Blog Summary/Entry-link on front-page?

Hi all!
I have a front-page and a blog-page on my newly created iWeb '08 site, and it's working great.
However I'd like to have my blog-entries show up on the front-page, just the title as a link, that takes you to the blog entry.
I'd rather not make the blog summary page my front-page, because I like the layout of the front-page, but I'd also like my visitors to be able to quickly go to my blog-posts from the front-page.
Is this possible, maybe via the new Web Widgets feature? Seems like something a lot of people would want to do, and maybe it's right there in front of me, I just can't seeem to find it
Another thing: Has anyone made a "iWeb 08 Web Widgets Repository" or something like that? A place to collect and share great Web Widgets for iWeb?

Use an RSS feeder like feeddigest or your servers own to create a java script that will "scrape" your site. If you don't care what it looks like there are a number of them out there, if you want customization go with feeddigest. You won't get updates very quickly (24 hour turnaround), but it looks better than most.

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Bug in blog summary breaks links from entries (CGI encoding?)

I'm using iWeb'08 2.0.4 (830A43). I use a lot of links in my blog entries. The links in the entries work however the blog summary misinterprets some links and breaks them.
For example the link in my blog entry that works is:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=12689
But the blog summary has the link as
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article%253Fid%253D12689
It looks like the blog summary translate ? to %253F and = to %253D.

If you really feel it's a bug, you could join the +Apple Developer Connection+ — the +ADC Online+ category is free, here:
...then you can use this to create a trackable problem report:
...And no, you don't need to be a "developer" to join — just an Apple user who wants to make sure Apple knows there's a bug and have the ability to track its resolution.
Problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums — so you may soon be back with a different iWeb blog problem: Lost all blog entries or all comments or unable to publish, etc. And whether iWeb's blog works well or not is of little concern to Apple as it's only a tiny part of their software repertoire. If you switch to a dedicated blogging platform you're likely to have a better experience. For a success story using a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:
_To blog or not to blog_

I'd like to eliminate the frames around pictures on blog summary & entries.

I am using a theme (darkroom) that places a 4px white border around the pics which I would like to remove. I have done it manually on the Welcome & About Me pages, and with the built-in tools on Album & Photo pages. I have figured out how to do it by modifying the resulting source of the pages once they have been published, but I would like to modify the the templates that are producing the pages, specifically the blog summary on the main blog page and blog entry pages. The article that has been cited many times @ 11Mystic is helpful, but as has been pointed out, is incomplete, and more importantly, does not address iWeb 3.0. Any help on locating the appropriate files to modify, and perhaps a search string to locate the appropriate section of code?
TIA.

Thanks a bunch.
No way! was my initial response to your post, as I spent several hours last night tying to find the Shared folder w/in the darkroom.webtheme package, but was only seeing the *.lproj folders. I went back several times & continued looking right past the Shared folder - must have been the late hour. I just assumed that this was a change from 2.0 to 3.0. Didn't see it until just now. So I guess I'll need to add fuzzy thinking to the list of personal failings I'm working on, in addition to poor eyesight.
In any case, my bad & thanks again.
Regarding changing the stroke*.png files, I had considered making changes to these files, but wanted to preserve them for potential future use, hence the reason I was looking to modify the xml.
I'll poke around in there and see what I can see. I'm working on a copy, so no worries about screwing things up seriously. If I can't figure it out, I know a good place to get answers...

Multiple Blog Summary Widgets on one page

Hello
I was wondering if anyone knew how to put multiple Blog Summary Widgets onto a single page? Basically having a single weblog page but hosting more than one blog on that page.
If you do a simple copy and paste, it will pick up the "feed" from the Entries already associated with the existing blog. I have also tried pasting multiple widgets onto a blank page without success - I just get a 1 pixel line.
What I have done with my site (http://www.kilayko.com) in the meantime is to create an iframe and then load the second blog there. The only potential downside is that surfers will stay in that frame.
Any takers for this one, or is it just a happy limitation of iWeb?
Alex
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Blog Summary Image

Every now and then when I visit my published site, the image associated with particular blog entries is incorrect and uses an image from a previous entry. I have changed the name of the image to see if that had any impact and it didn't appear to do so. It is difficult to actually replicate the problem as it only occurs rarely.

in blog summary page:
1) select blog summary entry.
2) blog summary settings hud will pop up.
3) select photo proportion to portrait.

