. It is really similar to the new WordPress 2.5 admin control panel. If you are a WordPress 2.5 fan, you may love to turn your blog into a Word Press’d blog.

According to B2L, they are going to release version 4 soon.  In the upcoming version, they are going to include a Tabbed Sidebar Widget.

The below image is the screencast of Word Press’d v0.3

Word Press’d is fully compatible on WordPress 2.5+

[ Download Word Press'd v0.3 ]

[ Learn more about Word Press'd theme by Blog2Life ]

Please take note that I did not create any of these themes. Credits to all their original authors. All themes are widget-ready.

Books And Imagination

This is a nice theme for those who are into literature or writing.

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Dark Mood V3

The original theme is not widget-ready. However, I have made this time widget-ready for your using pleasure.

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Download: Dark Mood V3 Theme

KayuPress

This is really a splendid theme! I personally love it very much. The theme is designed to work with several WordPress plugins. You can check out the plugins you need to get the best out of this theme.

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Download: KayuPress Theme

Mag On Wood

This is a simple and neat 3 column theme.

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Download: Mag On Wood Theme

Marcus

If you are a fan of big header image, this theme may suit you. It’s simple and neat as well.

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Download: Marcus Theme

Papyrus

This is another splendid theme by SK Design Studio.

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Download: Papyrus Theme

Plant-a-Tree

This is another splendid theme originally by Igor Penjivrag, and the theme that I shared here is the one that has been modified by Noktah Hitam. For installation instruction, read this.

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Download: Plant-a-Tree Theme

Plasticine World

This is a simple theme featuring a “globe”.

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Download: Plasticine World Theme

Wood

A darkwood theme that look similar to Plant-a-Tree theme. Quite a nice theme if you favor dark theme.

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Download: Wood Theme

WP WoodBlog

WP WoodBlog theme is a nice theme with paper and wooden texture and some stationery, which is almost alike to Office Theme 1.0.

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Download: WP WoodBlog Theme

Hope you like my collection of Wood Theme.

The above is a nice and cute theme, right? That’s the Birdie theme.

Are you using the Birdie blog theme made by Gis? If you still remember, I did mention 4 Birdie blog template in the list of 22 Beautiful New Blogger Template. Now, Gis, the creator of such beautiful themes, is running a great contest for those who use the Birdie theme.

Image courtesy of Gis

Love Gis’ artwork? Now you have the chance to win a custom header done by Gis for your blog! To enter the contest is very easy. All you need to do is, leave a comment here with a link to your blog (that uses Gis’ template) and subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates.

And if you are the lucky one, you will win yourself a custom header! Good luck!

With the green awareness round, there are lots of ways which we can echo the green environmental issue. Literally, we can also make our blog a “green blog” by using nature theme. I found the nature theme soothing for the eye.

Below is a collection of nature theme for WordPress platform. Downloads are available.

Green Grass Theme

This theme very much looks like the default Windows XP Luna Blue theme. Green and blue is always a good color combination.

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Eco Blog

This theme gives people a cool refreshing feeling with the watery background.

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Frozen Lotus

This is a soothing blue theme with flower lotus as the main focus. A big RSS button is embeded into the theme.

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Funky Lilly

A green theme with lilly as the main focus.

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Lilicious

Another lilly theme but in icy blue this time. Big RSS button is embeded in this theme.

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Sugared Spring

Leafy spring theme gives people a happy feeling. Great color combition of green and orange. Big RSS button is embeded in this theme.

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Lady Bug

Do you like cute bugs like the red lady bug? Leaves and lady bug theme.

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Peaceland

If you like dark theme with 3 columns, this is definitely a good one for you.

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Maple Valley

If you like dark theme and prefer something browish, perhaps this maple theme with the autumn feel will suit your taste. Big RSS button is embeded in this theme.

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Organic

Another dark nature theme with watery leaves. Personally love this theme very much.

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How do you like the nature theme? Give your blog a “green” theme today and help spread the green awareness around the blogosphere.

Now, how are you going to impress your reader to subscribe to your feed (RSS)? Make your RSS icon as attractive as possible, make it obvious to your readers. Sometimes, I find not so straight forward to locate a blog’s feed. Once, I wanted to subscribe to a blog but it really took me few minutes to look for the orange RSS icon.

