Remove sidebar background in the Travel template
This quick-tip is about removing the coloured section that is in the background in Blogger's Travel template. Recently, I've been using the Travel template a lot: it just seems to line things up more sharply on the page. Today I noticed that there is an option for setting the Sidebar background colour under the Template Designer > Customize > Advanced tool. However it doesn't seem to work. Investigating the template shows that as well as this sidebar background colour (which is correctly set by the option above), the template also specifies a background image (ie not a colour) to use in the sidebars. This isn't removed when the overall background image for the template is removed, and cannot be controlled from the template designer. But it's simple enough to get rid of it, by following these steps: 1 Edit the template in the usual way. 2 Tick the expand widgets checkbox. 3 Find this code: background: $(widget.outer.back...