Create 4 column footer Posted by vuluganck | at Thursday, April 30, 2009

Yesterday , I published 1 tip to make 3 column on footer of your blog, now this tip , you will get 1 more column on your footer- 4 column.When you have these column, you will easily put some useful widgets, information ,tools for your visitors that they can easily read and understand your site , too.

This is the pic of 4 column footer's shape:

Now lets do this quickly :
1.Login your blogger account , then go to Layout > Edit HTML ( no need check expand widget templates).
2.One thing important , you should back up your template unless you are sure you will be successful when finish, if not , your template will be crash and you can not go back. So click Download full template.
3.Now find this code in your template and notice the red code:

<div id='footer-wrapper'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
</div>

Now replace the red code by all code below:

<div id='footer-column-container'>
<div id='footer1' style='width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-1' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'>
<b:widget id='Text1' locked='false' title='About B-G' type='Text'/>

</b:section>
</div>
<div id='footer2' style='width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-2' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'>
<b:widget id='Text4' locked='false' title='About Author' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='footer3' style='width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-3' preferred='yes' style='float:right;'>
<b:widget id='Text3' locked='false' title='Subscribe in Reader' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='footer4' style='width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-4' preferred='yes' style='float:right;'>
<b:widget id='Text2' locked='false' title='Access B-G on Go' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>
</div>

Next , find ]]></b:skin> to add the CSS code ( important code to make the footer to be shown on your blog) before it:

#footer-column-container { border: .3px dotted #cccccc;}

.footer-column { margin: 0 10px 0 10px; padding:5px;
color: #666666; line-height: 1.5em; font-size:12px;}

.footer-column h2 {
padding-bottom:.15em; text-align:center;
font:"normal normal 80% 'Comic Sans MS','Lucida Sans Unicode','Trebuchet MS',Sans-serif";
color:#333333;
line-height:1em; letter-spacing:.1em;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;}

.footer-column ul { list-style:none; margin:0 0 0; padding:0 0 0;}

.footer-column ul li {
background: url(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp296/rnbutpur/bullet-1.gif) no-repeat;
margin:0 0 0; padding-left: 16px;
padding-bottom: 0.5em; line-height:1.2em;}

.footer-column .widget {margin:0 0 .5em; padding:0 0 1em;}

Ok try to Save, if error , please check your template again, and add the code exactly it has to be placed.
If you still have problem , please leave me a comment , I will help you.
Have fun
Zen