(33 votes, average: 4.61 out of 5)
Loading ...| no. | Tested Criteria | Point | Pass | Fail |
| 1 | Template Support Available | 2 |  | |
| 2 | Compatible with IE7 | 1 | | |
| 3 | Compatible with Firefox | 1 | | |
| 4 | Floating Content within post area | 1 | | |
| 5 | Auto adjustment within the post area | 1 | | |
| 6 | Proper Image Alignment | 1 | | |
| 7 | Proper Display of Commenting System | 1 | | |
| 8 | Proper Display of Links and Quick Editing | 1 | | |
| 9 | Proper Display of Blog Archive and Followers Gadget | 1 | | |
| Total | 10 pts | 10 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 100% | |||
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Set up the Navigation Menu
Go to ‘Layout’ -> ‘Page Element’, click on the ‘Edit’ of the ‘Menu’ and configure the Link Gadget setup.
Set up the Header RSS Subscribe
Go to ‘Layout’ -> ‘Edit HTML’, press [CTRL+F3] to find the code below and edit it with corresponding item.
<a href=’RSS-LINK-HERE’ title=’RSS Feed’>
Set up the Date
Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Formatting’ tab, change the ‘Timestamp Format’ to this format: ‘Wednesday, March 4, 2008′, ‘Save Settings’ and you can see the date displayed perfectly on the page!
Set up the Flickr Gallery on the Footer
Go to your blog’s dashboard and click the ‘View Blog’ to go to your blog’s main page. On the main page, scroll down the page to see a huge tool button, click on the button and paste the code below into the HTML/ JavaScript gadget:
<script src=”http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?count=5&display=random&size=s&layout=y&source=user&user=YOUR-FLICKR-ID” type=”text/javascript”/></script>
You can get your Flickr’s ID in idGettr.com and replace the ‘YOUR-FLICK-ID’ with your own unique ID. ‘Save’ to achieve the Flickr Gallery!
I love this template! Thanks!
But the flickr gallery doesn’t work in blogger!
Oh!!! Sorry! Sorry!
I’m really sorry! that’s my promblem!
My flickr account is too old! I renew it and it work fine now!
Thank you very much again!
I don’t have the option of setting the date in the “Wednesday, 4 March, 2009″ format. So the date shows up as “undefined”.
The date display changes everyday. You should select this option under “Timestamp Format”:
, , 2009
Hope this helps.
Arthur
how can I enable “search” box? I cannot use it for now…
Thanks for your report! Can I have your blog address to know the issue further? Thanks!
Alvaris Falcon
I like this templete so much..thanks a lot!! but I think I also cannot use the search box..what should I do?? thank you so much..
Hi! I have your template in my blog, as you can see, http://anacoimbraportfolio.blogspot.com, but I want tu put the images a little bit to the rigth because it seems that they are in backgroud… you understand??
The template is perfect in firefox, but it is not in IE7 and IE8 because post background had been covered the header and background. Try check it out in IE7 and IE8. I tried find other way to fix it, but there is no way for me to fix it.
Hello Admin,
This template is amazing !
All the components have been installed successfully, however I have noticed that there are blank spaces in the center of the page which make the page incomplete.
I have attached the screen shot for the same !
Link : http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8362/watercolorv100.jpg
Please check my website and inform me whats the issue !
Thanks in advance .
its good blog layout
I love this layout, I’m actually using it at my personal blog, but I still can’t fix the date format. I chose the one you said and it still appears like “undefined”. I tried with all the other formats and nothing, it still doesn’t work. How can I fix it? Thank you!
Thanks for your words and report!
I feel a need to confirm to you that you are changing the ‘Timestamp’ format but not the ‘DateHeader’ format.
Hope this helps, enjoy!
Alvaris Falcon
Thanks a million, Falcon! haha I’m sorry for this, it was actually easy to fix!
Keep up with the good work!!
Thanks a million, Falcon!!
haha it was actually easy to fix! I’m sorry for this
Keep up with the good work!!
Hey, I can’t set the search. Can you help me please? Your design is incredible!
I seem to be missing part of the layout. Only the top half of the clip shows and the horizontal bar above the posts isn’t there.
Please advise.
Thanks for your report! Did you make a customization on the Water Color template? Thank you!
Alvaris Falcon
Ok, to be more specific, it is the bg-container image that is not showing. I checked, and the link still works. I’m not familiar enough with html to discern why it isn’t appearing.
Thanks for your further comment! Your blog is displaying all images properly, the misalignment of images is probably caused by the upload of the custom bg_header image.
