Blog page look/feel questions

We have our site up and running in BC, and we have a functional blog page—and I say that loosely. We do not have much code experience (correction:VERY little, if any), and have tried to mess with some code, but it just is a mess when we do. Are there folks who can help us with the following:
(1) Each time we add a new post to the blog the formatting is a nightmare. We edit, change fonts, spacing, carefully bold what we want—update it, then the post looks nothing like we intended. We have to go into the html side and search for the "styles" and try to individually change them? It's a nightmare and so unbelievably tedious. We're comfortable with designing and writing the posts. Our discomfort comes when AFTER we've written and carefully edited it---it looks nothing like the post we wanted.
(2) The archive list does not appear on our blog page at all. It appears when someone chooses to open comments. And then the formatting for the comments page is horrid. We have no idea how to change the look of that.
(3) Are there folks who can help us with this particular issue we're having that is all blog related? We would be thrilled to speak with someone. Thanks.

Hi Sasegars,
I am very new to posting, but I thought I might be able to point you in a direction (hopefully the right one).
1) It seems like you are trying to do the formatting from the blog post window. It is much easier to do the formatting on the templates so that they apply to all of the posts, if they have similar formatting. I am not sure if you know where to edit them, so here you go. Dashboard --> Site Manager --> Module Templates and choose Blog Layout. (I think this link goes there www.[yourdomain].com/AdminConsole/#!/Customize/BlogTemplates.aspx) If I understand correctly, you want to edit the Blog Post Detail Layout. This layout formats how the blog post looks when you click on a single post. There are system {tag_...} that you can insert and move around to display the system field information. I recommend editing in the html because the generated code is very garbled and unintelligible.
FYI - The "styles" that you look for and change are inline css styles (3 types of css - external, internal and inline). The styles can be edited in bulk and for the entire site on the external stylesheet. It is the .css file in the file manager. I would create my own and not mess with the modulestylesheets.css that BC creates. Create a new css file and add it the page template (I can explain this more, but it does not apply to this question.)
2) The archive {tag_blogpostarchive} is likely not on the Overall Blog Layout or the Blog Post List Layout. Go back to the blog templates and add the {tag_blogpostarchive} where you would like it to be. It seems that the archive only shows for the past 12 months, but Sidney Mitchell (He knows his "stuff"; I just used his idea) has a great way to show more: see http://forums.adobe.com/message/4602294#4602294. As for the comments page, there is the Blog Comment List Layout or the layout in the system pages that can be edited.
I hope I have pointed you in the correct direction. Let me know if anything was confusing or above your coding level. I will do what I can to help or refer you to resources that can.
Oh, it is typically most useful to include a page url for others to look at.
Cheers,
Dave

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We are developing an application with ADF Faces using JHeadStart. For the moment, I am studying the way we must modify the JHS templates to adapt each element to our needs.
As it's told in the JHeadStart Developer's Guide, there are two ways to customize Look & Feel:
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2) ADF Skinning
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My main problem now is in the ADF Table customization. I want to use ADF Table because it offers us a lot of features that are not in the jsf table (the selection column, the table overflow...), and is very usefull combined with the generated JHS code. But at the same time, it doesn't offer a lot of functionality in the look & feel customization. Using JSF Table, I can set the CSS style for headers, rows, columns, the table, I can set the border, cellspacing and cellpadding. But I cannot do
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8) How can I control the position and the size of a dialog (the chooseDate dialog or a dialog I've created)? In the cases I've been testing, it seems the dialog is forced to resize depending on the content. I would like to know if I can establish a fixed size.
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For the moment, I think I have no more question. But give me time.... :-D
The suggestion I've to do is basically more flexible components for a better customization (for example, the styles settings I've talked about previously). ADF components are nice and powerful, but I think they should generate pages that follow the tendencies in the web development: tableless pages (I cannot understand the utility of the objectSpacer existing the margins), use of CSS for layout...
Any answer, comment or suggestion will be welcome.
Carles.
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<style name="DarkAccentBackground">

<property name="background-color">#d2d8b0</property>
</style>
There are still some differences:
1) A black line appears on the ADF Faces on the 'menu1' facet selected tab below the text. DON'T KNOW HOW TO REMOVE THIS FROM ADF Faces or add it to UIX 2.2!!!
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http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread96839.html
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Team Blog: Why does my page look different in BrowserLab?

