A question about Blogger?

Question

I'm using blogger on my own webpage (through the ftp path) and am trying to get of the navbar on top.
I can go through the html file and delete it manually, but everytime I post a new entry through blogspot.com the navbar reappears.

any suggestions for getting rid of this?

Answer 1

It's very simple to be rid of the navbar, and although you may receive several different answers, you need an additional bit of code to make it just right.

First, you have to make the navbar itself disappear by entering this code in your template section of your blog's panel, up in the CSS portion. The three attributes here are redundant, but it's just making sure that the navbar is gone no matter what:

#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

When you save this, you may notice that the rest of your blog is, well, shifted down a bit. That's because the template was designed for the navbar to be at the top. You can remove this empty space at the top of your blog by inserting this code into your template:

body {
position: relative;
top: -32px;
}

Saving this code in your template will fix your navbar woes.

Answer 2

There's actually an easier way than what Lapper said, though Lapper's technique should work. As long as you are posting to your Blogger blog through the ftp and onto a server that's not blogspot, you should be able to go to... I believe that it's the template page, above the template there's a place where you can choose the color of the navBar, as long as you have FTP settings inputed into the other settings for the blog, you should be able to go into that drop down menu and choose, OFF.

It all hinges on whether or not the files are resting on the blogspot server or your own server (and by that I mean one you're paying for or sharing or whatever...) The navBar is automatically on the blogspot blogs because Blogger does provide blogspot for free.

So, unfortunately, if you are using blogspot, and you want to abide by Bloggers Terms of Service you really need to have the navBar there. They could even delete your blog entirely if you don't have it I believe...