19 Apr 2013
New Blogger Template Showroom
Showroom is inspired from Tumblr template of the same name by Mixpanel. It has a eye-catching design and comes inbuilt with Related Posts widget , Infinite Post Scrolling and 7 Post types using Labels. It integrates with the Blogger Template Designer seamlessly and also adds custom fields which make editing Tags , Menu and Search Box easier. Search Engine Optimization has been done to Page and Post Titles as well as a Google PageSpeed score of 97% makes it ultra fast.
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Feature List
Infinite Post Scrolling
7 Post Types using Labels
Lazy Loading Share Buttons
SEO Optimized Post and Page Titles
97% Google PageSpeed Score
Related Post Widget
Blogger Template Designer support
Customized Label Design
Eye-catching Sidebar design
Using Web Fonts Noto Serif and YesterYear
Supports Google+ Comments
Fallback Comment Design
Cross Browser Compatible
Fresh Layout
And Much More...
Features in Detail
Infinite Post Scrolling
Using jQuery and AJAX , an unending number of Posts can be loaded without leaving the page. This is by default functional on the HomePage , Label Pages , Archive Pages as well as Search Pages.
Blogger Template Designer
Custom options to easily change the background color and text color of Search Box , Menu links and Tags.
SEO Optimized and Ultra fast Load Times
The Post and Page Titles have been modified to make the template search engine friendly. Even though it supports Blogger Template Designer fully ( which loads with itself a lot of CSS and JavaScript) , it has got a 97% Google PageSpeed Score and loads blazingly fast.
7 Post Types
Using a bit of clever CSS and some Blogger Data tags , each post can be assigned a special post type with the help of Blogger Labels. The supported Blogger Labels are Image , Link , Blog , Chat , Video , Music and Quote . Each of these categories will have a separate Label Icon assigned to it .
Lazy Loading Share Buttons and Related Post Widget
Tweet , Like and +1 buttons are present under each Post , as well a Related Post widget which relies on the Blogger Labels to recommend blog posts that are likely to interest the readers.
Google+ Comments support and Fallback Design
The template supports the newly released Google+ Comments for Blogger and In case you don't want to shift now , there is a Attractive Fallback Comment design as well . If you use Google+ Comments for your Blog , then the comment count will by itself update to show the numbers of comments received by Google+ Comments as well.
I am thankful to MixPanel for allowing me to port this theme to Blogger. Soon I will be writing a tutorial to implement MixPanel Event based Analytics into Blogger , stay tuned for it.
Til next time,
Prayag Verma
at 17:01