Duane O'Brien, engineer on the BrowserLab team has a new blog post on the BrowserLab Team blog that you might find interesting. It covers when/why you might see rendering differences between the BrowserLab browsers and your local browsers. Good info.
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As Wyodor indicated IE is not the most advance, up-to-date browser out there.
See Roddy’s tips for making iWeb pages more compatible with IE.
OT

Want to change the Look & Feel of Login page

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Newby Question concerning blog/page

Can I be just as well off by adding other pages to the end of my website and using them as a blog?
Can I add products like audio files (mp3)s to be sold etc."
I am trying to discover if I should go to something like Hostgator and set up these kinds of things.
My website at this time is hosted by Mobile Me and I want to include product sales which would be mp3 audio files. Do I need some sort of FTP for these kinds of things?
I want this to be automated of course... with Paypal etc.
I hope this doesn't sound too messed up... it's all new to me. I have had the website up for over a year... and to be truthful it seems sooo slow and cumbersome although the finished product is pretty nice, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would lend itself to product sales.
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You can add a blog page to your existing iWeb site. PayPal can be added.
However, for a ecommerce site it's recommended that one use a commercial hosting service like HostExcellence, GoDaddy, etc. for several reasons: it'll be faster, more reliable and you'll get ear-to-ear customer support. As many of these hosting sites you can also get a domain name for your endeavor.
See Roddy's iWeb for Musicians site as he has does what you're wanting to do and explains how to do it. There's a wealth of information there.
Also search this forum for "paypal" for topics on how to implement it.
As far as a blog, using a 3rd party blogging site is preferred as it will be much a more robust and adaptable blog for what you want to do. You can embed your blog into one of your iWeb pages like in this demo: Embed a Site Within an iWeb Page.
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Blog page question.

can i show complete posts on the blog main page, instead of an extract from the posts?
is there any way to control how many lines of a blog post will show on the main page (if i cant show complete posts)?
thanks.
k.

There are three pages that make up a "Blog" page.
Blog
Entries and
Archive
Blog (which you can rename) is the main page where an excerpt (defaulted to the 5 most recent articles) is shown with a "read more..." link that takes you to an Entry page with the entire text of that entry.
If you would instead like for the entire blog entry to show on this Blog page, you would need to first select the Blog page (the RSS functions aren't active unless it is selected), go into the RSS tab and drag the "Excerpt Length" indicator all the way to the right. Although the indicator says "Excerpt" and there is still a link to "read more", moving that indicator all the way to the right has the effect of showing 100% of your article on the Blog page without having to click the "read more" link to go to the Entry page.
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"i wanted to show the whole article within a single post"
but if you want to
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Photos in text of blog entry do not port to main blog page

I have posted before about the photos from my entry page disappearing when ported to my main blog page. I have yet to find a solution so I'm asking for help again.
I'm am trapped using iWeb 1.1 until I find a solution. I use the Modern Template with modifications. Usually I delete the snowboarding surfer placeholder. Please note I'm not concerned that this photo doesn't port. I don't want it to. I do however need the photos that I have embedded via text wrap within my blog entry to port to the main blog page. They do not.
I have tried keeping the snowboarder place holder and redoing entries with wrapped text, but my additional photos are still missing. I have checked the box in iWeb 2 that says show photos. My layouts conveted to iWeb 2 look perfect on the entry's page, and horrible with missing photos on the summary page.
This problem is beyond frustrating. My blog can be seen here, however it is still the iWeb 1.1 format.
http://web.mac.com/knittsings/iWeb/knittsings/knittsings/knittsings.html
As you can see, almost all my entries have numerous photos. I want them to display on the main blog page.
Am I missing something very basic? I have seen others with this same question but no one seems to have had any luck resolving this problem.
Thanks,
Kathryn

And that's the way it should be.
If you look at this page about navigation you'll see that the main navigation uses eternal links and the sub navigation internal ones....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/Navigation.html
Try the troubleshooting steps under "Fix iWeb" here.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html

