Get A Working Dark Minima Blogger Theme

I love using the older classic basic Blogger templates. Have you tried to find an old school 2 column dark / black Minima Blogspot theme lately. I have. What an annoying experience. Basically all of them are filled with errors. And some of the sites are just listing an image of the theme itself with no download option. One guy even has his little script set up on his Blogspot blog to "Please disable Adblock to continue". Wow, really mate. On a Blogspot! Now don't get me wrong, I could remove the errors if I had the patience, but why bother when there's a much quicker, less stressful fix to this situation.

How to get a fresh Black Minima Template

All you have to do is download the 2 column white version of Minima. You can download that here. Make sure you save it somewhere on your hard drive. We need to preserve the Minima theme, as its not as widespread, or as downloadable in as many places as I thought it would be.

Download, unzip the file and then install. If you install certain themes on Blogger, that are not part of their standard theme library, sometimes it won't let you edit anything in the templates "customise" editor.

Thankfully for us, Blogger does allow certain things to be changed when using the Minima theme, mostly just the colours and fonts. But that's all we need. So all you have to do is turn the theme black in the customiser and then change the rest of the colours and fonts as you see fit.

If you want to use some of the dull hex colours that were used on the original black Minima, here are some of the main ones. Background #000000 - Page Text #cccccc - Link colour #99aadd - Post Title #aadd99 - Sidebar Title #777777 - Visited Link #aa77aa. I believe the fonts are the same with both templates, so if you want the original fonts just don't change anything and that will be fine. So there you go, a fully functional Black Minima. One of the best and easiest themes to work with. Hope this helped you out. Until the next time amigo.

Easy Fix: Missing Right Click WordPad

WordPad is the number one program I use on a daily basis. That may sound crazy to some, I know. However, I don't need Microsoft word, Open Office or anything else. I just need the simplistic features and non energy sapping blank white canvas that WordPad provides to do my writing and editing. It would be nice if it had a word counter, but hey, you can't have everything.

The problem of, all of a sudden having no options when right clicking in WordPad seems to be a common one. Like, nothing happens what so ever, but right clicking anywhere out of WordPad and everything is fine. Some people recommend just deleting the WordPad.INI file from the Windows folder. That will work fine. But some users are paranoid of deleting anything that's located in the C: drive of the computer in fear of removing something important, and then the computer not working anymore. And that's understandable.

So an easier, or less panicky method is to save and then close all your open WordPad files. Then go and download the free version of CCleaner. This is an excellent program. After that, simply run a clean and, just to be newbie safe, make sure the above cleaning options are selected as the pictures shows. Run the clean. Re-open your WordPad documents and give them a right click. All should be fixed. Hope this helped you out. Back to work for me. Until the next time.