I was just going through some old shots and found this one. The BMW M3 is still one of my all time favorite sports cars and I love the lights and grill on this one.

Today my wife and I went to the Seibu Yochien [Kindergarden] where she teaches English to see the sports day. In the US we would call it a field day. Lots of kids and moms and dads behind cameras.

I just posted about making your Blogger Blog wide enough for posting full size images on your blog but that one only worked if you were using Blogger on your own domain with the basic template. If you want to keep your blog on the blogspot.com host and modify the template here is what to do.

Step 1
Login to your Blogger account and then go to “Template”, once your there you will have an option to download a backup of your template before you start. This is a good idea incase you want to revert back later.

Step 2
Find the code listed under “#header-wrapper {” and change it to 970px like you see below. This sets the overall header width.

Step 3
Find the code listed under “#header .description {” and change it to 970px like you see below. This sets a limit of the overall width of your blog to keep things clean.

Step 4
Find the code listed under “#main-wrapper {” and change it to 720px like you see below. This sets the width of your post section and will allow you to post images up to 720px wide.

Step 5
Find the code listed under “#footer {” and change it to 970px lik you see below. This sets your footer to match the rest of your new wide blog.
That’s all for the template section, preview your template and then save it if your happy.

Step 6
The last thing you need to do is modify the image width in your posts. See the image below and see where you can modify the width of your images that are actually hosted on Google’s Picasa. Change the width to 720 to match the “#main-wrapper {” width.

Your done. Keep blogging and post your images full size.

I took these shots in 2001 on a trip to Mexico with my family.

Tyler asked me how I made my Blog in wide format and I want to answer his question but first I need to give credit to Blaine for giving me the idea to do this. I had thought of this before but never got around to doing it until Blaine did it and I saw how much better it looks. Thanks Blaine.

It’s actually really easy but this how to will only work if your using Blogger on your own server, FTP style. The “New Blogger” is different and uses different templates. I will see if I can work it out and will post that later.
So here it is, in all it’s large images glory.

Step 1
Login to your Blogger account and go to your template page. Find the code you see in the image below listed under “#header {“, this is the width of your entire blog. Change it to “width 970″ like you see below.

Step 2
Find the code you see in the image below listed as “#content {“, this is the width of the table that holds all the content on your blog. Change it just like you did above.

Step 3
Just below the “#content {” you will find some code that says “#main {“, this is the width of your posts. Change it to “width 720″ like you see below. You will need to save the images for your blog the same 720 px wide to post them. The last thing to do is test your work, hit preview and see how it looks. If you are happy with it save the template and re-publish your blog to see the changes on all your pages.

Step 4
The only other difference is that you don’t use the normal images uplaod anymore. You know the one with the little mountain on it. Instead you will upload your 720 px wide images withe the one that looks like a page. See the image below.

Find the image you want to upload and hit the “UPLOAD” button.

After that you will see this screen, just hit “DONE”

And now your really done.

I hope this is helpful to you all and I will post another how to for the “New Blogger” soon.