You can remove the custom bg_header image to make the blog display properly. We are still trying to improve this template to make the custom bg_header image fit into the template’s header, hope this helps!
Alvaris Falcon
to make date look okie … timestamp have to be … tuesday. april 21 2009 format … right ??? but according you timestamp has to be tuesday. 21 april 2009 …. which is NO VALID OPTION … i think its typo ..right ??
because after changing it mine theme worked nicely …
though i have couple of questions …
1. how can i remove flickrr from bottom ??
2. how to setup search ??
btw … its really cool theme …
Thanks for your comment! I have corrected the instruction for ‘Set Up the Date’ section, thanks again for your support!
I have fixed the Search function of this template, you can get the manual fix instruction by download the file below:
http://www.box.net/shared/vlqu6afhmy
As for flickrr from bottom, did you mean to remove the rectangle background of the Flickr section? The background comes with the layout’s background, so you need to do the image editing to remove the rectangle background.
Hope this helps!
Alvaris Falcon
hie again …
i solved search question with a little HTML editing …
still trying to get over with flickr …
The base top (bg_top.jpg), bottom (bg_bottom.jpg), and post bottom are missing. I checked the html code. The codes are there still. Please advice.
Both the base top and bottom seem to be covered by the body image because when I eliminated it, both showed up. What should I do? Thanks.
Does anyone know how to function SEARCH engine? It seems not working for (like some of you commented earlier) me
Thanks for your report! I have fixed the Search function, you can probably get the manual fix instruction by download the file on the following URL below:
http://www.box.net/shared/vlqu6afhmy
Hope this helps!
Alvaris Falcon
Hello!
I’m having trouble making the Flickr slideshow work. I put my own Flickr ID in the and nothing shows up. here’s the link to my blogger page- http://www.intocreating.blogspot.com Any help would be really appreciated! Thank you! Cher
How do I enable search of my blog. and no I didn’t already say that
Hey Mamamiow and Admin
I seem to be having the same problem with the left and right sides not being visible. It makes the header stand by itself and cut off at the sides.
The base top (bg_top.jpg), bottom (bg_bottom.jpg), and post bottom are missing. I checked the html code. The codes are there still. Please advise.
The codes for these have been placed in the right places and I just cant see them on my page! Heres a link of what it looks like
http://mightyquinnschilling.blogspot.com/
Hi Alvaris,
I did exactly and follow your instructions but still have a problem. Whenever I upload that template file (I did extract from zip file) I see only header of that template in my blog…nothing else!!! Please help here. How to upload new template with step by step. I really loved this template and want to upload to my blog.
Can you please explain me how to upload this template to my blog (blogger)? I have been struggling with it and couldn’t made it.
I really appreciate your help and support.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for your detailed report! Sure, I feel a need to confirm to you that you have replaced the upload image’s URL with the corresponding ‘IMAGE-LINK-HERE’ in the Water Color Blogger template.
Can I also have your blog address to know more about the issue? Thanks!
Hope to hear more from you, thank you!
Alvaris Falcon
Thank you Alvaris for your detailed reply. My blog address is : http://thephaseoflifeDOTblogspotDOTcom
Hope to hear from you soon.
btw, I am using IE8 and Google chrome.
Appreciate your kind help and support.
I am writing you my web address again.
http://thephaseoflife.blogspot.com
Thanks.
I’m sorry to reply you late, please forgive me for my late response, thanks for your understanding.
I have visited your blog and discovered that you have changed your Blogger template, enjoy the blogging.
If you need further help on Water Color Blogger template, please leave your comment and I would work my best to help you!
Again, sincerely thanks for your kind understanding.
Alvaris Falcon
Hey Alvaris and everyone else
So I had that problem with the left and right sides not being visible, the “bg_top”, and “bg_bottom”. Well I went and hosted those two images at Imageshack.us instead of Photobucket.com and once I reapplied the new link they were visible. I think maybe Photobucket might have automatically changed the size, so if anyone is having a problem with a specific piece of their template, maybe it would be a good idea to try hosting that individual piece on another image hosting site!
Oh yeah and I changed some code near the top to make the blogger nav bar visible and useable, you know so you can sign in and post directly from your page. Heres what I did to the Navbar setting which is the first bit of html after the introduction
#navbar-iframe {
height:32px;
visibility:visible;
display:display;
}
Thank you Andrew! This is actually one of the most discussed issue in hosting the template’s image to the Photobucket server. There’s actually a way to get the issue solved, and I would post the solution in the BloggerStyles recently.