My iWeb's main blog page has photos of entries all mixed up

My site is egsilberman.com and all but the main blog page is functioning. The index.html looks perfect, the page listing all the blog pages using the index.html in the browser looks as it should.
But after uploading the site to my FTP - using iWeb SEO Tool - the main landing page of the blog has all the photos, except the most recent entry, mixed up. The blog entries are in order, listed according to date, but the photos associated with the entries - the key photos shown on the main blog page - are all goofed up: randomly placed throughout the entries.
Oddly, all the blog pages are functioning fine. It's just the main blog landing photos that're off.
On the iWeb side I've reloaded everything from scratch...trashed caches, plists, etc, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. Again, the index.html site and blog (main page) are all in order. I'm not an expert by any means, so the change in the blog is confounding me. It was working fine until earlier this week.
Is it the SEO uploader? My FTP/host? Something I could do to help? I do not know what to do. Any advice or direction would be appreciated.
Thanks for considering this question.
Evan

Roddy, thank you for many things.
Firstly, for your clear direction in encouraging me to upload my site AFTER SEO'ing it using a dedicated FTP. I used Cyberduck. Then, following the line of thinking that the index.html needed to be uploaded as well, I did that. Simple as it sounds it took a bit of courage on my part.
This got my blog summary page photos back in line with their individual entries.
Bigger still was seeing that the index.html file I uploaded made a /Site/ reference to the "Site" folder that's local on my desktop but not present in my server's folder. And seeing this in the browser address bar, I altered the text of the index.html by eliminating the /Site. Cyberduck offered ways to do this. I pushed save.
Cedric at http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Folder_FTP.html has a helpful step by step on using FTP and Cyberduck. I followed his instruction as I went.
As tiny as this is to those of you who know the workings of your sites, it, for me, is like looking under the hood of a car and being ABLE to fix it. Not something I normally do. Maybe it'll break down in a mile. But for now it's fixed, and humming along.
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There is a methodical flow to all this, and I will learn it and implement it. Leaving MobileMe and moving to FTP and FTP practices was a leap.
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More secure public blog pages

I have got Snow Leopard Server up and hosting several simple public sites without problems. One of my sites has a blog for public view.
Previously, this site was hosted elsewhere and the blog ran on MovableType. In MT, Blogger, etc. the url for the public page of the blog is different from the url which is used to edit the blog. Thus, the edit/administration log in page can be configured to use SSL or locked down to reduce attempts at hacking the site, while the public views are simple http. Now that it is migrating to SLS 10.6.4, the public blog page has the log in linking to editing/posting functions.
There are actually two questions. Is there a way to make this more secure? And, is there an easy way to map the blog to another url such as "blog.mysite.net" ? I have played around with creating a duplicate blog page located in the web root where appropriate <div>'s and parts of the native blog page "www.mysite.net/users/username" are copied and certain links are removed. It's a bit flaky. For example, it you protect the blog using a realm to prevent access then include a <div> from the blog page on a page outside the realm, it may not display. It also takes away log in for posting comments.
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The simple idea is to clean up URLs. I wanted to get a variety of simple URLs to point to my blog. For example, "www.yoursite.url/blog" and "blog.yoursite.url" would all call up "www.yoursite.url/users/blogger/weblog" in the browser.
In this set of instructions, there is only one blog on the site created by the user "blogger":
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The other was a bit more challenging but mod_rewrite comes to the rescue.
First, you need to set up the DNS servers.
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2. In Server Admin, under DNS -> Primary zone -> Add New Record -> Alias which is "blog.yoursite.url" pointing to the IP address or name of your SLS.
Next, you create a web server alias and then rewrite http request coming in to that alias. The steps are:
1. Stop Web service in Server Admin.
2. In Server Admin -> Settings -> Modules, make sure rewrite_module is checked.
3. In Server Admin -> Web -> Sites, select your "www.yoursite.url" which hosts the blog and under the Aliases tab, click the "+" under the Web Server Aliases field and create the alias "blog.yoursite.url"
4. Now, in Server Admin -> Web -> Sites, select your "www.yoursite.url" which hosts the blog and under the Options tab, enable "Allow All Overrides" and save.
5. Next is a bit of rewrite configuration. You need to rewrite http request for "blog.yoursite.url" to "www.yoursite.url/users/blogger." Fire up your terminal and "sudo nano -w /etc/apache2/sites/0005your.ip.add.ress_portwww.yoursite.url.conf, find the <Directory> section which looks like this:
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Sites/yoursite.url">
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
DAV Off
</IfModule>
Options All -Includes -ExecCGI -Indexes +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Edit this to:
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Sites/yoursite.url">
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
DAV Off
</IfModule>
Options All -Includes -ExecCGI -Indexes +MultiViews +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.url/users/blogger/weblog [R,NC,L]
</IfModule>
</Directory>
Even though mod_rewrite.c is loaded, rewriting will not occur unless the directives "Options +FollowSymlinks" and "RewriteEngine on" are in the conf file or .htaccess file. The first RewriteCond tells the rewrite engine not to attempt rewriting HTTP_HOST requests which start with www. The second RewriteCond checks if the HTTP_POST field begins with "blog." The RewriteRule takes the requested url and rewrites it. Although the url description "^(.*)" matches all urls, we know any http request must be for "www.yoursite.url" or "blog.yoursite.url" because those are the only addresses to which this particular virtual host responds. We excluded "www" so ....]
6. Now restart the Web service and check it out.

