After receiving a few questions regarding the way I redesigned Copyblogger theme by adding leftbar and making it 3-column template, I decided it will be the easiest way to make it available for everyone to dowload from SharingMatters.com (this blog is no longer using it, as you may see).
To customise the theme, just replace images/header.jpg (990x146px) with your own image. To remove text from the header, go to header.php and delete the following line:
<a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>” title=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a>
Let me know if you found any problems so I can improve it and please keep all the links in the footer (you can remove SITEMAP or add your own in the pages section and it will link to it automatically). Just recently I have fixed a few bugs that occurred in IE6.
Edited on 30/04/2008: Below is a list of basic plug-ins that I recommend installing in the first place:
- All in One SEO Pack – to make sure your blog structure is search engine friendly
- Sociable – automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites
- Askimet – a must-have spam protector
- FeedBurner FeedSmith – FeedBurner tracking tool (only if you use FB for your RSS)
- Subscribe to comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