Thanks again for your further support, we appreciate these very much!
Alvaris Falcon
AHHH this is driving me crazy, I have followed all of the guidelines for setting up flickr by the footer, and nothing changes at all! Anyone have any ideas?
This is what I’ve plugged into the content box after clicking on the big tool in the flickr box on the page.
<a href=”">
Thanks for your further report!
You can probably access and edit the Flikcr section by follow the ‘Set up the Flickr Gallery on the Footer’ section in this post.
I feel a need to confirm to you that you got your Flickr’s ID in idGettr.com and replace the ‘YOUR-FLICK-ID’ with your own unique Flickr ID before saving the entire code into the ‘HTML/JavaScript’ gadget.
Hope to hear more from you, thanks!
Alvaris Falcon
im having the same problem a lot of people seem to have. the template wont show up correctly on IE. it does work wit firefox though but i cant seem find a solution. ive been all over the web looking for something to fix this but no luck so far.and i see that no one has answered to the comments regarding this issue. i dont want to change because i love it!
Really thank you for your loyal support to Water Color! We actually did state the template is not compatible with IE7, but since lovely user like you prefer this template the most, we’re trying our best to make it compatible with Internet Explorer.
We’re sure to come out a version which supports Internet Explorer 7 and 8, please be stay tuned for the new version!
Alvaris Falcon
Hi Alvaris,
The Templatelite.com has released a new version of the Watercolor (v. 1.3) at 2009/05/19, compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera.
Can you please converted it to Blogger?
Thanks!
Sorry, I forgot to mention the link of the latest version:
http://www.templatelite.com/watercolor-free-wordpress-theme/
Sure, really thanks for your recommendation, would post an updated version very soon!
Alvaris Falcon
Im on blogger…and i dont know how to download it and set it up…cant you just give us a code for it like some other websites? or can you help me with setting it up?
Thanks for your report! You can probably download Water Color Blogger template by click the ‘Download’ button appeared in the box, then unzip it and follow the instruction contained in the ‘Read Me’ file to set up this template into your precious blog.
You would also need to refer to this post to set up the advanced feature installed in this template, hope this helps!
Alvaris Falcon
L✿ve this template
thnx 2 this posts i could fix the date and search tool 
i just don’t know what to do about the flickr plugin
Thanks for your kind comment!
Sure, you can probably set up the Flickr section by follow the ‘Set up the Flickr Gallery on the Footer’ part in the post, just noted that you need to get your Flickr’s ID in idGettr.com and replace the ‘YOUR-FLICK-ID’ with your own unique ID.
Hope this helps, enjoy WaterColor!
Alvaris Falcon
My comment bubble link doesn’t work, so readers cannot leave comments. How do I fix this??
Also, my quick edit icon at the end of each blog entry is no longer available after uploading this template. Help?
hi there…
Thanks so much for sharing this layout.. i totally love it.. However, i’m facing a problem with the menu bar.. may i know if it’s possible for me to add more than 4 icons at the menu bar.. Hope to hear from you soon.. Thanks again
Thanks for your kind comment and request! Sure, it’s possible to add more than 4 icons at the menu bar with knowledge about Blogger template’s XML.
Hope this helps, all the best!
Alvaris Falcon
can u check the site a thing is their which is undefined
can u tell me what to do
sorry for above comment but the problem is with the search box
i have corrected the search box but still it is not searching correctly
Hey Falcon, me again. I’m facing the same problem, I’ve corrected the search box but it’s still not working. It seems to work with two or three words only, as far as I know.
Thank you in advance!
hi admin i want to summaries my post i have tried every thing but nothing happened
can u help
hi there,
I would like to edit the fonts and colors of the template.
However, when i click the ‘fonts and colors’ tab under ‘layout, nothing shows up.
May i know whether you have fixed it such that it can’t be edited?
Thanks!
I’m having this same problem. Not sure how to fix it. Has anyone figured it out??
I tried to download this layout and I saved it, but when I tried to upload it to my blogger it came up with strange symbols and said that it could not be read…can you help me with this?
thanks!!!
Thanks for your report! Can I get some example of strange symbols to know the issue further? Thank you!
Alvaris Falcon
Hi Falcon. I’ve tried downloaded your zip file but fail to extract it – the message said the zip file is invalid. Can u please check the zip file? Tq
Sure, I have re-uploaded the file to the server, you can try to download the template again.
Thanks for your downloads and enjoy Water Color!
