Digital Statement blogger template is one of the finest additions to blogger templates gallery. Digital Statement template has got it all that a blogger looks for in his blogger template. It has got style, performance, look, features and above all the perfect locations to place your ads and monetize it well. It was initially developed as Digital Statement wordpress theme by Noel and later got converted to a blogger template by Rias. Let’s discuss about Digital Statement features, customization and other issues step by step.

Key Features of Digital Statement Blogger Template

• Customizable as two column or three column template
• Featured Post integration
• Sidebar tab for Recent posts, comments and popular posts
• Another sidebar tab for Archives, Categories (Labels) and Tags cloud
• Footer widget location for more customization
• Two navbar rows to show important links, categories or Adsense ads
• Automatic ‘Read More’ expandable post feature integration
• Integrated search box on the header
• Shows related posts under each blog post
• Author comments are automatically highlighted in comments section

Customize Digital Statement Blogger Template

1. Replace Header Search Box with your Adsense search box

Expand your HTML template and find the following code.

<div id='searchbox'>
<form action='/search' id='searchform' method='get'>
<input class='swap_value' id='s' name='q' type='text' value=''/>

<input alt='Search' id='go' src='http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt327/digitalstatement/go.gif' title='Search' type='image'/>
</form>
</div>

Replace the codes within <div id=’searchbox’> and </div> with your Adsense search box code.

2. Adding Google Adsense Link unit and other Links to Navbar

Expand the template to find the following piece of code.

<div style='clear: both'/><div id='nav'>
<ul>
<li class='page_item'><a href='http://www.solidblogger.com/'>Home</a></li>
<li class='page_item'><a href='http://www.myblogmind.com' title='free domain and hosting'>Free Domain & Hosting</a></li>
<li class='page_item'><a href='http://www.techieblogger.com' title='Taking Blogger to Next Level'>Techie Blogger</a></li>
</ul><div class='clearfloat'/>

<ul id='cat'>
<li class='cat-item'><a href='http://www.solidblogger.com' title='View all posts filed under Blockquotes'>admin</a></li>
<li class='cat-item'><a href='http://www.darkorkut.com' title='orkut tips and tricks'>Orkut tricks</a></li>

<li class='cat-item'><a href='http://www.solidblogger.com/' title='View all posts filed under Lists'>Author</a></li>
</ul>
</div></div>

Edit the section between <ul> and </ul> to add your own links in the top navbar. If you want to display Google Adsense ads in the second navbar row, remove everything and paste your Adsense code inside <ul id=’cat’> and </ul>.

3. Show your Avatar in your Blog’s Comment section

Expand HTML widget section and look for the following URL inside HTML section.

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ef6eb8d01747fd1846efd0227517ca1c&rating=R&size=36

Replace the above link with the link to your avatar. Now all your comments will appear in a different style with your avatar next to it.

4. Show Featured Posts Widget in Sidebar

If you want to show few of your best posts as your featured posts, follow below steps.

1. Search for </head> inside your template.
2. Add the following codes just above it.

<!--SmoothGallery Starts-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/wp-content/themes/Digital_Statement/js/smoothgallery/css/jd.gallery.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/wp-content/themes/Digital_Statement/js/smoothgallery/scripts/mootools.v1.11.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/wp-content/themes/Digital_Statement/js/smoothgallery/scripts/jd.gallery.js"></script>
<!--SmoothGallery Ends-->

3. Save the template, you are done.

This one of the best magazine style blogger templates. Check out demo and Download Digital Statement blogger template to add style with performance to your blogger blog. If you need any help, use the below comments section.