How do I edit the image shown in my iWeb blog summary?

The image in one of my blog posts is a large, portrait format photograph–and its fine. However, the cropped version of the image that shows up in my blog summary is not a good crop. It shows an uninteresting part of the photograph and I would like to be able to change that. Is there any way to move or edit the area of the photograph that shows up in the blog summary?

in blog summary page:
1) select blog summary entry.
2) blog summary settings hud will pop up.
3) select photo proportion to portrait.

Blog Summary Page: Pictures in blog entries are gone

All of my blog entries on the blog summary page no longer display images set inside the text of an entry. Is this an iWeb 2.0 bug or "feature"?
This is annoying, because with iWeb 1 I was able to share these pictures in my blog summary page and RSS feed. Now my blog and RSS readers have to click the "read more" link to see any pictures, even though I have set my blog summary length to the total entry.
This is a serious loss of feature for no good reason, and I hope this is considered a bug and will be fixed soon.

I was just getting ready to post a similar question when I ran across yours. I've been using Rapid Weaver for my blog and was thinking about switching over to iWeb, but until the pictures start showing up on the summary page (inside the text of an entry), iWeb is utterly non-functional for my purposes.
The other thing I noticed is that none of the formatting (like bold or italics text) shows up inside the text of an entry on the summary page either.
I, too, am very interested in whether this is a "bug" or a "feature."

Blog entry didn't show up on blog summary page. ¿Por qué?

RE: Blog
Last night I wrote a blog entry, but the first few sentences did NOT show up on the blog summary page. I previously had set the blog entry length to be short (toggled far to the left), but there is a difference between a short length and NO length at all.
Why do you suppose this happened?
INFORMATION: Prior to writing the blog entry I was having difficulty with the picture not showing up on the blog entry page, and in trying to edit it and move text around I might have messed up some registration lines, or LINES. Could that have had an effect? I must say that of all the things involved in iWeb, this Blog feature has given me the most problems and made me the angriest. Just thinking about it right now has created a tight knot in my chest.
Lorna in Southern California

Go back to your main blog summary page in iWeb. Open
the Inspector to the RSS tab and slide the text
excert slider to show ALL (all the way to the right).
Does ANY of your blog text show up in this
particular entry?
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Well, Inspector Tseng, I toggled to the *Show All* position, and heheheh, none of the blog entry showed on the blog summary page.
If not, then perhaps you entered
your text in a different text box....did you add a
text box to the page? If it does, then maybe you
have some preceding spaces in the text box? Or
maybe you inserted a photo into the text box
inadvertently?
.......... Lorna says ................................................
James, last night I was having so many dang blasted flippin cockamamie problems with the picture that I moved a bunch of things around and recall making a new text box and typing into it. Grrrr.
I am going to return there and copy and paste and delete that page. I feel very bad that I cannot master the blog after so much stupid time. I also think that the blog needs to be more idiot proofed so that normally OK actions in other iWeb scenarios don't end up as yet another disaster on the ash heap of broken iWeb dreams.
Lorna in Southern California

Blog summary page echoes blog entry but not the pic...?

My blog summary page echoes my blog entries' text but not the image file. I either get the stock photo that comes in the template, or no image at all. What's wrong?

Never mind folks...Once I submitted this, I found an identical query in the "More LIke This" box at the side of this page that gave me my answer. I have another question now that I'll pose in a new thread...