Alvaris Falcon
Okay…I tried everything.
I just can’t get the HTML to work for Flickr.
http://wordwenches.blogspot.com/
Is me.
42390079@N02 is my flickr acct.
HELP!
LOL
Thanks,
Tara
You’re the best!!!Got all my questions answered here and loved the template!!!Thanks a lot!!!
Hi,Falcon! My search its not working, what should i do?
Thanks for your very kind words!
Sure, you can download the tutorial below to fix the search function:
http://www.box.net/shared/c33ouarcti
Hope this helps, enjoy customizing!
-Alvaris Falcon
Hi, Alvaris! I love Water Color Template, and after read all comments, I’ve finally find out how to fix the date problem. I guess it was difficult because we’re talking different languages (english-portuguese), and it makes a lot of trouble!! Anyway, I’ll be very happy if you visit my blog (it means Paula’s Backyard). I still have to make the feed and the flickr work, but I will!! Soon!!
Thank you so much for this amazing template!
Best wishes from Brazil!!
Falcon, me again (*my name’s in your black list, I know*)
I’m facing a problem – the template looks all messed up, and I didn’t customize nothing lately o.O
I just posted a new post and then, well, you can check it. I don’t know what happened @_@
How can I fix it? Is there a cure, will it survive? LOL
Thanks!!
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Hey,
I have this Water Color template and it’s lovely, but the problem is that my followers can’t leave their comments, if I have enabled that security check with word – when they have to type in the word that appears before they can leave a comment. There is no empty line/space to type in the word.
hi falcon,
i’ve read all the comments about the problem with the date format, and i could not solve it by myself. i’ve changed the format from wednesday, november 4, 2009 to 4.11.09 and at my page still appears the date like ‘undefined’.i don’t know what to do, can u help me please?
sorry i’m annoying you with this.
and thank u very much since now.
Thanks for your comment!
You need to change the format to ‘Wednesday, November 4, 2009′, please confirm that you’re changing the ‘Timestamp format’ but not ‘Date Header format’, hope this helps.
Alvaris
I LOVE the template. LOVE! Thank you.
I cannot get the Flickr pics to show up.
Help?
Cristina
Thanks for your comment, glad that you LOVE it!
Sure, you can follow the ‘Set up the Flickr Gallery on the Footer’ section in this post to get the Flickr pics to show up, hope this helps.
Alvaris
Hi Alvaris,
I did that and it didn’t work – which is why I asked for help. Is there anything else I can do to get it to work?
Thanks again!!!!!
Still love the template!!!!
Cristina
Hello, I LOVE this template! I have one small issue though, and please feel free to look at my site to see if I am just totally missing it, but I don’t see anywhere for my readers to leave a comment. I have made sure that they are allowed in the settings, I just don’t see anything for them to comment on. I looked through the previous posts to see if I could find my answer there, and although two people commented regarding the same issue, I could not find a fix. Thank you so much for the time. I hope you are able to help me.
Ha Ha! I figured it out! Thanks though. My apologies for taking your time. Something had gotten unchecked in the editing of the blog in the layout section. I just clicked the comments on and there we go! Yahoo! Thanks again.
Sure, glad that you solved the issue, congratulations!
Alvaris
Like Michelle, my quick edit icon below each post has also disappeared after uploading the template.
Thanks for your report, I have updated the template to show the quick edit icon.
You can download the template again and re-upload it to your blog to display the quick edit icon in your every single post page, thank you.
Alvaris
Thank you for your help, Alvaris. Great job! Really appreciate it.
It is really great Template! I love it. But… I have problem.
I can’t use any threaded comments widgets. I’ve installed widget from
IntenseDebate. And it works on my another blog with another Template ok. But it doesn’t work with this Template. Please help!!! I have a lot of comments on
my blog, and its very messy now, I’m in trouble!!! It’s very urgent
please!!!
And also my pencil for quick edit gone. It is inside posts, but I can’t see in on a main page.((
Thanks.
Irina
Hi! I just chose your “watercolor” theme and I love it. Just one problem though, where i suppose the dates are suppose to be, i have “undefined”, its really unsightly to and already perfect theme
. Can u please let me know how i can get remove that or am i stuck with it? Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks!!!
Never mind, figured it out. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
Please help, my blog archieve only show up several minutes & then gone.
i dunno what the problem.. thanks
Hi!
First I want to say that I love this template. I just wanted to know if it is possible to edit the header in order to add an image (like in the other templates). If it is, can you tell me how?
Thank you so much in advance.