Spiceupyourblog like comment design in blogger

Spiceupyourblog is a beautiful blog with unique design.Paul crowe is owner of that blog.I also shared spiceupyourblog template in previous post. In this tutorial you will learn how to make your blogger comment system design like on Spiceup your blog.
SYB is well designed by Paul Crowe. But the comment system design is one of the best thing we find in SYB, the design and it's look makes the comments easier to understand. 

 

You can also see the Demo here

DEMO 

To make this type of comment system is very simple.Just you have to do 2 steps

• Enable threaded comment in your blog
• Applying CSS in your template

Enable threaded comment in your blog:

1. Blogger Dashboard > Select the Blog that you want to enable the Threaded Comments
2. Go to Settings > Posts and Comments
3. Comment Location option set to Embedded
   
4. Go to Settings > Other 
5. Allow Blog Feed option set to Full
   

Still not getting Threaded Comments?

Backup your Template before going to change any thing.

Method 1:

You will lost all Changes in Blog Posts and Widgets. like, Adsense Ads inside Post,Post Footer changes, Share Buttons, Signatures etc,.!!

1. Go to Design > Edit HTML
2. Click on Revert widget templates to default link

This will Discard the all Changes Widget and revert to Default. This is Best suitable for non Custom Templates.

For Custom Template Follow the Method 2

Method 2:

1. Go to Template > Edit HTML
2. Click on Expand Widget Templates Check box
3. Find the Following code.
   

   <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'> <b:include data='post' name='comments'/> </b:if> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <b:include data='post' name='comments'/> </b:if>

4. You will get Two results. one is belongs to mobile template and other is belongs to web Template.
   Replace it with the Below Section of Code on both mobile and web template.  
   
   

   <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'> <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'> <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/> <b:else/> <b:include data='post' name='comments'/> </b:if> </b:if> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'> <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/> <b:else/> <b:include data='post' name='comments'/> </b:if> </b:if>

5. Save the Template!

Applying CSS in your template :

It can be done easily with CSS. You can make changes to the CSS if you understand what you are doing or you may just ignore making any changes. Follow these Instruction to add this long CSS

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard 
2. Now click on the Template tab
3. Click on the Customize button
4. Select the Advance tab > scroll down and Add CSS 
5. Now you will see a textarea on right side, this is where you have to paste the HTML
   

   @font-face { font-family: 'Philosopher'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; src: local('Philosopher'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/philosopher/v4/OttjxgcoEsufOGSINYBGLYbN6UDyHWBl620a-IRfuBk.woff) format('woff'); } .comment .avatar-image-container { border: 1px solid #B6B6B6; max-height: 70px !important; margin-top: -5px; width: 70px !important; position: relative; z-index: 50; } .comment .comment-block { margin-left: 75px !important; } .comment .comment-header { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #A9F5D0; color: #333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 60px; } .comment .comment-header a { color: white !important; text-decoration: none; } .comment .comment-content { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FEFFF9; border-bottom: 2px solid #E6E6E6; font-size: 14px; margin: 0 0 30px; padding: 5px 5px 10px 10px; } .comment .comment-actions a { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #DDD; color: #333; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; margin: 0 3px; padding: 3px 6px !important; text-decoration: none; } .comment .comment-actions a { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #DDD; color: #333; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; margin: 0 3px; padding: 3px 6px !important; text-decoration: none; } .comment-header cite { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #DF7401; border: 1px solid white; color: white; padding: 2px 20px; position: relative; z-index: 99; margin-left: -20px; } cite.blog-author { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #8181F7 !important; } .icon.blog-author { display: none !important; background: url("") no-repeat scroll 0 0; margin-left: 90px; width: 60px !important; height: 60px !important; position: absolute; right: 5px; bottom: 5px; top: 10px; } .comment .comment-header { color: #333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; } .comment .avatar-image-container img { border: medium none !important; height: 70px !important; width: 70px !important; max-height: 70px !important; max-width: 70px !important; } .comment .comment-actions a { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #DDD !important; color: #333 !important; display: inline-block !important; line-height: 1 !important; margin: 0 3px !important; padding: 3px 6px !important; text-decoration: none !important; font-size:16px; } .comment .comment-actions a:hover { background: #CCC !important; text-decoration: none !important; } .comments { font-family: 'Philosopher', arial, serif !important; font-size: 1em; color: black; } .comments .continue a { display: block !important; font-weight: bold !important; padding: .5em !important; color:#E34600; font-size:16px; } .comments .continue a:hover {color:#4D3123;text-decoration:none;} .item-control { display: none !important; } .comments .continue { border-top: 2px solid transparent !important; }

Then open your blog and see the comment system.If it does not works for you,please comment below.