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_

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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.
Appreciate the help.

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.

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Here's my site:
http://www.msadesign.com/msadesign/Blog/Blog.html
Notice that there are no images in the Blog Summary. This is really confounding. The image in the summary should be the same image that is ion the top of the blog post.
Here's a post as an example:
http://www.msadesign.com/msadesign/Blog/Entries/2010/6/3A_Xeric_DemonstrationGarden.html
I've tried changing the type of placement, but I do not know what else to try.
Anyone had this issue?
Michael

That's what I thought, too, but since all of the posts are without the image, I'm thinking it must be something else.
or you may not set blog summary to display the entry image place holder.
in iweb, in blog summary page... click on the entry excerpt and you get a HUD, you can select different Placement display (upper left, and a small downward triangle to the side).
iweb generates iweb:image element in the blog-main.xml (rss file), that in turn; it is used by blog summary widget to render the preview image in blog summary.
I'm hoping that you'll provide a translation here? Sounds like something I can fix?
btw, your blog-main.xml does not have any iweb:image element.
Ditto. It is the image element that is missing but how is it replaced?
the image place holder in blog entries tell iweb to generate the code or you didn't set the correct placement as I mentioned above.

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.
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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.
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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.
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Hi all:
When I try to access any links on my Blog page I received error messages. Yet, when I try to access the same links on the post's page (after one clicks on "Read More") the links work well.
you can check out my site at www.nathancushing.net to see for yourself.
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Thanks!

I'm surprised that this hasn't gotten more attention from Apple. From the previous posts on the subject this has been a problem since '08 was released. If the links don't work in the RSS feed or the blog summary, at least half of the functionality/usefulness of a blog is destroyed. It's a major bug that needs correction. I've checked the Apple's support page and there doesn't seem to be an obvious place to report bugs so I assume this is where the company would get that sort of information.

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

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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.
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.......... Lorna says ................................................
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