Blogging Question

I've created a blog at http://www.make-money-writing.com
I'm wondering if I can just update the blog pages with my FTP client, or if I have to publish the whole site again, every time I post an update on my blog.
Also - I do not use .mac for hosting, and am wondering what limitations I have with my blog. I understand that I will not have RSS feed if I don't publish to .mac is there anything else that is specific to blogs that I will not have?
Do I need to ping the search engines each time I update, and if so, how would I do this? I'm REALLY new to blogging, and would appreciate any help.
Thank you.

I'm wondering if I can just update the blog pages with my FTP client, or if I have to publish the whole site again, every time I post an update on my blog.
You can't add entries to a blog without republishing, and publishing to a folder always generates the whole site. What part of that you upload via ftp is up to you.
I understand that I will not have RSS feed if I don't publish to .mac
That's not correct. What you don't have is comments and search.

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VvelvetEelvis wrote:
isnt there a way to get you blog to show up on your iweb site? whether its a wordpress blog or blogger...
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This site may have some tips that will help:
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When creating a blog is it possible to get rid of the text in the blog link. Basically I just want to use a photo for each link for each blog entry?

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It's true, that's the way it is with the templates in iWeb. The text on the main blog page is formatted by the template. All the info there is extracted from the individual blog entry pages without formatting. Don't know if it is worth your trouble to hack the changes. You can alter the number of text characters displayed and the number of entries displayed on the main blog page via the inspector, though. So that gives you a little control, say, if you'd rather get rid of all the unformatted text.
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When hosting the blog on Mobile Me can people who are not using Mobile Me post responses.
If you upload the blog to a non Mobile Me host will the blog work?
Thanks In Advance

ebene ~ In iWeb, did you do this:
• Select a blog or podcast page in the sidebar.
• If the Blog & Podcast Inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar (or choose View > Show Inspector), and then click the Blog & Podcast Inspector button.
• In the Blog pane of the inspector, select +*“Allow comments.”*+
Then when published to MobileMe and a blog entry is viewed in a browser, you should see "_*Add a Comment*_" at the end of the entry.

How can I deal with negative marking in a quiz marking scheme?

I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem I have in developing the 'code' for a marking scheme for an exam in Captivate 8. I would be very grateful for pointers towards a viable solution. At the moment I am just thrashing around.
My background is in C++ and I think part of my problem is in trying to find analogues of functions I would use in that environment. My experience with Captivate is limited to developing fairly simple training courses but now I need to put an existing exam on line, maintaining its relatively complicated marking scheme, which is as follows:
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Hello Group Members,
This is a continuation of my earlier blog question -
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a1e424a2-f102-4165-a597-f464cf03ebb5/cache-and-performance-issue-in-browsing-ssas-cube-using-excel-for-first-time?forum=sqlanalysisservices
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Could you run the following two DMV queries filling in the name of the cube you're connecting to. Then please post back the row count returned from each of them (by copying them into Excel and counting the rows).
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The embedded objects in quiz slides, those who have no separate timelines, are different from normal interactive objects. There is no real difference between normal buttons and shape buttons as you seem to tell at all, just between embedded buttons that have specific functionality and the normal buttons. There is no way to replace a quiz button by a shape button at this moment, but that wouldn't change the way they act.
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Hi, i would like to increase a counter in a quiz slide when the user press the submit button, using advanced actions.
It's like if the submit button is somehow inhibited from certain options, and i cannot find how to add an advanced action to it.
what i need, is to allow unlimited attempt until the user selects the right answer. each time the user click on submit, a counter increases by one. When user finally select the right answer, we read the counter value and assign a different score, depending on the attempt (for example: 1st attempt=20 points, 2nd attempt=10 points, 3rd attempt=0 points)
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Is there also an easier solution to write different scores to different obectives in the same course?
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Have a look at:
Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog
Question Question Slides - Part 2 - Captivate blog
Indeed, Submit button is part of the Question slide, not a normal button. You can add a custom shape button, but it will never replace what happens when the Submit button is clicked: validation of the answer, showing captions, adding to score etc. Making the score depending on the attempt is not possible with default functionality, it is possible with custom question slides, but then the reporting to LMS is another issue. You should try to do it by JS, or if you only need SWF-output you could use the Master widget by InfoSemantics.
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I set the Pass or Fail status in the Quiz Preferences as below: If passed, it should jump to Slide 8; if failed, go to Slide 9 (image #1)
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Image #1:
Image #2:
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Just trying to create a quiz using Captivate.
I thought I had it figured out, except that it doesn't seem to recognise correct answers.
http://www.learners-guide.co.uk/quiztest/captivate/tests/test3/test3/index.html
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