- You will get enough valuable space for your widgets.
- You can add/replace more gadgets/widgets.
- You can rearrange all the gadgets/widgets.
- If you place all the biggest gadgets at the footer section, the main content will be loaded faster.
- It will also contribute your blog design as the modern Web 2.0.
Steps to add three columns to Blogger footer section
Step 1: Back-up your existing blog
Before any type of modification of your blog template code, it's very essential to back-up your existing blog template. You may take backup only the template or the widgets (gadgets) only or you may take the complete back-up of your blogger blog. I already discussed the process of back-up in other pages. To know the process of back-up, you may follow the following posts..- How to Back-up Your Blogger Template Design?
- How to Back up Your Blogger Widgets (Gadgets)?
- How to Back-up Your Blog Completely (Posts + Comments + Gadgets)?
Step 2: Remove all widgets (gadgets) from the footer section
Step 3: Adding CSS code for the footer section
Now, go to your template code section.
Before adding CSS code to your blog footer, first find the following two lines of code:
]]></
b:skin
>
</
head
>
/*
Code is developed by:
Code Description:
Codes for adding columns (3 columns) in the blogger footer section
*/
#footer-columns{
border-top:1px dotted #999999;
clear:both;
margin:0 auto;
}
.column1{
padding: 0px 5px 3px 5px;
width: 30%;
float: left;
margin:3px;
text-align: left;
}
.column2{
padding: 0px 5px 3px 5px;
width: 30%;
float: left;
margin:3px 3px 3px 5px;
text-align: left;
}
.column3{
padding: 0px 5px 3px 5px;
width: 30%;
float: right;
margin:3px;
text-align: left;
}
.addwidget {
padding: 0 0 0 0;
}
#footer-columns ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 0;
padding:0 0 0;
}
#footer-columns li {
margin:0;
padding-top:0;
padding-left:0;
padding-bottom:.25em;
padding-right:15px;
text-indent:-15px;
line-height:1.5em;
}
body#layout #footer-columns {
width: 100%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
body#layout .column1 {
width: 32%;
float: left;
}
body#layout .column2 {
width: 32%;
float: left;
}
body#layout .column3 {
width: 32%;
float: right;
}
Step 4: Add containers to hold all the footer columns
.<
b:section
class
=
'footer'
id
=
'footer'
/>
:
<
div
id
=
'footer-columns'
>
<
div
class
=
'column1'
>
<
b:section
class
=
'addwidget'
id
=
'col1'
preferred
=
'yes'
style
=
'float:left;'
>
</
b:section
>
</
div
>
<
div
class
=
'column2'
>
<
b:section
class
=
'addwidget'
id
=
'col2'
preferred
=
'yes'
style
=
'float:left;'
>
</
b:section
>
</
div
>
<
div
class
=
'column3'
>
<
b:section
class
=
'addwidget'
id
=
'col3'
preferred
=
'yes'
style
=
'float:right;'
>
</
b:section
>
</
div
>
<
div
style
=
'clear:both;'
/>
</
div
>
<
b:section
class
=
'footer'
id
=
'footer'
/>