Making blank templates into my main Blog page (iWeb 1.1)

How do I make a blank template into the welcome page where all the blog entries will show up.
See I like the gazette template but I don't like the two collums on the blog page. I just want the one column on the page (I can delete the itims in one colum but it will still have that ugly stripe on the bakground). Well I can copy the things I want unto the blank template but how do I make that my welcome page so that when I make blog entries it will show up on that blank page?

Sorry I think I am confusing everybody. And not having all the names right etc. it is very confusing explaining what happens.
When you select Blog from a template. THat is what you will see when you visit somebodies site (if that is the only thing on there). We will call that the homepage. Well the Blog that I select (Gazette) has 3 colums. I only want 2. I don't want the colum all the way on the right side. I can delete all those entrie but it leaves a line there (that is the way that template works). But all my entries will show up with that line going through it.
Now I thought let's get the blank template and copy everything I need from the Blog template unto the blank template. It looks awesome. Except now I can't put blog entries into that blank template because it will make those entry in my blog template.
My question was if there is an easy way to make that blank template which looks like the blog template (with one less colum) my homepage which will include the new entries that I will make. Like somhow convert it to a blog template so it will have the arrow on the side which you can click and it will show you the entries and the archive.
But I think that link will work. I will get a blog template. Clean it and make it blank. And copy the content from the gazette template unto the clean blank blog template (that will include the blog entries). That is what I want.
So yes I think your link is the solution to my problem.

Photo slideshow on Blog Page

Question specifically for James Tseng...
1. how do you get photo's to appear randomly and overlay one another on your "blog pages"
2. And how do you get multi images to display as mini slideshows within the i-web photo template pages
Are these third party tools you've used or features readily available within i-web.
Can't help but admire your creativity. Thank you.

Hey great work so far Mr Peebly! So sorry your thread slipped past me.
So when you open up your slideshow, check out how it interacts with the browser window. Resize the browser window by dragging the lower right hand corner smaller and larger. You will see that at a certain "wideness" your slideshow starts to recenter itself in the browser window. And at a certain "narrowness" your browser starts to put horizontal scroll bars on. This point is the exact minimum width of your slideshow and will need to be the minimum width of your <iframe>. Remember that your iframe functions like a mask, so you will want your entire slideshow to show through centered in the iframe....so you must adhere to this minimum width.
The vertical width is going to depend on how many photos and in how many columns you choose to put them. You see how your photos overflow the vertical dimensions of the page? you can go back later and experiment with iPhoto Export and see if you can better fit your photos into maybe 7 columns. but then check the minimum width as above again!
So basically to get the dimensions of your slideshow, the main thing is the minimum width. For the Postcard Viewer vertical dimension is not as important, but you want to be able to see your whole slideshow. So once you have your slideshow fixed (thumbnail-wise). Drag the browser to the point where there are no scroll bars and no re-centering. The easiest way I know of to get the dimensions of something is to use the screengrab function Apple-Shift-4 and draw a box around the slideshow. The do a Get Info (Apple-i) on the screenshot file and you will see dimensions listed there under more info. These will be the dimensions to use in your <iframes> expression as well as the size of your text box to make in iWeb.
So here we are...almost there... so far your iframes expression looks like this...
<iframe src="http://homepage.mac.com/paul.best/Slideshows" width="xxx" height="xxx" scrolling="no" border="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to seeing your finished product!