There are plenty of RSS icons available for downloads. Here is a collection of great RSS icons that I found from the Internet.

Here are two sets of very beautiful RSS icons created by Katrin Wegmann. They are sleeky icons with a very Web 2.0 feel.

Set 1 (psd included)

[ Download ]

Set 2

[ Download ]

If you like Grunge style, these are for you. These are created by FrankaKo.

Comes in 3 colors: blue, green, red
And 3 different sizes: 32 x 32, 64 x 64, 128 x 128

[ Download ]

Orbs style RSS Icon by nam0.

[ Download ]

And for season greetings during Christmas day, you can even add some feel to your RSS icon. These cute Christmas RSS icons are created by Garcya.

[ Download ]

Check out 51 more RSS icons from Garcya here.

Or maybe you feel like want to have something simple but with different styles like these by icojoy.com:

Icon Sizes: 32×32, 16×16
File Types: .ico, .icns, .tif, .png, .psd
Colors: orange, green, blue, gray

[ Download ]

If fancy is not your style, perhaps you would love to have some really simple and standard RSS icons like these from Feed Icons.

[ Download ]

[ Download ]

If you like something cute, these will surely satisfy you. Right click and choose save as to save the image.

This is created by Matt Forsythe.

I have no idea the original creator of these icons but they are really one of my favorites!

If you are thinking of having an animated RSS icon with your own style, you can make your own animated gif RSS icon via Picasion. This is a cool online animated gif generator introduced by my friend Joshua. You can prepare your own image and create your own animated RSS icon.

You can add more than 3 pictures in sequence, you can set the size of your animation and also the speed. As easy as that. I really like the little orange guy reading the RSS newspaper. After some modifcation to it, this is my animated version:

Now, this little orange guy is really reading the RSS newspaper. He is flipping through the pages. Feel free to save it if you like it too.

Get your own RSS icon and put it in your blog today. Remember, this is one of the tips to get more subscribers to your blog! Have fun.

There’s a lot MORE free RSS icons here…

You may be developing your blog theme in Mozilla Firefox browser running in Ubuntu Linux. But your visitors may be viewing your blog in Internet Explorer or Safari on different Operating System. Your blog may look pretty good in your development platform but it may turn out to be “distorted” in other browsers, which makes your blog not browser compatible.

How to ensure your blog is browser compatible?

Preview them in different browsers! It will be easier for you to preview your blog in both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer if you have both browsers installed in your system. However, it will be tedious when you want to try out your blog in all browsers and other operating system.

Browershots makes it possible for you to test your blogs/websites in different platform.

Go to Browershots and you can see a list of choices for you to choose the desired browsers version and operating systems that you want to test on. You can also choose settings such as screen size, color depth, enable or disable Java, Javascript and Flash. After selecting your options, type in your blog URL and click on the “Submit” button.

In minutes, you will be able to preview your blog in different platforms via the screenshots provided. You will have to refresh the page to get the screenshots results. If you need more time (it will expire after the time given), just click on the “Extend” button and wait for your screenshots. You can click on the screenshots for full view or you can even download the whole screenshots for reference.

This is a great tool during blog theme customization process.  You should always ensure your blog is browser compatible, presenting the best to your visitors. I’ve always come across blogs that look good in IE and look terrible in Firefox, or the other way round.  I have blogs that look bad in other browsers too, but I try my best to fix it and preview them in different broswers, trying to bring out the best results and viewing pleasure for everyone.

Have you make sure your blog is browser compatible? Browershots is a free service. Try it now.

Before listing those templates, I would like to remind you that, please backup a copy of your current Blogger template. Just in case you want to change back to your current template later. And also please bare in mind that once you have upload a new template, all your widgets data configuration might be lost. So do whatever backup that you need to do before upload and try out the new templates.

How to upload a new template? (in XML new Blogger)

1. Download and unzip the template file.
2. Login to your Blogger Dashboard.
3. Go to Layout > Edit HTML.
4. Browse for the XML template file that you have just downloaded and unzipped.
5. Click on the Upload button.
6. Save template and you’re done.