Multiple blog summary pages

I'm creating a new website for sharing news and photos for my family. I want to use the iWeb blog for my entries and plan to do some customization of my site through HTML snippits, iFrames, etc. I've been reading quite a bit on this forum and other useful sites on how to do more with iWeb, but I can't seem to find a solution for the following problem.
Let's say I allow 15 blog entries to be shown on my blog summary page yet over time I build a site with 50 or more entries. Then at least 35 will be on the archive page and that's alot to scroll through. I'd like to have the first 15 on blog summary page 1 then the next 15 on blog summary page 2, etc. Call it multiple archive pages if you will. But I want iWeb to keep track of the blog entries on those additional pages instead of me having to create new non-blog pages and copy and paste links to my entries.
Here's an example
http://allaboutiweb.com/
Any way to do this with iWeb 09?
FYI, I know there are a lot of other blogging software and hosting sites out there, but I want to use iWeb 09 because I've already created one site in the past with iWeb so I'm familiar with it. I also have a Mobile Me account with a domain name through goDaddy, so I'm publishing my iWeb site to Mobile Me with password protection.
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first, iweb limits blog summary to display 50 entries, so you are kinda limited if you want to have a continuous blog over the years.
if you have less than 50 entries per year, you have to break your blog into the year and have a master archive page and link all archive blog(s) to it.
once you decide what to do, you can use iweb rss feed widget to display the archive as feed, but i don't recommend iweb rss feed widget because it depends on mme server, unreliable at best.
instead you can use yahoo's pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
yahoo pipes is reliable and flexible, you can build your own feed that you can merge other feeds into one or keep them separate, here is my example of merged feeds:
http://www.cyclosaurus.com/Home/CyclosaurusBlog/Entries/2009/7/25Not_iWebWidget.html
or you can tag blog entries by key words or categories, your users can narrow down the entries display with it, here my iweb blog tagging (click on any tagged word on the right side):
http://www.cyclosaurus.com/Home/CyclosaurusBlog/Archive.html
all code is linked to my examples. to do the above, you need to know yahoo pipes, ajax/javascript and iweb inner working parts.

Can we do multiple blog summary pages instead of "go to archive"??

Hello,
I have about 50 blog entries in my iWeb blog. I have 15 loading onto the first page. Any more really slows the front page loading times a lot. The only way to see the other blog entries is to click on "go to archive" which just shows a simple text list. Is there a way to have many summary pages of blog entries so a blog reader can click on "next page" and see them, much nicer than just seeing text titles in a list.
-Josh

I am having the same issue. 50 looks like the limit.
I have made a new podcast/blog page for newer work, leaving the old stuff up on the already existing pages. Maybe you can just retitle all your pages by year, and just keep adding new ones as necessary.
The other problem I have is, that iTunes only lists entries visible on the Home page. So if I choose to feature only the newest podcast, it will be the only one that is catalogued by iTunes for download in the iTunes store.
This forces me to list every episode on the main page, which looks crummy, and basically eliminates the need for an "Archive" altogether.
Why doesn't iTunes use the iWeb generated Archive for this, or am I missing something major here?

Help! New Blog Summary Page titles are publishing in red!

Hi. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, my new Blog titles, and the "Read more..." link on the cover/summary page, are publishing in red rather than black to the folder. The older ones still publish in black. It's doing it on two separate Blog pages. Does anyone know how to fix this? Please

Hi, thanks for your reply. I don't see anything signifying a default color in the hyperlink section of the inspector. The titles have always shown as black on the blog entry page in iweb, and in the blog summary page the titles and "Read more..." have always shown as red, with the rest of the text in the entry being black. And then all the text has always gone to black after publishing until now. As an experiment I changed the color of one of the titles to green, and it still published in red.

Blog Summary Page Does Not Update Picture

For some reason, when I create a new blog entry by duplicating the last one and adding new content, the Blog Summary page will not update the picture. I sometimes either have to create a new blank blog entry, or drag a different picture into the placeholder, followed by my original.
Is this happening to anyone else? I think I am going to finish out my year-long blog project with iWeb/MobileMe, then drop both! This is getting to frustrating.

LawsonStone wrote:
Is this happening to anyone else?
Perhaps to this person:
_blog summary didn't show the pictures_.
LawsonStone wrote:
I think I am going to finish out my year-long blog project with iWeb/MobileMe, then drop both! This is getting to frustrating.
A wise move — problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums: Lost all blog entries or all comments or unable to publish, etc. If you switch to a dedicated blogging platform you're likely to have a better experience. For a success story using a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:
_To blog or not to blog_

Blog Summary Blog Entry Format

I've changed the background and text color in the "Entries" page, however it does not carry over to the Blog Summary in the main page, and the archive does not show the format changes either. Is there a way to change this in iWeb, or do I have to manually edit the .css? (and how would I do that?)
Thanks!

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How to make the date disappear on the blog summary page?

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