How to post more than one photo on blog page

Can you post more than the top placeholder photo on a blog page? I'd like to post photos as they relate to the blog I'm writing but can only use the placeholder photo at the top of the entry page--is it possible to place more photos on the page or do you have to use a web layout and not a blog layout?
Thanks.

It is possible because I Do it on my blog. All you have to do is click he media button and get the photo you want, I then drag it to the desktop, and then drag it into my blog. For some reason iweb can get a little wonkey and makes it look like it can't be done, but it can. Good luck!
http://web.mac.com/skewedreality04

How do you change the "read more ..." in the Blog page to something else?

I'd like to change the "read more ..." in the Blog page to say something more relevant to my site. How can this be done?
I searched the forums and found an earlier response to this question, but I don't quite understand it:
Find index.xml.gz file (open: Macintosh HD ->
Applications -> iWeb -> Contents -> Resources -> e.g.
English.lproj -> Templates -> Blog -> e.g. White
Blog.webtemplate -> index.xml.gz).
Open file and edit it in TextEdit. Replace all "read
more..." with your own text. Delete index.xml.gz file.
I'm a little confused by this reply. To open the index.xml.gz file within the app, do you navigate there with Terminal.app, unzip it, edit the file with Text Edit, then re-gzip it?
Second, why do you delete index.xml.gz afterwards?
And third, will this need to be redone each time iWeb is upgraded?
Has anyone tried this and know if this is the correct way to change the words, or is there some other way?

This tedious process actually edits the template xml file within the iWeb application, so that it becomes the default with the template. I haven't done this before, so I'm the wrong person to advise on this.
I tend to like to do things that are on a simpler scale. You can always make a text box with an opaque background color that matches the blog template background. Then type something else into that text box, like "click here to see more of me" Then position this text box over the standard "read more" and link the text to the blog entry.
The downside....you'll have to do this (at least position the text box and change the link) each time you add an entry.

Adding a photo gallery to a blog page?

I see the last queries about being able to do this are from 2006. I'm wondering if it is any easier now. I'm creating a website for a film series project. I used a 'blog' template so I could easily manage about 20 separate films (without having scores of pages to deal with). Right now each of those 'blog' pages has a large number of free floating photos (shots from the film). They take too long to load. I'm wondering if I could create a photo gallery instead, ON the blog entry page, that would contain the pics, and allow for fast loads?
Just wondering how one might create a photo gallery on a 'blog' entry page.
Ben

Having looked at your site, I would say that you layout is very artistic and would be completely ruined by using a photos template.
DPI doesn't realy come into it as this is used for print. iWeb does have image optimization but its better to turn it off and reduce the image to the dimensions (in px) that it will appear on the web page before dragging it into the app.
If you want to maximise the SEO and make the pages more interesting for us humans, I would add descriptive captions to the images and put them in the spaces between the staggered image layout.
If you are comtemplating designing for mobile devices, you need to use every trick in the book to to reduce file sizes and cut content to the bone.
I have been using responsive designs for quite a while now and learned a lot of hard lessons along the way on what works and what doesn't on mobile devices. Some more examples HERE.
iPads are big enough for a traditional website to work on them as long as you pay attention to making the links and other user controls finger sized. I did figure out a way to make an iPhone compatible site using iWeb if you are interested...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Mobile-iWeb.html
I must admit that I detest Wordpress although there are some responsive desgns available now. I did a test with one of the free ones but its a total pain and there doesn't appear to be any plugins for HTML5, responsive media players. I had to figure this out all on my own. If you click the Blog button on this page you should get there.

Blog page in iweb site not responding or linking like other pages

Hi
This is a new issue for me. I have multiple pages that I created in my iweb site through my personal domain ... studio8films.net
All page hyperlinks will work properly, but the BLOG page seems to stall and when I look at the bottom of the window it is trying to access www.me.com where ALL THE OTHER PAGES show the access to web.mac.com
Can someone tell me why this is the case? It doesn't make sense. And it is a new issue.

Furthermore ...
When the BLOG page finally loads, I click on the 'add comment' and a message comes up that says 'We're sorry. We are having a problem processing your request.
Is there something going on with mobile.me and iweb blog pages or is there something wrong on my end?
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