Okay, here is a list of 22 beautiful Blogger template (for XML new Blogger). Hope you enjoy them.

Birdie

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Download: Birdie
Review: This is a very neat template with a very cute yellow bird on the left. This template is created by Gis.

Birdie Secret Garden

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Download: Birdie Secret Garden
Review: Another birdie template, clean and cute.

Sweet Blog

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Download: Sweet Blog
Review: Brown birdie template, neat and cute as well.

Pretty Roses

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Download: Pretty Roses
Review: Very girlish template, suitable for girls.

DFire

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Download: DFire
Review: Dark theme with light background.

Trees

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Download: Trees
Review: Green natural template.

Photoshop

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Download: Photoshop
Review: If you are a Photoshop fan, maybe you can make your blog feels like one too.

Pinkstar

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Download: Pinkstars
Review: Soothing pink template, suitable for girls.

Dilectio

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Download: Dilectio
Review: This is a popular theme in Wordpress. Now, a Blogger version is available too.

Illacrimo

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Download: Illacrimo
Review: This is also another popular Wordpress theme. Now available in Blogger.

Darkspark

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Download: Darkspark
Review: Blue and black is a very nice color blend.

The Second Thing

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Download: The Second Thing
Review: Soothing green is always nice for the eye.

o2

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Download: o2
Review: This is the current theme of this blog. However, this is a Blogger version. Inside the zip file, font and psd files are included for customization.

Mosaico

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Download: Mosaico
Review: Very artistic.

Happy Spring

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Download: Happy Spring
Review: Another soothing green theme. Cute flowers on top.

Simpress

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Download: Simpress
Review: I personally like this template very much. It’s very clean and it has 3 columns.

iPlantilla

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Review: This is also a quite popular theme. Feel the Mac.

Glass

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Review: Clean blue template.

Parchment

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Review: An antique feel template.

Top Secret

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Review: A document-like template. Artistic.

Magic Paper

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Download: Magic Paper
Review: A mysterious feel template.

Restaurant

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Download: Restaurant
Review: If you own a food blog, maybe you would love this.

All these templates were tested in Blogger by myself. They are working well. If you find any broken links, please let me know.

p/s: This is my first port after upgrading to Wordpress 2.5. I still need some time to get use to it. The multi upload function seems a bit laggy. (maybe due to connection problem?)

There are plenty of free themes available for downloads and most themes allow you to modify to suit your own taste, but giving credits back to the creators (at the footer), which is pretty fair.

Here, is a collection of 10 elegant Wordpress themes that you may consider using them.

Olive Theme by Chris Niedojadlo

I personally like this design. It’s a 3 columns design and widget ready. The default colors is well blended into the theme.

[Download Olive Theme]

Danika by Cyberwire LLC

This theme is similar to the previous Olive Theme. 3 columns and widget ready.

[Download Danika]

Office Theme 1.0 by Greg Ponchak

I like the stationery theme and wood texture behind, really looks like on your working desk. 2 columns and widget ready.

[Download Office Theme 1.0]

RedBlue by Themey

This is a 3 columns, widget ready theme. Red and blue blended nicely.

[Download RedBlue]

iTheme Clear Blue

This is a very “Mac” feel theme. I like the smoothing blue theme. 2 columns and widget ready.
[Download iTheme Clear Blue]

PinkLove

This is a very pretty theme which is suitable for girls. 3 columns and widget ready.

[Download PinkLove]

Div Ice

Looks similar to the previous PinkLove theme but in cool ice blue. Suitable for boys, well, of course girls can use it too. 3 columns and widget ready.

[Download Div Ice]

Div Black Theme

If you are a fan of dark theme, this is quite a nice one. 3 columns and widget ready.[Download Div Black Theme]

Notes

This is really a plain white theme with little colors here and there. Looks like using a highlight pen. Yup, it has a notebook layout. A 2 columns theme. The original theme is not widget ready, however, I’ve converted it to a widget ready theme.[Download Notes]

TV 6Th Feeling

A very contract theme, light comfortable background with dark foreground. 2 columns and widget ready.

[Download TV 6Th Feeling]

Hope you enjoy these themes. Happy pimping your blog.

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