Sunday, November 30, 2003
Added a flooble chatterbox to the side bar for immediate chatter, shouting, blabbering and so on. Now comments can be semi-permanent and associated with a particular post by clicking "comments" under a post, or temporary and not associated with a particular post by using the chatterbox.
Saturday, November 29, 2003
I have added comments functionality to this blog using the free comment system from Blog Speak. Free is good. To comment on or ask questions about any post or to read the existing comments just click the highlighted "comments" below it. The number in parenthesis following "comments" is the number of existing comments for that post. I have not used Blog Speak before, so this is an experiment; we'll see how it goes.
For the Blogger help on adding comments to your blog see this.
For the Blogger help on adding comments to your blog see this.
Camera and other images can be 1 mb or more. This is much too big to post on a website. They will take too long to download and use up a lot of web server disk quota.
To reduce their size use the software that came with your camera or computer. If you need software to do this, try the free JPEG Resizer utility here.
You can reduce the file size by reducing the image size and/or increasing the compression (reducing the quality). Once the file is small enough use Upload file to place it in the images directory on your web server. Using an images directory for all of your images is not required but it is a useful and common technique.
To reduce their size use the software that came with your camera or computer. If you need software to do this, try the free JPEG Resizer utility here.
You can reduce the file size by reducing the image size and/or increasing the compression (reducing the quality). Once the file is small enough use Upload file to place it in the images directory on your web server. Using an images directory for all of your images is not required but it is a useful and common technique.
I've added a link at the left to a session that illustrates using a simple command line FTP client like the one that comes with Windows to create directories on your web server. This can be useful because Blogger will not create directories on your web server. But, once you create them, then Blogger can post or upload files to any directory. Here is the sample session.
From the Blogger New Post screen, click upload file. Browse to the image on your computer. For the upload path I entered "images/" (without the quotation marks). This puts the file in the images directory on your server - a good idea.
Now a link to the image would look like this: Tankits.jpg.
And, the image in line would look like this:
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The Blogger help on uploading images is here.
Now a link to the image would look like this: Tankits.jpg.
And, the image in line would look like this:
.The Blogger help on uploading images is here.
While logged in as Stephen, I added myself as a member of this blog. Now, when I make a post it will be signed by me, assuming that I logged in as me. That gives me access to this blog only, not all of the blogs on this website. Of course, at the moment, I can still sign in as Stephen and cause (or fix) problems elsewhere.
Blogger knowledgebase help on multiple team members is here.
Blogger knowledgebase help on multiple team members is here.
Over on Stephen's blog, I added a link to New Mexico Ice Hockey under links at the right. This is a little tricky to do; it requires modifying the template.
From the blogger Screen select the Template tab, and scroll down to the links area. There is a link to google news and now a new one to New Mexico Ice Hockey. And, there are two "edit me!" place holders.
I just added a link there, using the google news link as an example of the proper format.
You probably do not want to do a bunch of these until/unless you are ok with the template ("style") of your blog. If you change it to another one then you will have to reenter these links on the new template.
Once you make a change and publish it (or add a new post and do a Post & Publish) it will be updated on your web site.
Note this it is important to get the format right. A missing or extra quotation mark or less-than or greater-than character can really mess things up (and is a problem that is hard to find). To minimize that problem, I suggest when working on the template make one change and preview it. Check to make sure it is ok. Then make the next change, preview it, check it and so on. Publish it only if the preview looks ok. That way, when you make a mistake (and you will one day) it will be easier to know where the mistake is, so it will be easier to find and to fix it, or to not save the changes and start over.
Blogger knowledgebase help about adding links is here.
From the blogger Screen select the Template tab, and scroll down to the links area. There is a link to google news and now a new one to New Mexico Ice Hockey. And, there are two "edit me!" place holders.
I just added a link there, using the google news link as an example of the proper format.
You probably do not want to do a bunch of these until/unless you are ok with the template ("style") of your blog. If you change it to another one then you will have to reenter these links on the new template.
Once you make a change and publish it (or add a new post and do a Post & Publish) it will be updated on your web site.
Note this it is important to get the format right. A missing or extra quotation mark or less-than or greater-than character can really mess things up (and is a problem that is hard to find). To minimize that problem, I suggest when working on the template make one change and preview it. Check to make sure it is ok. Then make the next change, preview it, check it and so on. Publish it only if the preview looks ok. That way, when you make a mistake (and you will one day) it will be easier to know where the mistake is, so it will be easier to find and to fix it, or to not save the changes and start over.
Blogger knowledgebase help about adding links is here.
